Sentence examples for transform a song from inspiring English sources

You see how a singer can transform a song.

A ravaged voice can deepen and transform a song.

Instead, her preferred touchstone is Nina Simone; she marvels at Simone's ability to transform a song like Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" through highly personal interpretation.

But when directors get creative they can transform a song into a fully visual experience.

And when Ms. Blige sang "The Living Proof," she changed "I" to "we," transforming a song about individual survival into one of shared perseverance and performing it with gospel-rooted drama.

Instead of transforming a song into a roof-raising, lavishly ornamented hallelujah, her tendency is to understate it in a flexible style that stirs in varying degrees of pop, jazz and blues, with decoration kept to a minimum.

The evening's high point was a performance of Mr. Gordon's exquisitely melodic setting of an Emily Dickinson poem, "Will There Really Be a Morning?," transforming a song usually treated as a sad midnight reverie into an increasingly desperate cry in the dark.

Rodgers and Hammerstein transformed a song entitled "She Is Beautiful" into "You Are Beautiful".

Sometimes a jazz musician can transform a pop song, and change an audience's mind about it And sometimes they don't necessarily want to.

Amid the squawking brass sample and deep house bassline, their exaggerated vocal fry transforms a fun song into something wonderfully weird.

You can literally watch a single thought or feeling transform into a song and, music lover or not, it's mesmerizing.