# Favorite women musicians

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**Category:** Music Scene Chat\
**Created:** [May 3, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494 "2023-05-03T22:28:08Z")\
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Favorite women musicians

Mine are:  
Avril lavigne  
Veruca salt  
Cocteau twins  
TLC  
Aretha franklin  
Tina turner  
Adele

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**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/2 "2023-05-04T21:36:35Z")

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Joanna Newsom  
Erykah Badu  
Róisín Murphy  
Kyrist  
Beth Gibbons  
Jill Scott  
Tamela Mann  
J’Nique Nicole  
Nami Nakagawa  
Emi Evans  
Angela Hunte  
Spice  
Lady Saw  
D-Vine  
Tali  
Lauryn Hill  
Missy Elliott

+1 for Aretha Franklin

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**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/3 "2023-05-04T21:43:57Z")

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Dua Lipa  
Amy Winehouse  
OJ Harvey  
Nina Simonei  
Sister Rosetta Tharpe  
Ella Fitzgeraldn  
Kate Bush  
Alicia Keys… New York  
Chaka Khan feel for you  
Annie Lennox  
Christine McVie  
Kylie Minogue… Talented pop  
Bjork I got into her about 5 years ago after 30 plus years of knowing a out her… Her material is out there and need focus to appreciate. Maturity maybe from my perspective

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**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/4 "2023-05-04T21:45:34Z")

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Martina topley bird

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/5 "2023-05-05T00:38:52Z")

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Nita Strauss  
Ryn Weaver  
Anna Von Hausswolff  
Lynette Cerezo (Bestial Mouths)  
Chelsea Wolfe  
Lari Basilio  
Yasmine Kittles (Tearist)  
Phoebe Ryan (love her unique voice; her music goes from superb to “oh well” though)  
Bishop Briggs  
Alissa White-Gluz  
Amalie Bruun (Myrkur)  
Patricia Morrison  
Alicia Merz (Birds of Passage)  
Valerie Anne Poxleitner Bokan (LIGHTS)  
Carice Van Houten  
Lana Del Rey  
Ashley Frangipane (Halsey)  
Anne-Marie Hurst (Ghost Dance)  
Lita Ford  
Kaelan Mikla (all 3 of them)

…It’s all over the place, I know.

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 6:51am UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/6 "2023-05-05T06:51:56Z")

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Wow, I find it kind of odd that I can’t name a single one. Apparently my music library is just a bunch of dicks

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/7 "2023-05-07T19:57:26Z")

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Charlotte Wessels  
Simone Simons  
Jennifer Haben  
Sharon den Adel  
Candace Kucsulain  
Merel Bechtold  
Hayley Williams  
Christine Vaccine

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/8 "2023-05-07T23:57:18Z")

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Billie Holiday  
Nina Simone  
Beth Gibbons  
Lætitia Sadier  
FKA Twigs  
Fever Ray  
Lana Del Rey  
Mimi Parker  
Fiona Apple  
Astrud Gilberto  
Trish Keenan

That’s all I can think of, but I know I’m missing someone.

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**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/9 "2023-05-11T20:15:50Z")

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Dolores o riordan…the lead singer from the cranberries…

Halsey

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**Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/10 "2023-05-20T18:48:48Z")

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PJ Harvey  
Dolores O’Riordan  
Cat Power

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**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/11 "2023-10-05T22:28:45Z")

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Agnes Obel ( wow )  
Warpaint ( I get bonus points as it’s FOUR wimmin !! )  
Roisin Murphy ( genius )

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**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/12 "2023-10-06T07:27:29Z")

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> [@w4vsurgeon](#):
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> Agnes Obel ( wow )

A friend just recommended her to me when talking about Joanna Newsom - she has some great songs for sure!

> [@](#):
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> Roisin Murphy ( genius )

Yeah, still listening to her old Moloko stuff regularly…

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**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/13 "2023-10-06T09:22:30Z")

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Agnes is awesome. First song of hers that I heard, is Dorian. As soon as I heard it, I knew I needed to hear more.

I knew of Moloko back in the early 00’s and liked “The time is now”, and “bring it back” but then they disappeared. It was only last year that I heard a track by Roisin called “overpowered” and thought it was so clever on multiple levels…the actual music , the amazing lyrics, the voice…and when I started digging into Roisin’s discography discovered she was the lead singer of Moloko, so I not only bought a lot of Roisin’s solo albums, but went back and bought the Moloko stuff too.  
Ahe’s one super talented lady

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/14 "2025-05-05T01:51:15Z")

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Kate Bush

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/15 "2025-05-07T00:43:28Z")

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Mish is probably my number one  
Australian born and probably the face of women on Rawstyle atm  
Imogen Heap’s vocals are so dreamy, too…  
I also don’t mind Chapel Roan, but I hardly listen to that sort of music, so.  
I want to say Sewerslvt, but they’re non-binary so despite using feminine avatars etc I dunno if you could really consider them a woman.

Suprisingly, that’s about it. A lot of well known women in music at the moment are either just another “pop” artist or a trap-rap artist (I hate both genres with an absolutely scorching passion.)

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**Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 12:57pm UTC](https://idmforums.com/t/favorite-women-musicians/6494/16 "2025-11-06T12:57:55Z")

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Rezz is my favourite, I don’t have the time to list all the artists I listen to who are women, there are too many XD
