exceptional voices of female singers (non-classical)

Beth Hart??  Please... she screams and swears with a foul mouth but has no vocal range. 
At least in my opinion.

ozzy

It would help if I read MORE carefully before posting an emotional response!

Tablejockey, FWIW there were others who have also posted in the thread expressing surprise that a particular artist had not been mentioned earlier in the thread, when in fact the artist had been mentioned earlier in the thread.

BTW, there’s no need to necessarily read more thoroughly. Just use the "Find" function of your browser to search for a given name, on each page of the thread. I often find that function to be very useful.  In Firefox and Edge the Find function is in one of the sub-menus which can be accessed under the three bars or three dots at the upper right corner of the screen. It will also be under the Edit menu, at least in Firefox, if the menu bar has been enabled at the top.

On another note, also FWIW but relevant to the OP’s question, a quote from Sir Elton John:

Judith Durham, like Karen Carpenter and Eva Cassidy, possesses the purest voice in popular music.

Regards,
-- Al

@ozzy

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but you may be coloring your opinion from her early work vs. her later work.

Cheers!

slaw,

Perhaps I am. I have several CD’s and a live recording. And all of them are full of foul mouth obscenities with a voice that even Janis Joplin could not tolerate.

ozzy

@ozzy

She’s made a major change in her life. Check out her latest/last one or two lps.

I hope you can make the change to now accept her for who she wants to be,

Everyone deserves another chance..

Slaw