Neshama Carlebach is the eldest daughter of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and she sings to earn a living. Originally, she went to the Lee Strassberg school of acting and she didn't really want to do Jewish music but her father got her involved with Jewish music.
The Talmud says "kol isha irvadth" or a women's voice is licentiousness or perhaps more accurately, "hearing a women sing is like beholding her naked". Neshama gets alot of flack for singing to mixed crowds of men and women. She's been noted as saying that "kol Isha" isn't the only issued in Judaism.
A lot of people won't buy her records or go to her concerts. She is making a living anyway. But what is she supposed to do? Starve to death for the glory of adonai?
Neshama wears nice clothing, not the bland stuff that many orthodox Jewish girls wear. She has to be commercial.
One of my former associates from the old 8th St. Shul, was ragging on Neshama's "sexy voice". His grandfather was the late Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky who was one of the "Torah Giants" of the last generation. Rabbi Kamenestsky said "it's not so bad on a tape".
In the Catholic world there were castrated male singers called the castrati who had high voices and took the place of women singers in choir. So the Jews weren''t the only group to ban female singers.

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