Are male vocalists more popular than female inPROG

Hi everybody, i have a big problem...
I just wondered why all of my favourite vocalists are male.. then i was confused because i suddenly could not think of any band i really love with a female vocalist. is this a prog-related phenomenon or why are there so few female singers in this genre? (ok i have to admit i don´t know too much different prog bands by now). There are some beautiful female voices (i think of tarja turunen the ex-nightwish singer or the within temptation vocalist) but they´r all doing this melodic metal stuff wich i don´t like that much because of the lack of prog ;)

Please don´t misunderstand me, i´m in no way misogynic or whatever.. i am just wondering...

if i ask around in my family or my friends they all tell me that they do like male voices more than female.

How about you? do you feel the same, or not? in fact i would be glad someone disagreed..
i appreciate if someone can name me some nice prog acts with female vocalists to prove me wrong

greets

I love many female singers like Annie Haslam who have such beauty in their voice that males generally do not have. However, with many prog bands I do prefer male vocals.

-Jeff

The majority of the non-instrumental bands I like have male vocals, I think, but that's just because there are many more bands with male vocals than female vocals, it's not because I enjoy male vocals specifically more than female. As long as the vocals move me in some way, I'm happy. As for bands with female vocals: 

Ann Wilson never ceases to blow my mind.  Heart made some proggy sounding albums in the 70s (Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen) but even on the later lame stuff, she still sounds great. 

Kate Bush, Happy Rhodes, the woman from Epica (sorry, slips my mind), Donella del Monaco, just to name a few.

Lots of great female singers!

Unfortunately, there are very few successful rock bands with female singers.  This isn't a phenomenon to progressive rock alone.  Being a metal fan, I like the aggression and audacity that male vocalists have, and many people including myself generally prefer that over female vocals (although that hasn't stopped bands like Lacuna Coil from being successful)
I do believe that female vocals can often be more beautiful or emotional than male voices, though.  If you're looking for some progressive rock examples, some of my favorites with female vocalists would be Giant Squid and Grayceon.  It adds a whole different dimension to their music.

I dig death metal stuff a fair bit (prog or non prog death, doesn't matter).
I do like Arch Enemy but compare it side by side next to Opeth and Between the Buried and Me for example, and her vocals almost sound like metalcore screams in comparison, because they just lack this depth of tone that a lot of male death growlers like Tommy (from BTBAM) and Mikael are capable of. So understandably you can see why female death growls aren't that popular.
I can't really be bothered commenting on other styles of music at the moment because all I can hear in my head is death metal right now from having listened to way too much of it lately : P


Edited by Petrovsk Mizinski - September 24 2009 at 00:41

Here are some of my favorite prog albums with (clean) female vocals:

Mr ProgFreak wrote: Here are some of my favorite prog albums with (clean) female vocals:

Dude, no maudlin of the Well?
All my respect I have ever for you is gone, totally, utterly gone : (

Thank you for your answers! i will check out some of the bands you mentioned because i felt that there has to be some diversion frome the male dominated music i listen to ;)

greets

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