The greatest female soul voice ever steps into retirement today, Aretha Franklin. So it’s time to post your favourite divas here – soul, funky, opera – as long as there’s an outstanding voice. Tragic personal life, outrageous backstage demands optional.Please note VH1 that Shania Twain does not qualify. @gary would surely like to post some more Barbera, and I may well post some Liza later. For now there’s only one way to start off.
Divas Please in honour of Ms Franklin
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https://youtu.be/6MwFXWJStHY
Sorry, but this is better than dear old Janis.
You’re right, no need to apologise.
Ta. Keeping it in the family too.
Funny, I was only playing Amazing Grace last week. I think that album should have been called Christ on a Bike!! because that’s the reaction it produces in me.
As luck would have it, this came up on the shuffle today and had me tapping the steering wheel out of time:
(Betty Wright – That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You)
Oh to have been in the studio..
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii can’t get off my high horse…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdGNeC2G1AU
And iiiiiiiii can’t get this video to embed.
And iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii will always love you, anyway.
Let’s have a diva singing about a diva. Other divas are available, obviously
Mahalia Jackson.
(Come Sunday)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M
(Didn’t It Rain)
“I’ll not tek mi coat off, am not stoppin'”
Timi Yuro
(Hurt)
Yma Sumac
(Chuncho)
As promised. Liza and the PSB’s – an awesome album ensued.
Well, we need to find a place for Dusty Springfield, an obvious choice of song.
The much missed Kirsty Macoll.
and a modern day Neapolitan diva, Pietra Montecorvino.
Here’s my favourite Diva.
https://youtu.be/Q8xuUdI1an0
She was the proverbial on a stick in them days. Put that shoulder away I beg you. Ohhhhhh
Sass:
Majesty:
Meow!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9bUFro7LM
One of the best disco-funk divas: you probably know You Got The Love from the 90s version, and even Florence (that rare beast, an indie diva). Here’s the incredibly rare groovetastic original original version:
Incredible voice.
Dorothy Love Coates – That’s Enough
This song may well be rude, I’ve really no idea about such things.
Here’s Ella forgetting the words to Mack The Knife and making a magnificent improvised recovery:
Nina Simone.
(Little Girl Blue)
Liane Carroll.
(You Don’t Know Me)
When I am in need of the funk I always hunt out the divine Mrs Davis.