diva is a female version of a hustla

Divas on celluloid.

Bessie Smith

Lotte Lenya

Josephine Baker

Fanny Brice

Lena Horne

Ethel Waters

Billie Holiday

Édith Piaf

Ethel Merman

Judy Garland

Pearl Bailey

Peggy Lee

Ella Fitzgerald

Julie London

Eartha Kitt

Anita O’Day

Dinah Washington

Mahalia Jackson

Barbra Streisand

Janis Joplin

Liza Minnelli

Diana Ross

Tina Turner

Aretha Franklin

Bette Midler

Madonna

Whitney Houston

Björk

Erykah Badu

Jill Scott

Jennifer Hudson

Beyoncé