Sentence examples for commanding singer from inspiring English sources

It's a useful disclaimer given the album's subject, the mercurial, commanding singer and pianist Nina Simone, who died in 2003 and has since had her music appropriated by ad agencies, club remixers, Kanye West and assorted other cultural properties, including a biopic reported to be starting production soon, with Zoe Saldana in the title role.

With its astringent, snarling guitar riff and primitive pulse, it's like The White Stripes or The Black Keys with a more commanding singer.

After nearly a decade of comic-book movies, "Valkyrie" might seem to represent Mr. Singer commanding himself to do something different.

Few in the cast are commanding, as actors or singers.

The soprano Ashley Emerson has probably grown tired of the adjective perky, yet it perfectly suited the vibrancy with which this diminutive singer commanded the stage.

Though Brown is often described as a polarizing figure, the singer commands an ultra-devoted fan base, one whose allegiance he sometimes seems eager to test with each new provocation.

Graham was a dancer, and Ms. Wilson is a singer, but for both women, commanding a room could be as easy as standing there and gazing into space.

The double tracking enabled her to play both 12-string guitar and banjo and she's as earthy, beguiling and commanding an instrumentalist as she is a singer.

A singer named Maxx gives Audrey II the requisite commanding voice, and the plant's movements are just as expressive.

Disturbed played a set full of slow, comfortable rhythm, and its singer, David Draiman, has a slow, authoritative manner, just this side of pretentious but totally commanding.

A woman who transcended folk club purities to become one of the great singer-songwriters of the 1970s, Alexandra "Sandy" Denny was as vulnerable as she was commanding.