Favorite Newly Discovered Female Vocalist

Yes, as the OP I want to thank everyone for their contributions. It’s amazing how many female artists there are that many of us have never heard sing. Quite a lot of listening to be done. Thanks to streaming most of these artists can be easily found. 

Don’t forget:

Sinne Eeg

Lindsey Webster

Nnenna Freelon

Elis Regina

Grace Mahya

Simone Kopmajer

Aside from the others mentioned…

Joss Stone - the “soul sessions” album 

Dominique Fils-Aime - R&B

Kandace Springs 

Rumer

Chantal Chamberland - if you like Melody Gardot

Tracy Thorn from Everything but the girl (all albums)

Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Starr

Interesting thread as many of the recommended artists have been active for a long time.  It’s nice to see many veterans being "discovered."  Here are some I discovered within the past couple of years, most of whom landed on the music scene in the past 15 - 20 years, and have not been mentioned.  These ladies have "pipes" and don’t sound derivative.  Highly recommended:

• Julienne Taylor.  Check out "A Time For Love"
• Gabrielle Cavassa - She has a self-titled release, but check out her performances on Joshua Redman’s "Where We Are" release.
• Ane Brun - Check out "How Beauty Holds The Hand of Sorrow"
• Bria Skonberg - Check out "What it Means"
• Katie Melua -  So much good stuff to choose from, but "Live In Concert" is a great listen. 
• Josephine Cronholm -  Check out "Wild Garden"
• Halie Loren - Check Out "They Oughta Write A Song"
• Lori Lieberman - The "veteran" in the group.  Check out "Truly" 

All great recommendation and I discovered them because of streaming.

Sophie Zelmani - Lake Geneva, Sing and Dance

Skye Edwards, in the band, Morcheeba

Eilen Jewell

Patsy Cline

Sandy Denney

A few have been mentioned previously, most not.

Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Katie Pruitt, Iris Dement, Mary Black, Suzanne Cox, Jennifer Warnes and many others.

Streaming is a wonderful thing.

Thank you for the amazing list. Have saved all of them to listen over the next few weeks.

I will add three

Bonny Light Horseman- a discovery for me in 2024. Got two of their LPs

the next two are not English singers. I don’t understand either of the two languages but just love listening to them:

Souad Massi- from Algeria

Maki Asakawa - from Japan

Here are two I forgot to include earlier:

• Cecile McLorin Salvant - Check out "Dreams and Daggers"
• Dominique Fils-Aime - Check out "Nameless"

The singer for Bonny Light Horseman is male.

Agree with Treepmeyer- this is these discussion boards at their best.  

+1 on Jennifer Warnes. Perhaps not the most naturally gifted singer ever but her The Hunter album is truly an audiophile recording and she does it justice. 

I don’t think I saw this one listed but Shelby Lynne’s tribute album to Dusty Springfield, “Just a Little Love’n” is fabulous, both as an artistic creation and as a really well done audiophile recording. She released it in 2008 and is one of my favs.
I’ve got more to add as well so I’ll put a list together and share in a second post. 

Danielle Nicole.  Depending on the song, she can bring out her inner Etta James, Susan Tedeschi (mentioned previously), Janis Joplin, or Amy Winehouse.  Brilliant!  Oh yeah, and she was the first female to win a Blues Music Award as Bass Player of the Year (she has won several more and was nominated for a Grammy).

Here are just two links to get you started.  Everything she does is worth checking out.  You're welcome 

https://youtu.be/QR2kyAMrX68?si=y0pSQHLkNB2ihutD

https://youtu.be/PQQZGsHe1hk?si=P6vBcAD9eyUeQZ96

This one isn’t newly discovered by me like yesterday, but a couple of years ago on public radio I heard Mia Doi Todd (who I had never heard of before) sing My Baby Lives In Paris, and I really liked the song and what her voice did with it, so I bought the CD and she is pretty good.

Janis Ian - 1975 album "Between the Lines", which multiple high resolution versions of some of the songs on this album are on Tidal.  Her 1992 album "Breaking Sielence" mastered by Doug Sax was one of the best sounding pop albums of the 1990s, IMO.

Joy Williams  - Check out songs Welcome Home, Till Forever, Before I Sleep, One Day I Will and What a Good Woman Does.  She was half of the Civil Wars, before they broke up.

Enjoy

I just heard Mala Waldron live this afternoon.
Great vocalist and pianist.  
Goddaughter of Billy Holiday. 
 

Limited recording output, sadly. 

Waxahatchee. I’m really enjoying her latest album.