Greatest Female Singers
by kevandasc | created - 21 Jun 2022 | updated - 2 months ago | Publicas much on vocal ability as quality of songs done.
1. Chrissie Hynde
Soundtrack | Happy Feet
Chrissie Hynde was born on September 7, 1951 in Akron, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Happy Feet (2006), Stealth (2005) and The Living Daylights (1987). She was previously married to Lucho Brieva and Jim Kerr.
2. Annie Haslam
Actress | The Last Page of Summer
Annie Haslam is known for The Last Page of Summer (2020).
lead singer of the band Renaissance
3. Linda Ronstadt
Soundtrack | The Pirates of Penzance
Linda Ronstadt was born on July 15, 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for The Pirates of Penzance (1983), An American Tail (1986) and The Abyss (1989).
4. Etta James
Soundtrack | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Etta James is an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz, gospel. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind". She faced a ...
5. Dolores O'Riordan
Soundtrack | Mission: Impossible
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was born in Ballybricken, a town 8 miles outside Limerick on Sept. 6, 1971. Her parents are Eileen and Terrance. Terrance was in a wheelchair due to a motorcycle accident. Dolores was the youngest of seven children, and one of two girls. In the late eighties, Dolores ...
Cranberries singer
6. Susan Tedeschi
Soundtrack | Bug
Susan Tedeschi was born on November 9, 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Bug (2006), Queen City (2013) and Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000). She has been married to Derek Trucks since December 2001. They have two children.
7. Janis Joplin
Soundtrack | Watchmen
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, ...
8. Ann Wilson
Soundtrack | The Golden Child
Singer, flute player, songwriter, and guitarist Ann Dustin Wilson was born on June 19, 1950 in San Diego, California. The daughter of Brig. Gen. John B. Wilson USMC, Wilson and her family moved around a lot, before eventually settling in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, WA. Ann attended Interlake ...
Heart
9. Ronnie Spector
Soundtrack | Jingle All the Way
Ronnie Spector is an American singer. Spector was the lead singer of the rock/pop vocal girl group The Ronettes, who had a string of hits during the early to mid-1960s such as "Be My Baby", "Baby, I Love You", and "The Best Part of Breakin' Up". Subsequently, Ronnie Spector launched her solo career...
10. Angélique Kidjo
Soundtrack | The Woman King
Angélique Kidjo was born on July 14, 1960 in Ouidah, Benin. She is a music artist and actress, known for The Woman King (2022), The CEO (2016) and Street Fighter (1994). She has been married to Jean Hebrail since 1983. They have one child.
11. Natalie Merchant
Soundtrack | One Fine Day
Natalie Anne Merchant was born on October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York, USA. The third of four children, Natalie displayed a love for music at an early age, though she never thought of it as a career choice. Natalie originally wanted to become a teacher, but that changed when she met Robert Buck...
12. Sandy Denny
Soundtrack | Crush
Sandy Denny was born on January 6, 1947 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Crush (2001), The Dancer Upstairs (2002) and The Subject Was Roses (1968). She was married to Trevor Lucas. She died on April 21, 1978 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK.
13. Norah Jones
Soundtrack | Ted
Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She is a daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones. She is Anoushka Shankar's half-sister.
In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the ...
14. Christine McVie
Soundtrack | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter for British-American rock band, Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie was born Christine Anne Perfect on July 12th, 1943 in the Lake District village of Bouth, England (then Lancashire, now Cumbria), and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham....
15. Diana Krall
Soundtrack | Public Enemies
Diana Jean Krall was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, to Adella A. (Wende), an elementary school teacher, and Stephen James Krall, an accountant. She has Czech, German, English, and Scottish ancestry. Krall was raised in Nanaimo, a small community on Vancouver Island, where she began ...
16. Grace Potter
Soundtrack | The Family Plan
Grace Potter was born on June 20, 1983 in Vermont, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Family Plan (2023) and Life in Six Strings (2023). She was previously married to Matthew K. Burr.
17. Cassandra Wilson
Soundtrack | The Score
Cassandra Wilson was born on December 4, 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Score (2001), Junior (1994) and My Blueberry Nights (2007). She was previously married to Isaach De Bankolé.
