Sentence examples for was a backing from inspiring English sources

She worked as a music teacher and was a backing singer for Michael Jackson.

Before launching a solo pop career, Whitney Houston was a backing vocalist for Chaka Khan.

But what the world heard from Times Square was a backing track awaiting a lead vocal — presumably a live one.

Janey Lee Grace, now an author and BBC Radio 2 broadcaster, was a backing singer on the tour.

In 1983, she left the band Pride, in which she was a backing singer, to form her own band with guitarist and saxophone player Stuart Matthewman, keyboardist Andrew Hale, bassist Paul Denman and drummer Paul Anthony Cook.

The first time I came to Glastonbury I was a backing singer," says Nao, moments after completing her performance at this year's festival, now preparing to find somewhere to pitch her tent.

It was a back-breaking existence.

There was a back story.

There was a back-and-forth.

I was a back, a slave.

"It was a back and forth struggle.