Sentence examples for sentimental singer from inspiring English sources

Max Bygraves, who has died aged 89 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was an all-round entertainer: a mischievously smiling raconteur, a full-throated and sentimental singer, a television host and a reluctant gameshow compere (his two years with Family Fortunes in the mid-1980s convinced him it was not his medium).

He had turned, Mr. Gillett said, into a sentimental pop singer.

It is too early to tell whether theater producers have exhausted the market on musical biographies, but perhaps it's not a good sign that one of Mr. Myler's next projects is a show about that wholesome and sentimental folk singer John Denver.

Making her stage debut in London in 1914 as a sentimental-ballad singer, Lillie proved her comic genius in a series of revues produced by André Charlot during World War I.

Singer of sentimental ballads.

English singer whose sentimental material and wholesome stage persona endeared her to the public during World War II.

Emo is short for "emotional," and although the subgenre was invented by bands that were chaotic and screamy, it has come to be defined by earnest singers delivering sentimental lyrics.

The country singer Alan Jackson, whose sentimental anthem Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning commemorated 9/11, even wrote a mocking parody of his own song for a 2002 episode in which Stan and friends try to build a ladder to heaven, where the US government suspects that Saddam Hussein (subsequently depicted having a gay relationship with Satan in hell) is manufacturing weapons.

As a singer, Joni was sentimental, soaring off into undeniably feminine falsetto on a whim and writing labyrinthine lyrics that often seemed dewey-eyed.

The Enemy's lead singer, Sept 2007 "Despite the sentimental nature of his music and all those rampantly narcissistic videos, there was something honest and plainspoken about this performance".

Dominican newcomer Vicente García, a dreadlocked singer-songwriter known for sentimental acoustic melodies, beat nine other emerging acts to the best new artist award.