Can you help me find music that will suit my extra-low female singing voice?

Question:I'm classified as a contralto, and my range really only goes up to a G on the treble clef. However, it goes down to low C. My problem is that I have a recital in a week and need to find songs that suit me. I'm all set on Jazz (thanks to Ella Fitzgerald and Diana Krall), but I'm having trouble with rock/pop and musical theatre. Not many songs written for women stay so low! So far I've found "Ladies Who Lunch"(which is a stretch) "Bali Ha'i" and "My Child Will Forgive Me" for musical theatre, and I'm currently scrabbling about madly for rock songs. I've so far scrapped KT Tunstall and am looking at K.D. Lang, Patti Smith and Norah Jones. As you can tell, I'm not altogether uneducated on the subject of finding material, but I'm running out of tricks to pull. Any advice will be appreciated, I'm trying out suggestions by sampling them on iTunes. Thanks!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm classified as a contralto, and my range really only goes up to a G on the treble clef. However, it goes down to low C. My problem is that I have a recital in a week and need to find songs that suit me. I'm all set on Jazz (thanks to Ella Fitzgerald and Diana Krall), but I'm having trouble with rock/pop and musical theatre. Not many songs written for women stay so low! So far I've found "Ladies Who Lunch"(which is a stretch) "Bali Ha'i" and "My Child Will Forgive Me" for musical theatre, and I'm currently scrabbling about madly for rock songs. I've so far scrapped KT Tunstall and am looking at K.D. Lang, Patti Smith and Norah Jones. As you can tell, I'm not altogether uneducated on the subject of finding material, but I'm running out of tricks to pull. Any advice will be appreciated, I'm trying out suggestions by sampling them on iTunes. Thanks!

I agree with the above poster that Karen Carpenter would be good, also check out Fiona Apple, and Amy Winehouse, they both have husky voices.

good luck! :)))

Stevie Nicks has some great tunes and she has a deep, husky voice.

Best wishes!

Karen Carpenter, and a really funny song from "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", " To Keep My Love Alive".