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    Posted: December 28 2006 at 08:53
A lot of women vocalists in prog are either classically trained or sing in an opera style (or sing in an over the top upper crust English accent)
I´m trying to find a woman vocalist in prog who just sings naturally with her God given voice.
 
With male vocalists,(like Fish, Steve Walsh and Peter Gabriel etc) they just sing in their natural voices.
Can anyone recommend a naturally sounding female vocalist? Do they exist in prog?
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Sonya Christina came first to mind, but there are many others as well....
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Originally posted by eugene eugene wrote:

Sonya Christina came first to mind, but there are many others as well....
 
Thanks! I will give her a listen, Which band is she in?


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Originally posted by WaywardSon WaywardSon wrote:

Originally posted by eugene eugene wrote:

Sonya Christina came first to mind, but there are many others as well....
 
Thanks! I will give her a listen, Which band is she in?
 
Oops, sorry, I should have mentionned it - Curved Air.
 
 


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simone simmons from Epica. but i dunno if they're considered as prog or not. Nightwish also got female vocalist
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Christina from Magenta maybe?
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Thanks guys, I will try Curved Air,Magenta and Epica.
Nightwish has that opera style of singing which I am tired of..
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i couldn't find any info about Flora Purim being classicaly trained so... go for it!
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Celia Humphris from the folk band Trees. (There are a lot of good female vocalists in folk)
Jerney Kaagman of the Dutch band Earth and Fire.
Amanda Parsons, who does backing vocals for both Hatfield and the North albums.
Chloe Alper from the modern space/prog/indie band Pure Reason Revolution.

Those are some of my favorites, there are many more. Thumbs Up
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Rachel Jones from Karnataka.  Pick up Strange Behaviour-a 2 disc live set.  Great Symphonic prog and she sings is a very natural and beautiful voice.
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Christina from Magenta maybe?
 
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Try White Willow, there first album has Sara Trondeal, the next three have Sylvia Erichsen and the most recent has Trude Eidtang on vocals, all very good with Eidtang as my favourit singer of the three.
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Originally posted by Bluesaga Bluesaga wrote:

Celia Humphris from the folk band Trees. (There are a lot of good female vocalists in folk)
Jerney Kaagman of the Dutch band Earth and Fire.
Amanda Parsons, who does backing vocals for both Hatfield and the North albums.
Chloe Alper from the modern space/prog/indie band Pure Reason Revolution.

Those are some of my favorites, there are many more. Thumbs Up
 
 
Celia Humphris from the folk band Trees.<--i didnt know her name (thx for the info btw) ... the voice if this vocalist is BEAUTIFUL ...i love her voice heh..
 
i will add too to this good list ... Jane Duboc from Bacamarte, and the vocalist of the sudafrican band Canamii, both have beautifol voices  voices : )
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Well its not exactly "normal" but Gong has Gilli Smyth doing her "space whisper" vocal style.
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Celia Humphris from Trees reminds alot to Annie Haslam. That's not a bad thing BTW I love her voice.
Another one from the folk prog side Hoelderlin's Nanny DeRuig. Her voice in the album Holderlin's Traum is just heavenly
Heather Findlay from Mostly Autumn is another wonderful vocalist
I agree with Bluesaga about Chloe Arper from Pure Reason Revolution. She's my favorite from the ones already mentioned.

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The beautiful voice of Marcela Bovio from Elfonia and Stream of Passion

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Points: 30178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2006 at 02:54
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Try White Willow, there first album has Sara Trondeal, the next three have Sylvia Erichsen and the most recent has Trude Eidtang on vocals, all very good with Eidtang as my favourit singer of the three.


 I second that... Really good stuff...

In a different stuff I have to add female singers of Mike Oldfield albums like Sally Oldfield and Maggie Reilly amogst others. Maggie did a great work on Incantations and Exposed...

And of course my all-time favourite DIAMANDA GALAS... not prog in fact the music is very strabge and dark but she has an album calles THE SPORTING LIFE with John Paul Jones (yeah, the bassist from Led) and it's a masterpiece of the mid 80's






Edited by progadicto - December 29 2006 at 04:08
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Grace Slick, ok she isn't prog, but kind off proto-prog. She has the best voice ever!!

Btw, for those who don't she vocalist of jefferson Airplane
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Originally posted by progadicto progadicto wrote:

she has an album calles THE SPORTING LIFE with John Paul Jones (yeah, the bassist from Led) and it's a masterpiece of the mid 80's
 
it's actualy a 1994 release as you can check here: http://www.johnpauljones.com/disc.html
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