Rock bands with female vocals Russian and foreign: the list of the best

Musical culture throughout the world for the most part is based on women's voices, whether it's an opera or an operetta, a chamber ensemble or a church choir. Everywhere listeners are pleased with melodic soprano, coloratura or lyrical, moderately sounding mezzo or low contralto. Musical performances would have been unthinkable without them. However, women's voices are in pop culture, in heavy metal, and in heavy rock. They are everywhere, in any genre. Rock groups, both foreign and Russian, are formed on the principle of a quartet, quintet or other composition that meets the tasks that musicians face. The soloist always takes the leading positions, being, as it were, the center of everything that is happening on the stage. She organically interacts with musicians, at a concert all participants become a single organism.

World of music

Pop and rock bands with female vocals are finely organized musical groups that have millions of fans around the world. Concerts of similar associations never pass in the closed premises, their scenic platforms are stadiums, huge beaches on coast of ocean or the area of megacities. Rock bands with female vocals carry their creativity to the masses relentlessly, tours can last for weeks and months. The forms and compositions of the ensembles are about the same for everyone - they are drummers, guitarists, those who play bass strings, brass instruments, and, of course, all-consuming female vocals.

Share of participation

The singers take the lion's share of creativity, they act in the main role and are always in the center of events. Grateful audience is waiting for "their" singer.

Progress to success

Rock bands with female vocals with a fairly respectful attitude to art are quickly becoming popular and gaining a lot of fans. Fame stimulates creativity, vocals are improved, musical accompaniment, arrangements and compositional component of performances are getting better.

Rock bands with female vocals of the second half of the 20th century

Ensembles with girls-soloists began to arise in the middle of the last century. At first it was a few groups, like The Pleasure Seekers, led by Susie Quattro or The Supremes with Diana Ross. But gradually rock bands with female vocal overseas and Russian began to appear everywhere. At present, there are many instrumental ensembles with talented soloists. Rock bands with female vocals, the list of which includes dozens of names, known and not so, regularly participate in all sorts of ratings.

Russian and foreign

If you pay attention, you can see that mostly in these ratings are rock bands with female vocal overseas. The list of Russian soloists stands apart, and this has already become a tradition, since the Russian musical culture is a completely separate entity, and it can not be confused either with European cultural values, or even more so with musical achievements in the United States.

Style and popularity

Unrestrained expression - this is what distinguishes American rock bands with female vocals. Foreign modern and not so pop and rock bands have been formed for many years. The compositions were changing, the soloists came and went, but thanks to such changes in the groups, true like-minded people gradually gathered who followed the same musical interests in their work.

USA and Europe

The most famous rock bands and soloists:

• Evanescence - a team that performs in the style of pop rock, one of the most successful in the world. The first album in the studio recording called Fallen was sold in the amount of 15 million copies. Soloist Amy Lee, who has a strong and heartfelt vocals, is the core of the band and the recognized leader in the long list of performers.

• Paramore - American supergroup, a permanent participant of all sorts of charts, is a laureate of prestigious music awards. Specializes in the performance of pop punk, in which it has no equal. In the composition of Paramore, today there are three musicians and an invited drummer. Soloist Hayley Williams is said to be not only one of the most talented performers, but also the sexiest singer of recent times.

• Nightwish - Finnish metal band, successfully performs against the background of the magnificent vocal Tarja Turunen. Not completely understandable texts in the style of fantasy, rich key arrangements, tireless solo guitars - all this speaks for the fundamental nature of the band.

• Siouxsie and the Banshees - a team from the UK, performing in the style of post-punk, combines melancholic melodies with rhythmic accompaniment of electronic instruments in their work. Suspense soloist Susie Sue is irreplaceable and the main link in any concert.

• Cranberries - Irish "Cranberries" under the guidance of colorful Dolores O'Riordan. The group started with sales in the stalls of compact cassettes with their records, but today it gathers stadiums of fans. Soulful songs, taking for the soul, filled with deep meaning, are welcome on many radio stations in the world.

• Crucified Barbara is a popular Swedish band. Started with garage punk rock, and today on stage during the performance of "Barbara" there reigns classic heavy metal and stunning game of vocalist Mia, who in her free time is nicknamed Coldheart ("Cold Heart").

