Are male vocalists more popular than female inPROG

Is this a man singing or a girl  (sounds like a girl to me )



Great female vocals!

I think that the female voice is much better than the male voice actually, but as you said, I can't think of many prog bands with female vocalists.   I quite enjoy the singers on National Health's self titled.  Also always liked the singer on the Bruford albums. 

ignatiusrielly wrote: Well, with a few exceptions like Sonja Kristina, she is an amazing singer...and used to be so beautiful tha I would have surely fallen in love with her had I been born 15 years earlier!!!!

I did fall in love with her when I was a teenager, and was fortunate enough to see Curved Air live a couple of times in the mid 70's.

Sonja was a truly amazing performer, and dare I suggest: the ultimate rock chick?

FusionKing wrote: Two females I have much respect for are Janis Joplin and Grace Slick, they are the two women who set the standard for female rock vocals and frontmanship without a doubt and I'm still waiting to hear someone who can compete with them...

That Pentangle song is wonderful 

Some female vocals get on my nerves, where as I can usually take most male singers, even if I don't always particularly like them. 

...and I forgot about this one:

I am a huge fan of good female vocals - Anne Wilson of Heart is one of my favorite vocalists of all time, and early Heart albums definitely contain some classic proggy tunes (Soul of the Sea, Song of the Archer, Mistral Wind are as proggy as any early Tull). But I have yet to hear anyone since who is nearly as good. Anne Wilson is very ballsy - she can belt with a lot of emotion, strength, and covers a lot of styles form soft to rocking. Other singers like Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny are great, though more on the softer style. But most of the female vocals I hear in bands like Magenta, Glass Hammer, IZZ, seem a little too flat and lack the strength of the others I noted...almost like they were recorded in an apartment where they are afraid to wake up the neighbors.

Maybe the problem isn't the vocalists, but the men who are producing them!

Mind_Drive wrote: 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? - -

Do you mean prog-related or prog-related?

Hmm, when thinking of it, many female singers seems to be in some kind of more avant-garde and obscure bands... well, avant-prog, folk, and then symphonic & "avant-garde" metal.

But I've loved almost all of them, and I know quite much, but don't want to name anyone. Actually I don't even know the names. Well, I say Dagmar Krause from Henry Cow.


But the reason why they aren't so popular...

How many woman players there are? Not so much. Women aren't so much into prog.

But when there are those female vocalists, why don't some people like them? Male vocals are many times softer, deeper, more consistent, and not so irritating (that's partly because of the customs). There can be some expectations for female singers, like "It should be f*ckable voice", or "I hate it when I start to think f*cking and I hate that kind of human customs", or "I want to be alone, I'm afraid of rare things like women".
Somehow female vocals are more peculiar. It has something to do with evolution.

Anyway, I'd say that those who don't like female vocals are bad people. People should go inside themselves and really listen to the music.

Though, I also love male vocals that sound like female. Or somehow pitiful. Or peculiar. Ok, not always. And maybe the problem is me, when I try to aim to the odd things.

Well, the version on Pulse is much better than this one, but still the original rules.