sultry

Her provocative stage presence in a dazzling series of Paris by Night videos, her tight-fitting body suits and bikini tops, her bravado and sultry voice made the older generation gasp.

In February, the singer won the first-ever Grammy for African music performance, for her sultry, gorgeously sung single “Water,” a defining track of the African music wave that’s reshaped the world’s pop and club music.

Clash's Ims Taylor agreed that the album as a whole doesn't match her lead singles - those "sultry, retro-tinged pop bops that assert Carpenter’s place as pop star, irresistible icon, reigning supreme over charts and admirers with infinite confidence".

His friend Gareth Williams described him as well-loved and kind, with "the deepest, most sultry voice in the world, and a smile that lit up the room."

On a sultry summer evening, Janos Szin, a tour operator who runs a number of bear hides in the Tusnad area, sends me the map coordinates where to wait.