Female Vocalist 70s Prog (and anything close)

Janita Haan of Babe Ruth

Are you limiting your search to the 1970s or are you open to all decades of prog--cuz I have a TON of names if you're willing to listen to modern stuff.

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Bran - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnRGyoblHE

Incredible album.  My favorite track is "Song a Cinq."  The studio album recording and a live video of it are both up on YT.  One of my favorite prog albums of all time, and Sonia Nedelec's vocals are heavenly.  Reminds me of Relf, Haslam, Maggie Reilly, etc.

Speaking of Maggie Reilly, she did some great stuff with Mike Oldfield.  Her solo stuff isn't up to that level, though the track "Adelena" is awesome.

Whooops, this wasn't a 1970's recommendation, sorry.  Minimum Vital put that album out in the '90's, I think.

Definitely Inga Rumpf of Frumpy (who are undeservedly little known); she has one of the most powerful voices in prog. Here the energetic track "Take Care of Illusion" from their great second album (which i hereby highly recommend):

Actually both Dagmar Krause and Inga Rumpf were once in a German band called "The City Preachers", which featured a certain Udo Lindenberg on drums who is one of the biggest rock stars in Germany, but as a singer, not a drummer. A biographic movie about him called "Mach dein Ding!" ("Do your Thing!") came out in Germany this year, in which Udo Lindenberg was played by German actor Jan Bülow. Lindenberg also was the drummer on the first album of Passport and the solo album of Frumpy keyboarder Jean-Jacques Kravetz.

Inga Rumpf also was the singer of the band Atlantis, which had some prog leanings on their first two albums. Here a proggy song from their first album:

The albums of both Frumpy and Atlantis are definitely worth listening to, especially their live albums.

Grace Slick, the singer of Jefferson Airplane, made a few solo albums which are quite proggy, especially the first one. Here a 15 minute track from that album in which she sings in both English and Spanish:

And if you want some really wild singing try the British band Catapilla (the spelling is correct for the band name) who made two albums in the early 70. Anna Meek really went crazy on the vocals. Here an example:

what a great song!