vibrato
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Stewart’s wild, shivering vibrato sliced through layers of fiddle and pedal steel, eventually grabbing the attention of Nashville bigwigs, including Roy Dea, a Texas-born record producer who would become one of Stewart’s loyal supporters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The pair cherrypicked from the two models, and made alterations to things like vibrato speed, or slowing and relaxing phrases.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
It’s apparent in her music, which fuses the sounds of jazz and classical giants past with romantic storytelling, punctuated by a deep vibrato and modern-day references.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
The bottom of a block might be quiet, the top loud and individuals can add vibrato and other flourishes as they go, requiring skill and practice.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
Dee sings, high-pitched and with plenty of extra cartoonish vibrato.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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There, a strange man with an oboe sat on the ridge of his tooth, playing wide vibratos through nimbusfog.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
All the poignant sentiment that Lennon and Ono imbued the song with is completely sucked out by singer Adam Levine’s reaching aria and overdone vibratos.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2018
King’s shudders and vibratos, half-shouts and glottal stops have become a synecdoche for the ongoing struggle for American freedom.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
The store’s guitar tech shakes his hand, and within minutes, they’re geeking out over Bigsby vibratos, P-90 pickups and the pink, 1956 Gibson lap steel Bonamassa recently found.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016
Then their whinnied replies came back in trembling vibratos.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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