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An all-female band is a band which has consisted entirely of female musicians for at least three-quarters of its active career. This article only lists all-female bands who perform original material that is either authored by themselves or authored by another musician for that band's use. Therefore vocal groups (girl groups) are not included.
Musical groups and bands where at least one of the lead singers or "front persons" is female. This term is usually used in reference to mixed-gender groups where the lead singer is female and the other band members are either all male or a mix of both male and female members.
Haim, a band composed of three sisters, is extremely outspoken when it comes to the promotion of women in music, calling out major music festivals for the lack of female-fronted bands on bills and the lack of payment for female artists as compared to male artists of the same level.
Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop ...
The most common configuration of a mixed-gender band is one with several male musicians and one female lead singer. The history of rock has been described as including "a myriad of collectives in which a strong female voice provides the group's identity while being supported by male backing musicians". [13]
Suzi Quatro is a singer, bassist and bandleader. When she launched her career in 1973, she was one of the few prominent women instrumentalists and bandleaders. Women in rock describes the role of women singers, instrumentalists, record producers and other music professionals in rock music and popular music and the many subgenres and hybrid genres that have emerged from these genres.
After two albums – 1977's Foreigner and 1978's Double Vision – Gagliardi left the band in April 1979 and was replaced by Rick Wills, formerly of Small Faces. [3] Following the release and promotion of 1979's Head Games, McDonald and Greenwood were fired in September 1980. [4] The group remained a quartet and released 4 in 1981. [5]
Women have participated in the punk scene as lead singers, instrumentalists, as all-female bands, zine contributors and fashion designers. [ 4 ] Rock historian Helen Reddington wrote that the popular image of young punk women musicians as focused on the fashion aspects of the scene ( Fishnet stockings, spiky hair, etc.) was stereotypical .