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Prog's Best 'Classic Era' Female Singer?
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Poll Question: Which of these singers was the best?
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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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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 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 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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Not on the poll, but I love Sally Oldfield's voice. 

Of the poll, I quite like Annie Haslam


Edited by Frets N Worries - January 13 2024 at 20:21
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I don't know all of these but Annie Haslam would probably be my choice.
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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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