19. Deborah Coleman
Deborah Coleman is known for Brave (2012), Up (2009) and Inside Out (2015).
American blues singer and guitarist
20. Debbie Harry
Actress | Videodrome
Deborah Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. At three months, she was adopted by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, and was raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. In the 1960s, she worked as a Playboy Bunny and hung out at Max's Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited ...
Blondie
21. Grace Slick
Soundtrack | American Hustle
Grace Slick was born on October 30, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for American Hustle (2013), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) and Brooklyn's Finest (2009). She was previously married to Skip Johnson and Jerry Slick.
22. Joss Stone
Actress | Eragon
Joscelyn Eve Stoker (born 11 April 1987), better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the similarly ...
23. Stevie Nicks
Soundtrack | Sweet November
Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona. From an early age, she showed a love and aptitude for music, singing country and western duets with her grandfather when she was 4 years old. After moving to San Francisco, she began songwriting and performing at Menlo-Atherton High School, where she met ...
24. Dusty Springfield
Soundtrack | Pirate Radio
Dusty Springfield has been acknowledged around the world as the best female soul singer that Britain ever produced. With her oddly erotic, throaty voice, she racked up a string of hits from the 1960s onwards. Born in London to Irish parents, Dusty grew up in and around London. Her early work ...
25. Rhiannon Giddens
Actress | The Great Debaters
Rhiannon Giddens was born on February 21, 1977 in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Great Debaters (2007), Descendant (2022) and True Detective (2014). She has been married to Michael Laffan since 2007. They have two children.
26. Madeleine Peyroux
Soundtrack | From Paris with Love
Madeleine Peyroux was born on January 1, 1973 in Athens, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for From Paris with Love (2010), Definitely, Maybe (2008) and Failure to Launch (2006).
27. Enya
Soundtrack | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin, the fourth youngest of nine children, comes from the small village of Dore (Dobhar in Irish) in the Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair) region of County Donegal in northwestern Ireland. She now lives in Killiney, a coastal district on the southern outskirts of Dublin The family ...
28. Joni Mitchell
Soundtrack | Two Weeks Notice
Joni Mitchell is one of the most highly regarded and influential songwriters of the 20th century. Her melodious tunes support her poetic and often very personal lyrics to make her one of the most authentic artists of her time. As a performer she is widely hailed for her unique style of playing ...
29. Marianne Faithfull
Actress | Marie Antoinette
Daughter of Eva, the Baroness Erisso, and Major Glynn Faithfull, a WWII British spy. Recorded the first song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "As Tears Go By" (1964). Involved in a major drug scandal with Jagger, Richards, and others, which ultimately turned public opinion favorably ...
30. KoKo Taylor
Actress | Blues Brothers 2000
KoKo Taylor was born on September 28, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Wild at Heart (1990) and Adventures in Babysitting (1987). She was married to Hay Harris and Robert 'Pops' Taylor. She died on June 3, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
31. Bebel Gilberto
Soundtrack | Rio
Bebel Gilberto was born on May 12, 1966 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Rio (2011), In Time (2011) and Rio 2 (2014).
32. Astrud Gilberto
Soundtrack | V for Vendetta
Mention the name Gilberto and Bossa Nova immediately comes to mind. Astrud was the original 'Girl from Ipanema' (composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes), famously singing the iconic hit song first featured on the classic 1963 album Getz/Gilberto. Released by Verve Records as a ...
33. Eva Cassidy
Soundtrack | Love Actually
Eva Marie Cassidy was born on 2nd February, 1963 in Washington Hospital Center in the United States to Barbara and Hugh Cassidy. Eva grew up with her siblings, Anette, Margaret and Dan, in Bowie, Maryland. The Cassidy family was very musical. From an early age, Eva could master harmonies and first ...
34. Carole King
Soundtrack | A League of Their Own
Carole King is an American composer and singer-songwriter.
She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the USA, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1999. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making ...
35. Flora Purim
Soundtrack | Sharky's Machine
Flora Purim was born on March 6, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is an actress, known for Sharky's Machine (1981), Made in America (1993) and Tempos Modernos (2010). She is married to Airto Moreira.
