Who are your three favorite female singers?

In no particular order.Linda RonstadtAmy Winehouse
LP (Laura Pergolizzi)Natalie MerchantPatsy ClineSadeBy the way. Picking only three is impossible.

Jennifer Warne, Amy Winehouse, Tracy Chapman

In no particular order:

Sara Brightman
Linda Ronstadt
Nora Jones
Ricky Lee Jones
Jennifer Warnes
Sade
Picking 3 is impossible.

Shirley Horn SHIRLEY HORN!
Anita O’Day
Dionne Warwick Elis Regina
Julie LondonPeggy Lee
Tell me Shirley Horn’s The Look of Love isn’t devastating!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6fs2f4krQAnd here she is playing with her trio at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1992. Wearing WHITE GLOVES while she plays! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcMfEuffiM
She, along with Nat King Cole, was one of the very few who can oh-so-ably accompany herself on piano while she sings.

I am going to disregard "3" also, because I think that a goal of the exercise is that it’s worth getting names out that people haven’t necessarily heard and deserve attention.

If I had to pick three that were my favorites, ... well, I can’t really.
My list of preferred singers and the songs I most associate with them:

Sandy Denny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWVd9xwZBY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OWOCwvjHU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b0OYxdtyM
Karen Dalton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0ZlWK-b_KY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl9skT78iWI
Laura Nyro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwn97weAxa0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te-n7KY3vl4
M’Bilia Bel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A12sE67BID8
Eva Cassidy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c
Jacqui McShee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqP_yoszCE
Kathleen Kim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mtMI_huRtY
Grace Slick (Airplane edition,
NOT Starship) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscRNsyEzs4
Abbe Lincoln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6q6XKKrik and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dscyklYF-CM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rycQBz_Fexw
Maria Farantouri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-GBPx_GXQw
Mirella Freni / Teresa Berganza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GUIfwKPS-w
Judy Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onKhceL303M
Hazel Dickens / Alice Gerard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMV3dpsu_xw
Wanda Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJePJvn1K4
Maxine Sullivan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmS-bcT6mSs
Ella Mae Morse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ortOAiClE34
Etta Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBLaJtXbpRg
Lil Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bexVuBvY4
Hadda Brooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8DSi3BJDXg
Roberta Flack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65lVYE38MzI&list=OLAK5uy_khEQhG8qv_D5A3NIb-i1Vay4QE-JLNUYo
Joan Baez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ5qvtZYGtw&list=OLAK5uy_kItjYsm9ivAANuSy6yE_fhxr_TiAen-RQ&index=9
Emmylou Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHWMbjyT-T4
Billy Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk
Janis Joplin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1zFnyEe3nE