• Arch Enemy - the most popular band from Sweden with the intense vocals of Angela Gossov. Has been speaking for 15 years with unchanged success. Previously, the soloist was a professional journalist, until she met one of the members of Arch Enemy and did not share the secret with her, telling her about her passion for vocal. Since then, Angela does not write reports, on the contrary, others write about her.

• Otep - the group was created by the brutal Otep Shamaya, who had previously fought actively for the rights of sexual minorities. Now the singer pours out her energy at concerts, directing the most powerful vocals into the mainstream of heavy and death metal.

• Within Temptation is a Dutch band that adheres to the genre of symphonic rock. The vocalist with the quite decent pure soprano Sharon del Adel follows the style of the Celtic motifs. Her vocals are unique and envelops listeners with a flair of female spontaneity.

• Guano Apes is a world-famous German band with English repertoire. Soloist, Croatian girl Sandra Nasic, with good taste and voice. For a long time the group was in the status of a restaurant barker, but now its popularity is off scale.

Rock bands with female vocals Russian and Slavic

In the territory of the post-Soviet space there are many instrumental-vocal groups of various directions. In the overwhelming majority of it is a rock band with female vocals (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian). Created at different times, with popularity or yet unknown - they all tend to somehow manifest themselves. Many at the same time try to find a way to fame through the producer. This is possible only if there is a professionalism and a worthy repertoire.

Most Popular

What are the rock bands with Russian female vocals? The list of the most known includes the following collectives:

• "Night Snipers" - a popular Russian group, established in 1993. The permanent soloist Diana Arbenina adheres to the classical repertoire. Writes songs to poems of famous poets such as A. Akhmatova, I. Brodsky, Garcia Lorca, Lystvitskaya Julia. The audience of "Night Snipers" is not uniform, at the concert there are always representatives of the most diverse layers of the population.

• "Propaganda" is a Russian rock band created in September 2001 as part of a quintet and two soloists, Maria Bukatar and Anastasia Shevchenko. On the eve of the 15th anniversary, the album "Purple Powder" was released. Currently, the group is in the process of revival after a long period of calm.

• "Zemfira" is a Russian super popular rock band, created in 1998. Permanent soloist - Zemfira Ramazanova. Based on the results of the research, it was named the founder of a completely new direction in rock and pop music. Since 2012, Zemfira is on the "One hundred most influential women in Russia" list.

• "Chicherina" - a group performing in the style of Russian rock, was created in Yekaterinburg in 1997 in the format of a quartet. Soloist Yulia Chicherina is the author and performer of most of the songs from today's repertoire. Cooperates with such rock musicians as Ilya Lagutenko, Sergei Mazaev, "Bi-2" group.

• "Masha and the Bears" is a Russian group formed in 1997 with the help of Oleg Nesterov, the soloist of "Megapolis". The initiator of the creation was Maria Makarova, who became a soloist, having signed a contract with Nesterov, who agreed to become a producer of a new creative team.

• "Nastya" - one of the oldest rock bands in Russia, was established in 1986. Founder - Anastasia Poleva, former soloist of the popular rock band from Sverdlovsk "Nautilus Pompilius". As part of the new band, the singer recorded her first album "Tatsu" full of oriental exotics. 1988-1991 were for Anastasia the most creative period of her life. Since 1993, Poleva and her group live and work in St. Petersburg.

• "Velvet" - Russian rock band, founded in 2005, performs in the style of pop rock, art rock, soft rock. Incarnation of the collective, Catherine Belokon, the author of verses and music of all songs, is a professional musician. Katya has the diploma of a music theorist. The group exists in the format of a quintet.

Musicians of the future

Rock bands with female vocal Russian, whose list is extremely extensive, are represented by less known but promising bands:

• "Utah",
• "Slot",
• "Tractor Bowling",
• "Mill",
• Buch,
• "Fleur",
• "Linda",
• "Two of them,"
• "Mara",
• "Surganova and Orchestra",
• "Louna",
• "Murakami",
• "Fly",
• "Blonde Xu",
• "Total",
• "Iva Nova."

Russian rock, female vocals, bands And soloists with instrumental accompaniment - all this is a part of today's musical culture of Russia.