History Main / MaleBandFemaleSinger

* Music/NoDoubt has Music/GwenStefani, who also has a solo career. The trope is even {{played with}} in the "Don't Speak" video clip, an UrExample.

* Music/{{Halestorm}} is named after the Hale family, which includes [[LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar lead singer and guitarist]] Lzzy Hale, her brother Arejay (percussionist) and father Roger (former bassist), and two other men. Halestorm is the first female-fronted group to win the UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, for "Love Bites (So Do I)" in 2013.

* Vancouver-based PowerMetal band Music/UnleashTheArchers has a female lead vocalist in Brittany Slayes, with occasional [[HarshVocals growls]] as accent from the guitarists. Brittney is a mezzo and tends to sing in a noticeably deeper register than most female metal vocalists, sometimes compared to a GenderFlipped Music/RonnieJamesDio. She is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hax3PXkyWs on record]] as disliking the term "female-fronted metal" because it doesn't actually tell you very much about what genre a band belongs to or what it might sound like.

Often, the female singer completely dominates the group while the men are reduced to simply a backing band. Usually, she is the only member anyone can name or remembers from the group. See, Music/{{Blondie}}, Music/{{Garbage}}, Music/{{Heart|Band}}, Music/NoDoubt, Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/TheCranberries, etc.

* Music/{{Blondie}}, fronted by Debbie Harry. The name of the band also led to large-scale IAmNotShazam, and fans creating the slogan "Blondie IS A GROUP!".

* A notable case is Doro Pesch from TheEighties HeavyMetal band [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlock_(band) Warlock]], who is known as the first girl to sing (and lead) a band like this in those years. She's also the only original member left, though the long, ultimately successful legal battle to regain the rights to the name forced her to work as a solo artist and backing band, billed as Music/{{Doro}}.

* TheNineties British group [[Music/BoaUK Bôa]] (not to be confused with the [[Music/BoaKorea Korean Idol Singer]]) has Jasmine Rodgers, daughter of [[Music/BadCompany Paul Rodgers]]. Maybe this group doesn't sound familiar to you, but you may know them for composing the theme song for ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', "Duvet".

* TheNineties Japanese group Music/JudyAndMary (internationally known by ''[[Manga/RurouniKenshin Sobakasu]]'') has Yuki Isoda, considered by some fans as the Japanese Music/{{Bjork}}. The trope continues even with her solo career in the 2000s, being backed by the group "Band ASTRO", which is also formed only by men.

* TheEighties group that doesn't need a description: Music/LisaLisaAndCultJam.

* In Chile, there're 2 female members of Parra clan (which historical known members are Music/VioletaParra and Music/LosJaivas) which lead their own rock groups, mostly in TheNineties: Javiera Parra (''Javiera y Los Impossibles'') and Colombina Parra (''Los Ex'').

** Echobelly, initially with singer Sonia Madan as the only female member. Subsequently, some of the male instrumentalists were replaced by women. Guitarist Debbie Smith joined around the time of their commercial breakthrough and was a prominent member through their peak years, but the reformed group in TheNewTens conforms to the trope.

** Another band of TheSixties, the New York-based OneHitWonder Brooklyn Bridge ("Worst That Could Happen"), had 11 members: 10 men (including four singers) and keyboardist Carolyn Wood.

** Music/LacunaCoil's Cristina Scabbia, Music/TheAgonist's Music/AlissaWhiteGluz (who would later replace Angela Gossow in Music/ArchEnemy, itself another example) and Music/WithinTemptation's Sharon Den Adel.

TheFaceOfTheBand almost always gets invoked for every one of these bands with the female singer completely dominating the group and the men reduced to simply a backing band. Usually, she is the only member anyone can name or remembers from the group. See, Music/{{Blondie}}, Music/{{Garbage}}, Music/{{Heart|Band}}, Music/NoDoubt, Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/TheCranberries, etc.

* Downplayed with Music/{{Amaranthe}}. Elize Ryd, the band's sole female member, is part of a three-person VocalTagTeam with two men. That being said, Elize tends to take the choruses and is the FaceOfTheBand.

