Sentence examples for sang strange from inspiring English sources
He sang strange little ditties.
He sang Strange Voyage as though it were some ancient fable he'd stumbled across in a dusty old attic.
At the heart of his circus: the Velvet Underground, who sang strange, seemingly atonal songs about hard drugs, louche poets, and sexual deviance.
After eight months of renovations and $600,000, the Lenox Lounge, the legendary Harlem night spot built in 1939 -- the year Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" -- is reopening tonight: the sole surviving Art Deco club interior in New York City.
A camera pans past their lynched bodies hanging from trees, while Nina Simone sings "Strange Fruit".
8. Nina Simone singing "Strange Fruit" (1965): From the "Nina Simone Anthology" (RCA).
She has a mini-breakdown after singing "Strange Fruit" and leaves the stage.
Rebecca Ferguson said that she would perform only if she could sing "Strange Fruit".
(Look no further than Kanye West's grotesque "Blood on the Leaves," in which a sample of Nina Simone singing "Strange Fruit" accompanies complaints about "bitches surroundin' me").
Crates emitting recorded voices, including that of Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit," are augmented with descriptions of Ligon, written by friends, in the antique style of "Wanted" posters for escaped slaves.
The juxtaposition of vocal tones on Blood on the Leaves is incredible – that pitched-up sample of Nina Simone singing Strange Fruit doing a call-and-response with Kanye's very relaxed Auto-Tuned voice.
