Sentence examples for leading singer from inspiring English sources

Mapfumo was a leading singer of chimurenga music, the music of struggle.

In the years since, Bonga has been the leading singer from the former Portuguese colonies of Africa, introducing songs which have been adopted by other Lusophonic singers.

He followed Lucio Silla with a solo motet written for its leading singer, the castrato and composer Venanzio Rauzzini, Exsultate, jubilate (K 165), an appealing three-movement piece culminating in a brilliant "Alleluia".

One of these was Clemens Krauss, musical director of the Munich Opera, who had followed Hotter's career since hearing him in Prague, and, in 1937, invited him to become a leading singer in his former home town.

Ian Campbell, who has died from cancer aged 79, was a leading singer in the British folk revival of the 1960s, and one of only a few folk artists to have had a song in the singles charts.

But more work is needed to figure out why females chose the steadiest, leading singer, and whether the observation holds true in all species of katydids, like the round-headed katydid (pictured) that's more common in North America.

The cast consisted of some of Northern Italy's leading singers of the day, including Antonio Carli in the lead bass role; Margherita Durastanti, who had recently sung the role of Mary Magdalene in Handel's La resurrezione; and Diamante Scarabelli, whose great success at Bologna in the 1697 pasticcio Perseo inspired the publication of a volume of eulogistic verse entitled La miniera del Diamante.

He was 66. Gabriel was Mexico's leading singer-songwriter and top-selling artist, with sales of more than 100m albums.

There, outside Havana's main baseball stadium, a stage was being set up for a free concert, by Silvio Rodríguez, Cuba's leading singer-songwriter since the sixties, whose poetic odes to unicorns and hope are akin to official hymns here.

And it is not just leading singers who indulge onstage.

None of the leading singers interviewed expressed worry about being overwhelmed by the technology.