# Female singers with low voices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429 "2003-11-26T18:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/41 "2003-11-28T18:33:24Z")
What about Maryanne Faithful? Although her low voice is the product of about 40 years of smoking. Younger folk may know her from the cameo she did with Metallica a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/42 "2003-11-28T20:56:14Z")
Oh, how could we all forget the great **Alice Faye**? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/43 "2003-11-28T21:58:49Z")
Margo Timmins ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/44 "2003-11-28T22:13:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Oh, how could we all forget the great **Alice Faye**? \*\* Beat me to it. But even lower, Eve, her contemporary **Lee Morse** , she of “T’Ain’t No Sin to Take of Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones” and “He’s Still My Baby” fame. (And I’m thrilled to see Diamanda mentioned of course; she’s one of my personal divas.) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/45 "2003-11-28T23:17:15Z")
Ah–and the mention of Lee Morse shook my wee brainie loose and reminded me of the lovely, deep-voiced and deadly **Libby Holman**! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/46 "2003-12-01T02:03:09Z")
You probably think of her first as a comedian, but she sure can sing: **Bette Midler**. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/47 "2003-12-01T02:58:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\*You probably think of her first as a comedian, but she sure can sing: **Bette Midler**. \*\* . . . Ah, my age is creeping up on me; I think of Bette as a singer (I bought all her albums back in the '70s) who later got into acting . . . ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/48 "2003-12-01T18:35:36Z")
**PJ Harvey** can hit some pretty low notes. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/49 "2003-12-01T19:06:19Z")
Has no one yet mentioned **Sarah Vaughan**? ---
**Author:** ![Magnolia\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Magnolia\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magnolia_B)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/50 "2003-12-01T19:08:11Z")
Anita Baker ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/51 "2003-12-01T20:30:59Z")
Dionne Farris Des’ree Patti Andress from Tuck & Patti Meshell Ndegeocello (just to name a few) ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/52 "2003-12-01T20:34:41Z")
Tanita Tikaram ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429/53 "2003-12-02T02:25:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by threeorange \* > \*\*I’m surprised noone has yet mentioned Joan Armatrading. \*\* That’s because she is a goddess, and everyone else was paying attention to mortals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-singers-with-low-voices/215429.md?page=2)