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He was an amateur singer until the age of 40, when he turned professional.40岁之前他一直是个业余歌手，之后才转为职业歌手。
An excited crowd waited for the singer to arrive.一群人怀着激动的心情等待着歌星的到来。
She first rose to fame as a singer at the age of 16.她16岁时便作为歌手一举成名。
The lead singer has a falsetto voice.领唱用假声唱。
He fancies himself as a bit of a singer.他认为自己多少是个歌手。

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singer | American Dictionary

singer
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɪŋ·ər/
a person who sings, esp. someone whose job is singing

Examples of singer

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A rock singer is perhaps typically more concerned with direct visceral expression of the body.
The listener and the singer are ' placed' now in very intimate proximity.
On the other hand he wasn't really a professional singer till quite late in life.
Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music.
His intent focus on the singer's offstage poise suggests how much he has yet to learn about striking a pose and deflecting the gaze.
Numerous and more concretely documented than a past voice or performance, they have dominated what little literature exists on the singer.
By shedding excess and approaching sung dialogue as if it were speech, singers were to be singing actors - the imperative of a musical dramatic art.
Or perhaps committing a few contrapuntal errors was but a small price to pay for enabling some fine singers to perform these roles.
The singers prove variously incorrigible, and the control room has to accept less than adequate performances from them, which are emended through electronic intervention.
The most varied and intense artistic reaction to the flood came from blues singers and composers.
Lead singers now competed for camera attention with their surrounding musicians who had begun to develop their own visual cliches.
Most people who are not themselves singers fail to appreciate the extraordinary physical labour and tension required to produce an operatic sound.
It is perceptually important, as it helps the singer's voice to be heard when the orchestral accompaniment is loud.
The melodic writing displays a similar lack of elegance, its jagged line designed to tax the athleticism of even the finest singers.
It is commonly understood that lyricists construct the texts of their songs and singers convey these messages in terms of their targeted fan bases.
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accomplished singer
He was an accomplished singer and a renowned teacher.
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