Who's your favorite female recording artist pre-2000's?

[The One and Only Mo]

I gotta go with Celine Dion.

[muman613]

You listen to women?

I can't say I ever particularly liked any women singers...

But I know there are many talented ones...

[The One and Only Mo]

You listen to women?

I can't say I ever particularly liked any women singers...

But I know there are many talented ones...

Chas v'shalom! I listen to only Celine Dion.

[muman613]

Chas v'shalom! I listen to only Celine Dion.

 

The women singers I name below nobody here would remember:

Donna Godchaux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Jean_Godchaux

Donna Jean (Thatcher) Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead rock group.

Janis Joplin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter who rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. At the height of her career she was known as "The Queen of Rock and Roll" as well as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul". She was also a painter, dancer and music arranger

[briann]

I think you need to add Janis Joplin.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Old school Mariah Carey was quite wonderful.

[Brett]

Barbara, she's got a sweet voice and I used to have a 'big' crush on her.

[Dr. Dan]

I gotta go with Celine Dion.

Most talented on the list

[The One and Only Mo]

I think Barbara is Jewish. Are any of them pro-Israel?

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Barbra Streisand is the ultimate in self-hating, anti-Semitic kapo hags. Chaim an encounter with her once in which she said HaRav (ztl) was "terrible" and "radical". So what if she's talented. Many talented people are evil--actually just about every person on your list is.

Where is Paula Abdul on your list, Mo?

[The One and Only Mo]

Barbra Streisand is the ultimate in self-hating, anti-Semitic kapo hags. Chaim an encounter with her once in which she said HaRav (ztl) was "terrible" and "radical". So what if she's talented. Many talented people are evil--actually just about every person on your list is.

Where is Paula Abdul on your list, Mo?

Sorry if I hurt a nerve there.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Why would I be hurt?

[The One and Only Mo]

Why would I be hurt?

You seemed upset that I asked if any of them was pro-Israel and that I left out Paula Abdul. Are you a fan of hers?

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

You're reading too much into my response. Maybe you do have a lot in common with Tempe! 

Anyhow I don't think any of these people are pro-Israel, Mo. I do particularly hate Streisand because she is so obnoxiously leftist but there's no denying she has talent. As for Abdul, I don't think she is righteous either but I only suggested her because she was huge in the early '90s and was one of my favorites as a kid. She's also a major looker, even today. Abdul is also Jewish (she is a Syrian Jew).

[Lisa]

Wait, aren't religious Jews not allowed to hear women singing?  Or does that mean they can't watch videos of singing women, or see them live singing?  I'm confused.

[The One and Only Mo]

Wait, aren't religious Jews not allowed to hear women singing?  Or does that mean they can't watch videos of singing women, or see them live singing?  I'm confused.

You are right. Men aren't supposed to.

[muman613]

Wait, aren't religious Jews not allowed to hear women singing?  Or does that mean they can't watch videos of singing women, or see them live singing?  I'm confused.

I have looked into this and what I believe that most agree that seeing a woman singing live is prohibited {at least amongst Orthodox, and especially Chasidim and Haredi}. But there are varying opinions as to whether listening to recorded female singing is prohibited. Those who are strict will prohibit themselves form listening to recorded women singing.

I don't keep by that strict interpretation but I seldom listen to women anyway so I don't have an issue, and I have never seen women solo singers except for when I was a kid...