Female Vocals: Stunning Recordings You Love

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My favorites (hard choice, I admit) in a random order:

Anne Dudley/The Art of Noise

Beth Gibbons/Portishead

Annie Haslam/Renaissance

 

[FooYatChong]

Eilen Jewell / Sundown Over Ghost Town

Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/album/44463872

 

[KSTR]

Polyrhythmic blast from Manou Gallo (Ivory Coast). Not her best track vocal-wise, but she's a stunning bass player and percussionist, too. Still gives me goose-bumps everytime I play this song and it's one of the songs I often play ten-times in a row, can't get enough of it, the rhythms and the innocent voice sans vibrato.

Another african artist, Oumou Sangaré (Mali). Also quite polyrhythmic, this time with a more hypnotic vibe and the pentatonic main and backing vocal lines (again, no vibratos) got me hooked immediately.

It is not a coincidence that both tracks are in the same key, A minor, which always gives me a special feeling....

 

[LarsF]

One of my favorite female vocalist
Melanie de Biasio - The Flow

 

[LarsF]

Another one
The Savage Rose- Homeless

 

[Juhazi]

 

[Juhazi]

 

[Juhazi]

The Idol and a follower - I love both of them!

 

[Biblob]

 

[Buster]

Another one
The Savage Rose- Homeless

Superb voice!

 

[Frank Dernie]

Not superb recording, 1952 but IMO unparalleled voice

 

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Susanne Sundfør - Undercover (live)

 

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Aldous Harding - "The Barrel" (Live at WFUV)

 

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Miya Folick - Premonitions (Official Audio)

1:19 - she "struggles" a little bit in the low end, nevertheless I find it entertaining and.. well.. sexy as well. Hope I'm not weird

 

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I see she was mentioned here already, but with different title...

Eivør - Purple Flowers

 

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BEYRIES - Alone (audio) // singer Amélie Beyries

 

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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - I’m A Ruin [Official Music Video]

MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - I’m A Ruin [Acoustic]

Oh, I forgot - singer Marina Lambrini Diamandis (I would marry her anytime )

 

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Julia Jacklin - Body (Official Music Video)

 

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OK, here are some examples with "little less fun factor for me", but I don't hesitate to count them as "reference grade":
Oh Susanna - Sleepy Little Sailor (singer Suzie Ungerleider)

Melissa Menago - Burning Away

Melissa Menago - The Other Side of You

Kelly Sweet - Je T'Aime

Esther Ofarim - El Rey Nimtod

Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (singer Margo Timmin

 

[CerealKiller]

Maybe a little late tho theparty

YouTube Is no justice for the quality in tiny desk recording