Sentence examples for smooth tenor from inspiring English sources

Mr. Newman is a muscular, smooth tenor saxophonist who made his reputation as the lead soloist with Ray Charles.

With his agreeably smooth tenor, Mr. Barrowman could add a shade more vocal texture to Bobby's introspective solos.

Page A18 Obituaries BOB BURNETT, 71 He blended his smooth tenor tones into the harmonies of the original folk-revival group the Highwaymen.

("Every night, on my knees I pray," he sang, and then he said in his smooth tenor: "Sometimes you got to get on your knees").

Nick Reynolds, a founding member of the Kingston Trio whose smooth tenor and gift for harmonizing helped propel the group to worldwide fame in the folk-music revival of the late 1950s and early '60s, died Wednesday in San Diego.

Bob Burnett, who blended his smooth tenor tones into the harmonies of the original folk-revival group the Highwaymen ("original" because another group later, somewhat contentiously, adopted the name), died on Wednesday at his home in East Providence, R. I

Rapper Rakim weaves a laid-back web of words, his whiskey-smooth tenor less noisy but more intense than the machine-gun mutterings you hear booming from beat boxes, his keen rhymes all the more devastating for being near-whispered where lesser rappers would shout.

Compared to this Hollywood version, "When Brendan Met Trudy" is a safe, sweet outlaw fantasy in which John McCormack's smooth soaring tenor trumps Iggy Pop's rock shout.

Charles Castronovo, returning as Edgardo for the first half of the run, brings a touch of the matinee idol and a smooth, bright tenor to Lucia's lover, and Michele Pertusi's Bidebent has great, gloomy presence.

In a few songs (including one in Spanish) Mr. Dalaras demonstrated a smooth, European-styled tenor, while Marinella had a quasi-chanson and a song that could have been bachelor-pad music, complete with bongos.

He plays as a smooth, prerecorded tenor joins a funky accordion through his headphones.