THE WORLD'S BEST CABARET STARS

Yet, all those cabaret divas share many things in common: The Cabaret's drama, the femme fatale persona, the whispers in the dark, the personification of the shadows of the sacred and the  damned, the mystique and the risqué on 12 feet by 10 feet human arena called plateau du cabaret; the stage....And by the same token, in addition to the diversity and fanatic separation between the kinds and categories of their fans at all levels,  the cabaret style of those divas metamorphosed, evolved or rebelled throughout times en vertue of the preferences, tastes, choices and emotional-social-educational-cultural-political level and needs of their fans. Those who listen to Gabriella Ferri care less about  Barbara Cooke. And those who adore Edith Piaf might not enjoy the captivating performance of Chita Rivera or Cleo Laine. CABARET IS A STATE OF MIND. We go to cabaret to forget or to remember. Asking a famous gigolo and self proclaimed Parisian philosopher: " Do you love cabaret?" the man replied: "You bet your derriere I love cabaret. I go there to forget."  "Forget  what?", asked the Paris Match reporter.  And the man with a satiric smile replied: " I just remember that I have already forgotten what I forgot." He meant by that, the cabaret chanteuses  make his head spin in all directions. And there is nothing else to forget or to  remember except this "Femme Fatale" on stage and the French bottle of Muscadet wine on the table! Yes, cabaret is pure magic and the cabaret chanteuse is a poisonous elixir! And we love it!  There are more than 350,000 cabaret singers in the world belonging to 13 different kinds of cabaret, ranging from the grotesque to the sublime, and from the Mata Hari genre to the Piaf's style.

But who are those femme fatales? Those divas of world cabaret? Don't go far away, mon cher ami. Some of the best in the business are on this page. Look at them!

Germany: Ute Lemper. United Kingdom: Barb Jungr,  Kate Westbrook. Greece: Marinella. Italy: Gabriella Ferri.  Canada: Nicole Martel, Lyne Tremblay. United States: Susan Eagan, Amanda McBroom, Andrea Marcovicci, Anna Bergman, Cleo Laine, Betty Buckley, Chita Rivera, Eartha Kitt, Barbara Cook, Bernadette Peters, Nancy Kelly, Liza Minelli, Marisa Berenson, Paulette Attie, Rhe De Ville, Debbie de Coudreaux . France: Caroline Nin, Raquel Bitton, Simone Marchand.  Middle/Near East: Sabah.