The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Let's see if we can do that, and it's a little bit of a challenge for the performer.

让我们看看能不能做到这个,对于表演者来说,还真是个挑战呢

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Yeah, so busking I guess is, yeah, it's when a street performer is playing in a public space to try and get some money.

我想，街头表演是，就是一个街头演员在公共场所表演，从而挣点钱。

街头表演的魅力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

the thirty-four year old performer continues to combine the sounds of jazz, folk music and the blues.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

The great architect, the thinker is the composer and the performer, the violinist, gets this piece of-- gets this blueprint or black print in the case of musical notation and is expected simply to replicate the black print.

伟大的建筑师,构想者,是作曲家,而演奏者,比如小提琴手,拿到这张,拿到这张蓝图之后,对音乐记谱法来说该叫,黑图,他只是被要求简单地把黑图复制出来

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

As a young performer, he had a song and dance act with partners for a while.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

So, you see, they're keeping a lot of the elements consistent but in one case he's kind of an average performer and in the other case nearly perfect.

你看，他们身上，很多因素都还挺一致,一种是水平一般,另一种近乎完美。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He also liked the sound of the jazz and rhythm and blues performer Louis Jordan.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

We are all actors, and everybody's an actor." Everybody's a performer. Everybody's a dancer.

我们都是演员，每个人都是演员。"每个人都是表演家，都是舞蹈家。

关于纽约的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The twenty-two year old performer says her album "The Fame" is about how anyone can feel famous and all people are invited to the party.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

just because I'm a performer, and I'm good.

就因为我是一个演员，我很优秀。

关于纽约的生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And listen to wild and fun music from pop performer Lady GaGa.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Michael Jackson was part of a family pop group,the Jackson 5, and he soared to international stardom as a solo performer.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

A White House spokesman said President Obama viewed Michael Jackson as a spectacular performer but noted that his life had sad and tragic aspects.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

The singer pioneered the music video genre, and arguably became the world's top musical performer.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

In the first round of the 2008 Major League Soccer draft, Espinoza was selected by the Kansas City Wizards, and has become a regular performer for the MLS team.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

She is a writer on the series and stars in it. She lost out on the acting Emmy to Toni Collette,however, the Australian performer who stars in the series United States of Tara.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21