36. Rory Block
Soundtrack | Care Bears
Rory Block was born on November 6, 1949 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
37. Maddy Prior
Soundtrack | Snow White and the Huntsman
Maddy Prior was born on August 14, 1947 in Blackpool, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Emma. (2020) and Awaydays (2009).
Steeleye Span
38. Maire Brennan
Soundtrack | King Arthur
As lead singer of Irish Celtic pioneers, Clannad, Moya has released over 20 albums and sold 10 million in her career. Clannad initiated what is now known as Celtic music, blending Irish traditional arrangements with an elemental sound, overlayered with Moya's ethereal vocal layering. Clannad have ...
Clannad
39. Martha Davis
Soundtrack | Mr. Church
Martha Davis was born on January 19, 1951 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Mr. Church (2016), Death Warrant (1990) and Something Wild (1986). She was previously married to Ronald Francis Paschall.
the Motels
40. Alison Krauss
Soundtrack | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Alison Krauss is a bluegrass virtuoso who effortlessly bridges the gap between roots music and country, rock and pop. A highly sought after collaborator, Krauss has worked with some of the biggest names in popular music, including James Taylor, Phish, Dolly Parton, Yo-Yo Ma and Bonnie Raitt. Since ...
41. Tammi Terrell
Soundtrack | Guardians of the Galaxy
Tammi Terrell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Thomasina Winifred Montgomery. She is best known for singing duets with Marvin Gaye in the 1960s, including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." She was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the height of her popularity and after unsuccessful ...
42. Diana Ross
Soundtrack | The Wiz
Best known as the the lead singer of the popular 1960s singing group The Supremes, Diana Ernestine Earle Ross was born on March 26, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, the second of six children of African-American parents Ernestine Lillian (Moten), a schoolteacher, and Fred Earl Ross, who served in the ...
43. Mary Wilson
Actress | Golden Shoes
Mary Wilson, co-founder of The Supremes, helped garner an unequaled record of number 1 hits by a female group. Recording for Motown, Mary guided The Supremes into rock 'n roll history, turning her group into one of the three icons of the 1960's, alongside Elvis Presley and The Beatles. Mary never ...
44. Melody Gardot
Soundtrack | 360
Melody Gardot was born on February 2, 1985 in New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for 360 (2011), The Line (2009) and The Starling (2021).
45. Shirley Manson
Actress | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Shirley Manson was born on August 26, 1966 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008), Captain Marvel (2019) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). She has been married to Billy Bush since May 2010. She was previously married to ...
Garbage. Thats her bands name
46. Belinda Carlisle
Pop icon Belinda Carlisle experienced full-blown American success twice in the 1980s, first with the all-female rock band The Go-Go's and then, on an international level (which she always wanted), as a solo artist. The Go-Go's first album, 1981's "Beauty and the Beat", spent six weeks at number 1 ...
GoGos
47. Leslie Feist
Soundtrack | Paris, je t'aime
Leslie Feist was born on February 13, 1976 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is an actress and composer, known for Paris, I Love You (2006), Warm Bodies (2013) and 500 Days of Summer (2009).
49. Lake Street Dive
Music_department | Joe Zimmerman: Cult Classic
Lake Street Dive is known for Joe Zimmerman: Cult Classic (2023), Conan (2010) and Sidewalk Sessions (2013).
Rachael Price is lead singer
50. Andrea Corr
Actress | The Boys from County Clare
Andrea Jane Corr is a member of the Irish pop/rock/Celtic musical group The Corrs. In her younger years, Andrea was the best student among all her siblings, Sharon Corr, Caroline Corr and Jim Corr. She began her life with the band as soon as she graduated from secondary school. The Corrs' parents ...
51. Carly Simon
Soundtrack | All Good Things
Carly Simon has an unparalleled career that spans five decades of openhearted storytelling both in song and print. Joining the singer-songwriters of the early 1970s, Simon changed the public's conception of pop music to an honest, sensitive and intelligent craftwork. Simon's biggest success came ...
52. Susanna Hoffs
Soundtrack | Austin Powers in Goldmember
Susanna Hoffs is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, novelist and co-founder of the multi-platinum selling group, The Bangles. Her voice is instantly recognizable on such hit singles as, "Eternal Flame", "In Your Room" (both co-written by Hoffs), and "Manic Monday".
