Paramore are my favourite band. I adore her voice.

My favourite female vocalist is P!nk. I love her songs and her voice - especially on 'Please Don't Leave Me'. There's just something about her voice particularly on that song for me - it grabs me each time and sends me on a natural high.

It's pretty good, I have to admit

I love the consistency of her voice, she's flipping all over the place doing acrobatics and she still sounds better than half the people that just stand in front of a microphone on a stand

Linda Ronstadt - just listen to Desperado or Adios or countless other songs in various styles.

Oh, Alicia Keys, definitely. She sings with so much passion in her voice. It actually makes my legs go weak.

And Pink has that feisty, attitude-y thing going on which I like too.

Fergie singin with Slash :P

Fantasia Barrino

I feel Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35hLM...eature=related

Lady Marmalade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWzKkK7ncbM

Kiss at the O2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N12mwFBPsgo

Anastacia -Has a truly almighty voice, very unique! Can't believe she hasn't been mentioned yet!
Amy Studt - Beautiful, fragile yet gritty, has fantastic range and tone!
Nerina Pallot - Distinct voice, sings ballads beautifilly!
Melody Gardot - Gorgeous gentle tone perfect for jazz!
Alanis Morissette - Incredible vocal talent!
Tori Amos - Incredible
Kate Bush - Unique and amazing
Alison Goldfrapp - Sultry and beautiful

just some there!

At the end of the day we all no, no one has a better singing voice than cheryl cole!

Polly Scattergood - really lovely quirky singer, love her voice & lyrics, great live.
Tori Amos - just a legend.
Jewel - beautiful voice.
Heather Nova - wonderful music, 'Siren' is one of my favourite albums ever.
Emilie Autumn - fantastic, unique, makes concerts a real performance. Definitely one to see live.
Also a big fan of Lily Holbrook, Jonna Enckell, Sarah Fimm, Liz Phair, Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, Sarah McLachlan, Hannah Fury, Beck Sian... I love my female singers!

Wow mentions already of Melody Gardot and Polly Scattergood! My two favourite singers of modern times. They are just wonderful

Anyway ill just write a little only for my top 3 otherwise we would be here too long..

Dalida - My favourite singer of all time. Spent most of her life singing chansons in france, completely unknown to our shores. Gorgeous husky tone. She lived the most tragic of lives and that reflected in her performances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbE6mVH0kyo

Billie Holiday - She to lived a terrible life. Her voice was eventually soo effected by drugs but the character and emotion was still there but stronger. She was the greatest jazz singer ever in my opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLvAx...eature=related


Amanda Lear - 70's disco queen and muse of Salvador Dali. A voice deeper than Marlene Dietrich. Her vocals were very dark, mysterious, camp and her song lyrics just beyond kitch and fabulous. Utterly hynotising performer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-7qLQuEAQc

They are my top 3 but I can't not list all the others I adore

Shirley Bassey, Eartha Kitt, Melody Gardot, Polly Scattergood, Marlene Dietrich, Natasha Khan (of Bat For Lashes) Patricia Kaas, Mika Nakashima, K.D. Lang, Bonnie Tyler, Sarah Dawn Finer, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Juliana Pasha, Eva Cassidy, Cleo Laine, Corinne Bailey Rae, Amerie, Barbra Streisand, Beverley Knight, Anastacia, Amy Winehouse, Joni Mitchell..

^ finally someone with taste! many great female voices there!

Mariah Carey she was the first female singer I got in to when I was a girl. I love her because every song that she sings is personal to her and you can feel the emotion in every note she sings.
Whitney Houston very soulful, powerful and full of emotion as well. At least she was in the 90's anyway.
Brandy Norwood has a kind of soulful saductive voice and Monica Arnold sings with feeling and soul.

My first and for me obvious choice is Deanna Durbin – Quite simply although she never performed on a operatic stage, she was in my opinion as good a lyric Soprano as there has ever been and a fine actress too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQYjcf0qu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phiZLzaOQaw&NR=1

Judith Durahm – Wonderful voice and as a small boy I fell a little bit in love with Judith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9B...eature=related

Connie Francis – It always grieves me that a lot of people only know Connie from songs like Lipstick On Your Collar etc. But she was an immensely talented singer who recorded, performed live and had big hits in multiple languages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_eUBNcTuoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swJCs_qYFI0

Finally for now…

Anna Netrebko – My favourite singer of the current time. The tone of her voice and acting abilities set her apart from other opera singers of the current day and indeed many from the past. She also happens to be a very attractive woman and I kind of like that in a person

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v73HXr7l-l4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up470SAOvuo&feature=fvw

I like many of the voices already mentioned, but I'll choose one who hasn't been mentioned yet, and that is Juanita Stein of the Howling Bells.

