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The power of the brown American diva

Deborah Paredez celebrates ‘bold, beautiful, messy’ stars such as Tina Turner, Celia Cruz, Vikki Carr, Grace Jones and Aretha Franklin as fabulous role models for the oppressed

Tina Turner at a concert in Metz in 1990. [Getty Images]

  • American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous

    Deborah Paredez

    Norton, pp. 256, £22

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