Her first novel, "This Bird...
Bangles
53. Joan Jett
Soundtrack | Light of Day
Joan Jett rose to fame in the 1970s all-girl rock band The Runaways. Her cover of "I Love Rock and Roll" was a number one hit in 1982; "Crimson and Clover" was another hit for her. Jett has appeared as Columbia in the Broadway production of "The Rocky Horror Show".
54. Big Mama Thornton
Soundtrack | Vanishing Point
Big Mama Thornton was born on December 11, 1926 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Vanishing Point (1971), A Few Good Men (1992) and The Dreamers (2003). She died on July 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
55. Florence Ballard
Self | ABC Stage 67
Florence Glenda Wilson Ballard was born and grew up in Detroit. By the time she turned 15, her family moved to the Brewster-Douglas housing project, and Florence attended Northeastern High School, where she met and became friends with Mary Wilson. Ballard had always wanted to be a singer and ...
56. Sharon Corr
Soundtrack | America's Sweethearts
Sharon Helga Corr is a member of the Irish pop/rock/Celtic musical group The Corrs. The other band members are her brother Jim and her sisters Andrea and Caroline. The Corrs' parents were musicians who strongly encouraged each of their children to pursue music. Sharon began learning violin at age ...
57. Lisa Fischer
Soundtrack | Dude, Where's My Car?
Lisa Fischer was born on December 1, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013) and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990).
58. Merry Clayton
Actress | Nine 1/2 Weeks
Merry Clayton was born on December 25, 1948 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for 9½ Weeks (1986), Lionheart (1990) and Dirty Dancing (1987). She was previously married to Curtis Amy.
she sang on Gimme Shelter
59. Donna Godchaux
Self | Sunshine Daydream
Donna Godchaux was born on August 23, 1947 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA. She is married to David McKay. She was previously married to Keith Godchaux.
Grateful Dead member and Elvis backup singer
60. Little Feat
Soundtrack | X-Men: Days of Future Past
Little Feat is known for X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The Rundown (2003) and Striking Distance (1993).
Shaun Murphy was singer for a while and she did well.
61. Mariska Veres
Actress | Shocking Blue: Mighty Joe
"She's got it," Mariska Veres sang in the enormously popular Shocking Blue song "Venus." Mariska most certainly had it--a sensuous and charismatic stage presence that could transfix an audience with an absolute minimum of effort.
A striking brunette beauty with long, jet-black hair, sparkling eyes, a...
Shocking Blue
62. Lulu
Soundtrack | To Sir, with Love
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Glasgow, Scotland on November 3, 1948. As a teenager, she toured the northern clubs with her band, the Luvvers. After her initial success with a cover of "Shout" reaching #7 in 1964, Lulu went on to establish herself as one of the ...
63. Aretha Franklin
Actress | The Blues Brothers
Grammy-winning Queen of Soul and the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara Vernice (Siggers) and C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, who preached at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit for over thirty ...
64. Whitney Houston
Soundtrack | The Bodyguard
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston (née Emily Lee Drinkard) and John Russell Houston, Jr., and cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick.
She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope ...
65. Darlene Love
Actress | Lethal Weapon 4
Born Darlene Wright in Los Angeles in 1938, she began her career as lead singer with the vocal trio, The Blossoms. After a spell as regulars on ABC TV's variety show Shindig! (1964) in the early 60s, the trio went on to sing backup on a variety of Elvis Presley recordings, and even backed him on ...
66. Merrilee Rush
Soundtrack | Jerry Maguire
Merrilee Rush was born on January 26, 1940 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is an actress, known for Jerry Maguire (1996), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004). She is married to Billy "Mac" McCarthy. She was previously married to Neil Rush.
67. Shirley Bassey
Soundtrack | Moonraker
Shirley Bassey was born in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, and raised in the nearby working class neighborhood of Splott. Her mother was originally from Yorkshire, and her father was a Nigerian seaman who left the family when she was less than two. She later helped to support her family by working in an...
