The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

In analyzing the text of the song, Max Cryer wrote that it " is not intended to be sung by the young in love, but by a mature performer who has seen it all before.

Since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys, Biafra has continued to collaborate and record with other artists, including Mojo Nixon, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, and the Melvins, and has become a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular.

New work in case theory has vigorously supported the idea that the ergative case identifies the agent ( the intentful performer of an action ) of a verb ( Woolford 2004 ).

It starred his wife, Lyubov Orlova ( an operatic singer who had also appeared in The Jolly Fellows ) as an American circus performer who has to immigrate to the USSR from the U. S. because she has a mixed race child, whom she had with a black man.

The dramatic performer must take on the character of Desirée: a woman who finally realizes that she has misspent her youth on the shallow life.

He has also written a number of musicals, and has organized numerous concert performances as both musical director and performer.

In recent years she has appeared at the Blue Note in New York as a guest performer for Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer, and as part of a trio with Anthony Jackson on bass and Cliff Almond on drums in concerts at the Blue Note Tokyo since 2003.

William Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: " This sterling performer has finally been given an opportunity to show an ability that has been boxed in by gangster roles ... film has introduced Mr. Tracy as one of the screen's best performers ".

He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic.

A performer will often take a stage name because his / her real name is considered unattractive, dull, unintentionally amusing or difficult to pronounce or spell, or because it has been used by another notable individual or because it projects an undesired image.

* Most nominations: Along with her record of five performance wins, Julie Harris also has been nominated more often than any other performer, a total of ten times.

John Leeds Barroll argues in his cultural biography of Anne that her political interventions in Scotland were more significant, and certainly more troublesome, than previously noticed ; and Clare McManus, among other cultural historians, has highlighted Anne's influential role in the Jacobean cultural flowering, not only as a patron of writers and artists but as a performer herself.

These last were called joglars, from the Latin ioculatores, giving rise also to the French jongleur, Castilian juglar, and English juggler, which has come to refer to a more specific breed of performer.

He witnessed first hand his son's success as a performer, and on February 12 heard Joseph Haydn's widely-quoted words of praise, upon hearing the string quartets Wolfgang dedicated to him, " Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name: He has taste, and, furthermore, the most profound knowledge of composition.

Baby Gramps is a guitar performer, who, though born in Miami, Florida, has been based in the Northwest U. S. for at least the last 40 years.

* Herophilus, Alexandrian physician who has been an early performer of public dissections on human cadavers ; often called the father of anatomy ( b. c. 335 BC )

The overdubbing technique has been used before and since in professional recording studios, to allow a single performer to create an entire multi-instrument song.

Despite the critical reception that followed each of these projects, Webb has never been as successful as a performer as he has been a songwriter and arranger.

In 2004, Crow appeared as a musical theater performer in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely.

Henry appeared as a performer on They Might Be Giants ' children's albums Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s.

From the very start of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, Britten appeared as a performer and conductor, frequently accompanying Pears.

He also appeared as a juvenile performer in many non-Roach feature films, including the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy Kentucky Kernels and two Fritz Lang features of the 1940s.

Stiles is the most prolific performer on the show, having appeared in 76 of the series ' 136 episodes ( including compilations ).

In addition, a film of " Galveston ", a crossover hit for country-pop performer Glen Campbell in 1969, has appeared on the video sharing service YouTube.

He was a dynamic live performer and powerful singer, who usually appeared onstage wearing only shorts.

Blake signed recording deals with 20th Century Records and Columbia Records, lectured and gave interviews at major colleges and universities all over the world, and appeared as guest performer and clinician at top jazz and rag festivals.

He is a regular featured performer at The World Famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA and has appeared on The Bob & Tom Show.

The Canadian comedy troupe Wayne & Shuster, however, appeared on the program 67 times, a record for any performer.

On October 27, 2008, Ma appeared as a guest and performer on The Colbert Report.

Between 1913 and 1947, the tall and slender performer who sang in a clear, gentle tenor, appeared in 23 Broadway shows, starting with major supporting roles and quickly progressing to leads.

As a stage trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros .' early talkies, including The Hottentot and Sonny Boy.

Jones appeared on the comedy track " Dreamgirl ", on the 2009 debut album from The Lonely Island, Incredibad ( featuring SNL performer Andy Samberg ).

Steve Earle's songs have appeared in many major motion pictures and television as writer and performer.

In Vawter ’ s schema, each performer, or group, appeared on a particular day of the program.

" However, the show landed Cantor in an unlikely controversy when a young Sammy Davis, Jr. appeared as a guest performer.

On television he appeared as a guest performer on The Morecambe and Wise Show ( 1977 ), alongside Richard Briers in a series of Ben Travers farces for the BBC, as the pompous Dr Maxwell in the ITV comedy Doctor at Large ( 1971 ), and as Redvers Bodkin, a snooty, old-fashioned butler in the short-lived sitcom The Last of the Baskets ( 1971 – 72 ).

One of the performers would begin talking about the topic in monologue form, sometimes with input from another performer who appeared in character.

In May 2009, she appeared in W magazine as a special guest performer for the acclaimed avant-garde Theo Adams Company's latest project, ' Performance ', photographed by David Sims. In July 2009, she appeared at the Mermaid Theatre, London to record for the radio series Friday Night is Music Night.

Phill Jupitus is the only performer to have appeared in every ' standard ' episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks since its inception although did not feature in the special episode filmed as part of Comic Relief's 24 Hour Panel People, and missed the recording of the episode aired November 7, 2011.

1970s glam rock singer Alvin Stardust ( who had recently enjoyed a comeback in the charts ) appeared as a performer as did Fiona Kennedy who was at the time a presenter of TV's Record Breakers.