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Poll Question: Which of these singers was the best?
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    Posted: January 14 2024 at 15:08
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So many great voices there.

Annie > Sonja > Jacqui > Catherine Ribeiro (not listed)

I suspect Annie will win by a mile... might be more interesting to see the results of a similar poll but without Annie.

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I don't know all of these but Annie Haslam would probably be my choice.
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Not on the poll, but I love Sally Oldfield's voice. 

Of the poll, I quite like Annie Haslam


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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Catherine Ribeiro and Jerney Kaagman (Earth and Fire) were the first to come to mind.

Two great ones! I almost included Jerney but didn't know her stuff as well as the others. Ditto with Catherine. (You can also tell, I'm sure, that I had a bit of a Prog Folk and Canterbury bias.)

 As a favourite I love Pascal Son, but formally I doubt she would be considered a great singer, but I don't know about best (or have a belief there).

I wouldn't be surprised if Pascal(e de Trazegnies) "Son" had some formal training as she is from a high-born aristocratic family (her family still occupies a 13th Century castle in the Belgian countryside: Corroy-le-chateau). Plus, seeing how well she has taken care of her voice over the years (one can still find a few recordings of her singing as recently as ten years ago with Didier Malherbe in Paris, where she has resided since the 1980s), I cannot help but believe that she has had some training in order to maintain such a nice instrument.

I voted for Pascale Son as well. I actually consider her to be quite the virtuoso really.


Love her vocals. and maybe she is.  She certainly is very good at what she does.  I was watching a little bit of America's Got Talent recently, and the audiences were oohing and ahhing this singer,  and to me it sounded pretty dull and generic.  Competent.  I value a certain uniqueness over virtuosity, and Pascale Son has that.  And Catherine Ribeiro has a great voice.  I would take Björk over Selena Gomez any day.
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I like all of the songstresses mentioned here, but the northern lights shine brightest for me over the Greater Manchester town of Oldham. Wink

Okay, Paul: you've got me stumped. Annie Haslam is from Bolton, west of Oldham, and your heroine, Heather Findlay is from Bessacarr, in Doncaster, so who, praytell, is from Oldham? 

My mistake then. I thought Annie Haslam was from Oldham. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Catherine Ribeiro and Jerney Kaagman (Earth and Fire) were the first to come to mind.

Two great ones! I almost included Jerney but didn't know her stuff as well as the others. Ditto with Catherine. (You can also tell, I'm sure, that I had a bit of a Prog Folk and Canterbury bias.)

 As a favourite I love Pascal Son, but formally I doubt she would be considered a great singer, but I don't know about best (or have a belief there).

I wouldn't be surprised if Pascal(e de Trazegnies) "Son" had some formal training as she is from a high-born aristocratic family (her family still occupies a 13th Century castle in the Belgian countryside: Corroy-le-chateau). Plus, seeing how well she has taken care of her voice over the years (one can still find a few recordings of her singing as recently as ten years ago with Didier Malherbe in Paris, where she has resided since the 1980s), I cannot help but believe that she has had some training in order to maintain such a nice instrument.

I voted for Pascale Son as well. I actually consider her to be quite the virtuoso really.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I like all of the songstresses mentioned here, but the northern lights shine brightest for me over the Greater Manchester town of Oldham. Wink

Okay, Paul: you've got me stumped. Annie Haslam is from Bolton, west of Oldham, and your heroine, Heather Findlay is from Bessacarr, in Doncaster, so who, praytell, is from Oldham? 
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Annie H - like there was even a choice :-)
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Annie Haslam, followed by Sandy Denny and Jacqui McShee. I have a soft spot for Dagmar Krause and I think Jerney Kaagman (Earth & Fire) would be a nice addition to this list. Not a fan of Sonja Kristina.

Quite a few folkies in this selection btw. 

It seems that the folk, folk rock, and Prog Folk subgenres had the most female vocalists moving within their circles, n'est-ce pas?

Sorry 'bout the absence of Jerney. Only been getting to know her band's stuff since creating this poll!
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

I also voted for Annie, but would like to suggest Gayle Moran, the wife of Chick Corea.  Her work with Mahavishnu Orchestra was sublime, and often unrecognized.  



Great call! I'd totally ignored the J-R Fusion element!

I also love Gayle's work. Like that of Annette Peacock, her vocals are a lightning rod for controversy though.
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Probably Anne Haslam. Still, there are here great female vocalists I like very much too, like Dagmar Krause, Sonja Kristina, Sandy Denny and Maddy Prior, for instance.
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Annie Haslam, surely?
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I like all of the songstresses mentioned here, but the northern lights shine brightest for me over the Greater Manchester town of Oldham. Wink
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Annie Haslam, followed by Sandy Denny and Jacqui McShee. I have a soft spot for Dagmar Krause and I think Jerney Kaagman (Earth & Fire) would be a nice addition to this list. Not a fan of Sonja Kristina.

Quite a few folkies in this selection btw. 


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I also voted for Annie, but would like to suggest Gayle Moran, the wife of Chick Corea.  Her work with Mahavishnu Orchestra was sublime, and often unrecognized.  
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Sonja Kristina for sheer talent. Would also give a shout out to Maire Brennan of Clannad. Great voice.
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