Best Female singer?

[Maggie]

I am just curious about what people like. Keep in mind I am not asking about the best technical voice – just one you like to listen to. I am partial to the female voice; and lyrics, if they are her own, matter too.

And I do have my favorite; been that way for a couple decades.

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

Hayley Williams

[Kung Wu]

Etta James

[SubGod22]

Alyssa Barlow

[SubGod22]

Or Lauren Barlow.

I'll have to research which one is which. Together they're even better.

[jazztrane]

Natalie Grant

[WuDrWu]

I love getting blasted for my taste in music (admittedly I have none). Does that make me a sadist or a masochist? Like port and starboard, I can never get it right.

Leann Rimes, Martina McBride and Amy Grant (early years before she went pop). And I will always think Karen Carpenter had the most perfect voice I've ever heard.

[WstateU]

I love getting blasted for my taste in music (admittedly I have none). Does that make me a sadist or a masochist? Like port and starboard, I can never get it right.

Leann Rimes, Martina McBride and Amy Grant (early years before she went pop). And I will always think Karen Carpenter had the most perfect voice I've ever heard.

All great choices @WuDrWu:; Karen Carpenter is also one of my all-time favorites with songs like, "We've Only Just Begun”.

It just doesn’t get any better than this…

[pinstripers]

I like Martina. Dusty Springfield? Aretha? Lucinda Williams?

[Snapshot9]

I would have to vote for Celine Dion and Faith Hill. I just love Faith Hill's 'Breathe'.

[WstateU]

I would have to vote for Celine Dion and Faith Hill. I just love Faith Hill's 'Breathe'.

Make that heavy breathing...

[kcshocker11]

Randy Crawford, Anita O'day, Dianne Reeves, Nina Simone, Annie Ross

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[kcshocker11]

Etta James

My friend Mike Finnigan toured and recorded with Etta James, an awesome talent

[shoxlax]

Boy George

[Maggie]

Natalie Merchant is mine.