Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paris, singing in the streets for money, but recently returned to the U.S. to pursue a more mainstream singing career. Her debut album, Dreamland (Atlantic), just out, is a bewitching blend of jazz, folk and blues--as well as the most exciting, involving vocal performance by a new singer this year. Peyroux's days of needing to play in the streets for cash are probably over...
...always taken great care that all panels and presentations were bipartisan and balanced," Singer said. "I think we're doing the groundwork now, talking to both sides, so people will understand that we are being nonpartisan...
While Steven R. Singer, director of communications at the Kennedy School, said that Republican charges of liberal bias within the program were "never very credible," he added that organizers are taking extra care this year to include Republicans in the planning process...
...faithful parodies: tight, with short verses and catchy tunes. Listen to Hanks describe the That Thing You Do! title tune, written by 28-year-old Adam Schlesinger: "There's a driving rhythm, and as it goes into the second chorus the entire crowd picks up on the beat. The singer steps back from the mike, the guitarist goes into a stumbling yet evocative solo, then it ends with a soul-satisfying bomp-bomp-bomp Waaaaangtwiddlelip!" The CD also has a song called I Need You (That Thing You Do), similar to the first tune but even more engaging. If released...
This. Hanks' feature-film debut as writer-director, That Thing You Do!, tries to infuse his personality in a story set in a time of innocence: small towns, state fairs, the modest dreams of being in a band and kissing the lead singer's pretty girlfriend. But the transplant doesn't take, because Hanks hasn't given his 1964 fable of would-be Beatles (or Byrds or Searchers) the solid bass line of story sense...