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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.
Ina Ray Hutton led an all-girl band, the Melodears, from 1934 to 1939. Eunice Westmoreland, under the name Rita Rio, led an all-female band appearing on NBC Radio and for Vitaphone and RKO. Ivy Benson's "All Girls Band" was the BBC's resident dance band in 1943 and toured until the 1980s. A Polish group Filipinki was established in 1959. [16]
As well as capturing era-defining bands, “Indie, Seen” spotlights some of the 2000s’ lesser-known — but nonetheless influential — bands like The Datsuns, Foxygen and The Bangs.
This is a list of female metal artists with articles on Wikipedia. For female singers of other rock genres, see List of female rock singers
This is a list of female rock singers. For female heavy metal singers, ... Nina Hagen (The Nina Hagen Band) Danielle Haim ; Emily Haines (Broken Social Scene, ...
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 ...
Bands composed solely of women began to emerge with the advent of rock and roll.Among the earliest all-female rock bands to be signed to a record label were Goldie and the Gingerbreads, to Atlantic Records in 1964, the Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro to Hideout Records in 1964 and Mercury Records in 1968, the Feminine Complex to Athena Records in 1968, and Fanny (who pioneered the all-female ...