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As an extension of the disagreement going on in Sander's SOTW thread ... please name the best female vocalists outside the classical tradition from the last twenty years so that we can laugh hysterically nod wisely and make sage comments about your choices.
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Janis. Because, well.... Janis.
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Does she not fall outside the 20 year scope? I'd have gone for Streisand at her peak if we're talking further back but I did say 20 years!
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Oh, missed that. Yeah, guess she's SLIGHTLY out of range.
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If we're going outside the range, then I want Patti Smith in there. And Joan Armatrading. And Aretha Franklin. And ...
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And Sheryl Crowe and...
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Ahhh - fooey. You're just getting rid of the real competition so those of the last twenty years have anything like a chance.
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Sharon den Adel
Susan Boyle
Enya
Avril Lavigne
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That's ok, she probably hates you too... 
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no she h8tes me...sk8ter boy
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'nother vote for Within Temptation 
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What is this obsession with "Verleiding Binnen"?
If it's the boobies, just bear in mind that 99.99999999999% of women have two each, so they're nothing special.
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Emmylou Harris.
Anne Wilson.
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Justin Bieber? 
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I bet she'd sound better doing an underwater concert (see thread from yesterday), now where's that anchor....
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Right now...
1. China Forbes - lead singer of Pink Martini
2. Colleen Duffy - lead singer of Devil Doll
3. Randy Crawford
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Out of curiosity: I find that a lot of people are nominating more or less unknown singers. Why?
If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think?
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The phrase "..outside the classical tradition..." leaves quite a bit of wiggle room for niche vocalists maybe.
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Missed that. You're probably right...
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Johnny J. wrote: If they had been the best, then surely they would have been more widely accepted as such, don't you think? 
No, most of the best music today is by independent artists. While some of the more main stream performers are indeed good vocalists, they spew out the garbage that the industry steers them towards instead of trusting their own creativity.
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Don't think that follows at all. In fact I specifically asked for the best, not the most commercially successful, in the hope that it would raise up some candidates that I had no knowledge of. The record business being the clumsy great machine that it is there is no reason to believe that the cream necessarily rises to the top or gets the backing of the great promotion budgets. Also there are many great singers working in areas such as English folk which have never had the audiences to bring people into widespread recognition. I would put Kate Rusby's "My Young Man" easily into the top ten singer/songwriter recordings of all time, for example, but I doubt that more than a handful of people outside the folk audience are even aware of it's existence (and they heard it from me!)
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You might want to do a little research on how the pop industry works.
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