Arnaut's joglar et cantaire, probably both a singer and a messenger, who carried his love songs to his lady, was Pistoleta.

Alfonso II of Aragon was his rival for Azalais's affections, and according to the razó to one of Arnaut's poems, the king jealously persuaded her to break off her friendship with Arnaut.

Arnaut's 4th canto ( see " Arnaut Daniel: Complete Works " external link below ) contains the lines that Pound claimed were " the three lines by which Daniel is most commonly known " ( The Spirit of Romance, p. 36 ):

* The siege of La Roque is not won when Chris and Kate sneak Arnaut's troops into the castle, and Claire is never threatened with death during the battle.

After Lady Claire helps Kate, Chris, and André elude Arnaut's men, André enters La Roque as Johnston's assistant while Chris and Kate discover the passage.

He apparently loved the countess Azalais, daughter of Raymond V of Toulouse, married to Roger II Trencavel, and Arnaut's surviving poems may be seen as a sequence ( lyric cycle ) telling of his love.

In spite of this scholars are divided as to which category, if any, the court singer or the wandering minstrel, the historic " Homer " belonged.

Like most early poetry the Eddic poems were minstrel poems, passing orally from singer to singer and from poet to poet for centuries.

Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, the term " bard ", with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period, acquired generic meanings of an epic author / singer / narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures ( minstrel, skald, scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik ) or any poets, especially famous ones.

She traveled widely with minstrel and circus shows in the 1910s, and made her first phonograph recordings in New York of blues songs in 1922 – although Miles did not like to be referred to as a ' blues singer ', since she sang a wide repertory of music.

Richard Dyer-Bennet ( October 6, 1913, Leicester, England-December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts ) was an English-born American folk singer ( or his own preferred term, " minstrel "), recording artist, and voice teacher.

Other 19th century musicians included the minstrel singer and songwriter James Bland (" Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny ").

During the next few years he worked in minstrel shows, the circus business, and as a comic singer in variety revues.

Probably with his father ’ s help, Dresser was able to secure a job as an organist and singer with the Lemon Brothers, a traveling minstrel group from Illinois.

Byron G. Harlan ( August 29, 1861 – September 11, 1936 ) was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins.

His mother had been an amateur singer and improviser and he would sing her favorite songs at the sugar cane fields where he served, first as a water boy and later as a messenger and sugar cane cutter.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

The film, which also starred cabaret singer Astrid Hadad and model / actress Claudia Ramírez — with whom Cuarón was linked between 1989 and 1993 — was a big hit in Mexico.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

* Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

Zeca Afonso was a singer and composer.

Bede was a teacher as well as a writer ; he enjoyed music, and was said to be accomplished as a singer and as a reciter of poetry in the vernacular.

The lead singer of Splash was former Tight Fit singer Steve Grant.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

Or the mode of love to this fragment by a recent poet: `` Know ye, fair folk who dwell on earth Or shall hereafter come to birth, That here, with dust upon his eyes, Iraj, the sweet-tongued singer, lies.

To play the guitar as he aspires will devour his three-fold energy as a historian, a poet and a singer.

Jimmy Witherspoon, Blues singer ( and a good one ), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical examples.

Miss Pons is certainly not 70 -- no singer ever is -- and yet the rewards of the evening again lay more in paying tribute to a great figure of times gone by than in present accomplishments.

No orchestra, however, could be expected to follow a singer through quite as many adventures with pitch as Miss Pons encountered last night.

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

Souad Massi is a becoming famous Algerian singer of traditional songs.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1952 – Udo Dirkschneider, German singer ( Accept and U. D. O.

* 1710 – Caffarelli, Italian castrato and opera singer ( d. 1783 )

* 1912 – Hound Dog Taylor, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1935 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer ( d. 2007 )

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1925 – Johnny Horton, American singer and musician ( d. 1960 )

* 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer ( d. 2011 )

* 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer ( d. 1677 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer ( d. 1952 )

* 1930 – Don Ho, American singer and pianist ( d. 2007 )

* 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer ( d. 1960 )