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In the world of opera, no figure in modern times loomed larger than the late Luciano Pavarotti, especially in his triumphant collaborations with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras as the Three Tenors. Pavarotti captured the imagination of audiences around the world. In this memoir, the Grammy-award winning legend shares both the fortunate and the regrettable events that marked his life, including his forays into popular music, his performances in China,...
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"In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in New York' s Lower East Side burlesque scene, became the global pop icon Lady Gaga. She is a once-in-a-decade artist, a gifted singer, composer, designer, and performance artist who mixes high and low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, authenticity with artifice. Who is Lady Gaga? A 24-year-old woman whose stage persona is the polar opposite of who she is offstage: isolated,...
13) Miranda Lambert
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ABDO Pub. Co
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c2012
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English
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Looks at the life and career of the country music singer, from her younger years to her current superstar status.
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The touching, triumphant story of a young black man's journey from violence and despair to one of the world's most elite artistic institutions. In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.
16) Aretha Franklin
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"This biography highlights the life and accomplishments of Aretha Franklin. Readers learn about Franklin's early life, her award-winning career during which she became known as the Queen of Soul, was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom" --
17) John Lennon
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From the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of John Lennon, the boy from Liverpool who dreamed of peace. When John Lennon formed a band while still in school, he couldn't have known they were about to change music forever.
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Atria Español
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©2013
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Español
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Autobiografía único autorizado El amado mexicana de la cantante estadounidense publicada póstumamente después de su muerte en un trágico accidente aéreo en diciembre de 2012.
The beloved Mexican American singer's only authorized autobiography published posthumously after her death in a tragic plane crash in December 2012.
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"For millions of people, the great soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977) remains the focus of such unparalleled fascination that there is still no higher praise for singers than "...the best since Callas." In this biography, Callas' career is brought brilliantly to life, from her transformation from a chubby, painfully shy girl into a magnificent, celebrated soprano, to her conflict with her larger-than-life image. Huffington makes this struggle, which...
20) Bessie
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2015
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English
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Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
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