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Poll Question: What is your best female voice ?
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81 [41.75%]
8 [4.12%]
62 [31.96%]
10 [5.15%]
29 [14.95%]
4 [2.06%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2005 at 16:41
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Also most definetly worth a mention is Sonja Kristina of Curved Air

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2005 at 17:24
Annie Haslam in Renaissance just awesme
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2005 at 17:28

Maddy Prior. Sally Oldfield is good, too. Mike had a great ear for female singers, because Maggie Riley was great too.

As I said before: Mike Oldfield had the best female voices, and King Crimson the best male voices.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2005 at 18:32

None of them!

I'd rather go for Emila Derkowska (Quidam) , Petronella Nettermalm (Paatos) or Linda Agren (Sinkadus)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2005 at 21:42
My favourites are:

Rachel Jones (Ex-Karnataka)
Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn)
Joanne Hog (Iona)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2005 at 11:57
Maggie Reilly of Mike Oldfield or Candice Night of Blackmore's Night.  I could listen to either of them all day.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2005 at 17:35
Sarah Jane Morris has a wonderful contralto that can easily be mistaken for a man's voice. She made some solo albums and appears as "The Chorus" on Peter Hammill's opera "The Fall of the House of Usher". Her voice is lower than the voice of Andy Bell, who sings the character of Montresor on that album.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2005 at 17:48

geddy lee and jon anderson.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2005 at 06:14
Kate Bush. Although Tori Amos, Björk, Máire Brennan, Lisa Dalbello, Ann Wilson, Joanne Hogg (Iona), Edie Brickell and Rachel Jones never cease to amaze me.

Aleena, who worked with Kaipa ("Keyholder"), is rather good, too.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2005 at 16:47
Some of the best female voices in prog include:

Annie Haslam and Jane Relf (Renaissance)

Stella Vander (Magma)

Carmen Maki (Blues Creation, Oz, 5X)

Yoko Ono

Itziar Egileor (Itziar)

Sarah Deva (Cradle Of Filth, Therion)

Inga Rumpf (Frumpy, Atlantis)

Doris Norton (Jacula, Antonius Rex)

Donella Del Monaco (Opus Avantra)

...and of course the great Grace Slick
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2005 at 16:53
Madonna!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 03 2005 at 17:10
Inga Rumpf is an excellent call, though neither Frumpy nor Atlantis are in the database. Her voice is very "black".


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 18:40
Females aren't very important in prog so I can't say.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 06:21
My favorites are:

Heather Findlay (Mostly Autumn)
Irene Jansen (Karma)
Tori Amos
Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion, Elfonia)
Rachel Jones (Karnataka)
Deborah Dyer (Skunk Anansie, Skin)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 06:22
Originally posted by Olympus Olympus wrote:

Females aren't very important in prog so I can't say.




 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 06:32
What? Nobody listens to The Gathering. As a famous icon in Australia once said "Do yourselves a favour".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 09:29
Marcela Bovio has the best female voice around. Listen to Ayreon, Stream Of Passion or Elfonia and you shall love her voice like many before you
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 10:49

Kate Bush, followed by the great Joni Mitchell. Tori Amos is quite good too. From outside the list I'd mention Grace Slick, Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior and Jacqui Mc Shee, and Maire from Clannad. I'm not too keen on Loreena McKennit, who sounds rather contrived to me.

BTW, though she's not by any means prog, has any of you ever heard Skin, formerly of Skunk Anansie? She sings a track on Tony Iommi's first solo album, and she's simply awesome!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 15:18
[QUOTE=lucas]

There are very few women to sing in prog bands.

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Actually, there have been many hundreds over the years, although many
are extremely obscure. I'm preparing an encyclopaedia of female
progressive and psychedelic rock musicians, although it will probably be
years before it's finished (if I ever get round to it).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 20 2005 at 16:00

Perry wrote :

Voted for Kate Bush 'cause her voice is very strange and unique. Also she not just singer or songwriter as it often happens. She is a great composer and her 82 "The dreaming" - best prog album of ALL 80s.

I am confused. Are we voting to our questions or to the one in the poll. The poll was on best voice not best artist.

After said that I must agree about "The dreaming". Excelent album and for me her best work (Night of the swallow is my favorite song in the album and of all her work).

Yet, did they put Kate Bush in the archives without informing me ? Last time I checked she was not in (though I think she should be ) !

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