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Female Vocals: Stunning Recordings You Love

syn08

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My favorites (hard choice, I admit) in a random order:

Anne Dudley/The Art of Noise

Beth Gibbons/Portishead

Annie Haslam/Renaissance
 

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Polyrhythmic blast from Manou Gallo (Ivory Coast). Not her best track vocal-wise, but she's a stunning bass player and percussionist, too. Still gives me goose-bumps everytime I play this song and it's one of the songs I often play ten-times in a row, can't get enough of it, the rhythms and the innocent voice sans vibrato.

Another african artist, Oumou Sangaré (Mali). Also quite polyrhythmic, this time with a more hypnotic vibe and the pentatonic main and backing vocal lines (again, no vibratos) got me hooked immediately.

It is not a coincidence that both tracks are in the same key, A minor, which always gives me a special feeling....
 

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Miya Folick - Premonitions (Official Audio)


1:19 - she "struggles" a little bit in the low end, nevertheless I find it entertaining and.. well.. sexy as well. Hope I'm not weird :rolleyes:
 

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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - I’m A Ruin [Official Music Video]

MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - I’m A Ruin [Acoustic]

Oh, I forgot - singer Marina Lambrini Diamandis (I would marry her anytime :) )
 

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OK, here are some examples with "little less fun factor for me", but I don't hesitate to count them as "reference grade":
Oh Susanna - Sleepy Little Sailor (singer Suzie Ungerleider)

Melissa Menago - Burning Away

Melissa Menago - The Other Side of You

Kelly Sweet - Je T'Aime

Esther Ofarim - El Rey Nimtod

Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (singer Margo Timmin
 

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Maybe a little late tho theparty
YouTube Is no justice for the quality in tiny desk recording
 
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