* Music/PizzicatoFive in almost all their formations has a girl as the lead vocalist, especially the ones with Maki Nomiya, who was more than just TheFaceOfTheBand.

* Another (kind of) subversion is Music/LadyBaby, a group with two {{moe}} idols and a WholesomeCrossdresser DeathMetal singer nicknamed as "Ladybeard", who is TheFaceOfTheBand.

* Grindcore band ''Music/{{Cretin}}'' has Marissa Martinez, a UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}} woman as lead singer and guitarist.

* Seattle grunge band The Gits was fronted by Mia Zapata. Sadly, they disbanded after Mia was [[DiedDuringProduction assaulted, raped and murdered]] while recording their second album, and the killer wouldn't be found for a decade afterward.

* Music/{{Halestorm}} is named after the Hale family, which includes lead singer and guitarist Lzzy Hale, her brother Arejay (percussionist) and father Roger (former bassist), and two other men. Halestorm is the first female-fronted group to win the UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, for "Love Bites (So Do I)" in 2013.

* Vancouver-based PowerMetal band Music/UnleashTheArchers has a female lead vocalist in Brittany Slayes, with occasional [[HarshVocals growls]] as accent from the guitarists. Brittney is a mezzo and tends to [[ContraltoOfDanger sing in a noticeably deeper register than most female metal vocalists]], sometimes compared to a GenderFlipped Music/RonnieJamesDio. She is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hax3PXkyWs on record]] as disliking the term "female-fronted metal" because it doesn't actually tell you very much about what genre a band belongs to or what it might sound like.

* The Japanese rock band Kishida Kyoudan and the Akeboshi Rockets, primarily known for creating the opening songs for the anime adaptations of ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', ''LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood'', and Literature/{{Gate}}, consists of a female singer and three official male instrumentalists (and one male touring and session member). Based on their name, one might think that the name of the female singer is Kishida Kyoudan, but that's actually the name of the bassist, who is the founder and leader of the band. The singer goes by the stage name Ichigo, naming herself after one of her favorite anime characters, [[{{Manga/Bleach}} Ichigo Kurosaki]].

Men tend to dominate instrumental roles in rock because historically, rock, especially the harder forms, were male dominated. Women trailblazers who played guitar or drums in the past faced sexism and harassment. A case in point is heavy metal in the 1980s, which was all males except for a few exceptions like [=GirlSchool=]. Even though there are far more women instrumentalists in the current day, there are still pockets of male dominance in some genres or for some instruments.

Men tend to dominate instrumental roles in rock because historically, rock, especially the harder forms, were male dominated. Women trailblazers who played guitar or drums in the past faced sexism and harassment. A case in point is heavy metal in the 1980s, which was all males except for a few exceptions like GirlSchool. Even though there are far more women instrumentalists in the current day, there are still pockets of male dominance in some genres or for some instruments.

* Vancouver-based PowerMetal band Music/UnleashTheArchers has a female lead vocalist in Brittany Slayes, with occasional [[HarshVocals growls]] as accent from the guitarists. Unusually for the subgenre, Brittany is a {{contralto|OfDanger}}, and has sometimes been compared to a GenderFlipped Music/RonnieJamesDio. She is also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hax3PXkyWs on record]] as disliking the term "female-fronted metal" because it doesn't actually tell you very much about what genre a band belongs to or what it might sound like.

* There're some cases in which there's a female pop/rock singer with a solo career that has a male supporting band. Some famous singers with a backup male band are Music/JanisJoplin (probably the pioneer), Christina Stürmer, Music/AvrilLavigne, Music/SherylCrow, Music/{{Pink}} (early on, her more recent tours have featured mixed-gender backing groups), Music/PJHarvey and Nanase Aikawa.
** PJ Harvey was initially promoted as a group that happened to be named after lead singer/guitarist Polly Jean Harvey, but after the male two other original band members both left it became simply her name as a solo artist.

