How to Use vocalist in a Sentence

vocalist

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  • Mary Weiss, singer and lead vocalist of the band Shangri-Las, has died.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The band still tours, with Zach Goode as its lead vocalist.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Sidoti has been a vocalist and guitarist with the singer since 2007.
    — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Oates rose to fame as the guitarist and background vocalist in pop-rock duo Hall & Oates in the 1970s.
    — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Smash Mouth continues to tour with vocalist Zach Goode, who joined the band in 2022.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But then it was revealed the two stars were not the vocalists on any of Milli Vanilli’s songs.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, the vocalist continued to share glimpses of the couple's love story in the lead-up to their wedding.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the visual, Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams finds a large package on her doorstep.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2024
  • This year, she is nominated for female vocalist of the year and album of the year.
    — Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The final act of the day is the smooth jazz vocalist Maysa, who has had a long solo career outside of her work with the band Incognito, at 10:30 p.m.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2023
  • McVie, the British keyboard player and co-vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, was a band member for more than 50 years.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Mary Weiss, the singer who channeled the melodrama of adolescence as the lead vocalist of the quintessential girl group the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Then their lead vocalist Bobby Kimball left the band, which helped push them in a new direction.
    — Max Evry, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Steve Harwell, the former lead vocalist of rock band Smash Mouth, died Monday at 56.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Pearce and Ballerini are competing for female vocalist of the year at the CMAs.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The lead vocalist, a Canadian named David Clayton-Thomas, had a voice of tremendous rasp and rumble.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Now, the group is working on a new album that fans will love, according to vocalist Alex Torres.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Nevertheless, our three vocalists make a valiant attempt to try to redeem the song.
    — Vulture, 19 Dec. 2023
  • During the battle rounds, each coach pairs up their vocalists for a series of head-to-head battles to determine who advances to the next round.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Morello, Wilk, and bassist Tim Commerford then sat down next to the vocalist, smiled brightly, and raised their fists for a photographer as the crowd roared.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But that certainly wasn't the case for the Grammy-winning and an all-time vocalist in Carlile, and top indie-rock charters Grouplove.
    — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 27 July 2023
  • Brigham hired her as his vocalist, and her music career began.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • With airy, speak-sing vocals, the New York vocalist and producer—a couple of Brandy flips brought me to her music—sounds off about a guy who’s getting on her nerves.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Local musical groups will include the Sacred Groove acapella vocalists and the Singers of Soul gospel choir.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Wilson picked up a startling six nods for the CMAs and ultimately walked away with two, best female vocalist and best new artist.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Dorsey may be the Father of Gospel, but Sallie Martin, the vocalist and entrepreneur who set up and ran his business, is the genre’s mother.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
  • McGhee is an outstanding tenor vocalist and plays a 12-string guitar.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Love recorded her part in New York, singing the song all the way through as lead vocalist and also tracking a version with her singing with backing vocals, and sent it to Taylor.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The two producers enlisted sole vocalist Tayla Parx for the title track, which thumps along to trap hi-hats and what sounds like a toy xylophone.
    — Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a little Edith Piaf in Peyroux’s singing as well, evocations of the famous French cabaret and chanson vocalist.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024

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