wadude
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Maybe missed her, but Ann Wilson seems to be from the Grace Slick branch of women Rock singers. Candy Givens is another. Perhaps Bjork too, from time to time. Leather lunged, clean and clear. Rock!
Jill Scott gets my vote...
Aye, Gilles Peterson is a star. Bridged the divide between jazz/RnB and house/techno for me.
Introduced me to a hell of a lot of good stuff too.
But I do understand where the OP is coming from. Led Zeppelin was my first love musically, and I feel about Robert Plant similarly to how the OP feels about Ann Wilson - a singular talent and to me personally the best rock vocalist ever.
"I got a loose board and there's a hole in the crack!" (29 Ways to My Baby's Door)... Indeed. My fave's Wang Dang Doodle
Ever heard the Wailin Jennys, @MattHooper?
EDIT: Ideally, live -- and unamplified. They have, or at least had, a tradition of ending their shows with an a cappella version of The Parting Glass (which was also the closer on their first full length album), in small-ish venues, at the very front of the stage sans mics.