Word: vocals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real well-respected by all the guys," fellow senior Eric Carter said. "Although he's not a real vocal leader, he has a real strong character and he leads by example...
Audiences at the first few days' showings -- commonly up to 80% black, many of them young -- tended to be highly vocal, shouting at the screen and applauding, especially during scenes of Malcolm's flamboyant hustler days and later during some of his militant speeches. But by the end there was usually a respectful silence. Many people wept...
Chase says Birmingham is his most vocal opponent on the Senate floor...
...godfather of the British soul invasion -- and its finest vocal stylist -- has flaming red dreadlocks and a ruby-embedded front tooth. Manchester's Mick Hucknall, 32, the peppery-tongued lead singer of Simply Red, started a punk band in the early '80s but quickly tired of punk's anger. Sensing a widespread hunger for American soul sounds, he and three Manchester pals formed Simply Red in 1984. Their first No. 1 hit, Holding Back the Years, harked back to the fluid ease of the pure soul classics of the '60s and showcased Hucknall's dapper, crying tenor...
...their fourth and newest album, Stars, they're still at it. But despite his vocal mastery, Hucknall has taken flak from critics who accuse him of ripping off black music. He fires back that the record industry's marketing of music along racial lines reflects something deeper in Americans, to whom he says, "Black music by and for black people, white music by and for white people; that's one of the reasons you have such divisions in your society...