September 5 2013 September 8 201313 Sept. 5-8: The smoky-voiced Cassandra Wilson, a defiantly eccentric visionary, is one of the most influential and consistently captivating singers of her generation.
January 3 2012 January 7 2012 Jan . 3-77: Having artfully expanded the jazz-vocal repertoire to include pop, folk, and rural blues, Cassandra Wilson continues to stake her claim as one of the most inventive and captivating singers of her generation.
The cast is awash with New Orleans cabaret and drag circuit stars such as Ratty Scurvics and Neon Burgundy, as well as Meschiya Lake, one of the city's most captivating singers, leading house band the Mermettes.
Fronting the Boomtown Rats's first gig in 27 years, a snakeskin-suit-clad Bob Geldof was, as ever, a tremendously entertaining mouthpiece for a decidedly middling band, while the endearingly personable Paloma Faith sadly bore too close a resemblance to a foghorn to be a truly captivating torch singer.
Beyond the technical wizardry, the Singer flaunts captivating aesthetic details.
Individually, all the singers were captivating; in ensembles their interactions were terrific, and they were enlivened further when Gianluigi Trovesi, the clarinetist, wove improvisations around the vocal melodies.
In Burma a plaintive pop singer captivates Mr. Frater.
"The audience vibrates with the chords of the singer, captivated by this Cinderella guy they don't know, the unexpected.
Margaret Whiting, a songwriter's daughter who as a bright-eyed teenage singer captivated wartime America and then went on to a long, acclaimed career recording hit songs and performing in nightclubs and on television, died on Monday in Englewood, N.J.
They were captivated by the singer from Blackburn in western Scotland.
