balladeer

Example Sentences

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During her club gigs, Ms. Smith introduced a sharper, original approach to rock that was raw and pithy, salted with hidden references to 1960s girl groups, R&B balladeers and garage-rock bands.

From The Wall Street Journal

"For a casual listener, they probably think I'm just a balladeer," he says.

From BBC

Songs like "Junk" and "Every Night" continued his efforts, refined during his Beatles heyday, as a balladeer for the ages.

From Salon

By the time Billy Joel won Record Of The Year in 1977, for Just The Way You Are, he was fed up with being described a soft-rock balladeer.

From BBC

The “Super Bass” rapper delivered a spot-on impression of the British balladeer Wednesday as she marked the return of James Corden’s popular “Carpool Karaoke” on “The Late Late Show” after a two-year break.

From Los Angeles Times