While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.

While in Memphis, Hurt recalled seeing " many, many blues singers ... Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and lots, lots more.

While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control.

While Antigone has never been very popular, it has set new standards for the orchestra, the singers and the committed listener.

While there, he noted the difficulty that singers had in remembering Gregorian chants.

While still a high school student, Norman formed a group called The Back Country Seven, which included his sister, Nancy Jo ; Mark A. Ebner, and high school friend, Gene Mason, who was later to be ( alongside Norman ) one of the lead singers of People !.

While the two lead singers promoted the tour and publicly claimed mutual respect, rumors of bitter acrimony and mutual loathing between the two singers swirled.

While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, Leopoldo Miguez, the locally hired conductor, reached the summit of a two-month escalating conflict with the performers due to his rather poor command of the work, to the point that the singers went on strike and forced the company's general manager to seek a substitute conductor.

While some bands use backup singers who only sing when they are onstage, it is common for backup singers in popular music to have other roles.

While he was always at the forefront of the Soul movement, paving the way for a slew of singers who followed in his large wake, he never had that one timeless hit like so many others of the time that would forever endear him to our memories.

While Ashford, whose full name now is Rosalind Ashford Holmes, and Beard, whose full name now is Annette Beard-Helton, continue to perform with other singers.

While this urban folk revival flourished in many cities across the U. S .— particularly Chicago, Los Angeles, and Denver — New York City, with its burgeoning Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene and population of topical folk singers, was widely regarded as the centre of the movement.

While he was still a pupil at the Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham rhythm and blues scene, playing the Hammond B-3 organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Howlin ' Wolf, B.

While still at the conservatory, Vadiz was a finalist at the Metropolitan Opera House Eastern Region Auditions, and did concerts with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra with bass Justino Diaz, and renowned singers Ruth Fernandez, Chucho Avellanet and Nydia Caro.

While many singers appear as guests with the company, others, such as Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo, have long maintained a close association with the Met, appearing many times each season.

While many outstanding singers debuted at the Met under Bing's guiding hand, music critics complained of a lack of great conducting during his regime, even though such eminent conductors as Fritz Stiedry, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Leinsdorf, Fritz Reiner, and Karl Böhm appeared frequently in the 1950s and ' 60s.

While commonly lumped together with Delta Blues singers, McDowell actually may be considered the first of the bluesmen from the ' North Mississippi ' region-parallel to, but somewhat east of the Delta region-to achieve widespread recognition for his work.

While it is mostly used by females, such as Mariah Carey and Minnie Riperton, there are a few male singers who use it.

While there is some modern repertoire written for countertenors ( sometimes written specifically for certain singers, like Britten's Death in Venice, which has a part that was written specifically for James Bowman, at present there only a small number of modern pieces written specifically for the sopranist vocal type.

While he was almost as successful in Puerto Rico singing pop tunes with his sister as he was in other countries, Tony Croatto was very much impressed by Puerto Rican jibaro singers, who could improvise décimas on the spot, something that reminded him of the payadores of Uruguay and Argentina he used to listen to when he was growing up.

While males have a sweeter voice, females tend to be more prolific singers.

While it seemed like a good move, her subsequent producers did not seem to match Gaynor's vocal approach and style as well.

While New World Cabernets are characterized as being drinkable earlier than Bordeaux, premium producers such as the Californian cult wines will produce wines that need time to age and could potentially develop for two to three decades.

While any number of producers can send messages to the queue, each message is guaranteed to be delivered, and consumed by one consumer.

While talking about ' free associations of producers ', they advocated discipline and hierarchy.

While there are few academic programs in the United States that offer training in radio drama production, organizations such as the National Audio Theatre Festival teach the craft to new producers.

" While typically viewed as producers of dark and gloomy music, The Cure have also yielded a number of upbeat songs.

While that version ( which did not air ) had a much greater departure from the game's original format, the producers significantly retooled the format to create a somewhat more faithful remake of the program, which was picked up in syndication and began in fall 1998.

While record labels in New Orleans largely disappeared by the mid-1960s, producers in the city continued to record New Orleans soul artists for other mainly New York and Los Angeles record labels — notably Lee Dorsey for New York – based Amy Records and the Meters for New York – based Josie and then LA-based Reprise.

While the roles of Homer and Marge were given to Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner because they were already a part of the Tracey Ullman Show cast, the producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa.

While there are close to 200 cognac producers, a large percentage of cognac — 90 % according to one 2008 estimate — is produced by only four companies: Courvoisier, Hennessy, Martell, and Rémy Martin.

While the producers informed the other six housemates that they would be living with someone HIV-positive, they did not tell them who it was.

While there, he was told that the producers of the television series Dallas wanted to speak with him.

While previously home to a number of cheese producers, only one large company remains in Heuvelton.

While harvesting grapes destined for sparkling wine, premium producers will take extra care to handle the grapes as gently as possible in order to minimize the extraction of harsh phenolic compounds from the skin.

While some skin exposure maybe desirable in the production of rosé sparklers and some blanc de noirs ( white of blacks ), most sparkling wine producers take extended precautions to limit the amount of skin contact.

While many top American sparkling wine producers utilize the traditional methods of production, there are distinct differences in their wine making techniques that have a considerable effect on the taste of the wines.

While singing background in a recording session at Munich's Musicland Studios for Three Dog Night, Summer met German-based producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.

While crusted port is required to be aged in bottle for at least three years before it is released to the market, most producers keep the bottles for considerably longer ; so they are ready to be drunk when sold, and may be enjoyed by consumers who have no space to cellar bottles.

While a vintage is simply the year in which a wine is made, most producers of vintage port restrict their production of year-labeled bottlings to only the best years, a few per decade.

While the method of production is entirely the choice of the artist, creators who exclusively or primarily use rubber stamps are occasionally held in contempt by members of the artistamp community, some of whom refer to such producers as " bunny-stampers.

While the producers had begun work on the film anticipating it as the last film, by the premiere it was obvious the film would make money and that a Star Trek VII would soon be in the works.

While there is no enrichment of < sup > 34 </ sup > S between trophic levels, the stable isotope can be useful in distinguishing benthic vs. pelagic producers and marsh vs. phytoplankton producers.