Diva is the debut solo studio album by Scottish singer Annie Lennox, released on 6 April 1992 by RCA Records.

[3] The album spawned five successful single releases, beginning with "Why" in March 1992, and followed by "Precious" in May, "Walking on Broken Glass" in August and "Cold" in October 1992.

Diva has been described as "state-of-the-art soul pop" by Rolling Stone magazine, who also included the album in their "Essential Recordings of the '90s" list.

In a 1992 interview with BBC, Lennox claimed she had "two years when I didn't do anything", and confirmed that during that period she was doubtful as to whether she should write and solo album or not.

[9] The choice to release "Why" as the lead single and launch of Lennox's solo career was described as a "bold move" by some due to its heart wrenching nature.

[10] Described as "by far the hardest-hitting track on the album in terms of the attack of its instrumentation" by Classic Pop magazine, "Precious" is composed around a low-slung bass groove.

"Love Song for a Vampire" did not feature on Diva, but was released on Bram Stoker's Dracula: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

In their review of the soundtrack for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Billboard wrote, "The highlight and probable single is the only vocal entry on the album, Annie Lennox's haunting, romantic 'Love Song for a Vampire'.

She described her writing technique for the ending of the song as a "denouncement of things that had been applied" to her up until that point in her career, further adding that she "reserves the right" to not let people know exactly who she is as a person.

[5] She said that songs she has written, both for Diva and with Eurythmics partner Dave Stewart, has been "intensely personal", stating she "cannot go outside of myself and looking at other peoples situations and reinterpreting them in some kind of story form".

[7] In their review, Rolling Stone commented: State-of-the-art soul pop, Annie Lennox's solo debut is sonically gorgeous; it also declares her aesthetic independence.

Ace sessionmen polish Diva's gloss, and producer Stephen Lipson (Pet Shop Boys, Propaganda) operates in hyperdrive, but these eleven songs are fiercely those of a sister doing things for herself.

Three years after her last outing with Dave Stewart, her cohort in Eurythmics, Lennox voids any notion that he was her Svengali and she merely the MTV beauty with stunning pipes.

Writing nearly all of Diva, she manages a whirlwind tour of mainstream R&B and retains her singular persona – an ice queen thirsting to be melted by love.