The upending of the moral majority has been consistent for decades as the self-righteous slunk from one faux outrage after another. No one was more effective in raising their ire than Madonna. As a pop princess in the 80s, she reached the pinnac…
Diva Series
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The original Annie Lennox Diva Series was released in May of 2009. She was one of my earliest inductees. As a personal preference as an artist, vocalist, and performer, her music has gotten me through some of the darkest moments in my life.
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Sade, the iconic band led by the enigmatic Sade Adu, has been the subject of immense adoration for decades. Recently, it was discovered that David Morales’ remix of ‘Shelter,’ featuring samples from Sade’s ‘I Never Thought I’d See the Day,’ is q…
Sia has been on my shortlist for a long time as a Diva Hall of Fame inductee. The problem as I always saw it was putting together all of the songs from an extensive career that goes back to the late ’90s that were in a variety of genres and BPMs…
It’s time to C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-E the birthday of the most enduring ICON of the past 30 years…MADONNA!
As usual, I gather up the best of the best bootlegs of her work that have been re-imagined for today’s dance floors.
Each year after post…
From Nickelodeon to worldwide superstar, the road to stardom has been pretty much smooth sailing for the pint-sized DIVA, Ariana Grande. Granted, she isn’t earning that status because of some ongoing Twitter feud with one of her contemporaries o…
Selena Gomez had a small role in excellent movie The Big Short in which she breaks down in plain English how credit default swaps work and how they were being manipulated by financial institutions to their own benefit. I don’t know who decided t…
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born September 4, 1981, in Houston, TX. She rose to fame in the early 90s as a member of the all-girl group (who deserve their own induction into the prestigious Diva Hall of Fame) Destiny’s Child. The four ladies of…
Robin Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian-born singer, songwriter, and actress who was signed to Def Jam Recordings by Jay Z. How she was able to secure an audition for him are glossed over on her Wiki page (since that just doesn’t happen) but she the …