the role of julia and maxine waters as session singers on the group's albums was discussed in the documentary film "20 feet from stardom" (2013). maxine and julia have performed with their brothers oren and luther as "the waters", and they supported paul simon in 1991 on the born at the right time tour. the waters toured with neil diamond as backup singers starting in 2005. maxine waters willard and julia waters-tillman have appeared separately and together as singers in a dozen films including "the lion king" and "little shop of horrors'.