68. Adele
Soundtrack | Skyfall
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is a British singer-songwriter who has sold millions of albums worldwide and won a total of 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar. Adele's first two albums, 19 and 21, earned her critical praise and a level of commercial success unsurpassed among her peers. ...
69. Pat Benatar
Soundtrack | Deadpool 2
Pat Benatar was born Patricia Andrzejewski in Brooklyn and raised in suburban Lindenhurst, Long Island. Her mother Millie had sacrificed her own career as an opera singer to bring up Pat and son Andrew. Years later, it was Pat who sang classically, honing the powers of her 4.5-octave voice as a ...
70. Florence Welch
Soundtrack | Cruella
Florence Welch was born on August 28, 1986 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Cruella (2021), Wonder Woman (2017) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).
71. Sade
Soundtrack | A Wrinkle in Time
Sade was born on January 16, 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a music artist and composer, known for A Wrinkle in Time (2018), True Lies (1994) and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). She was previously married to Carlos Scola.
72. Tegan and Sara
Soundtrack | The New Mutants
Tegan and Sara was born on September 19, 1980 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is an actress and composer, known for The New Mutants (2020), The Lego Movie (2014) and To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018).
73. Sara Bareilles
Actress | Little Voice
Sara Bareilles was born on December 7, 1979 in Eureka, California, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Little Voice (2020), Battle of the Sexes (2017) and She's Out of My League (2010).
74. Brittany Howard
Soundtrack | Silver Linings Playbook
Brittany Howard was born on October 2, 1988 in Athens, Alabama, USA. She is an actress, known for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Joy (2015) and Everything, Everything (2017).
Alabama Shakes
75. Bonnie Raitt
Soundtrack | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bonnie Raitt was born on November 8, 1949 in Burbank, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978), Nick of Time (1995) and Ladder 49 (2004). She was previously married to Michael O'Keefe.
76. Patti Smith
Soundtrack | Noah
Patti Smith was born on December 30, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Noah (2014), Song to Song (2017) and Barb Wire (1996). She was previously married to Fred 'Sonic' Smith.
77. Dale Bozzio
Soundtrack | Lunch Wagon
With her stunningly buxom, shapely and voluptuous bombshell figure, highly distinctive squeaky voice, platinum blonde hair, and penchant for outrageous clothes, Dale Bozzio was certainly one of the more quirky and colorful personalities to emerge from the early 1980s California New Wave band rock ...
78. Alanis Morissette
Soundtrack | Dogma
Alanis Nadine Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, on June 1st 1974. Alanis' Greek name is a feminine version of her father's name, Alan. Her mother's name's Georgia and she has two brothers: Chad and Wade (Alanis' Twin). She learned to play the piano at age 6 and the guitar at age 21. In 1986 ...
79. Amy Winehouse
Soundtrack | Amy
Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Enfield, London, England and raised in Southgate, London, England to Janis Holly Collins (née Seaton), a pharmacist & Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, a window panel installer and taxi driver. Her family shared her love of theater and music. Amy was ...
80. Donna Summer
Soundtrack | Thank God It's Friday
Donna Summer rocketed to international super-stardom in the mid-1970s when her groundbreaking merger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant-garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacles of sales and radio charts around the world.
Maintaining...
81. Chaka Khan
Actress | The Blues Brothers
Chaka Khan was born on March 23, 1953 in Great Lakes, Illinois, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Hollywood Homicide (2003). She has been married to Doug Rasheed since 2001. She was previously married to Richard Holland ...
82. KT Tunstall
Actress | KT Tunstall: If Only
KT Tunstall enchants audiences and engages with every song, and that's why she continues to resonate not only among fans but throughout pop culture at large. Scotland born and now Los Angeles based, KT Tunstall emerged with her 2004 classic debut Eye to the Telescope, spawning such international ...
83. Paula Cole
Soundtrack | Urban Legend
Paula Cole was born on April 5, 1968 in Rockport, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Urban Legend (1998), Sweet November (2001) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). She was previously married to Hassan Hakmoun.
84. Jenny Lewis
Actress | The Wizard
Jenny Lewis was born on January 8, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her acting debut was in a Jell-O commercial. During the mid-1980s, her parents divorced and she moved with her mom, Linda, to Los Angeles, California. In 1999, she gathered a couple of her friends, Blake Soper, Pierre de Reeder, and ...
