Maria Jimenez

Joaquin Sabina has said of his work that it maps desire and takes inventory of doubt. Who better than 13 female singers to explore this complicated emotional territory? The women themselves couldn't be more diverse, ranging from Latin popsters such as Julieta Venegas to tango divas such as Adriana Varela and Mexico's Chavela Vargas, whose destroyed voice will sink fishhooks into your heart. (Pasion Vega and Carmen Paris get honorable mentions as divas in training.) Not every track rules, but most of them do.