top 5 or 10 female vocals

[Ed]

1. Mariah Carey
2 Witney Houston
3 Celine Dion
4 Aretha Franklin
5 Beyonce Knowles
6 Barbra Streisand
7 Christina Aguilera
8 Faith Hill
9 Kelly Clarckson
10 Alicia Keys

[Nate6]

1. Ella Fitzgerald
2. Whitney Houston
3. Aretha Franklin
4. Celine Dion
5. Julie Andrews
6. Sarah McLachlan
7. Mariah Carey (great range, but with a slightly overrated tone)
8. Sutton Foster
9. Norah Jones
10. Renee Fleming

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*Annie Lennox
*Aretha Franklin
*Kate Bush
*Lauryn Hill
*Dusty Springfield
*Bjork
*Patsy Cline
*Debbie Harry
*Nico
*Ella Fitzgerald

[Romero&Juliet]

~Odetta
~Koko Taylor
~Pearl
~Daisy DeBolt
~Natalie Merchant (just in the eighties...she starts to make an attempt at real singing in Blind Man's Zoo..It worked, but she got wayy too confident afterwards...and started writing ridiculous lyrics for herself.)
~Billie Holiday
~Madonna
~Ma Rainey
~Polly Jean Harvey
~Hope Sandoval

[PapaJupe2k]

Top 10 best female vocalists:

#1) Carole King
#2) Karen Carpenter
#3) Petula Clark
#4) Aretha Franklin
#5) Linda Ronstadt
#6) Stevie Nicks
#7) Celine Dion
#8) Ella Fitzgerald
#9) Deborah Harry
#10) Sheryl Crow