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...Young, up-and-coming soul diva Alicia Keys was holding it down for real talent at the ceremony - she wailed, she tinkled the ivories, she looked stylish, she pretty much did it all. Still, the instrumental mix on her performance was somewhat overdone; the drums and keyboards were cranked up so high they nearly drowned out all the soul. Keys' performance would have been more striking had it been just her and a piano up on stage. She had more than 20 backup singers, which is about 20 more than any real vocalist really needs. U2 gave a steady...
...most part don't get along. That's what makes it so interesting," says third-ranked Davenport, 25, the 1998 Open winner. And she's right. Try to get the women to pose for a magazine cover en masse and you wonder how VH1 pulls off that diva show every year. "Serena is a lot more friendly than Venus, but Martina [Hingis] is not talking to either of them," said Davenport in May, before Hingis and the Williamses reached a detente. "Anna and Martina were both going for the same market, and that didn't work. They...
...colleagues don't see her as a raging prima donna. Says the Sony exec: "Except for the usual diva crap--wanting to look nice, needing champagne and bottled water wherever she goes--she's actually kind of cool. She's a girl from Long Island, you know. She works hard." As for her lopsided fame, "She gets the joke...
...grapple with, will find her soul's ease as she recuperates. As for students of divadom, they know any catastrophe is also a career move. Mariah can find maturity in crisis and soar to the next stage of her musical destiny. After all, a true diva is divine...
WHITNEY HOUSTON Diva floats to top of the charts with $100 mil contract. Now all she needs is a couple of hits...