This explains why I love her voice better than I ever could

Anastacia, P!nk, Kelly Clarkson...

I'm sure we had a topic the same as this about a month ago! But anyway, here we go again:

Dido
Avril Lavigne
Sarah Whatmore
Keisha Buchanan
Andrea Corr
Natasha Khan
Ellie Goulding

Generally I like female singers with soft, sweet vocals, or sometimes ones with a bit of a quirkiness (such as Ellie). I can't stand lots of screeching and over-the-top vocal gymnastics; I don't care that some women can break glass by singing, I want to hear a good melodic voice from someone who can convey real emotion, which I think all of the above do. That said I do think Beverley Knight has an incredible voice, but for me she does show emotion in her singing.

Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum has a beautiful voice

Also

Alison Krauss
Carrie Underwood
Martina McBride

Nice to see Linda getting a well deserved mention here. She has a wonderful voice.

GaGa, GaGa, GaGa, GaGa, GaGa, GaGa,GaGa

I love Florence And The Machine too.

Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas from TLC has always been a personal favourite of mine. She doesn't have the range of a Mariah or Christina, but there is something really alluring about her voice.
I think if you listen to "Lets Take Our Time" from CrazySexyCool you will see what I mean.
Her voice just oozes sex without sounding any way sleazy and her soft, Atlanta accent which comes through her singing voice just sounds pure lush
Her Middle 8 section on RedLightSpecial is amazing too and highlights what I am trying to say.

Ella Fitzgerald-Because she had a beautiful voice, I especially love her duets with Louis Armstrong.Their voices went perfectly together.

Billie Holiday: the woman had a voice so soulful and strong I have yet to find a singer who can give me the chills I get whenever I listen to her singing. She's definitely my favourite female vocalist of all time.

Colbie Caillat: I love her voice. Just love it. I don't know many people who know her music though.

Dinah Washington: Dinah has a fantastically strong voice, but to me anyway she never overdid it. Adore her style.
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Ann Wilson - Fantasic voice. In my opinion, the greatest female vocalist of all time. Heart's cover of Unchained Melody is just wow!

Kate Bush - Her voice is just so unique, even when it changed during the 80s. Can go for soft and gentle, to very powerful to just wacky! The screams in The Big Sky are amazing!

Shirley Manson - Love the sound of her voice. Sounds perfect for the rock music of Garbage. She's one of the many vocalists that prove you don't need to have a powerful voice to be a great singer.

Stevie Nicks - I love how girtty her voice sounds, very unique. Although not all her music is rock n' roll, she and her voice definitely are

Siobhan Fahey - Perhaps I'm biased being a massive Shakespears Sister fan, but Siobhan had the best voice out of the three in Bananarama. It's very deep and calming I feel, but she can also experiment with her voice and it also sounds great.

Siouxsie Sioux - I love how frequently she changes pitch, and the timing of it is perfect so it never sounds out of place. Her 'purrs' sound great too in Face To Face from Batman Returns

Sharleen Spiteri - Holy crap, this woman can sing. I love her voice especially in Halo and Black Eyed Boy, but sounds much grittier in Postcard, so I like how she can also experiment with her voice.

Debbie Harry - Apart from being a great singer and just super cool, what I love about Debbie is that whenever there's a Blondie song that's either reggae, rock, punk or new wave, her voice adapts to that particular style of song, giving great variation and always suits that song.

I'm pretty sure I haven't missed out any of my main favourites and if I have, well, bugger. Other vocalists I like are Juliette Lewis, Grace Slick, Gwen Stefani, Elisabeth Fraser, Belinda Carlisle and Karen O.

No mention of Karen Carpenter!

She's up there with the best imo.

Goodbye To Love is my fave, the lyrics, taking into consideration her personal anguish, are heartbreaking and sung with such emotion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdG-ITxL8ok