Who is the greatest Canadian female singer?

Canada's Snowbird, Anne Murray, of course!!!

Luba

k. d. lang

Joni Mitchell.

Shawn Mendes

Céline.

Burton Cummings

Lisa Dalbello

Teresa Stratas

That BITCH Anne Murray!

Avril Lavigne

Another for Celine.

Mizz Bieber

Jesus, no love for Alanis?

Queen Bitch - Alannah Myles

Roch Voisine!

Roch was so fucking beautiful. Great voice too. Did an Anne Murray Christmas special but I didn't know him until I lived in Europe.

Roch really was stunning

Roch was gorgeous. Isn't his partner like a hundred years old or something like that?

Sarah McLachlan

Technically: Céline

Soul: Joni

Intellect: Alanis

Technically close second: Lara Fabian

Shania Twain

Mylène Farmer. She's from Quebec.

Anne Murray is the Canadian Karen Carpenter. Tell me different.

I get an all around kick out of Celine Dionne. She's emotive and over the top but tremendously technically proficient.

However.

K.D. Lange does so slay me oftentimes.

Please. Ginette Reno - she brings down the house starting at 1:55 mark, a little daunted by the stairs right off the bat, but give her time, its a scorching duet with Celine

sorry - starts at the 1:55 mark

Sass Jordan! Well not really, but I like her name

Sarah Polley was offered a big recording contract after doing her own singing in The Sweet Hereafter, but turned it down. She has a very ethereal voice and I wish she recorded more.

R21 said it all.

Anne Murray, of course!

Just kidding. My vote is for Céline. But I love this song.

Joni or k.d. I can’t stand Celine or Lara Fabian...their voices are like nails on a blackboard.

Mitsu

I know Anne is not really a belter but there is something really soothing and distinctive about her voice.

I never heard her sing poorly or off-key. And you have to respect the fact that she had the grace to bow out and enjoy her retirement.

Candi

That guy from Nickelback

Change my mind

How do we feel about Buffy Sainte-Marie?

France Joli

Anne Murray and our very own Lizzo Rita MacNeil

I always liked Jann Arden. Is she still around?

Kathleen Edwards

No love for Kate McGargle?

Margo Timmins

Anne Murray always reminded me of a middle school gym teacher.

There's just one person in the world who is known worldwide as The Sweet Songbird of Springhill, Nova Scotia.

Anne, can I have this dance for the rest of my life?

Anne Murray

Isabelle Boulay

Susan Jacks from the Poppy Family

Nancy Martinez

Carole Pope.

The dyke from Alberta who doesn't eat meat.

JFC, ANN WILSON. No contest.

Come on people, how can you be so Insensitive?

Ms. Jann Arden

I'm with you, r51.

I love Kate McGarrigle, r41. She makes pretty boys.

JFC, how is Ann Wilson Canadian?

R54, I don't think think the OP meant Canadian born. Ann Wilson has dual citizenship for both America and Canada.

Amy Sky has never received the recognition she deserves.

Who is this Celine bitch you're talking about? Never heard of her.

R36 She’s ugly but a little talented (I just watched that video with the white shoes). Also she’s obviously half-white, she should do 23andMe, being adopted and everything. Would that ruin how much she loves being a First Nations?!

Feist is talented.

A lil bit of love for Avril?

Marie Carmen

Annie "Holly" Woods, an American from Toronto

Nelly FurTaco

Robin Sparkles ones this thread.

*owns fucking autocorrect

Ummmm.... Moira Rose!

[quote] Intellect: Alanis

Does she do some other work outside of music where she gets to show off that intellect, or something?

The clear answer, for me, is Anne Murray. The question was who is the greatest female Canadian singer. Joni is quite good as vocalist, too, and is obviously the greatest talent of all Canadian female musicians (that I’m aware of), but Murray’s voice is like butter to me.

I don’t listen to her music regularly, of course, but I loved her when I was a kid, and now as an adult when I occasionally revisit songs like “You Needed Me” I recognize how smooth and charismatic her voice is. I could listen to her sing the phone book.

