The Swingle Singers used nonsense words to sound like instruments, but have been known to produce non-verbal versions of musical instruments.

Singers in this class, like the coloratura contraltos, are rare.

During the period from the 1940s through the 1960s, sparked by the American folk music revival, young performers inspired by traditional folk music and groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers began writing and performing their own original material and creating their own musical arrangements.

Singers like Seeger and Guthrie would attend rallies for labor unions, and so wrote many songs concerning the life of the working classes, and social protest ; as did other folksingers like Josh White, Cisco Houston, Malvina Reynolds, Earl Robinson, Ewan MacColl, John Jacob Niles, and Doc Watson, while blues singers like Johnson and Hopkins wrote songs about their personal life experiences.

Other musical features of the Chautauqua included groups like the Jubilee Singers singing a mix of spirituals and popular tunes, and other singers and instrumental groups playing popular music, ballads and songs from the " old country ".

Singers like Wilson Pickett and Percy Sledge were especially popular, and inspired South African performers to enter the field with an organ, a bass-and-drum rhythm section and an electric guitar.

Artists like the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Swan Silvertones, Clara Ward Singers and Sensational Nightingales became stars across the country ; other early artists like Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Johnnie Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett began their career in gospel quartets during this period, only to achieve even greater fame in the ' 60s as the pioneers of soul music, itself a secularized, R & B-influenced form of gospel.

Singers like Chava Alberstein, Yehoram Gaon and Naomi Shemer continued to write and perform songs in the canonical " Land of Israel " style.

Singers like Ustad Barkat Ali and many other singers in the past used to practice it, but due to the lack of historical records, many names are anonymous.

Artists and groups like the Samba Squad, Shadowland Theatre, Clay & Paper Theatre, EagleHeart Drummers and Singers, Spirit Wind, Gaa Dibaatjimat Ngashi, Tumivut Youth Shelter, Maracatu Nunca Antes, Darbazi Choir, Circle-Sing, Richard Underhill, the Befana Choir and the Kensington Horns participate in this event.

Singers like Naifaru Dohokko became famous through songs with bulbul music in the background.

and they were hounded by hostile reviews, exposure of their Communist ties and negative coverage in the New York press, like the headline " Commie Singers try to Infiltrate Radio ", They disbanded in late 1942 or early 1943.

The encounter and other short stories in the anthologies provides much deep background about human-treecat relations, and reveal, as explicitly stated in A Rising Thunder in exposition to the Haven delegation, the Treecat elders and society as a whole have effective recordings of their experiences with humanity through the offices of their Memory Singers, like Samantha, and further they confer planetwide about decisions regarding their relationships with humanity.

Calypso and spiritual-influenced vocal choirs, like the Emerald Isle Community Singers, are popular.

Helms presented top blues performers including Country Joe and The Fish ; Howlin ' Wolf ; Bo Diddley ; Muddy Waters ; Little Walter ; Buddy Guy ; Junior Wells ; the Paul Butterfield Blues Band ; Buddy Miles ; James Cotton Blues Band ; John Mayall ; Big Mama Thornton ; Albert Collins ; Steve Miller ( musician ); Mike Bloomfield ; Elvin Bishop ; Blues Project, with Al Kooper ; John Hammond ; Charlie Musselwhite ; Siegal Schwall ; rock bands like the Doors ; Buffalo Springfield ; the Byrds ; Bill Haley & His Comets ; The Kinks ; The Edwin Hawkins Singers ; the Animals ' Eric Burdon & War ; Mothers of Invention ); Lovin ' Spoonful ; The Carlos Santana Blues Band ; Sir Douglas Quintet ; the Soul Survivors ; the Fugs ; Blood, Sweat & Tears ; The Association ; Shorty Featuring Georgie Fame ; Iron Butterfly ; the Youngbloods, with Jesse Colin Young ; Vanilla Fudge ; Steppenwolf ( band ); Poco ; Love, with Arthur Lee ( musician ); sarode-player and Indian music teacher, Ali Akbar Khan ; Sandy Bull ; Blue Cheer ; the Leaves ; New Riders of the Purple Sage ; Barry McGuire ; Flamin ' Groovies ; the Loading Zone ; It's a Beautiful Day ; Joy of Cooking ; the Grass Roots ; the Sons of Adam ; Sons of Champlin ; Captain Beefheart ; the Electric Flag ; Son House ; Velvet Underground ; Pacific Gas and Electric ; Moby Grape ; the Sopwith Camel ; 13th Floor Elevators ; The Charlatans ( U. S. band ); Allmen Joy ( see http :// wingswest. net ); Mother Earth ; Southern Comfort ; The Ace of Cups ; Tyrannosaurus Rex ; Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band ; Flying Burrito Brothers ; Congress of Love ; Notes From the Underground ; Chrome Circus ; Initial Shock ; Oxford Circle ; Daily Flash ; Electric Train ; Sparrow ; the Orchestra ; Hourglass ; Kaleidoscope ; Mt.

