Sentence examples for backup singing from inspiring English sources

The troupe signed with Chance Records in 1953, and although it did not have any chart toppers, its third single, "Golden Teardrops," was regarded as one of the finest examples of vocal-harmony ballads, distinguished by Carter's high falsetto backup singing.

Backup singing was her calling.

I had a gig backup singing for a local muso.

It lacked the warm cello of the original and included eerie backup singing coming from a place I couldn't see.

(Drayton's drum set is so beautifully tuned and recorded on "Idler" that it sounds as much like backup singing as timekeeping).

And his music's blend of classical and progressive-rock intricacy, pointillistic backup singing and West African picking patterns rightly appeals to the equally eclectic Bjork.

Images of volcanoes erupting, dinosaurs and tidal waves flash by to show Madonna and her two backup dancers singing the song while standing on a hill.

There were also two backup vocalists singing creamy harmonies and, in an even more appropriate touch, doing light side-to-side choreography.

"How wrong can I be before I am right?" the backup singers sang.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — "Tick-tock, tick-tock," Madonna's backup singers sang as video screens and subwoofers blasted to life at the Izod Center.

I thought her voice sounded thin throughout -- when the backup singers sang "just a child" that brief phrase had more distinctiveness than anything Siobhan was doing.