Word: diva
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...
...Shakira. We haven't met, but I've seen her. I really like her. I like how different she is--how she combines all this ethnicity. You know, I'd like to get back to people trying to depict me as the diva. I went through a period when I was touring when I was so unhappy. A lot of people couldn't see it because great things were happening to me. But I was really being overworked. I had really unhealthy people around me who were doing damaging things, and nobody knew this. I think a lot of people...
...outrageousness. Ask a South African if he likes her music, and he's likely to reply with some vivid, raucous tale. In the townships, Fassie is nicknamed "Madonna," after the provocative American pop star. Fassie is the protagonist of countless tabloid stories involving drug use, bisexuality and tantrums of diva proportions (one local paper even reprinted--verbatim--an interview with Madonna, replacing her name with Fassie's). Last April, as she accepted a prize at the South African Music Awards, she flashed her legs at the crowd. "Nice, eh?" she asked, as the audience cheered. But when she returned...
...have a voice. I wanted even the type to be lyrical," she says. Photo editors Marie Tobias and Jessica Taraski complemented that voice by encouraging their subjects to have fun in the photographers' studios. South African singer Brenda Fassie "swept into her session like some marvelous rock-'n'-roll diva, wearing snakeskin boots," Tobias recalls. Tobias and Taraski insisted that Fassie keep the boots on for the shoot, which she did, barely suppressing the impulse to dance in them to the strains of Aerosmith, which were blaring in the studio...
...virtually unknown in the U.S., but Hikaru, 18, is Japan's biggest pop star. The Japanese media sing her praises: BILINGUAL STRAIGHT-A STUDENT! and THE DIVA OF THE HEISEI PERIOD! The Japanese public devours her music: her debut CD, First Love (1999), sold more than 9.5 million copies, making it the best-selling album in Japanese history. Her new CD, Distance, is selling just as fast. While other Japanese pop divas are content to sing throwaway tunes in baby-girl tones, Hikaru, who says that growing up she used to go to sleep to Metallica and wake...