1.   Another shiver of obvious delight as I howled my way through a few scales trying to sound just like my singing idol, Carmen Miranda.

2.   Birdie is a singing idol.

3.   A singing idol on the surface, he longed for privacy and to be taken seriously as a songwriter.

4.   He resisted and was rewarded by an encounter with his singing idol, played by Julie Leibowitch.

5.   One story said Toledo is so vain that he believes he is singing idol Ricky Martin.

6.   Pepsi, meanwhile, has aired ads with everyone from former GOP Sen. Bob Dole to teenage singing idol Britney Spears.

7.   A jury sentenced Yolanda Saldivar, the former president of the Selena fan club, to life in prison Thursday for the murder of the Tejano singing idol.