HMC's Top Female Rockers 2022

top Female Rockers of the year

Published: March 8, 2022

To celebrate International Women’s Day — as well as Women’s History Month, which is celebrated in March —Let’s celebrate the power of Women’s Voices with these incredible female rockers!

1.Brody Dalle

Brody Dalle is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Oh, and Josh Homme’s ex-wife! She began playing music in her adolescence and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18, where she founded the punk rock band the Distillers. The group released three albums before disbanding in 2006.

2. Debbie Harry (Blondie)

Deborah Ann Harry is an American singer, songwriter and actress, known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Her recordings with the band reached No. 1 in the US and UK charts on many occasions from 1979 to 2017. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

3. Ellie Rowsell (Wolf Alice)

Ellen Ciara Rowsell is an English singer-songwriter from North London. She serves as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the Mercury Prize winning indie rock band Wolf Alice.

Born: July 1992 (age 29 years), Archway, London, United Kingdom
Instruments: Vocals; guitar; keyboards; synthesizer

4. Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane)

Grace Slick is an American artist, painter and retired singer-songwriter. Slick was a key figure in San Francisco’s early psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s.

5. Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock, soul, and blues music. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and “electric” stage presence.

6. Pj Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey MBE is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist and saxophonist.

7. Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)

Stephanie Lynn Nicks is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist.

8. Patti Smith

Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the “punk poet laureate”, Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.

9. Dolores O'riordan (the Cranberries)

Dolores Mary Eileen O’Riordan was an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist for the alternative rock band the Cranberries. O’Riordan had one of the most recognisable voices in rock in the 1990s.

10. Amy Lee (Evanescence)

Amy Lynn Hartzler is an American singer, songwriter, harpist and pianist. She is the co-founder, lead vocalist, and sole constant member of the rock band Evanescence.

Born: December 13, 1981 (age 40 years), Riverside, California, United States

11. Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989.

12. Shirley Manson

Shirley Ann Manson is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the American alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice.

13. Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless)

Taylor Michel Momsen is an American singer, songwriter, model, and former actress. Prior to her retirement from acting, she portrayed the character of Cindy Lou Who in the film How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Jenny Humphrey on The CW’s teen drama series Gossip Girl.

Born: July 26, 1993 (age 28 years), St. Louis, Missouri, United States