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...fair that the Diva Divine makes albums only as vacations from movies and motherhood, for her genius is as a singer-entertainer. Midler's vocal voltage and pristine song salesmanship are on display here in tunes by Leonard Cohen, Chuckii Booker, Carole King, Ben Folds--lots of fine folk. Her voice can ache with hard-won wisdom (on the first single, My One True Friend) or smile with the sweet clarity of her Honolulu youth (Gus Kahn's 1925 Ukulele Lady). Songs like Laughing Matters, I'm Beautiful and I'm Hip give the album the sassy intimacy...
...MARIAH ("DIVA") CAREY...
...person, Franklin is sly and funny, but has melancholy, magic-drained eyes. The twice-divorced diva's life has sometimes had the hard, sad stomp of a blues song: in 1979 her father was shot by burglars, fell into a coma and died. Producer Jerry Wexler once wrote, "I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows...anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura...
...listed. Migration to Chicago comes next, and with it, the astounding set and choreography of "Industrialization" and the tragedy of "The Chicago Riot Rag." Both Reynolds and 'da Voice (Thomas Silcott) display their versatility in "I Got the Beat/Dark Tower," with her as a glittery white-enrobed baby-voiced diva and him discussing all the big names who hung out in his club...
Camille Paglia, diva to aesthetes, gave her trademark stream-of-consciousness commentary on life, art and academia last night to a packed Emerson 105 lecture hall...