Sentence examples for lesser singer from inspiring English sources

Music that might have seemed effete in the hands of a lesser singer acquired stature.

Indeed, Dido's final aria was taken so slowly that it would have defeated a lesser singer than Sarah Connolly.

But for many songs, it was all but buried in overeager band arrangements and phantom backing voices -- tricks that lesser singers hide behind.

His flexible bass-baritone voice, which matches his lean, craggy good looks, is an instrument of such extraordinary vibrancy and resonance that it automatically conveys extra-musical qualities lesser singers struggle for years to cultivate.

Beth Gibbons, who almost never gives interviews, is comfortable onstage and goes through a little flip book of vocal styles in a rearrangement of "Sour Times," including a flirty imitation of Billie Holiday and a rapid, harsh vibrato that could be described as a banshee wail if that term hadn't been wasted on lesser singers.

She also finds what lesser singers can take for granted: a certain lightness that eases her constant sense of control".

Handel's familiar 'Where e're you walk" can, in lesser singers, become cliché; here Asawa beautifully reimagined it as a fresh and spontaneous outpouring.

She has been replaced by the German soprano Anne Schwanewilms, a lesser-known (and lesser-proportioned) singer.

Here, the contestants weren't ideally matched, with lesser-known singers outshining the stars.

A more typical path is mapped out by Mr. Solveig, who on "Smash" works with lesser-known singers.

About two-thirds of their songs are established hits, while the rest are from lesser-known singers.