1. The city's most famous songstress, Gloria Estefan, grew up here after her parents fled communist-ruled Cuba.

2. Indeed, she has transcended mere songstress status and become something even more venerated in our consumer driven society.

3. The 27-year-old songstress turned actress turned global brand found time to release a double album (I Am...

4. Koizumi Akira, a son of a popular songstress, travels to a small - town cinema in far -off Kochi Prefecture to watch the closing movie before the theatre shuts its doors forever.

5. Kumi Koda , a songstress who has led the Japanese music circle, has finally crossed national barriers.

6. During her lifetime, the songstress had recorded over 100 albums.

7. The Broadway songstress and the Oscar winner's marriage, however, began unraveling during the honeymoon.

8. The clear winner so far is the unseen songstress of the opening ceremonies, Yang Peiyi, with 68% of the roughly 15,000 votes cast as of this writing.

9. At one fairly empty establishment, the young songstress notices me as a white European and asks what I would like her to belt out.

10. She is renowned for her musical ability, and has earned her the coveted role of songstress for the Festival of the Blade.

11. "High school, " she explains, and it becomes a bit clearer how this guitar-wielding, soul-bearing spark of a songstress spent her formative years.

12. Over the past year we said goodbye to the incandescent Elizabeth Taylor and soulful songstress Amy Winehouse.

13. During the course of the night, the "Love Story" songstress took the stage for one of her oh-so-spectacular performances.

14. The songs broadcasting in the sound device were getting back from Russia several years ago. It was an opus collection sung by a very famous Russian songstress at present.