session player
Example Sentences
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McClain grew up studying classical music and began playing guitar as a teenager; he got his start in the music industry as a session player for the likes of Lionel Richie and Gladys Knight.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
He was also a prolific session player, working with artists like Seal, Maxwell and Raphael Saadiq.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2023
And he ended up working with Paul McCartney — not only on Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album in 1982, but later as a session player in McCartney's 1984 film, "Give My Regards to Broad Street."
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2020
After paying his dues as a sideman and session player, Rebennack released his first solo recording, the guitar-and-sax instrumental “Storm Warning,” in 1959.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2019
He wound up as a session player, backing up other stars in the music studio.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2017
