Question:
Are female singers who sing in a lower register more likely to be percieved as masculine, than male singers who sing in a higher register are to be percieed as feminine?
This thread might lead one to make that conclusion.
Suprised no one has mentioned Geoff Tate.
Psst, did anybody mention the Bee Gees?
I wouldn’t characterize Chris Isaak’s sound as feminine (despite the flamingo suit), but he does have a kickin’ falsetto.
Yes, they were already mentioned.
How about…
David Gates from Bread
C. J. Snare from Firehouse
Joey Tempest from Europe
/hijack - What about the other way around? For example, “High School Confidential” by Rough Trade, I remember being shocked when I finally saw Carol Pope was the lead singer!?
Definitely not feminine sounding but Rob Halford from Judas Priest and Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden were both well known for a pretty wide range going up into the high notes.
I never thought that the Bee Gees (or Frankie Valli, for that matter) sounded particularly feminine – they did sing really high, but did not sound like women, in my opinion.
Robert John, who had a big hit in 1979 with “Sad Eyes” (he also did a great cover of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in 1972), sounded a bit more feminine when he got into falsetto register.
And I agree with many other posters about Nick Gilder – he definitely had a “girly” vocal style!
Outside of Tracy Chapman, I don’t think so. There was a female country singer, though, whose name I never learned, who had an extremely low voice. To my knowledge I only ever heard one song by her, and I thought it was a man. The song went like this:
Jose Cuervo, you are a friend of mine
I like to drink you with a little salt and lime
and thinking it was a man singing, I was really confused by the lines that said,
Did I kiss all the cowboys? Did I shoot out the lights?
Did I dance on the bar? Did I start any fights?
I finally came to the conclusion it was a woman, as I couldn’t see country radio stations in the '80s playing a song about a man getting drunk on tequila and kissing all the other men 
As for male singers with high voices, the most impressive I’ve ever heard is Eric Adams, vocalist for metal band Manowar. But he sounds distinctly masculine doing it. Mountains (gotta hear the whole song to appreciate it).
Listen to the Raspberries. Eric Carmen wins this thread.
For a long time as a kid I thought that “I’m the only one” by Melissa Etheridge was sung by Journey.
This was what I was going to mention. I’ve heard this song since the movie came out when I was a kid and just found out it was a woman maybe three weeks ago. My mind was blown.
For fun, the reason I discovered it was sung by a man was because I looked up Limahl after chancing upon this beauty of a cover. This guy has like 400+ covers and they’re all equally… fascinating.
Larry Gowan, who now sings lead with Styx, has a voice that’s up there a bit. Not feminine sounding, but he can belt 'em out there.
And they don’t call Bruce Dickenson “The Air Raid Siren” for nothin’
Dennis DeYoung, who used to front Styx. He had a soaring, high voice*. More androgynous than feminine, but what the hell…
*IMS, he had some classical training and then pursued a rock career.
Speaking of fighting ignorance, I didn’t till now know that Jackie Blue was sung by a guy.
Have you heard anything from The Second Stage Turbine Blade from Co&Ca? He sings so high on certain tracks, and in a noticably affected way, that I believe he is trying to sing like a woman to fit the character portrayed in the songs. Yet he still doesn’t sound like a girl, and thankfully they grew out of that after that album.
Well Frankie Lymon was a teenager at the time but I’ll concede that he got very, very high.
Cedric Bixler-Zavala?
He can get to a pretty high register, but I don’t think his voice is particularly feminine.
Geoff Tate from Queensryche doesn’t have a high voice, but does have some very high notes in his range, as shown pretty early on here: http://www.last.fm/music/Queensrÿche/_/Queen+of+the+Reich. His voice is by far the most unique in rock, for my money.
ETA: I see Crafter_Man beat me to it!
This is probably only the 2nd Queensryche song I’ve heard, after silent lucidity (and I actually quite like it btw.) Sound a lot like Bruce Dickinson and Tobias Sammet to me, though.
Shelly West, daughter of country legend Dottie West. She had a few other hits, but that song was definitely her claim to fame.
Queen of the Reich was the first Queensryche single, and they were basically going for an Iron Maiden instrumental sound at the time. They became much more progressive (and creative) later on. Lots of people have accused Tate of being a poor man’s Bruce Dickinson, but he was fronting Queensryche before Dickinson replaced Paul Dianno. Listen to Take Hold of the Flame if you want a better representation of Tate’s normal sound.