Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grunge-rock singer Kurt Cobain commits suicide...
...NAME] B.B. KING [JOB] Blues singer [WHY IN THE NEWS] Won a Grammy in 1997 [DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC] Seldom actually seems blue [FREQUENTLY PHOTOGRAPHED] With his guitar Lucille...
...Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, becomes the first "talking" movie...
...century have been able to see and hear their predecessors from the century's beginning. It used to be that only the plastic arts could be preserved--in print, paint or objects. The performing arts were evanescent. A dancer's line, a comedian's schtick, a singer's coloratura vanished as soon as the performer walked into the wings, and could only be remembered, described, perhaps glimpsed in a third- or fourth-hand imitation. Now recordings, film and videotape form a permanent database of old-time show biz. A young actor can summon up Marlon Brando's performance...
...mother died and her father ran off. No doubt the sisters at the convent in Moulins, who took her in when she was 17, raised their eyebrows when the young woman left the seamstress job they had helped her get to try for a career as a cabaret singer. This stint as a performer--she was apparently charming but no Piaf--led her to take up with the local swells and become the backup mistress of Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her move to Paris and the opening of her first hat business. That arrangement gave...