85. Emmylou Harris
Soundtrack | Brokeback Mountain
Emmylou Harris was born on April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Brokeback Mountain (2005), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Lawless (2012). She was previously married to Paul Kennerley, Brian Ahern and Tom Slocum.
86. Dale Krantz-Rossington
Actress | Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour
Dale Krantz-Rossington is known for Lynyrd Skynyrd Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour (2003), Decades Rock Live (2005) and If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd (2018). She was previously married to Gary Rossington and Raymond Alan Watkins.
Rossington Collins Band
87. Bonnie Bramlett
Soundtrack | The Guardian
Bonnie Bramlett was born on November 8, 1944 in Alton, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Guardian (2006), The Doors (1991) and Ghost Rider (2007). She was previously married to Danny Sheridan and Delaney Bramlett.
Delaney and Bonnie
88. Tina Turner
Soundtrack | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
With almost fifty years in the music business, Tina Turner became one of the most commercially successful international female rock stars. Her sultry, powerful voice, her incredible legs, her time-tested beauty and her unforgettable story all contributed to her legendary status.
Born to a ...
89. Sheryl Crow
Soundtrack | Tomorrow Never Dies
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American musician, actress and singer from Kennett, Missouri. She is known for multi-genre songs such as "Soak Up the Sun", "Real Gone", "All I Wanna Do", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "Picture" and "My Favorite Mistake". Her songs can be heard in films such as Cars, Kangaroo ...
90. Candice Night
Soundtrack | Yes Man
Candice Night was born on May 8, 1971 in Hauppauge, Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Yes Man (2008), The Perfect Banana (2009) and Helloween Feat. Candice Night: Light the Universe (2006). She has been married to Ritchie Blackmore since October 5, 2008. They have ...
of Blackmore's Night
91. Mindi Abair
Soundtrack | License to Wed
Mindi Abair is known for License to Wed (2007), Danny Collins (2015) and Sandy Wexler (2017).
92. Larkin Poe
Director | Georgia Off My Mind
Larkin Poe is known for Georgia Off My Mind (2022), Strike Gold (2022) and The Rookie (2018).
93. The Mamas and the Papas
Soundtrack | The One I Love
The Mamas and the Papas is known for The One I Love (2014), Hotel Artemis (2018) and Repo Men (2010).
2 female singers in this band
94. Elaine 'Spanky' McFarlane
Actress | Moonrunners
Elaine 'Spanky' McFarlane was born on June 19, 1942 in Peoria, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Moonrunners (1975), Space Station 76 (2014) and Norman (2010).
lead singer of Spanky and our Gang 60's group
95. Amy Helm
Actress | Higher Ground
Amy Helm is known for Higher Ground (2011), Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2010) and CBS Saturday Morning (2012). She is married to Jay Collins. They have one child.
daughter of Levon, member of Olabelle and solo
96. Petula Clark
Soundtrack | Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Petula Clark was a star at the age of 11. She starred in British concert halls and on BBC radio singing for the troops during WWII. She was a child star in a series of British films from the end of WWII through to the early 1950s,and by 1954 was having hit records. After a move to France in 1960, ...
97. Julie Andrews
Actress | The Sound of Music
Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...
98. Minnie Riperton
Soundtrack | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Minnie Riperton was born November 8, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, to Thelma Inez (Matthews) and Daniel Webster Riperton, a Pullman porter. At a young age, Riperton, the youngest of eight children, began taking dancing and ballet. Once she reached high school, she began singing in the Hyde Park A ...
99. Nancy Wilson
Soundtrack | Vanilla Sky
Nancy Wilson was born in San Francisco, California and joined her sister Ann Wilson in the Seattle, Washington based hard rock-band Heart in the early-seventies. She sang lead vocals on the number one-hit "These Dreams" and on the top-twenty hit "Stranded". Ann performed on "The Battle of Evermore"...
of Heart
100. Shemekia Copeland
Actress | Countermeasures
Shemekia Copeland was born on April 10, 1979 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Countermeasures, Three to Tango (1999) and Angel Eyes (2001).
Tell Your Friends