(n.) One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Bi Kidude (Fatuma binti Baraka), singer, born around 1910; died 17 April 2013
(2) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
(3) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(4) Photograph: Instagram Callander, who was studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, sent a Twitter message to Grande on Sunday, saying: “SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU TOMORROW.” She had previously posted a photograph of herself with the singer taken in 2015 on her Instagram account.
(5) Less than five months after the release of Closer to the Truth, the singer seems resigned to the album's current profile, tweeting, "It's OK".
(6) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(7) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
(8) "[She] was in the hospital, as far as I could see, for absolutely no reason," the singer said.
(9) I learned how to join in with the conversation, and trained myself to pay attention to the other things that were going on apart from the singer.
(10) Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, who made a return to European stages at the MTV Europe Music awards in Milan on Sunday, abruptly canceled his concert in Oslo on Thursday night after performing just one song.
(11) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
(12) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
(13) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
(14) It was found that in addition to the immediate decrease of retrograde labelling with HRP in the cortical projections from the deafferented A-laminae of the dorsal part of the lateral geniculate nucleus (Singer et al.
(15) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
(16) However, the public response to the ruling might just potentially help the singer achieve her lawsuit’s other goal – to end her contract with Kemosabe.
(17) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(18) "Columnist Jan Moir's comments on the singer's shocking death sparked an extraordinary online response using sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
(19) Ninety-nine college undergraduates responded to a questionnaire consisting of subscales from the Singer-Antrobus Imaginal Processes Inventory and scales measuring extent of sleep disturbance; measures of response bias and samples of volitional waking fantasy were also obtained.
(20) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .
Vocalist
Definition:
(n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
(2) It’s said to be a largely instrumental, ambient affair, though session vocalist Durga McBroom-Hudson piped up on social media recently to reveal that she had been in the studio with Gilmour last December and that there would be lead vocals on at least one track.
(3) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
(4) To recap, Beach House formed in 2004 when French-born Victoria, a theatre graduate, vocalist and organist, finished her studies and moved to Baltimore to pursue a music project with an old friend.
(5) Allen may not be one of the best vocalists around, but if she carries on being this engaging, hers might end up being one of the voices that cuts through.
(6) "Going from being a backing vocalist who learns someone else's material to teaching several people my material and being respectful of their ideas."
(7) By the end of the decade, Brian Wilson had left the band, as had vocalist Al Jardine, Carl had died of cancer, leaving Mike Love the sole original member, alongside Bruce Johnson, drafted in to replace Wilson after his mid-60s breakdown.
(8) He wanted a prominent female vocalist because "it's my mum speaking through me; a lot of my lyrics are written from a woman's point of view," but he also used her to achieve stark gender dissonance, for example when she sings "I'm a black man" on a thrillingly counterintuitive rock version of Public Enemy's Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos .
(9) The result is Aswan , named after the Egyptian city in which it was recorded, which includes six vocalists singing in 11 different languages, and performers from Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
(10) It is the author's opinion that vocalists are also significantly affected by TMD.
(11) In addition to Armisen, the other members of the 8G Band include Syd Butler, lead bassist of post-punk band Les Savy Fav, and Eli Janney, a keyboardist, bass player and vocalist of post-harcore band Girls Against Boys.
(12) She is an incredible vocalist, plays drums, guitar, writes songs, makes films, designs clothes – even has her own clothes label: #www.selfesteem.love .
(13) The 60-year-old vocalist was not the only British artist with cause to celebrate.
(14) And it appears that the band – consisting of founder, lyricist and bassist Steve Harris, 57, 56-year-old guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers, 55-year-old vocalist Bruce Dickinson and 61-year-old drummer Nicko McBrain – have done it in the traditional way, using old fashioned graft and relentless touring.
(15) THE SONG THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A VOCALIST Don't Turn Around by Aswad (1988) Aswad had other tracks but this was their best.
(16) Need U’s success was followed by albums from Rudimental and Disclosure, artists who blurred the roles of producer and live band while allowing for a constant carousel of guest vocalists.
(17) Griff Fender, best known as a vocalist for the 70s band The Darts, and dancer Laura Street have worked with Oily Cart for many years.
(18) Soon afterwards, he moved to London as vocalist with the Oscar Rabin band, but it did not work out - Manning missed Manchester and his girlfriend Vera, whom he was later to marry.
(19) The song, Africa Stop Ebola, features contributions from the Malian musicians Amadou & Mariam , Salif Keita , Oumou Sangaré and Kandia Kouyaté , the Guinean singers Mory Kante and Sia Tolno , the Ivorian reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly , the Congolese vocalist Barbara Kanam and the Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi .
(20) Vocalist Durga McBroom-Hudson, who has toured with Gilmour and Pink Floyd, subsequently shared some further details.