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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.
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]
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 album yielded their first R&B hits: "Candy Man", "All Night Long" (which was later included in the soundtrack of the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City), and "Boys". In live performances, the Mary Jane Girls were backed by the Stone City Band. The male band members also sang the background vocals to support McDuffie as lead vocalist.
In the 2000s, all female and female fronted bands started using their influence to promote feminism and women in the music industry. Bands like The Distillers, fronted by Brody Dalle, influenced the rise of street punk. St. Vincent started gaining more traction and eventually appeared on the cover of Guitar World magazine. St.
Their first single Bad Boy was accompanied by a spicy photoshoot for the Dutch Playboy in 1984. [1] The ladies performed their song naked in the popular TV-show TopPop, and soon Centerfold became a household name through their sex kitten image.
Amanda Christian Amaya-Shaw (born August 2, 1990) [1] is an American Cajun fiddler and singer from Mandeville, Louisiana. She was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2020. She was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2020.