DiDonato has become perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation, the heir apparent to the great Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
She has enjoyed more charts hits than almost any other female singer.
The awards will celebrate winners in 23 categories, including best female singer, best male singer, best conductor, best opera company, and best chorus.
Only three other U.K. acts are in the latest top 50 -- rock veterans Sting and Eric Clapton and rookie female singer Dido.
The song seemed to finish with a thousand doors all swinging open in unison as the band's female singer, Grace Slick, belted out the line "Feed your head, feed your head".
It tells the story of Streisand's up and coming female singer who falls in love with an established rock star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career on the rise whilst his fades.
Sunshine On A Rainy Day was originally the hit that made Zoe a one-hit-wonder in 1991 - and if I remember rightly, she was a similarly-endowed female solo singer too.
Well, she's certainly female and a singer, but she plays everything herself and is clearly a talent in her own right.
Other performers flown in for the fundraising event at the church's UK headquarters included Broadway singer James Barber, musician Mark Isham and female vocalist Elena Roggero.
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Upon hearing Hanson's third full-length record, Madam Owl, the first thing anyone will notice is the singer's impossibly high voice that sounds more like a female vocalist than a 30 year old man.
It was remembered that, as a minister, he once allowed a woman singer to perform in public (even though it was to a female audience only, the Islamic Republic bans any woman singing solo).
The former president also took a swipe at rapper Kanye West's behavior on Sunday, when he jumped onstage during the MTV Video Music Awards and took the microphone from country singer Taylor Swift during her would-be acceptance speech for the Best Female Video.
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