Celine Dion? Ugh. Ability to “belt” and caterwaul on pitch is surely not the be-all, is it?

Wilhelmina.

Deanna Durbin

Diana Krall

Canada has female singers?

It’s Joni. That is all.

What, no Jane Child? The first time I heard Don’t Wanna Fall in Love, I thought it was a Joke or novelty song, the lyrics are so bad. Then I saw the video & it was wtf/out of body experience, her image did NOT fit the music at all, it would be like seeing Siouxsie Sioux singing Frank Sinatra. Ps my vote is for celine, I used to dislike her before I saw her Vegas show.

Diane Tell whose one song can put to shame any EST common to DL

Why, Roch Voisine, of course.

Jesus, so difficult. K.D. Lang or Diana Krall. I love them both and refuse to choose one over the other.

[quote] What, no Jane Child? The first time I heard Don’t Wanna Fall in Love, I thought it was a Joke or novelty song, the lyrics are so bad. Then I saw the video & it was wtf/out of body experience, her image did NOT fit the music at all, it would be like seeing Siouxsie Sioux singing Frank Sinatra.

This comment got me to revisit that song for the first time in ages. I agree that the song doesn’t fit her punk image, except for the lines in the chorus:

“Love cuts just like a knife. You make the knife feel good.”

That’s pretty sick! What a bad-ass bitch. Incidentally I remember a friend of mine at the time insisting it was “you make the night feel good,” but I always knew it was ‘knife’ because it didn’t make sense to switch from ‘knife’ to ‘night’. The official lyrics confirm it. I wish I could remember who that friend was. It’s never too late for revenge.

As for it being a novelty song—it’s just your average adult contempo-pop-dance song from the late 80s, early 90s. Like Taylor Dayne. Nothing particularly bad or unusual about the lyrics at all, for its genre. Not sure what about them stood out to you as so bad.

But greatest Canadian female singer? Come on.

I may be the Susan Richardson of the Canadian music scene, but I'm still FAB!!

Celine Dion hands down.

I remember I bought Jane Child's album when it came out on the heels of Don't Wanna Fall in Love. Other than Welcome to the Real World (which had been featured in Married to the Mob), I found the rest of it a chore to get through. DWFIL was definitely not representative of the album.

Celine is awful and lacks soul.

I’ve been really enjoying Jane Child lately thanks to this thread. While I maintain Anne Murray is the best *vocalist* out of everyone named, I’ve developed a serious appreciation for Jane Child’s talents. She wrote, produced, and PLAYED EVERYTHING on her debut album. She is the sole person credited with all of it. That’s nuts! Very, very few musicians do that with their albums. She also seems to be a virtuosic player.

I’ve ordered the 7” of “DWFIL” from Discogs, and while I haven’t heard anything else from that album, I’m probably going to get that on vinyl, too, just because I’m so impressed with that song and her abilities. Late 80s synth-pop isn’t exactly my scene, but I’m feeling pathetically nostalgic lately and revisiting a lot of things I loved dearly back then, when I wasn’t yet in middle school.

Before Celine Dion, there was Diane Dufresne.

For classical music: Maureen Forrester.

Detroit is close enough to the border that I'm going to count Aretha Franklin as an honorary Canadian. The Queen of Soul for the win!

Jan Terri.

I wish it couyld be so many of these people, including most of all k. d,. lang.

BUT...

...we all knows it must be no contest. Whether we like it or not, Anne Murray just IS Canada. To everyone ever. She sums up the entire country.

There just is no other option.

Loreena McKennitt

I love Tanya Tagaq

No Luba love? When A Man Loves a Woman is probably "better" but I love this song, esp. the chorus.

r62 I preferred Darby Mills for that kind of rock voice. Woods was allegedly a bitch, too.

Maureen Forrester

Justin Bieber.

Is there even a doubt? Celine’s the Canadian GOAT.