The phrase "a distinguished singer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a singer who is highly respected and recognized for their talent and achievements.
Example: "The concert featured a distinguished singer known for her powerful voice and emotional performances."
Alternatives: "an acclaimed vocalist" or "a renowned artist".
A distinguished singer, a diligent advocate for social causes and as sure a draw as the New York City Opera has had since Beverly Sills, Ms. Flanigan is known for taking risky parts, from Verdi's Lady Macbeth to the role that provided her opening quip: the medium at the center of Stephen Schwartz's "Séance on a Wet Afternoon".
John Potter is a distinguished singer (a longstanding participant in the English early music scene as a member of the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd) and sometime academic; his co-author, Neil Sorrell, is a scholar of Indian and Javanese music, co-founder of the English Gamelan Orchestra.
Laura Alley, the stage director, drew nuanced performances from a cast that surely reaped further benefits from the guidance of Regina Resnik, a distinguished singer and actor whose roles have included Madame de Croissy and who is in her sixth season as Mannes Opera's master artist in residence.
"We don't want him using these lyrics," said Brown's daughter, Maggie Brown, also a distinguished singer.
Aimée was an accomplished pianist, while her brother François Delsarte was a distinguished singer and teacher who performed at the courts of both Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.
She was the most distinguished singer of her day, blessed with a voice that Arturo Toscanini famously called a once-in-a-century phenomenon.
Marcel Khalife is a distinguished composer, singer, and oud player that is best known for liberating the oud, an instrument integral to Arabic culture, from its traditionally strict techniques, expanding its musical possibilities, and contributing to its artistic and cultural revival.
As a pianist he accompanied many distinguished singers, including Renata Tebaldi in her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1955.
A career-long focus on vocal music has resulted in commissions from such distinguished singers as Carlos Archuleta, Fernando Del Valle, Gale Fuller, Jason McStoots, Margaret O'Keefe, Stephen Salters, Frederick Urrey, and Jeremy Huw Williams.
John Jeffreys, who has died aged 82, was a multi-talented song composer whose sensitive, gentle settings of English poetry have recently found favour with distinguished singers including Ian Partridge, James Gilchrist and Jonathan Veira.
Among the distinguished singers who graced the program were the baritone Gerald Finley (excellent in an aria from Handel's "Rinaldo"), the baritone Quinn Kelsey, the bass-baritones Ildar Abdrazakov and Erwin Schrott and the tenors Marcello Giordani and Giuseppe Filianoti.
