Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey
The pop princess and later the queen on R&B, debuted in 1990 and became the most successful US artist of the \'90s. Despite some commercial flops, the World Music Awards named Carey the best-selling female artist of all time in 2000. She has recorded the most U.S number-one singles for a female solo artist (17)
Whitney Houston
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Whitney
American R&B/pop singer, actress, former fashion model, occasional songwriter, producer and pop icon. Huge success in the \'80s which petered out in the early noughties. Recently auctioned everything from musical equipment to her knickers to pay off debts, and facing divorce proceedings from her former husband Bobby Brown. Expect a new album from Whitney very soon
Celine Dion
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Celine Dion
Began her career in the early \'80s as a French singer before breaking into the international music scene in the \'90s. Achieved success when her manager and future husband mortgaged his house to finance her first release. She won the accolade of the Best-Selling Female Artist in the World Music Awards, in 2003
Madonna
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Madonna
Singer, songwriter, musician, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and a fashion trendsetter. Stage performances focus on political, sexual, and religious themes and imagery. \'Madonna is the highest earning female singer of all time\' (2007 Guinness Book of Records) and her 2006 Confessions Tour was billed as the most successful concert tour of a female artist in history. She\'s recently been embroiled in a messy adoption gossip scandal
Tina Turner
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Tina Turner
At the tender age of 16, during the \'60s and \'70s, she became well known for her high energy performances with \'The Ike & Tina Turner Revue\' and subsequently became as popular as James Brown. Her \'Queen of Rock and Roll\' label is due to her dominance in the \'80s and \'90s. Also noted for her great legs and big hair
Shirley Bassey
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Shirley Bassie
Welsh dame with show-stopping outfits and huge voice who performed the James Bond theme songs \'Goldfinger\' (1964), \'Diamonds Are Forever\' (1971), and \'Moonraker\' (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song
Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand
Two-time Academy Award-winning singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director.
Barbra has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and an honorary Tony Award. She\'s up there with the greats
Judy Garland
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Considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywood\'s Golden Era of musical film, Judy ranks at number eight of The American Film Institute\'s Greatest Female Stars of All Time. She was famous for her natural vibrato voice, which she was able to maintain at extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. Oh and she\'s a gay cultural icon
Liza Minnelli
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Liza Minnelli
Daughter of Judy Garland and her second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli. Maternal lineage has entertainers in the family going back six generations, whilst Minnelli\'s first film appearance was at the age of three in the final scene of the 1949 musical \'In the Good Old Summertime,\' starring her mother and Van Johnson.
Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lopez
Nicknamed J.Lo., Lopez is an American Golden Globe Award-nominated actress, Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, dancer, and fashion designer. She is the richest Latin American in Hollywood, and is also considered the most influential hispanic entertainer in America. Oh and she\'s known for her curves
Bette Davis
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Bette Davis
Two-time Academy Award-winning American actress of film, television and theatre, Davis was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters. She was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas
Oprah Winfrey
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Oprah Winfrey
American multiple-Emmy Award-winning host of \'The Oprah Winfrey Show\', Winfrey is the highest-rated talk show in television history. Influential book critic, Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher, she\'s been ranked as the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world\'s only black billionaire. She is considered by many to be the most influential woman in the world!
Kylie
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kylie Minogue
The Grammy Award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress, recently fought breast cancer and knocked Kate Moss off the hot spot as best dressed celeb. Success in the \'80s was marred by a decline in her popularity in the \'90s. Minogue made a comeback as a dance pop artist and became well-known for her provocative music videos and expensively mounted stage shows. Another great gay icon
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Beyoncé Knowles
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The star of \'Dreamgirls\' has all the makings of a grand diva in waiting. The Texas born beauty can boast singer, songwriter, music producer, actress, dancer, fashion designer and model on her CV at the tender age of 25. She shot to fame in the girlband Destiny\'s Child, with massive solo success more recently, however her acting career is the one to watch. Could she be the diva to beat all divas?
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Divas
Divas... Where would the world be without these magnificent, massive-lunged, mistresses of song? Join us now as we celebrate the lives of our favourite divas, from Bassey to Beyonce
