women singers

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Get over it

2013
Sunday Talliver, a successful singer, has finished her first year of college and is ready for new opportunities, but she encounters unexpected drama and has unfinished business with her ex-boyfriend.

The Hornes

an American family
1986
Recounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.

Selena

2007
Jennifer Lopez stars in the true story of Latina idol Selena, who was murdered in 1995 by Yolanda Saldvar, a manager of one of Selena's boutiques, who was stealing money from her.

The song is you

a novel
2009
Behind his hipness and attitude, Julian Donahue is going through an emotional crisis that started when his two-year-old son died of a freak infection. His wife, Rachel, reacted by vigorously cheating on him; Julian, meanwhile, went impotent. But his potency returns one night in his Brooklyn apartment as he listens to a CD by rising Irish singer-starlet Cait O'Dwyer. As his interest in her music and career grows into a full-blown obsession, Julian meets washed-up rocker-turned-painter Alec Stamford (who harbors a few of his own bizarre yearnings), and Julian is propelled to do more than mill around in the back of crowds at Cait's performances.

The soulful divas

personal portraits of over a dozen divine divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson
1999
Contains photographs and profiles of seventeen of the world's best known female rhythm and blues vocalists, including Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Esther Phillips, Doris Troy, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Patti Labelle, Millie Jackson, Natalie Cole, Phyllis Hyman, Roberta Flack, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, and Toni Braxton; based on the author's personal relationships with the women featured.

And So I Sing

African-American Divas of Opera and Concert
1990

And so I sing

African-American divas of opera and concert
1993

The ground beneath her feet

a novel
1999
Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in devastating earthquake, leaving behind her long-time lover Ormus Cama, who finds, loses, seeks, and finds her again and again throughout his life in music.

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