** Downplayed with Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}. They have had three very different female vocalists over their 25-year career, starting with Music/TarjaTurunen (lyric soprano[[note]]a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra[[/note]]) and continuing with Music/AnetteOlzon (lyric mezzo-soprano[[note]][[https://courses.lumenlearning.com/musicappreciation_with_theory/chapter/mezzo-soprano/ Lyric mezzo-sopranos]] do not have the vocal agility of the coloratura mezzo-soprano or the size of the dramatic mezzo-soprano. [...] This voice has a very smooth, sensitive and at times lachrymose quality[[/note]]). Their current vocalist Floor Jansen (dramatic coloratura soprano[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloratura_soprano#Dramatic_coloratura_soprano A coloratura soprano]] is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills - a dramatic coloratura soprano is someone with great flexibility in high-lying velocity passages, yet with great sustaining power comparable to that of a full spinto or dramatic soprano[[/note]], also capable of [[HarshVocals growling/rasping vocals]]) also fronted Music/AfterForever and Music/{{ReVamp}} (as well as collaborating with Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad in Music/{{Northward}}), while Anette fronted Alyson Avenue and currently sings for Music/TheDarkElement and all three attract/attracted a fair amount of attention. However, former bassist Marko Hietala often sang duets and even sang lead on some songs[[note]]"Master Passion Greed" and "The Islander" on ''Dark Passion Play'', and "Endlessness" on ''Human. :II: Nature''[[/note]], and charismatic band leader Tuomas Holopainen also has this fair share of attention too (he was typically the growler before Marko joined the band).

TheFaceOfTheBand almost always gets invoked for every one of these bands with the female singer completely dominating the group and the men reduced to simply a backing band. Usually, she is the only member anyone can name or remembers from the group. See, Music/{{Blondie}}, Music/{{Garbage}}, Music/{{Heart}}, Music/NoDoubt, Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/TheCranberries, etc.

* Music/{{Heart}} usually had the Wilson sisters front and center.

** Downplayed with Music/{{Nightwish}}. They have had three very different female vocalists over their 25-year career, starting with Music/TarjaTurunen (lyric soprano[[note]]a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra[[/note]]) and continuing with Music/AnetteOlzon (lyric mezzo-soprano[[note]][[https://courses.lumenlearning.com/musicappreciation_with_theory/chapter/mezzo-soprano/ Lyric mezzo-sopranos]] do not have the vocal agility of the coloratura mezzo-soprano or the size of the dramatic mezzo-soprano. [...] This voice has a very smooth, sensitive and at times lachrymose quality[[/note]]). Their current vocalist Floor Jansen (dramatic coloratura soprano[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloratura_soprano#Dramatic_coloratura_soprano A coloratura soprano]] is a type of operatic soprano voice that specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs, leaps and trills - a dramatic coloratura soprano is someone with great flexibility in high-lying velocity passages, yet with great sustaining power comparable to that of a full spinto or dramatic soprano[[/note]], also capable of [[HarshVocals growling/rasping vocals]]) also fronted Music/AfterForever and Music/{{ReVamp}} (as well as collaborating with Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad in Music/{{Northward}}), while Anette fronted Alyson Avenue and currently sings for Music/TheDarkElement and all three attract/attracted a fair amount of attention. However, former bassist Marko Hietala often sang duets and even sang lead on some songs[[note]]"Master Passion Greed" and "The Islander" on ''Dark Passion Play'', and "Endlessness" on ''Human. :II: Nature''[[/note]], and charismatic band leader Tuomas Holopainen also has this fair share of attention too (he was typically the growler before Marko joined the band).

* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' had a fictional example in the short "The Feelers", where the titular insect rock band's lead singer Mitzi Moth was female and the other bandmates (a guitar-playing Mosquito named Mo Skito, a bee bassist named Stinger and a drumming ant named Max) are all male.

This girl is often depicted as having a complicated life, characterized by love affairs and drug addictions, almost being emotionally dependent to band members, and it is very common for her to get involved with one of them.

This girl is often depicted as having a complicated drama life, romantized by love affairs and drug addictions, almost ever being emotionally dependant to the bands members, wich is very common for her to get involved with one of them.