who sings female version of close to you by the carpenters?

There's loads of different versions, so I'm not sure which one you mean. I copy-and-pasted some stuff from a website, with all the different female singers that have covered it:

In 1964, the song was recorded by Dusty Springfield, but released on her 1967 album Where Am I Going?

In 1971, Claudine Longet recorded the song and included some lyrics in French on her album, We've Only Just Begun. That same year, it was performed on The Burt Bacharach Show by the show's host and Barbra Streisand.

In 1972, the song again became a hit when recorded by Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager. It went to #6 on the Billboard R&B chart.

Gwen Guthrie had a UK #25 hit with a version released in 1986.

"Close to You," Hikaru Utada single (1998)In 1998, Japanese-American singer Utada Hikaru (using the stage name Cubic U) released Close to You as the first and only single from her 1998 album Precious

Cantonese pop-rock singer Karen Mok covered the song to promote the 2002 girls with guns action film So Close, in which she stars.

The song has been recorded by many other artists, including:

Barenaked Ladies

The Cranberries

Ethyl Meatplow

Freya Lin

Corrinne May

Rie fu

In 2008, Tina Arena covered the song on her chart topping album Songs of Love & Loss 2.

In 2009, Japanese singer BENI covered the song for the Japanese tribute album for The Carpenters.

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