Sentence examples for wild performer from inspiring English sources

Mr. Diddley was a wild performer: jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrestled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head.

Beth is not a wild performer; she has drawn comparisons to Ian Curtis, probably because she sometimes holds her arms at her sides and bends them at right angles, like a marching soldier.

Because I want to have my band when I get out; I want it to be tight.' " The most important Latin musician of the last half century and a key figure in the fusion of Latin music with jazz, Mr. Puente, with his distinctive cherubic mug, was an ebullient and wild performer who often clowned and laughed as he whapped away on his timbales.

He's a wild performer who has appeared in diapers and in women's clothes on stage (though not simultaneously).

In "Expert Testimony," an oldie based on "Sapphic Slashers," Lisa Duggan's 2001 study of thwarted 19th-century lesbian lovers gone wild, one performer, Liz Snyder, warbled Victorian medical jargon over an ersatz reggae beat while dressed in a long black dress, lace-up boots and feathered hat.

Ralph Van Norman (known professionally as Hal Denver) became a travelling Wild West performer, appearing throughout Europe and the United States.

Handsome, reputedly the wildest live performer of all the rockabilly singers and with a distinctive sound of his own, Riley was the equal of his contemporaries.

Minchin recently described stand-up as "an artistic one-night stand", in the pejorative sense rather than the literal; however, the vague, uncertain and distracted persona of this wide-eyed, wild-haired performer can't mask that he's more practised at the banter now, if not fluent.

A scruffy, wild and compelling performer, Taha started out listening to chaabi street music in Algeria, and was influenced by English punk after moving to France.

Performer: Wild Bill Davison.

"They [the Wright brothers] only demonstrated their flight in public six weeks before Cody flew, and after he had already built his plane". Mr Cody was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1867 and trained as a cowboy, becoming a popular wild west show performer before moving to England in 1890.