Vocalist Maynard James Keenan of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle, has described seeing Black Flag perform in the 1980s as a young punk rocker in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as a " revelatory and life-changing " experience.

She has received seven Dove Awards including Best New Artist and Female Vocalist of the Year.

She has produced sixteen No. 1 Christian radio hits and six other top-10 singles, and has won seven Dove awards, including New Artist of the Year and two Female Vocalist of the Year wins.

Since 1980, Twila Paris has released 22 albums, amassed 33 number one Christian Radio singles, and was named the Gospel Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year three years in a row.

Since 1963 the award has been divided into two awards for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ) & Best Instrumental Arrangement.

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ) has been awarded since 1963.

* From 2000 to the present it has been awarded as Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s )

In addition to being named " Top Female Vocalist " by the Academy of Country Music twice and " Female Vocalist of the Year " by the Country Music Association, Anderson has charted 11 No. 1, 18 Top 10, and more than 50 Top 40 hits.

In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association's " Female Vocalist of the Year " award four times ( tied with Reba McEntire for the most wins ) and the Academy of Country Music's " Top Female Vocalist " award three times.

Country music artist Martina McBride has received over 15 major music awards including matching Reba McEntire's record for the most wins for the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist of the Year with her fourth win in 2004.

The song has been recorded by Rod Stewart on two 1993 albums, Lead Vocalist and Unplugged ... and Seated under the title " Tom Traubert's Blues ( Waltzing Matilda )".

Vocalist ZP Theart has no qualms about emulating heroes like Bruce Dickinson ( Iron Maiden ) and Michael Kiske ( Helloween ), but his lupine howls have a character all their own ... Valley of the Damned may not be groundbreaking or cathartic, and lyrics like " In the land of desire with your heart filled with fire you live for the right to be free / We will sail on forever more to the land of the evening star " may cross the line into heavy metal parody, but it's undeniably entertaining, expertly played, and endlessly fun.

" Vocalist Till Lindemann stated, " It's so sick that it becomes fascinating and there just has to be a song about it ".

Elling has won the Down Beat Critics Poll thirteen times, from 2000 – 2012, and the Down Beat Readers Poll six times and the JazzTimes Readers ' Poll seven times, all in the Male Vocalist of the Year category.

On December 1, 2007, JoJo won the Boston Music Award for National Female Vocalist of the Year for " Too Little Too Late " and has performed.

Vocalist Bernard Sumner has since explained that the scream was from him due to bandmates thrusting a snowball down his shirt during recording.

Vocalist Carl Severson was owner of hardcore record label Ferret Music but has since moved onto start Good Fight Entertainment since the Warner Bros buy out of Ferret.

Anderson has been voted and nominated Songwriter Of The Year six times, Male Vocalist Of The Year, half of the Duet Of The Year with both Jan Howard and Mary Lou Turner, has hosted and starred in the Country Music Television Series Of The Year, seen his band voted Band Of The Year, and in 1975 was voted membership in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Vocalist Chris Martin admitted that " Shiver " was written for a specific woman, from whom the media has generated several speculations.

Vocalist James Munoz has moved on to writing and acting in the weekly FunnyOrDie comedy sketch show, Apartment Sketch Show.

He won several NAACP Image Awards including Producer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year while the album won Album of the Year.

Billboard Magazine named her Top New Single Artist, while Cashbox Magazine awarded her both Most Promising Female Vocalist and Top Female Vocalist.

June of 44 released three further albums, incorporating more electronics and jazz influences, before the band split up in 1999, with Vocalist / guitarist Jeff Mueller forming Shipping News and vocalist Sean Meadows forming Everlasting the Way and later Letter E. Erskine joined Abilene, while Scharin continued with HiM, also guesting with several other bands.

Vocalist Tunde Baiyewu and keyboardist Paul Tucker formed the act in 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK after meeting while studying at university.

Merle Haggard was named Top New Male Vocalist, while Top Male Vocalist and Top Female Vocalist went to Buck Owens and Bonnie Owens.

Vocalist Vitkov explained once in a TV-show ( probably joking or maybe not ) that the hippopotamus and the crocodile in question are actually two male exemplars, who got stuck together while mating.

The success of " Who I Am " also earned Andrews a Top New Female Vocalist award from the Academy of Country Music, while the album itself received RIAA gold certification for sales of 500, 000 copies only four weeks after its release.

