Norah Jones a tinge short

Do women singers ever sing anything but love songs?

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Shirley Manson
The Go Go's
The Bangles
Suzanne Vega
Dixie Chicks
Karen O
Nina Hagen
Grace Jones

...yeah sure they do more than just sing ballads...plenty of great girls out there - not all of them are stereotypical crooners!

Patti Smith

You looking for a female vocalist that's worthy of audiophiles? Nnenna Freelon is not well known nor does she have the big marketing machine behind her. She's very much under-appreciated. Her huge talent and ability is without question as a female vocalist (in jazz as well as generally). It still amazes and confounds me that she gets so little acknowledgement here. Maybe it's because she doesn't have a big label and marketing machine behind her. For me, she ranks right up there with the best of the modern female vocalists. I've seen her live and have her recordings. She's the anti-one note.

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04-03-08: Joeylawn36111
Question: Do women singers ever sing anything but love songs???? (yes, it's a serious question). I cannot see the appeal of listening to women singing love songs OTHER than fidelity/soundstage/recording quality/etc.

Patti Smith the godmother of punk, Eve libertine of Crass says Everthing we sing is a love song!, Dagmar Krause AKA:The Voice of Armagedden.

Bob

here's a few essential singers(all catagories) that are always overlooked....julie driscoll, cathie chamberlain, evie sands, pauline murray, tanita tikaram, linda rondstandt, grace slick(when she was good, she was very good), cass elliott, sandie shaw(maybe the greatest pop singer ever), dusty springfield, kiki dee, leslie gore, gayle mccormick, chaka.....if you limit yourself to 'audiophile' recordings, you miss the lions share of the 'real deal'.