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.

By the summer of 1992, limos from executives eager to sign the singer lined the street outside Sin-é.

In the late nineties an ex Mighty Dread singer ( Yoba Valombola, known as Benga ), bassist and guitarist came back from Germany with a big influence and eager in change and started an independent label called Big Rat Communication.

Listeners began phoning in, eager to find out who the singer was.

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

Isabella was also a talented singer and musician, and was taught to play the lute by Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa In addition to all these admirable accomplishments, she also was an innovator of new dances, having been instructed in the art by Ambrogio, a Jewish dancing master.

In 1906 Mary, Lottie and Jack supported the great Irish American singer Chauncey Olcott on Broadway in the play Edmund Burke.

His place was taken by Judith Durham, who was an established traditional jazz singer, having recorded an extended play disc on W & G Records with the Melbourne group Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers.

Though she was an acclaimed singer, they considered her to be too old ( at 38 ) and too overweight to credibly play a young woman dying of consumption.

* 1988: In David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly, the story of a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer, Butterfly is denounced as a western stereotype of a timid, submissive Asian.

He is also an accomplished singer, dancer and musician, and sometimes would play the guitar on stage.

With only a week to go before opening night, Carte hired concert singer Jessie Bond to play Cousin Hebe.

* Perfect Day, a song by Lady Antebellum starts off with the singer seeing " a Cajun man with a red guitar singing on the side of the street " and throwing " a handful of change in his beat up case and play me a country beat ".

Amphion became a great singer and musician after Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden lyre.

In 1996, she toured nationally with the stage play Master Class about opera singer Maria Callas was well received. On October 2, 1996, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

* In the last sequence of Derek Jarman's The Tempest ( 1979 ), a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, the singer / actress Elisabeth Welch, appearing as ' a goddess ', sings the song ; which she had taken as her signature tune since 1933.

When Armstrong auditioned to play with Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles, Morrison went along and was hired as a blues singer.

String players would play along with the melody line sung by the singer.

He had no formal training or previous experience as a singer, and had severely strained his voice during Black Flag's nonstop touring, and he wanted to play guitar rather than sing.

Zonaras, commenting on Canon 50, wrote, " Because there are some of the Bishops and clergy who depart from virture and play chess ( zatikron ) or dice or drink to excess, the Rule commands that such shall cease to do so or be excluded ; and if a Bishop or elder or deacon or subdeacon or reader or singer do not cease so to do, he shall be cast out: and if laymen be given to chess-playing and drunkenness, they shall be excluded.

Goodman's character is a failed lounge singer named Ralph Jones whose grandmother had an affair with the fictional Duke of Warren, in the line of succession of the " House of Windam ", a not too subtle play on the House of Windsor, the current royal house of the sitting monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

Tanaka would later go on to play bass for the singer Pink, while Greenwood would later play with the singer Bif Naked.

* Arecibo ( EP ), an extended play by English singer Little Boots

* January 12 – Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in The Madhouse of Castle Street, a radio play for the BBC in London.

Wiener Staatsoper added it to its repertoire in January 2012 in a production by Jérome Deschamps conducted by Ingo Metzmacher starring Christopher Ventris as Jimmy and Angelika Kirchschlager as Jenny, notably casting young mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman as Begbick, breaking the tradition of having a veteran soprano ( like Varnay or Jones ) or musical theater singer ( like Patti LuPone ) perform the role.

A person auditioning for a role as a bassist in some styles of pop or rock music may be expected to be able to demonstrate the ability to perform harmony vocals as a backup singer.

* Adam Pascal ( born 1970 ), American actor and singer, best known for his role of Roger Davis in the Broadway musical Rent

* The movie soundtrack, with Marni Nixon singing Maria's role ( played in the film by Natalie Wood ) and Tony ( played in the film by Richard Beymer ) sung by Jimmy_Bryant_ ( singer ).

Puccini never pronounced the final " t ", according to soprano Rosa Raisa, who was the first singer to interpret the title role.

Sherwood's integral involvement with the writing, production and performance of the music led to his formally joining Yes as a full member at the end of the sessions, taking on the role of harmony singer, keyboardist and second guitarist.

On 4 November 1817, he married Caroline Brandt, a singer who created the title role of Silvana.

* The role of Anne of Cleves was played by actress and singer Joss Stone in the Showtime cable television series The Tudors.

In her most notable screen role, Fitzgerald played the part of singer Maggie Jackson in Jack Webb's 1955 jazz film Pete Kelly's Blues.

In 2000, she appeared in a dramatically different role as Bitsy Mae Harling, a lesbian ex-con country singer, in Del Shores ' Sordid Lives.

Christianity plays an important role in Bakweri regions, where music played over the radio is as likely to be the latest from Nigerian gospel singer Agatha Moses as it is the latest hit by an American hip hop star.

Some of French's compositions were used in the band's work, but the group's singer was Sam Galpin and the role of keyboardist was eventually taken by John Thomas, who had shared a house with French in Eureka at the time.

In the season seven episode " The Mark " ( 1993 ), Travis reprised the role of Wheeler, an aspiring country singer who wins the lottery and shortly thereafter finds himself framed for the murder of his cheating business partner.

She is probably best known for her pivotal role as the tortured nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, in which she also did her own singing.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

* Julia Murney ( born 1969 ), American actress and singer, best known for her role as Elphaba in Wicked

* In her first film role, songwriter Ronee Blakley is Barbara Jean, a hyper-feminine, emotionally fragile country singer who is the sweetheart of Nashville.

The show was canceled after two seasons, but soon after, Martin was given the role of singer / bartender Miguel Morez on the soap opera General Hospital.

The band found a new singer in Fredrick Rojas to take over the lead vocal role and continue to tour.

Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968.

One of his stepmothers was Corinna Mura ( 1909 – 1965 ), a cabaret singer who had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing " La Marseillaise " at Rick's Café Américain.

In the 1976 Soviet film How Tsar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor ( Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил ), the iconic singer Vladimir Vysotsky performs the role of the Moor in blackface.

The practice of hiring singers to " fill in " for voice actors in a singing role has also seen change, as both Jeremy Irons and Mel Gibson have done singing in the respective films The Lion King and Pocahontas, rather than have a singer as substitute ( However, the former did most of his own singing, but due to straining his vocal cords, he didn't finish ; instead, Jim Cummings did his partial singing voice for the rest of the song ).

He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock and roll duo, Fleming and John.

During the run, theatre producer Vinton Freedley saw her perform and invited her to audition for the role of San Francisco café singer Kate Fothergill in the new George and Ira Gershwin musical Girl Crazy.