Bear asked:


I am working a on a book a children’s book of great female musicians (singers, composers, instrumentalists), that’s all opinion I know, from all over the world and from many genres (opera, blues, salsa, broadway, slack key, soweto blues, bhangara etc.) Women who blazed the way for the female muscians of today. This includes the USA because it is part of the world. So I want nominations of Arabic legends, Eastern European legends, Greek legends, J-pop Legends; Percusionists, guitarists, composers, singers anyone you think is worthy to be in such a book etc.

Now to make it easier or harder here are some obvious choices I already have from the US and few from other countries.

Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
Aretha Franklin
Bonnie Raitt
Etta James
Tina Turner
Koko Taylor
Joni Mitchell
Janis Joplin
Celia Cruz
Edith Piaf
Marlene Dietrich
Ofra Haza

So nominate 3 or more and make sure to list their country of origin. Best three gets best answer.

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10 Responses to “Important female musicians of the world?”

1. Susie on June 26th, 2007 5:23 am

   Amy Lee has a beautiful voice- America

2. chicago floater on June 29th, 2007 10:23 am

   britney
   paris hilton
   bjork

   best 3 of all times lol (jk)

3. Bashful Heart Bear on July 2nd, 2007 7:58 am

   Tarja Turunen- used to sing for nightwish

4. SweetElf on July 5th, 2007 7:21 am

   Ingrid Michaelson, Norah Jones, Sarah McLaughlin (not sure on the spelling of that one… sorry)

   All Americans I think…

5. oldwolf1951 on July 8th, 2007 2:53 pm

   Karen Carpenter, soft rock, U.S.
   Beverly Sills, opera, U.S.
   The entire group from Celtic Woman, celtic music, Ireland

6. solarius on July 11th, 2007 1:31 am

   Beverly Sills (USA)
   Maria Callas (USA, Greek-American)
   Jenny Lind (Sweden).

   And for rock, don’t forget Pat Benatar (USA).

7. hrhviolette on July 13th, 2007 2:00 pm

   excellent choices so far! wish i knew more about musicians from other countries, but just here in the states in different genres there is so much to learn!

   joan baez
   patsy cline
   eartha kitt

8. pleiades on July 16th, 2007 1:34 am

   Allanis (remember?)-Canada, eh
   bjork- Iceland, eh
   gotta go with Joni-Canada, eh
   Sade- Nigeria, eh sorry about all the ‘eh’s, eh?
   I’m American, and we don’t have any ‘eh’s. maybe yo! at one time might have counted.

9. george___k2 on July 17th, 2007 2:24 pm

   The Greek Opera singer Maria Callas, the Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum

10. riodejaneirofun3 on July 19th, 2007 5:27 am

    Pat Benetar revolutionized women’s rock in the 1980’s. It still sounds good today.