Sentences with phrase «ability as a singer»

Meanwhile, she had been displaying her fine musical abilities as a singer on soundtracks as far back as 1983's Silkwood

Not exact matches

Carol also performs as a singer and teaches voice and piano, helping her audiences and students tune into their own abilities to feel and express.

This ability to so accurately portray the human condition is one of the As the father of Gregorian chant, Pope St. Gregory the Great was the obvious candidate for patron of singers and musicians.

Bjork is one of the most talented singer / songwriters of our time, and it was interesting to see her abilities as an actress, as well.

He's a hard man to resist, which is as much a testament to the character as written as to his casting: A rock singer - guitarist for the Belgian band A Brand with only one other IMDb feature credit to his name, Vermeir is a naturally charismatic performer with the capacity for nuance, a bit like «Malcolm in the Middle» - era Bryan Cranston in appearance, with that actor's ability to find layers of «Breaking Bad» - style complexity beyond that charming first impression.

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

Some other critics have knocked Travolta's singing ability, as well as Newton - John's acting, and while certainly there are better actors and singers, it's hard to imagine two other performers doing a better job in the roles.

While Beyoncé Knowles is perfect (and often mesmerizing) as the Diana Ross - like singer whose appeal lies just as much in her looks as it does in her singing ability, it's really newcomer Jennifer Hudson, a former contestant on «American Idol», who impresses the most, not only for her singing, but also for delivering a quality performance in the pivotal role of Effie.

Beyoncé Knowles shows off more ability both as an actress and a singer in this film than anyone could have known she possessed, making her a strong second lead.

These role - playing guises — whether the donning of a paper mask of poet Arthur Rimbaud, as in David Wojnarowicz's haunting series shot on New York City streets and back alleys, or dressing up like singer Joni Mitchell, as in John Kelly's well - loved impersonation — speaks to the ability of artists to evoke ghosts from the past or visions of the future within the debatably forthright medium of the camera.

Dumas has described Winehouse as a great musician, likening the singer's description of being «given» a voice to the way the artist feels about her own ability to draw.

So do the more humble and private efforts of John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1924), partly because a keen drawing ability underlies them, as it does Putt's paintings.