She wanted to make sure she would be judged as a singer who happened to be black - not as a black singer.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

In those days, a singer had to be recognized in New York to be successful everywhere else.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Tom Waits is a singer/songwriter whose voice sounds like a truck crossing over hundreds of stones.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

Dan Tyminski is a singer and guitarist with Alison Krauss and her Union Station band.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

Donald Boothman is a singer and singing teacher from the eastern state of Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

As a singer, Bing Crosby's biggest recording success came from a nineteen forty-two movie.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

But she is also making a name for herself as a singer and songwriter.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

She later said that she was both a singer and a teacher.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

After taking voice lessons, she soon began performing there as a singer.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

He says cabaret is a deeply emotional experience for a singer.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

Merle Haggard has spent fifty years as a singer,songwriter and guitarist.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Not surprisingly, Cruz plays the part of a salsa singer.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

His classmate,Lindsay Sutherland Boal, is a singer from Vancouver,Canada.

VOA: special.2010.08.19

Sometimes she put her hand to a singer's throat.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

She had a daughter,Lisa, who is also a singer.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Jamil also says Jackson's talent as a singer,dancer,songwriter was so unique that it transcends time and will continue to inspire Pakistani pop artists.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Michael Jackson was born in 1958, the seventh of nine children, and he first found fame as a singer and dancer in the family pop group The Jackson 5.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Shirley Griffith tells us about this singer and songwriter with a voice that is child-like, yet mysterious and forceful.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

But in the end there is hope for this singer, who exists only in a movie and its soundtrack.

VOA: special.2010.02.22