Sentence examples for ballad writer from inspiring English sources

Lamya is basically a ballad writer, and she hints only occasionally at funk.

By Robert A. Simon and James Thurber The New Yorker, May 14 , 1927P. 14 Obituary of Ernest Ball, composer of many popular songs, the ablest ballad writer of his time.

That there were over 200 known ballad writers known by name is evidence of a continuing popular tradition.

He belonged to the grand line of French ballad writers and is survived by his wife, three children and thousands of chansons.

That being said, it also follows a formula -- one that's been employed by ballad writers in the 1970s and beyond, demonstrating a keen ability to please.

people have to know about us," an irritable ballad-writer declares, vocalizing the wider ache to be noticed.

Emily Yoshida from Grantland labelled it a "murkily winsome, ever-so-slightly chopped ballad", while writer Kyle Jaeger for The Hollywood Reporter praised the track's lyrical content and its catchy melody.

Composed primarily by McGuinn, with some input from Bob Dylan (although Dylan is not credited as a co-writer), "Ballad of Easy Rider" was written as the theme tune for the 1969 counterculture film Easy Rider.

Below it are Marlon Brando's "One-Eyed Jacks," Peter Lorre's "Der Verlorene" and this writer's "Ballad of the Sad Cafe," to name a few.

She introduces her one "proper" hit, Only Love Can Hurt Like This, by announcing that she's wearing a rather rude bracelet given to her by the song's writer, power-ballad queen Diane Warren.

Rafael Escalona, who absorbed the ways and wisdom of wandering troubadours to become a beloved writer of ballads that became classics of Colombia folk music and inspired the novelist Gabriel García Márquez, died Wednesday in Bogotá.