Other Female Singers

[Mark-T]

Laufey...... When this new 24 year old 2024 Grammy winner for Best Traditional Pop Vocal album gets described as a "Gen Z Karen Carpenter" who's going to be huge, a "jazz-inflected Karen Carpenter," or jazz's answer to Taylor Swift, I had to take a look at who this Laufey is. I have to admit I liked what I heard, but is this what Karen might have sounded like if she had transitioned to jazz and had more "swing" as was mentioned in another thread?

https://archive.ph/XBlLV (Daily Telegraph review article without paywall)

2024 Grammy performance -

Laufey Delivers A Delightful Performance Of "From The Start" at the 2024 GRAMMYs Premiere Ceremony | 2024 GRAMMYs Performance | GRAMMY.com

<span>Watch Laufey's delightful performance of "From the Start" at the 2024 GRAMMYs Premiere Ceremony. She won a GRAMMY at the 66th Annual Awards for </span><span>Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for </span>*<span>Bewitched.</span>*

www.grammy.com

Wow- I liked it too! And all those background vocals. Really nice...

 

[AM Matt]

German singer Tina Rainford has died at 77 years old. From 1976, here is "Silver Bird". (NOT the Mark Lindsay 1970 song)

 

[AM Matt]

Tina Rainford - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Florian]

Tina Rainford was Great! But I like her german Recording of Silverbird much more.

 

[Murray]

Harriet released this today. Let the comparisons begin...

 

[Rick-An Ordinary Fool]

Harriet released this today. Let the comparisons begin...

I didn’t hear the page turn.

 

[onlyjustbegun]

Lena Zavaroni!

 

[newvillefan]

Lena Zavaroni!

Loved her - she was a child star in the UK when I was a child and even at that young age, I remember watching her on TV and thinking she had one hell of a voice. Like Karen, she developed an eating disorder, but her life took a very sad turn of events when she decided to opt for surgery in her 30s (if you can believe it, akin to a partial lobotomy), in an attempt to cure her addiction. Quite why this barbaric treatment was ever condoned in the UK as late as 1999 is beyond me, but she died from complications of her surgery three weeks later.

 

[newvillefan]

Dina Carroll. Loved her from first hear and still do now. This was my favourite of all the singles she released.

 

[rockdoctor]

Lena Zavaroni!

I only know of Lena from an episode of "Are You Being Served?" and the reference was that the record was the only way of Mrs. Slocombe's cat going out in the rain by playing the record. To me it seems that Lena was not very good, hence the quip. I did see an album of hers in a local thrift stone so somebody here in the USA bought at least one copy!

 

[AM Matt]

Singer Petula Clark's husband Claude Wolff has died at 93 years old. Petula Clark's husband Claude Wolff dies following a short illness

 

[rockdoctor]

I am not sure if she has been mentioned in earlier postings but one of my favorite female artists is Buffy Sainte-Marie. I first heard her single I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again on the radio back in 1968. I really liked it a lot. The first album I got was her Best Of, probably in 1971 when I joined the Record Club of America. I picked that album as a free selection for joining, based on that one song. I was never very enamored of the "Ballerina" album next released so I no longer have it. I have nearly all the Vanguard releases either on lp or cd. My favorite overall is Illuminations. That cd gets the most play of the albums that I have by her.

 

[Graeme]

Dina Carroll. Loved her from first hear and still do now. This was my favourite of all the singles she released.

Funnily enough I was thinking about Dina Caroll the other day and wondering whatever happened to her? I was always a fan of The Perfect Year & Express

 

[newvillefan]

Funnily enough I was thinking about Dina Caroll the other day and wondering whatever happened to her? I was always a fan of The Perfect Year & Express

Dina Carroll then and now. Her latest music was released in 2016. It's been rumoured she's making new music but nothing has materialised as yet.

 

[Jack A.]

It was just announced that Dionne Warwick is among the new group of artists being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024! So happy for her, she deserves it.

Cher is one of them, too, but I've never really cared for her music.

 

[newvillefan]

Cher is one of them, too, but I've never really cared for her music.

Her music is good, if only she could sing...

 

[rockdoctor]

It was just announced that Dionne Warwick is among the new group of artists being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024! So happy for her, she deserves it.

Cher is one of them, too, but I've never really cared for her music.

I saw that but there are still MANY great female artists that are getting overlooked each year.

 

[Jack A.]

I saw that but there are still MANY great female artists that are getting overlooked each year.

Indeed, but at least it’s one less, now, I guess.

Karen’s other close friend Olivia is another one I’m hoping for soon.

 

[newvillefan]

Karen’s other close friend Olivia is another one I’m hoping for soon.

That would be little comfort to Olivia now. Should have happened sooner.