Well cica, for the hell of it I'm going to drop some big female artists I can think of. Genre will vary fairly widely for the four I'm thinking of right now. Well big might not be the word, talented. You may blame this on to much time and a mass library of female artists.
Ok here's two songs stolen from my play list just for click ability as I all ready mentioned them.
Metric - Monster Hospital &
Imogen Heap - Canvas. Something I'd like to add about Metric, they've had a distinct sound on each album pretty much. This is one of their older ones, but they've had a track on newest Twilight movie
Eclipse and their track
Gold Gun Girls from their newest album is found in the Zombieland soundtrack. Most people know Imogen from her Frou Frou days. Another big tip off for a lot of people is that she is actually behind that nice song in the credits of the first Chronicles of Narnia movie
"Can't Take it In" But most people never know who it was by or the name of it.
Portishhead - Wandering Star
Ok I wasn't aware of Portishead till recently, but if there's one thing I do know. These guys have a extremely unique sound and their female vocalist has a gorgeous voice. I'm not sure if this particular song really demonstrates her voice, I think I really took notice when I heard
Machine Gun by them.
Garbage - Cherry Lips
Oh man, Shirly Manson, when I think of Garbage I instantly think of how they really pushed the limit with their video's. Very
androgynous, great music, great band. I figured they deserved to be mentioned.
Feist - 1234
Feist is another one I just had to mention, this song was used in an Ipod commercial I think. Feist is just cool, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who pronounces it "Fee-est". Oh yeah she's from Canada too and is a member of Broken Social Scene.
And here's two under dogs I doubt many people have heard of:
Ayria - My revenge on the world
Ayria (pronounced Area) is a underground artist from Toronto Ontario, she's pretty cool. I really don't have too much to comment that you can't find on Wikipedia, other then I find this music strangely addicting.
Natalie Walker - Circles
Ok Natalie is a solo artist from the USA, I forget exactly where. Last I checked she has not been signed yet but she does have two beautiful albums, I really like her.
Was that ok Cica? That's just a few after much narrowing down..