The lady that has trained me on radio has given me the challenge to play as many female artists as male, I'm trying to meet this, but it is sometimes more challenging. What are your favourite female artists & best (clean) songs by them? While we're at it white males are also over represented, so anyone not in that category would also be good 
obviously not the most obvious like Jimi! 
Era not important, I play an electic mix as long as the lyrics are positive.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Vashti Bunyan, Polly Jean Harvey, Mira Calix, Kate Bush, Lucy Spraggan, Amy Winehouse, Ella Fitzgerald, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Sia, Icona Pop, Let's Eat Grandma, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ani DiFranco, Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell, Lily Allen, Paloma Faith, Janis Joplin, The Bangles, Shakespeare's Sister, Adele, Lizzo... there's just a few!
Jnei
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June 8, 2018
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Let's Eat Grandma? Really ? Can't wait
Jnei:
@girlwithsmiles They're fantastic - two 18-year-olds from Norwich who make music quite unlike anything else!
@Jnei 30 seconds in and I love them already. There's a lot in it, but yes, really enjoyed it. Thanks. I may have to buy a CD as I'm a bit old school like that!
Jnei:
@girlwithsmiles That's one of the things I love about them - the mood of most of their songs is all over the place, changing repeatedly. That and the fact that they so clearly revel in being so different - exactly the kind of pop star icon that teenage girls need
MIne are from way back. Connie Francis, Nana Mouskouri, The supremes, the Andrews sisters, Beverly sisters, Eve Boswell, Rosemary Clooney, Julie Felix etc.
Petter
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June 8, 2018
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Wow, any best songs? Not my era of expertise.
@girlwithsmiles Here's a song I love from Nana Mouskouri, who had a wonderful voice:
@girlwithsmiles and another.
@girlwithsmiles and a brilliant version of Amazing Grace.
@girlwithsmiles Here's Margaret Singana, who would have eclipsed Miriam Makeba if she hadn't caught throat cancer. She was a brilliant South African singer with a superbly clear voice. This is taken from the Musical Ipi Ntombi (the warrior)
@girlwithsmiles Julie Felix is an American born Folk singer, with Mexican antecedents, who was never well known in the USA but was very popular in Britain. She has her own record label. Here's some of her early stuff
and some a bit later.
and some whimsical stuff:
I met her a couple of time when she came out to Kenya. She was always a very approachable and pleasant person and enjoyed conversing. She is also passionate about social justice.
@Petter gosh, thank you for all of those, I'll work my way down the list
@girlwithsmiles Another magnificent singer, Mary Hopkin. recorded in 1977, when you were a toddler.
@girlwithsmiles And some light relief from 1960, Harry Belafonte, from Jamaica, with Odetta.
Concrete Blondes; Patti Smith; Tori Amos; Sinead O'Conner; Donna the Buffalo (w/ female lead); Anoushka Shankar; Edith Piaf; Bjork; Tracy Chapman; Nanci Griffith, Shaun Colvin; Mamas and the Papas; Peter, Paul, and Mary; The Carpenters; 4 Non Blondes; Cowboy Junkies; Joan Baez; Madonna; The Roches; Yoko Ono; Brandi Carlile; Cowboy Junkies; Rhiannon Giddens; The O'Coonor Band; Emmylou Harris; Joan Carter; Dolly Parton; and my favorite: Queen.
AstralSmoke
Level 8
June 8, 2018
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Gosh, that's few more to be going on with then, thank you.
Solo women
Fiona Apple
Tori Amos
Poe
Stevie Nicks
Ani DiFranco
Bjork
Dido
Universal Hall Pass
Abra Moore
Meredith Brooks
Natalie Merchant
Alanis Morissette
Groups with a woman lead singer
Fleetwood Mac
Lacuna Coil
Garbage
The Cranberries
The Cardigans
The Pretty Reckless
ghost_warlock
Level 7
June 8, 2018
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Cool, quite a few I don't know there, look forwards to youtubing them
@girlwithsmiles The gal from Universal Hall Pass is Melissa Kaplan and she has a bunch of free music online from when she was part of the group Splashdown. After they broke up, they put all their stuff online for free for people to enjoy
@ghost_warlock thank you very much.
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