Vocalist / bassist Gabe Saporta later went on to form synthpop band Cobra Starship, while guitarist Heath Saraceno later joined Senses Fail.

Vocalist Shirley Manson wrote the majority of her lyrics while ensconced in a hotel near the studio.

Vocalist Atkinson and guitarist Potashnik were former school friends who reunited while living in London, after both admitted they were struggling to make an impact with their respective bands.

Vocalist Ryan Clark described in an interview that, while the previous two albums had him record vocals with a standing, screened microphone, for The Triptych, he used a basic handheld mic.

Vocalist Pamela Moore reprised her role as Sister Mary for the album, while the role of Dr. X ( played by actor Anthony Valentine on the first album ) was taken over by heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio.

Vocalist Russell Allen's solo debut, entitled Atomic Soul, was released in the summer of 2005.

Signing with Capitol Records out of L. A. when she was 17, her self-titled debut album in 1977, produced by David Foster, won her a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year.

After cleaning up, Urban released his self-titled American debut in 1999, which produced three top 5 hits and secured for him the Top New Male Vocalist Award at the 2001 Academy of Country Music Awards and the 2001 Country Music Association's Horizon Award.

In 1990, his solo debut Don't Look Back was released on a new label, Justin, and it won him a SOCAN Award for songwriting, as well as a Juno Award nomination for Most Promising Male Vocalist in 1991.

Vocalist aLfie vera mella released a 4-CD epic package in December 2006, in conjunction with the culmination of his debut album as haLf man haLf eLf.

Her self-titled debut album, released in 2004, was the highest selling female solo debut album for the year and attracted GMA nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year.

In 2010, the album Ms. Vocalist, from Sony Japan was Top 10 on the Japanese Billboard chart and the first single from the album, “ I Love You ”, hit # 1.

In 1985, Williams received a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocalist for the album I Just Want to Sing.

Vocalist Michael Ivey recorded much of the album at his home on a four-track with various friends.

The album helped nominate Rimes for the Academy of Country Music's " Top Female Vocalist " award in 2008.

Vocalist Geoff Rickly commented on the style of the new album, stating, " In style, this record feels like a radical departure from our earlier records but in substance it feels like a return.

In 1990, Kamakawiwoʻole released his first solo album Ka ʻAnoʻi, which won awards for Contemporary Album of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year from the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Arts ( HARA ).

Vocalist and songwriter Ian Ball released a solo project, with an album entitled Who Goes There.

In 2002, A-mei won the " Best Female Vocalist of the Year " award with the album, " Truth " at Taiwan's most prestigious, " Golden Melody Awards.

In addition, A-mei was nominated for the " 16th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards " in both the " Best Female Vocalist of the Year " category and the " Best Music Video " category with the album track, " Love Is the Only Thing " ( 愛是唯一 ) with her album, " Maybe Tomorrow.

A-mei is nominated for the " 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards ", that will be held in June, for " Best Female Vocalist " with her album, " I Want Happiness?

Her 2009 album " AMIT " impressed the judges of the 21st Golden Melody Awards, where she clinched 6 awards, including " Best Female Vocalist ", an award she long awaited for 8 years.

" Tunick won the Grammy Award as " Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s )/ Best Background Arrangement " for his work on the song " No One Is Alone " from the Cleo Laine album Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim ( RCA Victor, 1987 ).

Fleming appeared as a " Special Guest Vocalist " on Joe Jackson's 1994 album Night Music on the song " Lullaby.

* Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ), 2002 for " Mean Old Man ", from the album October Road by James Taylor

Vocalist Henry Small was brought in, and the new four-piece line-up ( Small / Mitchell / Harlow / Norton ) recorded the album Small Change, which was released later in 1981.

This album won many of the top awards in Indian music, including the Best Pop Male Vocalist at the 1996 Screen Awards and the Channel V Viewers Choice Award in 1997.

Vocalist Jason Sears contributed lyrics and vocals for a song called " Until Next Time " on Snot's album entitled Strait Up in tribute to their late lead singer Lynn Strait.

Vocalist and bassist Kavyen Temperley said on the Festival Mushroom Records website that the album is based on his experiences living in Fremantle.

Despite the release of her album so late in the year, Larson was acclaimed Female Vocalist of 1978 by Rolling Stone who opined no one else could sound as if she were having so much fun on an album and Nicolette reached No. 15 on Billboard's album chart aided by the hit single " Lotta Love " a Neil Young composition.