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...21st century, the Internet has opened up the world to itself. In the distant past--say, three years ago--global-music fans had to wait for a record label to decide whether to distribute a foreign artist in their country. South African diva Brenda Fassie's last three CDs weren't picked up by American distributors, despite the fact that they were best sellers in Africa. Today, Internet file-sharing services allow users to listen to whatever they want, anywhere they choose, anytime they please. (And Fassie's Stateside appeal is recognized by some: Banana Republic plays her song Vuli...
...yourself as a diva...
...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...
...most recent victim of this summer’s new trend of celebrity freak-outs is everyone’s favorite scantily clad diva of age, Mariah Carey. After a bizarre strip show on TRL and numerous accounts of getting silenced by her publicist, the rumored paramour of Eminem left the ramblings of a crazy on her fan site before checking into a rehab center. Her publicist has since assured fans that she was merely suffering from “extreme exhaustion” and those bandages were simply the result of “accidentally” cutting herself...