bandleader
Example Sentences
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The Connecticut festival Westville Music Bowl on Wednesday published a statement from the composer-singer-multi-instrumentalist and former “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” bandleader announcing that he has canceled “a portion of my upcoming performance dates.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
A pianist and guitarist, he emerged as a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and jazz bandleader.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
A guitarist, composer and bandleader who died on Saturday, Taylor's six-decade career played a key role in shaping modern popular music in West Africa.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
This domestic sitcom, starring Lucille Ball as a frustrated housewife and Ball’s then-husband Desi Arnaz as her patient bandleader husband, is the most influential show in TV history, and it isn’t close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
She looked at me as if we were onstage, and she was the bandleader, giving me my cue.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
