Sentence examples for attaining fame from inspiring English sources
Similarly, singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris was discovered in a Washington club, as was Roberta Flack; Harris, like Washingtonian Marvin Gaye, relocated before attaining fame.
At the same time, her hard-charging governing style — she has been said to berate senior officials until they cry — has been enshrined in Brazilian popular culture, with Gustavo Mendes, a cross-dressing comedian, attaining fame by imitating her on the raunchy national television program "Casseta and Planeta Go Deep".
After attaining fame she used her platform to create social and legal change pertaining to child marriages and traditional female genital mutilation.
Scholars who later attained fame and Nobel Prizes also followed.
A considerable number of his pupils later attained fame as composers or musicologists.
Many men who later attained fame in the medical field received training there from him.
He attained fame before withdrawing, in the last 30 years of his life, to a retreat outside the Norwegian capital.
Mr. Handy settled on an estate in an exclusive section of Yonkers after he had attained fame.
By the time he dropped out of high school, he aspired to attain fame as an actor.
He has attained fame for his pronouncements on the economy; his comment that the advertising recession at the start of the decade was "bath-shaped" was often repeated.
As a result, many of the talking heads, including his brother Edward, claim Mapplethorpe became increasingly self-absorbed as he worked tirelessly to attain fame before he died of complications from HIV/Aids at 42 years old in 1989.
