balladeer

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Both sets also showcase Kirk as a master balladeer and one of jazz’s great romantics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

The rest of the set balanced her competing impulses: rock chick, singer-songwriter, rabble rouser, strident feminist, heartfelt balladeer.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2025

Throughout the film, we see Dovydas enthusiastically performing a kind of sign language karaoke against a vivid blue backdrop; his facial expressions are like a lovesick balladeer.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Rod Wave, “Nostalgia” “Jump off a plane on an island, and I’m here without you,” sings rap’s reigning trap-soul balladeer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Unlike the colder Sir Roland, ‘True Thomas’ dared, and was wafted to a realm wondrously described by the old balladeer in the vivid phrase that marks the poetry of vision.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis