bebop (noun): a complex style of up-tempo jazz from the 1950s - The best bepop player I ever heard was Charlie Parker. big band (noun): a large jazz band, esp. one that plays big band jazz - Most popular singers of the 30s and 40s had their own big bands. brass (noun): instr...
Also ranks #29 on The 40+ Best Female Pop Singers Of 2024 Robyn Moore Daybreakers, Dot and the Kangaroo, Undead Robyn Moore's illustrious voice-acting career is marked by her unique ability to bring animated characters to life. Best known as the voice of Blinky Bill, Australia's beloved...
Everyone believes they're about to witness an epic train wreck. It's part of the fun of watching the early stages of a singing competition: getting to pass judgment on the talentless, or invest ourselves in the best singers as if we've discovered them ourselves. NPR's "The Record," ...
Jazz enjoyed its only period of mass popularity in the late 1930s and ’40s with theswingstyle of the big bands and with such vocalists asBing CrosbyandFrank Sinatra, who were known as crooners. Meanwhile, theblueswas also changing: black singers from the South moved north to industrial cit...
Names like Patti Page, Perry Como and Nat King Cole carry over from the 40s. Rosemary Clooney had a good run, as did Tony Bennett. In the early 50s, the crooners perfected their trade. But when Elvis came in everything changed. Not only did he completely dominate sales, but pop music...
Chinese very familiar to the audience. It is the first generation of crooner Bing crosby. In 30s and 40s, the lyric songs and jazz style songs sung by "humming" singers were the mainstream of the song. After 50s, with the rise of "rock music" and the revival of folk songs, pop ...
When classic heavy metal found again the favour of the public, she returned to tour all over the world and her popularity as a veteran singer grew considerably, inspiring many new female metal artists. Doro is also known for her duets performed both live and in studio with other singers and...
When classic heavy metal found again the favour of the public, she returned to tour all over the world and her popularity as a veteran singer grew considerably, inspiring many new female metal artists. Doro is also known for her duets performed both live and in studio with other singe...