vocalist
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English singer Olivia Dean scored her first real music industry job in 2017, working as a backing vocalist for the electronic group Rudimental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
That she was a vocalist with great lung power had never been missed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Play it back to back and actually start understanding the sound more and realize there’s new sounds being created,” said lead vocalist Geovanni Flores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Four of its 11 members – female vocalist Nahathai Satjalert, male vocalist Thitiwat Kaewkanha, keyboardist Pruttipong Phutmon and drummer Nathaphat Thammanitha – are among the dead.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
She also became the first black vocalist to appear as a soloist with the Philharmonic Society at Philadelphia’s prestigious Academy of Music.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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Though she’s no conventional jazz singer, it’s no surprise she felt compelled to sing ballads with orchestration, a time-honored formula for so many great jazz vocalists, including her earliest musical obsession, Sarah Vaughan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
After signing a 19-year-old Houston, she became one of the most successful female vocalists in recording history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
At the city's New Empire Theatre, he orchestrated several "big-band concerts", he wrote, flying in Bombay-based maestros like Ken Mac and Sonny Lobo, and vocalists like Jean Statham and Pamela McCarthy.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
One of his first successes was writing "Stupid Cupid" for one of the era's most popular US female vocalists, Connie Francis.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
This will depend on why you are transposing, and what kinds of vocalists and instrumentalists you are working with.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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