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BATTLE OF THE DIVAS; Mariah, Whitney, Shakira and Leona are all back with new albums full of tears, tantrums and torch songs. But can pop's biggest voices still hit the high notes? SOUND CHECK.

Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Publication Date: 11-SEP-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: BATTLE OF THE DIVAS; Mariah, Whitney, Shakira and Leona are all back with new albums full of tears, tantrums and torch songs. But can pop's biggest voices still hit the high notes? SOUND CHECK.(Features)

Article Excerpt
Byline: David Smyth

IN A RARE period of pop dominated by female singers, it was inevitable that the old-school big belters would want to muscle in. This autumn will be characterised by the return of the divas, the purported pinnacle of female singing evolution. The silverback gorillas of the music world, they emote on an interplanetary scale, hair perpetually billowing, never far from a towering torch song.

Their natural habitat is amid the grand-scale showiness of Las Vegas, where Mariah Carey plays her first concert since 2006 this evening.

For someone with such a remarkable natural voice, it's surprising she's gone for the fashionable robotics of the Auto-Tune sound on her new single, Obsessed, but it helps her stay current - no doubt there are plenty of the familiar...



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