Even in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he began his music career in earnest, singing in the clubs and pubs with a cover band, he sang with just a rhythm section and drew on the old songs, the songs that stirred him.
The creators of "Once" will probably be happier with Mr. Alessandrini's homage; its spasmodically angular dancing, tortuously earnest singing and salty double-entendres involving the female lead's vacuum cleaner drew some of the biggest laughs at a recent preview.
Hamasaki's lyrics and delivery – she has an earnest, unpolished singing voice – project a vulnerability that makes her songs strangely endearing and her ballads occasionally touching.
There are lingerie-clad dancers, too many covers and earnest ballads sung with hands on hearts.
Dressed in a trim gray suit, with short blond hair and eyeglasses, she looked bookish and earnest and sang with bright, penetrating sound.
Kalispel elder Francis Cullooyah led an opening prayer, and an earnest kid sang the national anthem.
Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes (who wrote the book) have rendered a simple and not at all offensive world, and brought little that is new to the familiar Broadway spectacle of earnest, smiling immigrants singing and dancing for our delectation.
She did not begin singing in earnest until the relatively late age of twenty-six, and before that she supported herself as a freelance violist.
(Sinagra) GUSTER (Tonight and tomorrow night) Guster, a band from Boston, has followed the Dave Matthews Band's playbook for building an audience: touring constantly and singing unabashedly earnest folk-rock songs about the painful uncertainties of friendship, love and growing up.
By then, she was singing in earnest, and what began as a last-ditch effort to pay the bills had evolved into a central part of her musical life.
Guster, from Boston, followed the Dave Matthews Band's playbook for building an audience: touring constantly and singing unabashedly earnest folk-rock songs about the painful uncertainties of friendship, love and growing up.
