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.

" Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing " Amazing Grace ".

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

Jimmy Page reportedly found out about a new singer, Robert Plant, who had been jamming with Korner, who wondered why Plant had not yet been discovered.

In February 1684 he became Maestro di Cappella to the viceroy of Naples, perhaps through the influence of his sister, an opera singer, who might have been the mistress of an influential Neapolitan noble.

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.

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.

The single featured vocals from session singer Kevin Glancy who would later be tried for fraud, before re-inventing himself as a Christian singer.

The voice is produced by castration of the singer before puberty, or it occurs in one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.

In Constantinople around 400 AD the empress Aelia Eudoxia had a eunuch choir-master, Brison, who may have established the use of castrati in Byzantine choirs, though whether Brison himself was a singer, and whether he had colleagues who were eunuch singers, is not certain.

Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank.

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews — to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stones John Mendelsohn who described him as " ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall "— and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to " kiss my ass ".

She played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

The term " folk ", by the start of the 21st century, could cover singer song-writers, such as Donovan from Scotland and American Bob Dylan, who emerged in the 1960s and much more.

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.

The flat actually belonged to singer Harry Nilsson, who was loaning it to Moon, The flat, No. 12 at 9 Curzon Place ( now called Curzon Square ), Shepherd Market, Mayfair, was the same property where singer Cass Elliot died four years earlier.

Her family pointed out that, although she had been omitted, R & B singer / actress Aaliyah, who died a few months earlier, was included though having been in only one moderately successful film, Romeo Must Die ( Queen of the Damned had yet to be released ).

Lead singer, Strachan died on 29 August 2001, aged 49, in a helicopter crash while solo piloting.

Their original lead singer, Steve Hill, died in October 2005, aged 52, of liver cancer.

* Baiju Bawra aka ( Baijnath Prasad or Baijnath Mishra ), an Indian singer and musician died of typhoid at the age of 71 on the eve of the Indian festival, Basant Panchami in Vikram Samvat 1670 ( 1613 CE ).

Bon Scott, at the time lead singer of rock band AC / DC died of acute alcohol poisoning on February 19, 1980.

* Adrien Basin ( – 1476 ; died after 1498 ), Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and diplomat of the Burgundian school of the early Renaissance.

* June 29 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor ( died 1967 )

* October 2 – Alice Prin, French singer ( died 1953 )

** Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor ( died 1986 )

* March 20 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer ( died 1973 )

* April 8 – Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer ( died 2003 )

** Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer ( Flying Purple People Eater ) ( died 2003 )

** Yves Montand, French singer and actor ( died 1991 )

* November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor ( died 1960 )

Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).

In 1996 Alice in Chains gave their final performances with their ailing estranged lead singer, Layne Staley, who subsequently died from an overdose of cocaine and heroin in 2002.

* Cowboy Copas, ( 1913-1963 ), country music singer who died in the plane crash that also killed Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins

( The singer Maurice Gibb is understood to have died from this.

The last singer of rekuhkara died in 1976, but some recordings exist.

The sole existing recording of a castrato singer documents the voice of Alessandro Moreschi, the last eunuch in the Sistine Chapel choir, who died in 1922.

Misconceptions about the countertenor voice were common at the time Deller was first gaining significant notice as a singer, which was only a matter of decades after the last castrati had died ; Michael Chance tells the story that once, a French woman, upon hearing Deller sing, exclaimed " Monsieur, vous êtes eunuque "— to which Deller replied, " I think you mean ' unique ,' madam.