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vocalists

noun

plural of vocalist

as in singers

one who sings hired a vocalist for their jazz band

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Recent Examples of vocalists Steve Martin and Alison Brown have turned it into a vintage-sounding bluegrass tune and recorded it with an all-star cast of singers and players from that genre, including two of the great living bluegrass vocalists, Del McCoury and Dan Tyminski. — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Not only was there taking the project from two vocalists to one, but there are some apparent stylistic swings, too. — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 6 Oct. 2026 The fingerprints of ’90s vocalists breathing love and pain into every note on the track resonated with listeners both inside and outside of the genre. — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026 Like her fellow Brit Raye, who performed earlier in the night, Spiro was joined onstage by a massive band complete with both horn and string sections, plus backing vocalists who created a lush cushion around her bold vocal performance. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026 On the other hand, the call sheet reads like a who’s who of modern musical theater; a company of vocalists so talented that limiting their range to the spoken word is akin to gathering the world’s Olympians and asking them all to play badminton. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026 Wilson got her start in music in childhood and rose to become one of the most prominent jazz vocalists of the 1990s, the Mississippi Blues Commission and Blue Note Records, her former label, noted. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2026 As host and singer, Majo Aguilar — granddaughter of Mexican film and music legends Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre — ushered vocalists on and off the stage. — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 The tone of the guitar, the arrangement of the horns, the groove of the bass, the nuance of the drums, the timbre of the background vocalists are all now critical information inside of an LLM to be coalesced and synthesized into an output. — David Barber, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026

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There is of course another way to hear ABBA songs sung live onstage, though sadly without Greek island backdrops or background singers wearing floppy swim fins.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Sheik, who was a Buddhist, built these songs around trancelike mantras, asking singers to sustain long and clear notes near the top of their register like contrails across the sky.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

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