Like Missy Elliot says Hollywood to New york MADONNA IS THE QUEEN. **** all the rest of the wannabes.

CHRISTINA!!!!!!!!

Rihanna & Nicole Scherzinger.

A "DIVA" is a "principle singer" and was originally an OPERA term. These are highly gifted singers, vocalists, that don't need computers and echo machines to make them sound great- they are great. People like Britney Spears and Janet Jackson are not "divas" in that sense of the word. They are entertainers and performers, but they are not vocalists. I would like to hear either one sing without a microphone in an amphitheater and I want them to sing a song that requires, lets say a 2.5 to 3 octave range, and I want to be able to hear them from the first row behind the floor seats/orchestra pit. They won't be able to do it, and neither could J-lo, nor could Madonna. Madonna is a phenomenon, a great performer (running out of new ideas, however), but I was so proud of her for knowing her limitations and taking vocal lessons and fighting for the role of Eva Peron. You could tell she had vocal training in songs like "Rain" and "Take a Bow" and was thrilled when she hit the high notes during the film Evita. However, one DIVA (principle singer, not "demanding *****") I saw in concert at an amphitheater hold a high note out and slowly lowered the microphone stand to the floor.... her voice slowly left the sound system until it was no longer coming out of the speakers, but was only coming out of her - out of her body, her lungs, out of her beautiful mouth - that sound carried by her own power while the microphone itself lay on the floor. When she stopped holding the note, the audience was silent, the diva surprised - where was the applause? It took seconds for the audiance, standing with jaws open to come back to reality and realize what they had just seen and heard and that silence became a thunderous roar. I have never seen anything like it, nor heard anyone do that with such power and clarity. That DIVA is the predecessor of Madonna, the first to wear lingerie and boustier as outer clothing, the first to shock the world with eroticism and sexual overtones paving the way for the "shocking" entertaining videos and concerts of Madonna and Britney.... and that DIVA is "The First Lady of Love," "The Queen of Disco" Miss Donna Summer, and at age 59 she has a new album out, is on tour, and can still sing the high notes in Last Dance and can still hold the notes out in carry you away with "I Feel Love" - and thank you to Madonna and Beyonce for recognizing MY favorite DIVA. Another great DIVA aka VOCALIST is Lara Fabian- one of the best singers/songwriters of our time.

I like Rihanna,Beyonce and Mariah...

for me PCD too

MINES IS MARY J BLIGE... NEED I SAY MORE.

Madonna of course!
No comments on the others...

I like Kylie and Mariah a lot!

Madonna. Why doesn't she have her own category yet!

JLo for sure! She's like the quadruple threat!

BEYONCE!!!!