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The biggest and brightest of the disco stars, Donna Summer was the female face of the genre in the late ‘70s. Her theatre roots helped her convey character and drama to her biggest hits, like the strutting disco pomp of “Bad Girls” and the later “She Works Hard for the Money”. Her voice frays with passion on the rock-powered “Hot Stuff,” but she tells all with little more than a sigh on the billowing slink of “Love to Love You Baby”. Scale the heights of “I Feel Love” to see the future of dance music, but Summer provides the real heartbeat under that electronic pulse.

Divas coexist in pop music’s most rarefied spheres, but their world-changing vocals can take command of any genre—our list includes soul belters, pop princesses, jazz stylists and rock goddesses. Without Aretha Franklin’s full-scale reinventions of gospel and R&B tracks, Mariah Carey’s octave-leaping runs, Barbra Streisand’s Broadway-born brilliance, or Tina Turner’s dazzling moxie, pop music’s brightness would be dimmed: the excitement levels would be lower, the drama would be nonexistent and those chest-beating moments of high-note glory would be absent. Divas operate on a larger-than-life level, but that grandeur explodes everything around them, giving heft and heart to wistful ballads and roof-raising dance numbers alike. Cast aside your idea of the diva as demanding, and embrace these big-voiced women who conquered music by being their truest selves on record and in public, captivating and delighting audiences around the globe.