Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps

Loreena Mckennitt

I heard a cut from Barb Jungr off a Linn Records recording at CES a few days ago that would qualify. Hats off to Duke at Audio Kinesis as it was his speakers bringing her voice to life - they were a standout for me at THE Show...way to go Duke! There's a version of "Angel Eyes" on the compilation album, "Duets" (Rob Wasserman) by Cheryl Bentyne that is astounding in this respect. That's a great compilation BTW. There's way too many to list, many good ones listed here. Those two come to mind right away.

Every female singer does when I listen to them.

Noosha Fox (70's singer, no finer version of 'love letters')
Julianne Regan (All About Eve)
Celine Dion
Linda Perry,
Mariah Carey
Christina Aguilera
Clare Tori?
Bonnie Tyler
Alison Moyet
Marianne Faithful
Melanie
Tori Amos
Britney Spears (no laughing)
Ute Lemper
Kathleen Battle
All of the Medaeival Baebes
Charlotte Church
Sarah Brightman
Cecilia Bartolli
Dolores from the Cranberries......noooooooooooooooooooo
Jimmy Somerville (well anyone that can sing that high,lol)

thats all I can think of at oh so early 10.30 in the morning....
lots more.

Ronstadt, Ronstadt, Ronstadt, Heidi Joy, Diana Reeves

To get off the jazz/pop tangent, the voice of Montserrat Figueras does it for me on any of Savall's recordings of her. In a very odd way Joanna Newsome's high-pitched little girl vocals on her early album, Milk-eyed Mender, is also a standout, though is not for everyone (some may run screaming from the room).