Best Female Vocalists Ballads


I am on the lookout to add to my extensive collection of music. It's been a while since I was 'on the lookout' for such.
My favorite music is ballads, male and female. Any suggestions on music spanning, say the past 5 or six years?
Album name AND Artist.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Larry
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A relatively new artist whose work I have recently discovered is Antje Duvekot. Her most recent albums are:
The Near Demise of the Highwire Dancer (2009)
Antje Duvekot LIVE from all over the place (2011)
New Siberia (2012).
*Lost in Romance*/Lyn Stanley. I've got the 2-disc vinyl set (45rpm), and it is superb. Not sure if it's available in other formats.
Mass popularity and my tastes are usually mutually exclusive, but there is a fairly recent new singer who has sold a lot of albums whom I really like. She's British, goes by the name of Adele, and is a great singer of ballads, even one by Dylan. She has only two albums, I believe, so get 'em both!