A couple weeks ago I said my favorite musical instrument is the electric guitar but my favorite thing in the world to listen to is the female voice. I mean what can you say the female voice has it all including being soothing, sultry, sexy, smooth, seductive, sensitive, sensual, sincere, silly and that’s just the “S'”. The female voice just soothes the savage soul within me like nothing else can. I will not even attempt to list my favorite female singers because the list will be too long and I know I will forget some I wanted to post. I love hearing the female voice in every genre of music from classic opera to country music even though I like very few male country performers. I’ve added more videos that I usually do to a music post but I could add hundreds more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysO3ZQOoBfg
Anastacia – “Sick and tired”
Edith Piaf – for our Pepe and the French Language
nellie- Thanks for posting Etta James and Miss Peggy Lee
OMG, I was playing her CD today while I was driving… love this song, was blaring it like it was a rap song!
Thanks.
My dogs are barking to be fed, so I’m going to sign off with this one. One of my all time favorites:
Last one, I swear! Delerium featuring fellow Canadian Sarah McLachlan in “Silence” (not really!)
Okay, so I’m reaching back to the heyday of MTV, but did we ever have sirens in those days!
You are bringing back some memories.
This song seems fitting, given the theme
Francesca Nicoli, from Ataraxia, one of my favorite bands from Italy (of course) – opera with a sardonic twist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvuynLwkUtk
It just crossed my mind that Bollywood playback singers like Alka Yagnik, Lata Mangeshkar, Kavita Krishnamurthy, etc. can bring even operatically trained Western singers to shame; though, comparing the two classical technical traditions is ultimately unproductive and irrelevant. It’s not a contest. In any case, I’ll save those “Gandharvas”.
Etta
My top siren will always go to the inhuman range and transcendent glossalalia of Lisa Gerrard. With Dead Can Dance, a band which single handedly created a genre, performing “Song of the Sibyl”:
P.S. Tori Amos is also in my pantheon of goddesses, as well.
Wow, that is some voice. Not quite human is right!
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I just love this song for some reason.
Jeffersons Airplane White Rabbit
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Love Jefferson Airplane. I think we posted the same song!
I still can’t believe we both posted this.
Incredibly influential to my generation’s music. A cover, for example:
Joni Mitchell
And classic Joni:
Grace Slick
😆 great minds think alike. I just posted that song above. I’ll delete it so I don’t look silly.
When you think of great voice, you have to think of Grace Slick!
Don’t take it down. It’s PPOV kismet.
Maybe a little Natalie Merchant?
It’s funny she does not have the classic voice but I still love hearing her sing.
How about some Natalie Cole?
ok, i don’t know how to imbed the actual youtube
Just add a v after http so the link begins w https://www……
Hi Sue, you just have to add a v after the https: like this.
Thanks, all. I learn fast, promise lol
That’s our song, cheers.
Here you go:
I see we had the same thought, love Natalie Cole