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...relieved, 40 minutes later, to find out this was Angela McClenton and to see her on stage strutting her stuff. "Oh," we sighed, "so she has a reason to be wearing that." When she opened her mouth and let her soul emerge, we all fell silent. This woman can sing. A breathy, deep, honey-rich tone filled the microphone and, I'm sure made the hair on the hyenas' backs stand on end. I don't remember any of the words to the songs she sang, but she and her band started our viewing off with spirit. She gyrates like...
...Satan could sing, he'd probably sound a lot like Mick Jagger. Jagger can be at once insolent, charming and slightly lewd. His is the voice of silky excess, the serenade of a jaded demon. On Love Is Strong, the first cut from the Rolling Stones' fine new album, Voodoo Lounge, Jagger is at his seductive, sneering best. The song, with its coiling harmonica and swaggering rhythm, sounds like a surefire smash, the kind of hit that will be blaring from radios all summer...
...time around, all the performers are demanding stiff fees. Wary of the huge financial commitment that was being asked for, Decca hesitated to commit itself, and the Warner Music Group jumped in. The new deal is estimated at nearly $1 million for each artist. That's the way to sing for your supper...
...buffs to people "who wouldn't know whether Aida is a spaghetti or a swear word." Commercials that ran during soccer matches on cable TV's ESPN started the hype. A music video that will air around the world shows the singers gleefully kicking around a soccer ball and singing what the backers hope will be the new Nessun dorma: the brindisi, or drinking song, from Verdi's La Traviata. (The promoters have not forgotten their prize song; Pavarotti will sing it just before the final medley...
...fine old furniture. Nevertheless she can still sustain with silky ease a long-lined ballad like the album's dreamy title song or the touching finale, My Buddy. How has Horne kept her voice in such good shape? She laughs. "You mean through the postnasal drip? I don't sing in the shower, and I never vocalize -- it's too embarrassing. I only sing when I have to do a job. Then, to prepare, I go into the dining room and see how loud I can yell without pain...