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topliner
noun as in big name
noun as in prima donna
Example Sentences
In his own music, he often multitracks his trumpet and French horn into a supportive brass choir, as he does in “More and More,” a collaboration with Edie Brickell as a topliner.
Yola’s first teenage recording session was with the Bristol-based production team Distorted Minds, and behind the scenes, she continued to work as a studio singer and topliner for electronic producers, belting hooks others had written or coming up with lyrics and melodies for their tracks.
Like any other quality pop topliner, Greenspan would start with a wordless vocal melody, one that’d exist as near-gibberish before he’d start stumbling onto key phrases.
After helping David Guetta’s “Titanium” and Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” climb the charts, with “Chandelier,” in-demand topliner Sia Furler finally has a hit song to call her own.
On Friday, after bringing up Naomi Watts, costar of the summer comedy “St. Vincent,” and Ryan Reynolds, topliner of Nazi art film “Woman in Gold,” Weinstein ran through teasers of these and other movies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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