The performers associated with the Greenwich Village scene had sporadic mainstream success in the 1940s and 50s ; some, like Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers, did well, but most were confined to local coffeehouses and other venues.

The record label was launched to promote European artists like Françoise Hardy, Raymond Lefevre, and the Barclay Singers.

From decades past, pioneer groups like Chuck Wagon Gang, The Cook Family Singers, The Happy Goodman Family, The LeFevres, The Lesters, Speer Family, The Rambos, and The Bill Gaither Trio paved the way for modern mixed quartets and family-based lineups such as The Crabb Family, Greater Vision, The Hinsons, The Hoppers, The Isaacs, Jeff and Sheri Easter, The Lewis Family, The Martins, The McKameys, The Perrys, The Perry Sisters, The Ruppes, The Talley Trio.

Singers like Manoella Torres, Francisco Céspedes, Dulce and Gualberto Castro performed several of José Jose's greatest hits.

Singers like Pete Seeger emerged, in groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers.

* Playback Singers: Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Bhupendra Singh, Ursula Vaz, Usha Mangeshkar

1, A Hymn to the Virgin ( 1930 ) and a set of choral variations A Boy was Born, written in 1933 for the BBC Singers, who first performed it the following year.

In 1936, while a member of the BBC Singers, he met Benjamin Britten, who was to become his life partner.

* Anointed Mims Singers, recording artists who were formerly called Melvin & The Allstars.

Singers who have become associated with the role include Ebe Stignani, Grace Bumbry, Julia Claussen, Giulietta Simionato, Fiorenza Cossotto, Rita Gorr, Denyce Graves, Louise Homer, Marilyn Horne, Elena Obraztsova, Risë Stevens and Shirley Verrett.

Gaye, who composed a three-octave vocal range, was subsequently ranked at number 6 on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008.

Zamość hosts the following cultural events: concerts of music performed by the Karol Namysłowski Symphonic Orchestra in Zamość and by Polish artists representing different kinds of music, Zamość Days of Music ( Zamojskie Dni Muzyki ) and International Meetings of Jazz Singers ( Międzynarodowe Spotkania Wokalistów Jazzowych ), which is a tribute to Mieczysław Kosz, a great blind jazz player and composer who used to combine his jazz music with the Polish folk.

The Au Go Go Singers included Kathy King ( who later toured with Bobby Vinton and appeared in the Broadway show, Oh Calcutta and currently works as Kathrin King Segal ), Jean Gurney, Michael Scott ( who later performed with the Highwaymen and the Serendipity Singers ), Rick ( Frederic ) Geiger ( who eventually was accepted into a light opera company in California ), Roy Michaels ( who later performed with Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys and toured with Jimi Hendrix ), Nels Gustafson, Bob Harmelink, and soloists Stephen Stills and Richie Furay.

It was also at the Cafe Au Go Go that a new folk / rock group, The Company, was formed from some remnants of the Au Go Go Singers: Geiger, Michaels, Scott & Gurney ( who together before the Au Go Go Singers performed as the Bay Singers, a popular group in Boston & New York City ), and Stills.

Singers who perform on radio or TV shows can make $ 75 and up per show on a local station and $ 125 and up per national network show ( e. g., CBS or NBC ).

She sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Ms Martin, who was co-founder of the Gospel Singers Convention.

Warwick was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warwick ( 1911 – 1977 ), who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and later a Certified Public Accountant ; and Lee Drinkard Warwick ( 1920 – 2005 ), manager of The Drinkard Singers ( see below ).

