Top Ten Female Music Legends


The Top Ten


Incomparable voice, tone and range! 1 The best there ever was!

No one can sing like she can.

She's got it all..Listening to her is like listening to warm liquid velvet!

Incomparable.. Best voice, range and tone in the world!


73 years of age and she leaves most young female singers back behind the starting blocks

BEST IN THE BUSINESS! 72 and she's as fantastic as she was in her youth! Her voice is incredible!


Her deep voice never ceices to surprise me. - Martinglez

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The greatest vocalist of all time she will always be remembered.


There has never and will never be another female singer like Lady Ella. She is one of a kind. She's just incredible. - Britgirl


The best of all time


The Contenders

11 Maria Callas Maria Callas Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI, was a Greek-American soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations.

There is no "best female singers" list complete without Stevie Nicks. - Swellow

16 Selena Selena Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was an American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, actress, and fashion designer.

Should be number 1.



She deserves to be much higher. How does marilyn monroe top her? and you think rank #27 is appropriate

19 Kathleen Battle
21 Kiri Te Kanawa
22 Patsy Cline Patsy Cline Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patterson Hensley on September 8, 1932, in Winchester, Virginia. She became a professional country singer in the 1950s, and became one of the most important artists in American music history. Patsy died on March 5, 1963, in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee. She was inducted more.


26 Rita Moreno
27 Kate Bush Kate Bush
29 Alison Krauss Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of 10 and recording for the first time at 14.
30 Edith Piaf Edith Piaf Édith Piaf was a French cabaret singer, songwriter and actress who became widely regarded as France's national chanteuse, as well as being one of France's greatest international stars.
31 Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. This internationally famed actress cum singer was a frontline performer with an amazing long career in the show business. One of the highest paid actresses more.
34 Alanis Morrisette Alanis Morrisette Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American alternative rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress.

I don't really care about her and having had her biggest career in the 2010s she is also too new to be called a legend, but being a singer who was certified ten times platinum for a single album in her home country and made a style that had had the reputation for being music for elderly people arguably the country's most popular genre again, she definitely already had a huge impact on German music history already. Then again, I always found her music to be mediocre and not very special. But hey, she has to have something a lot of people all ages can identify with. - Martin_Canine

40 Peggy Lee Peggy Lee Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress, in a career spanning six decades.
41 Sumi Jo
44 Umm Kulthum Umm Kulthum Umm Kulthum was an internationally famous Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s.
47 Majida El Roumi Majida El Roumi
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