she is every woman.

'...Knowles is, of course, a smokeshow of rare distinction, a perfectly composed public presence, and an unusually gifted singer with a deep catalogue of chart toppers, but so are plenty of pop stars. She has become, in recent years, something more: an aspirational talisman for American women of all races. It is a small club, perhaps one whose only other members might be Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. But where Winfrey is a single career gal (on the grandest scale) and Obama has temporarily put her own career aside for her husband and kids (also on the grandest scale), Knowles has both the gangbusters career and the perfect-seeming family life. She has transformed herself into an icon of Having It All.'

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Tracee Ellis & Diana Ross

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'First...is a...documentary, "Remembering Whitney," a one-hour special. Due to premiere...October 17...the program features interviews...private home videos...family photos...Following "Remembering Whitney" is Lifetime's...docu-reality series "The Houstons: On Our Own."'

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art: photo by Ronnie Wright

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'Nile Rodgers observed the four Sledge girls huddling together in the studio. Inspired, he penned the album’s title-track, one of their greatest hits, a song of sisterly love that brought a sense of family and joy to the late '70s ‘me’ generation...'

“ The rest of the group haven’t allowed me to find the guy I’d like to be with! I’m joking. But I spend more time with them than I do my own family, so I suppose they are my family now…To find the right guy will be difficult enough, anyway. I need that special one with the right mentality to adapt to this crazy business I’m in, and who won’t get uptight being referred to as Mr. Davis…Not having that someone isn’t a major problem for me…certainly I don’t feel my life is lacking anything…I feel that what I’m doing is what I was put here for, and there’s no feeling like…making people happy through your music…I’m gonna carry on doing this for as long as I can.
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Mary Davis (in 2004), of the The SOS Band.

looking very much like Whitney.

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everythingwhitneyhouston:

If a favorite song of hers makes you feel a certain way, cherish that feeling and remember Whitney as the beautiful songbird she was. -Dionne Warwick

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'I’m not just an artist. I’m also a sister, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother…and I’m those things first. Those are my riches. I try to bring that into my musical experience. In fact it’s what my musical experience is based on—my life—as a mother, a mother with difficult kids, as a daughter, all the things women go through I go through the same things and maybe a little is magnified because I have a name. So I have to protect a great deal. There’s a lot at stake here.'

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art: by Lesley Lewis

Prodigy, who is half of Mobb Deep…whose mother was one of the Crystals…

Prodigy, who is half of Mobb Deep…whose mother was one of the Crystals…

she is every woman.

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'First...is a...documentary, "Remembering Whitney," a one-hour special. Due to premiere...October 17...the program features interviews...private home videos...family photos...Following "Remembering Whitney" is Lifetime's...docu-reality series "The Houstons: On Our Own."'

'Nile Rodgers observed the four Sledge girls huddling together in the studio. Inspired, he penned the album’s title-track, one of their greatest hits, a song of sisterly love that brought a sense of family and joy to the late '70s ‘me’ generation...'