street singer

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In the drama, a blind street singer in 1950s Chicago goes to a house on the South Side looking for a woman he once knew.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

The appeal of Mr. Bennett’s voice is rooted in the hope-filled approach of the street singer, an open vocal style that dates back to Renaissance Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 27, 2018

A self-described street singer who has long earned her keep one day at a time through song, War has since played punk gigs at the Smell and toured with the great Beninese singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2018

The recording topped Sweden’s iTunes chart, other musicians began recording cover versions, Johnson played it, by request, at all of her shows, and a nation clamored for the arrival of a Nashville street singer.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2014

The woman with the tri-color ribbons was a street singer, so the big man told her, and no less a person than the Baroness of whom Grain-of-Salt had spoken.

From Nobody's Girl (En Famille) by Crewe-Jones, Florence