Best female vocals on CD

The just release (January 20th,2004) cd of Lisa Gerrard in her first collaboration with award-winning Irish composer Patrick Cassidy titled 'IMMORTAL MEMORY'. Lisa sings in Aramaic, Gaelic, and her own shape and form sounds. It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful voice and music I have heard in a very long time. Most worthy of one of my top three/ten 2004 cd picks and it's only the 3rd week of the new year.

A singer I wrote about before. She sings in Korean and she has the slickest voice, the most tender voice I have heard from any artist. Her name is Lee Soo Young. Here is a link to several of her videos. You would be surprised at the quality of her music and video work. There is a low resolution streaming video and a high resolution one. You choose. The icon with the red tv is the high resolution version. If you choose the hi resolution one, let it buffer, when the icon comes out asking for Yes/No, say yes. Wait for buffering. When it completes and the video is still choppy, take the slider icon back to the beginning, and the video will play fine.


http://music.bugs.co.kr/Info/artist.asp?cat=MV&menu=v&Artist=594

I don't know about best, but, I'd like to add Nancy Wilson. I can't believe this is the first time I've seen this thread.

My top 10 include many already named here . . . Margo Timmins (Junkies)- most of their cd's; Eva Cassidy -Songbird; Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat, The Well, The Hunter; Allison Kraus (w/Union Station) - New Favorite; Karrin Allyson - Ballads; Patsy Cline - anything; and several others already mentioned too.
but . . . since we're spanning all genres and so far noone has mentioned Jane Relf, I will - she has an oh so sultry voice - like Margo Timmins - you melt just listening to her. If you haven't heard of her - she was one of the lead singers with a group called Rennaisance (the original one), which was formed by ex-Yardbirds founders Keith Relf (her brother) and Jim McCarty). This group was later resurrected as "Illusion" with the same basic line-up except Keith. You have to go back to the 70's to get their music - try the CD that has their 2 LP's packaged together - titled "Illusion" and "Out of the Mist". Oh, while I'm at it - the SECOND group called Rennaisance had an amazing vocalist named Annie Haslam. Any of their cd's from the 70's and early 80's are worth a listen.

Alice Spencer of Victrola on "Live as you Like." This is a band I heard in Austin Texas at the Continental Club. She has a great voice (my wifes favorite too). The music is kind of jazz, but to me also kind of "broadway show tune." The band and sound is also excellent.