Among the earliest of the urban folk vocal groups was the Almanac Singers, who were formed specifically for the purpose of popularizing protest music for political ends and whose shifting membership during the early 1940s included Guthrie, Seeger and Lee Hays.

While Wes Farrell is credited as producer on the album, it was, in fact, produced and arranged by John Bahler, a member of 60s pop band The Love Generation and, later, the Ron Hicklin Singers, who provided backing vocals on all the Partridge Family albums.

Chamber Singers is a mixed choir of 30 voices from Haverford and Bryn Mawr who perform challenging repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the present day in a variety of languages and styles.

* More than half of the Nelyar became the Teleri ( Those who come last ) or as they referred to themselves the Lindar ( The Singers ).

Singers who can handle the fast lyrics and are good improvisors are called guaracheros or guaracheras.

Orbison became one of the first recording artists to popularize the Nashville Sound, a trend of country and pop crossover music that used session musicians dubbed the A-Team: guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, and Bob Moore ; pianists Floyd Cramer or Hargus " Pig " Robbins ; drummer Buddy Harman ; and backup vocals by the Jordanaires or the Anita Kerr Singers.

Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, National Medal of Art, first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named " Ella " in her honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing.

In February 1929, sixteen months after The Jazz Singers debut, Columbia Pictures became the last of the eight studios that would be known as " majors " during Hollywood's Golden Age to release its first part-talking feature, Lone Wolf's Daughter.

In 2011, a Rolling Stone readers ' pick placed Plant in first place of the magazine's " Best Lead Singers of All Time ".

In 1976, they collaborated with The Band for their film The Last Waltz, performing on the song " The Weight " ( which The Staple Singers had previously covered on their first Stax album ).

She performed her first gospel solo at the age of six and frequently joined The Drinkard Singers.

Her first televised performances were in the mid-and late 1950s with the Drinkard Singers on local television stations in New Jersey and New York City.

Tiswas returned to the screens in November 1979 for its sixth series, as part of ITV's comeback ; this was directly referenced in the first edition of the new series, when the " Welcome Home To ITV " jingle was played to usher the programme in and out of the advert breaks, albeit replacing the vocals by the Mike Sammes Singers with a group of deliberately out-of-tune children.

The Jubilee Singers put on their first performance singing the old captives ' songs at a religious conference in 1871.

The songs were first published in 1872 in a book entitled Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, by Theodore F. Seward.

* April — The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.

Jones ' first taste of fame came at the age of 14, when, while still at school, she formed with Frankie Kahrl and Billy Preston the successful gospel group the Cogic Singers, with whom she recorded the album It's a Blessing.

According to the American music critic Henry Pleasants, the author of The Great Singers from the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time ( first published 1967 ), she gave between 25 and 35 performances each season at the Met alone.

The song made its first recorded appearance as " We Shall Overcome " ( rather than " We Will Overcome ") in 1952 on a disc recorded by Laura Duncan ( soloist ) and The Jewish Young Singers ( chorus ) conducted by Robert De Cormier co-produced by Ernie Lieberman and Irwin Silber on Hootenany Records ( Hoot 104-A ) ( Folkways, FN 2513, BCD15720 ), where it is identified as a Negro Spiritual.

The Fisk University Jubilee Singers toured first in 1871.

" Singers ' War ") went first place on the album charts of Germany on May 23, 2008.

Their first release, an eponymous EP of six tracks for Atlantic Records, included the singles " Go For What You Know ", " Let's Do It Again " ( which sampled The Staple Singers hit song ), and a self-titled track sampling Jimmy Castor's " Bertha Butt Boogie ".

It features several songs written by Benny and " Isn't It Easy To Say ", the first joint composition by Benny and his new friend Björn Ulvaeus, then a member of the acoustic group Hootenanny Singers, who mainly sang in the Swedish language.

Working first at Chicago's Twinight Records, he later did the arrangements for hits by The Unifics (" Court of Love " and " The Beginning Of My End ") and took part in projects by The Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, The Impressions and Curtis Mayfield.

The first performance was followed by a Yom Hashoah Commemoration Service and the second was preceded by songs from the Holocaust by the Alyth Youth Singers.

This would be the first in many collaborations with Dulli and The Twilight Singers.

He is an instrumentalist ; first as bassist for " The Winanaires ", the earliest version of the Winans as a gospel quartet, before they became " The Testimonial Singers ".