noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
opera singer
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an opera singer
playback singer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Many of the great black singers began in their local churches.
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Which black singer is it that I sound like?
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A gay, black female singer would never make it.
famous
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Some people say he's a famous opera singer who likes to come incognito back to his roots.
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In 1894 he became teacher of singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and many famous singers were his pupils.
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She explained that Gran had once been a famous singer and that she played the organ and was teaching Oliver to sing.
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She hadn't really thought the famous singer would have time to spend with her, had she?
female
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In 1991 Najma was voted best female singer in the pop awards.
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Among female singers , Jessye Norman has a highly enthusiastic following, in part because opera appearances are rare.
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The worst male singer was Jason Donovan and worst female singer was Dannii Minogue.
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There is no other female singer / songwriter like her.
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She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice.
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A gay, black female singer would never make it.
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Either that or the better-heeled locals enjoy female singers wailing purposefully at their table and moving away only when handed money.
fine
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The husband, Thomas, was a fine singer and a bad farmer.
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Outdoor concerts are fine for country singers , provided they involve cutting and baling hay from the seating areas before hand.
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She was noted throughout Kensington and the surrounding areas as a fine singer .
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Only a short time before his death in a road crash, I did an item with that fine singer Dickie Valentine.
folk
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I grew up around folk singers , people who sang in little bars.
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According to her bio, fast-rising folk singer Dar Williams is on a constant search for truth and beauty.
good
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Ochs, a better singer , contended that a pretty melody would attract more listeners.
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But better singers fell by the wayside.
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Q.. Do you think you are better singers or dancers?
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A dead good singer , but, alas, no different from the way he was before.
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Recent years have been good to singer / songwriter Tish Hinojosa, and with good reason.
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She is now the best singer in Paris.
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Carson began playing guitar at age 10, always wanted to be a songwriter and never thought she was a good singer .
great
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Many of the great black singers began in their local churches.
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There she became friends with Busoni and Klemperer and formed a life-long close rapport with another great singer , Lotte Lehmann.
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Of course, not every great singer is impossible to please.
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What makes a great soul singer ?
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To make this joint quite clear let us suppose that one had wanted to be a great singer .
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Both are great singers who went on to contribute much to the genre.
male
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The worst male singer was Jason Donovan and worst female singer was Dannii Minogue.
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He said 19 is the average score for male singers .
old
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The fifty nine year old singer who'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday.
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Wilson is a fiercely independent, 40-year-#old singer and songwriter with a creamy, sultry contralto.
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Heady stuff for a 21-year-#old rock singer ?
pop
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In an elaborate bedroom game the voice was provided by pop singer David Loeffler.
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The pop singer , 60, has lived in the home since the mid-1970s.
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That's how much the actress turned pop singer charges for personal appearances.
popular
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He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble.
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In fact, all the events' of daily life are grist to the mill of these popular singers .
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The study cited a recent search using the name of Britney Spears, the popular teenage singer .
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Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century.
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Here's one of our most popular singers - Bluestack Bill.
professional
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I know Alison is not a professional singer so I was interested to hear how it came out.
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Q: Do you have any advice for those want to become a professional singer ?
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If this man had another career it must be as a professional singer .
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He says he wanted to become a professional singer so he wouldn't have to do a job he didn't like.
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Lily did not care, she had the offer of work as a professional singer in her hand.
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The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer .
young
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It's an energetic part even for a young singer .
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Try as they might, however, the younger singers rarely measure up to their forebears.
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Any young singers who would like further information can contact Keith Smith.
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He became friendly with a young singer and dancer named Marguerite Angelos, later known as the writer Maya Angelou.
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It would be a pity to miss the handsome young singer .
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I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden, Olaf Bär.
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And as for the young singers , they certainly gave the design the stamp of approval.
■ NOUN
backing
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She has already established herself as a backing singer specialising in jazz and stands to win professional recording sessions.
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As well as the choirs, the following also appeared in the cast: Pharaoh's backing singers .
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Having come from backing singer to lead, Sam is now enjoying well deserved success with the title song Stop.
country
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Outdoor concerts are fine for country singers , provided they involve cutting and baling hay from the seating areas before hand.
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Mr Brooks is a putative country singer .
gospel
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Mr McCrea, a preacher and successful gospel singer , was parachuted in from the neighbouring Mid-Ulster constituency.
jazz
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It was an environment where he could be what he always wanted to be -- a jazz singer .
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Nor is Badu in any way a slavish Holiday imitator or even a jazz singer .
lead
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She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s.
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But it is difficult to take him seriously because he looks like he should be the lead singer for Oasis.
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She was the lead singer in an all-girl rock group.
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The lead singer , have you seen his hair?
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The lead singer had a Mohican haircut and lots of chains and zips.
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The floppy fringes and pouting lips of the respective lead singers are another story entirely.
opera
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Some people say he's a famous opera singer who likes to come incognito back to his roots.
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An opera singer was shrieking-wah-wah.
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And Angèle Didier is supposed to be an opera singer , an experienced woman of the world.
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The portrait photographer had me clasp my hands like an opera singer and look straight into the camera.
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This was the home of the celebrated opera singer Destinová who held her salon here.
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Another was a leading light opera singer in the local community.
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I worked and worked at my singing, because I wanted to be an opera singer .
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My father told me a joke once, about a man who marries an ugly opera singer because he loves her voice.
soul
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Phil Fearon, the soul singer , went to junior school with me.
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What makes a great soul singer ?
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How do you turn a duck into a soul singer ?
■ VERB
become
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Read in studio A successful businessman is giving up the security of office life to become a rock singer .
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Q: Who inspired you to become a singer ?
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He says he wanted to become a professional singer so he wouldn't have to do a job he didn't like.
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Then the desire to become a singer would be first force.
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She became the first female singer to top the festive chart twice.
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Q: Do you have any advice for those want to become a professional singer ?
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Boone is also the father of four daughters, including singer Debby Boone.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lead singer/guitarist etc
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But it is difficult to take him seriously because he looks like he should be the lead singer for Oasis.
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He's our lead singer, or rather I should say he was.
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She was lead singer in the Black and White Minstrel Show during the 70s.
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The lead singer had a Mohican haircut and lots of chains and zips.
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The lead singer, have you seen his hair?
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The band includes lead guitarist Chris Floyd, a former Leesburg city commissioner.
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The floppy fringes and pouting lips of the respective lead singers are another story entirely.
natural-born singer/story-teller etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jazz singer
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an opera singer
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I wanted to have a career as a singer .
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In those days we had a band with a brass section and a couple of female backing singers.
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Jodie dreamed of being a rock singer .
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Mick Jagger, the lead singer with the Rolling Stones
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She's very pretty, and a good singer too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apart from a mettlesome Emilia in Gisella Pasino the smaller roles are filled with indifferent singers.
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As well as the choirs, the following also appeared in the cast: Pharaoh's backing singers.
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But musicians and other singers know who I am.
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Friday, January 24, the incomparable singer / songwriter Miss Lavelle White takes the stage.
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If ever a singer were destined for dismissal as a novelty act, it would be him.
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In 1979, singer Nancy Wilson hired him to open her nightclub act.
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Is she the drug-addled singer who made thousands weep?
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Like a country-western singer , she choruses again and again that her man has done her wrong.