"supporting vocals" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the backup or secondary vocal parts that accompany the lead singer in a song or performance. Example: The song was enhanced by the beautiful supporting vocals of the backup singers.
The original, lyrical end theme, "Flying High" – sung by Gary Miller, with supporting vocals by Ken Barrie – was abandoned in favour of a variation of the march.
The former is a cover album mainly focusing on Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian, with Ariel providing supporting vocals, while the latter is a concept album of original songs that depict a day in Ariel's life under the sea.
Word spread last weekend that Madonna would likely provide supporting vocals during a performance of one of the nominated songs, and now it appears she'll take her same-sex activism to the Grammy stage.
At the culmination of the routine, the players emerged from the tunnel, accompanied by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli singing Il Gladiatore – a song based on Earth from the soundtrack to the film Gladiator – before Bocelli sang supporting vocals to the UEFA Champions League Anthem.
These are imaginative, playful pieces: part Romanticism, part post-Minimalism, with chord progressions supporting vocal melodies and even, in one case, audience participation (grunting and clapping).
But all the brain subdivisions to support vocal learning are there, so I'd argue the capacity to evolve vocal learning did exist in dinosaurs," he said.
His work sounds richer than that of his predecessors Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstable; during Ockeghem's era the instrumentally supported vocal lines of earlier music were gradually modified to make way for sonorous choral harmony.
The mood quickly lightened as prominent singers began appearing one by one to perform two songs each and to help Ms. Horne raise money for her foundation, which supports vocal recitals and educational programs.
Prior to that, latest single Mercury (with support vocals from new bassist Daniel Lindegren) kicks off the band's first performance since the rush release of their third album Intimacy.
The Marilyn Horne Foundation does important work supporting young vocal artists in their desire to give song recitals.
Mr. Heggie tries to create tension and complexity by supporting the vocal writing with gurgling, animated, harmonically plaintive accompaniment patterns.
