Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...
...built her success as much on sheer dramatic ability as on her voice. Her voice is lyric rather than dramatic, and at La Scala she has become one of the foremost performers of contemporary music. At her best in lighter roles, she has recently turned histrionic, now longs to sing Minnie in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West...
...father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless in Hollywood during the war, he put words and music to a parable he once heard in his father's church. The song: Straighten Up and Fly Right. Though he sold it outright...
...partisan song from France. Sometimes he sang with the orchestra and a twelve-man chorus, sometimes to the accompaniment only of Millard Thomas' guitar. Always he displayed a bone-deep sense of showmanship. At one moment he would have his audience roaring with him, as in Matilda ("Everyone sing the chorus, including intellectuals"); at another he would mesmerize them as he slid with eyes closed into one of his meticulously articulated versions of an old favorite...
With some openings remaining among the principal roles and numerous vacancies in the chorus, Clamans emphasized that the group needs individuals who can sing and also act, as well as those whose talents are chiefly musical...