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    Posted: October 24 2018 at 11:35
Hi! Can you guys recommend me great bands that have a female lead singer? Thanks in advance!

Edit: Solo artists are also welcome!


Edited by cold103 - October 24 2018 at 14:48
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Frumpy


yes, that's a woman singing, Inga Rumpf


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Many modern US bands are fronted by great female singers. Besides Bent Knee, I would recommend Phideaux  (comprising no less than four talented ladies!), iNFiNiEN, Inner Ear Brigade, the sadly disbanded MoeTar, Ut Gret.  and Galactic Cowboy Orchestra. Half Past Four from Toronto (Canada) are also excellent. I have seen most of them live, and they are all highly recommended!
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The Red Masque with singer Lynnette Shelley.




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Off the top of my head, and with prog in mind:

Renaissance
Curved Air
Magenta
Mostly Autumn
The Reasoning
Panic Room
Karnataka
Touchstone
Iona
Anathema
Iamthemorning....

.... along with a whole raft of solo artists, obviously. Sometimes vocal duties are shared with males.

Loads more, no doubt...but can't promise you'll think they'll fit your tastes and consider them great, though.



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Henry Cow and the Art Bears, both with Dagmar Krause.

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Renaissance
Bent Knee
The Red Masque
District 97
Magenta
Curved Air
Blackmore's Night
Glass Hammer (not always but sometimes)
The Gathering
The Reasoning
Moetar
Phideaux
Touchstone
Mostly Autumn
Frumpy
Karnataka
October Project
Circuline
Iona
Schooltree



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Chilean band MATRAZ. Their vocalist is the delightful Loreto Chaparro.







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There are also great bands out there that have female lead singers that share the duties with male lead singers.  For instance, bands that are listed on this site like Black Mountain, Anathema, Archive, Dead Can Dance, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
 
There are some great female soloists that most people here know that are also listed on this site like Kate Bush, Bjork, Tori Amos.
 
Just naming some obvious ones off the top of my head.
 
What style are you looking for?

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Oh one more that is a personal favorite that you won't find on the archives and that is a band called "Eye to Eye".  They only released a few albums in the early 80s, but they were a very awesome band with a Steely Dan style jazz-rock.  Lead singer is Deborah Berg and she co-founded the band with pianist Julian Marshall.

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I'll add to the list:
Anna von Hausswolf
Demen (Irma Orm)
Faun (alto Fiona and many wonderful sopranos)
Stereolab (Laetitia and Mary)
Epica (Simone Simons)
Nightwish (Tarja et al.)
Olga Podgaiskaja (Rational Diet, Five-Storey Ensemble)
Elaine di Falco (Thinking Plague, Yugen, Empty Days, Combat Shoestore, et al.)
Francesca Nicoli (Ataraxia)
Kate Bush
Meg Baird (Espers et al.)
Amanda Rankin (Axon-Neuron)
Marit Elisabeth Svendsbře (Funin, Stillehavet)
Melody Ferris (Inner Ear Brigade)
Nina Hagen
Jane Siberry
Ill Wicker
Kosmos
Anybody Riccardo Prencipe gets to sing on his CORDE OBLIQUE albums
Ana Torres Fraile (Universal Totem Orchestra)
Carolina Prieta (2000s Kotebel)
Evangelia Kozoni (Ciccada)
Noa Gruma (Soul Enema)
Petronella Nettermalm (Paatos)
Suz Johansson (Pingvinorkestern)
Dam Kat (Children in Paradise, Dam Kat)
Elizabeth Heaton (Midas Fall)
Tirill Mohn
Björk
Sara Eranni (Lagartija)
Car(olina) Restuccia (Factor Burzaco, Catu Kuá)
Eliana Valenzeula (Hominído)
Sharron Fortnum (North Sea Radio Orchestra)
All of The Gathering's leading ladies
and I'm sure I'm leaving out many others that have yet to be mentioned...

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BrufordFreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2018 at 18:08
Looking over the list I just posted ^ I must say, I think there are far more great female singers in prog world than males--I love every single one of the voices on that list!

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2018 at 18:13
yeah that chick from Infienien is a hell of a talent as well quite enjoyable to talk with, a real sweetheart, and oh yeah..  cuter than cute.  Great band.. by far my favorite from Progday that year.

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Iamthemorning, Delusion Squared, Glass Hammer. Kari Reuslatten, Arjen Lucassen's project Ambeon and many more.
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The three Fairport Convention progressive British folk albums What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief with the ethereal Sandy Denny singing (their self-titled debut album is also very good but it is more a straightforward emulation of American folk rock with nods to Dylan and Joni Mitchell).

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote kenethlevine Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2018 at 20:53
oh sooooo many.  These come to mind...sorry not sorry that so many are prog folk, 
Clannad 
Forever Twelve
Galley Beggar
Carole of Harvest
Shine Dion
Sedmina (a man and woman, but the woman sings more and better)
Galahad (German prog folk group)(see Sedmina).  I think the female lead may have left
Favni (German group that used to be called Fauns - Favni is the German word)
Serpentyne
Crystal Phoenix
Itziar
Spriguns of Tolgus
Canamii
Corde Oblique (mostly)
Narrow Pass (mostly)
Seven Reizh (mostly)
Daemonia Nymphe
Renaissant
Illusion
Dunwich
Resonaxis
Glaz
Sandrose
Pentangle
Arion
Pererin (first album)
Earth and Fire
babe Ruth
Snowdonia





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Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Epica
Within Temptation
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