Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first I was opposed to the idea of the survey. I thought it was the representative's job to know what the students felt," said Scott M. Singer...
...Singer also said he felt a survey would slow down council plans. Council members could gauge student feeling just as well by informal discussion, he said...
McNally said there were a number of factors that led to his writing the current Broadway hit, "Master Class," about a series of master classes the opera singer Maria Callas held at Julliard in the mid-1970s...
...plot, its humor, come through. So too with music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a huge star in his native Pakistan; but although he speaks no English, and his songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Some American rock stars, perhaps seeking to fill a spiritual void in their own music, have gravitated to Khan. Eddie Vedder, leader of the prickly rock band Pearl Jam, sings...
Khan's elegant new album Night Song (Real World/Caroline) takes the singer in a more worldly direction. Collaborating with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan ventures into songs about earthly rather than religious love. On the song My Heart, My Life, he also experiments with phrasing that is more direct than the ethereal style of his qawwali work. On Crest, he reels off spiraling vocals over a beat that is almost funky. Says Khan: "I am trying to give my voice greater range." Purists may not like the fact that he's recorded such brazenly entertaining secular songs. No matter...