The soulful divas
Subtitle: personal portraits of over a dozen divine divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin & Diana Ross to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston & Janet Jackson
By: David Nathan ; foreword by Luther Vandross.
Publisher: Billboard Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Singers -- United States -- Biography.; African American women singers -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In The Soulful Divas, David Nathan profiles the greatest female rhythm and blues vocalists of the past three decades as never before. He celebrates these outstanding artists in fascinating, unsanitized, behind-the-scenes portraits. All of the profiles are based on the author's long-standing, personal relationships with the women featured, and are an outgrowth of both his in-person interview sessions and informal chats.

The result is an entertaining, candid look at the ups and downs of each performer's career, as well as how these African-American women have wielded power in a basically white, male-dominated industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes discography (p. [400]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dionne Warwick; title: Nina Simone; title: Aretha Franklin; title: Esther Phillips; title: Doris Troy; title: Diana Ross; title: Gladys Knight; title: Chaka Khan; title: Patti LaBelle; title: Millie Jackson; title: Natalie Cole; title: Phyllis Hyman; title: Roberta Flack; title: Anita Baker; title: Whitney, Janet, and Toni, the young divas.