Sentences with phrase «as the singer of»

Mark Wahlberg stars as the singer of a heavy metal cover band who gets the chance of a lifetime when the group he idolizes needs a new front man.

I did like the cameo from kd lang as the singer of the Cole Porter torch songs in the gay bar, though.

December 11, 2012 • Hoffs, best known as the singer of The Bangles, performs songs from her latest solo album, Someday.

Rikki is widely known by gamers as the singer of the Final Fantasy X main theme, «Suteki da ne», released as a single on July 18, 2001.

Not exact matches

These days Candace is out from behind the mask and showing the world some new faces — as a singer (her rendition of Michael Jackson's «Heal The World» also went viral), vlogger, host on TLC, and ambassador for charitable organization Convoy of Hope, who as part of their mission works to empower young girls in cultures where women are degraded.

The latest lawsuit was filed Friday by Melissa Ferrick, the Massachusetts - based indie folk singer who teaches at the prestigious Berklee College of Music and rose to prominence as Morrissey's last - minute opening act on his 1991 tour.

(As I'm sure Broadsheet readers know, the singer has been the focus of multiple allegations of sexual abuse, sexual coercion, and physical abuse.)

At one of Jon Levy's house parties you could find yourself, as we recently did, making fajitas with Grammy - nominated singer - songwriter Regina Spektor and leading snake venom expert Zoltan Takacs before watching live presentations from Bill Nye the Science Guy and break - dancing pioneer Richard «Crazy Legs» Colón.

There was even a local musician awaiting their arrival, with singer Jurgis Didziulis greeting the Ball's with an emphatic rendition of «Welcome to Lithuania» as they made it into the airport.

Just last summer, singer Katy Perry claimed the «M Diet,» otherwise known as eating only raw mushrooms for one meal a day for two weeks, helped her lose fat in select areas of her body.

Singer / songwriter Jack Antonoff of the Bleachers offered to match up to $ 10,000 as did Jessie Tyler Ferguson, co-star of ABC (dis) comedy Modern Family.

Tara Slone worked as an actress and musician (she was the lead singer of the Juno - nominated band Joydrop) before becoming a TV host.

In anticipation of the release of her new album, «Dirty Computer,» singer / songwriter Janelle Monáe appeared as the cover star of Rolling Stone this week, speaking with the magazine about her music, upcoming album, and her personal life.

Even as singer Justin Timberlake completed his 20/20 Experience World Tour in the final weeks of 2014, he still found time to regularly tweet about his tequila brand to his nearly 40 million Twitter followers.

Owned by Sina Corp., a Yahoo - like web portal that came to prominence in the early day, it's become prominent in Chinese politics, especially around environmental issues, corruption over food safety, disaster response and in Chinese celebrity culture, where a number of actors and singers have gained millions of followers (or «fans» as their called in Weibo lingo).

Conservative in almost every sense of the word, the billionaire Singer, now 73, insists on hedging all his investments to reduce the risk of loss, and prizes «manual efforts» — in other words, old - fashioned elbow grease — as the defining characteristic of his investment style.

Bowie's impact over the course of his 48 years in the entertainment industry as a songwriter, producer, singer, actor and style pioneer is incalculable.

Wixen, an exclusive licensee of songs such as «Free Fallin» by Tom Petty, «Light My Fire» by the Doors, (Girl We Got a) Good Thing by Weezer and works of singers such as Stevie Nicks, is seeking damages worth at least $ 1.6 billion along with injunctive relief.

Eventually, Singer was replaced with Dexter Fletcher and as production moved forward, Singer also stood accused of sexual assault.

The sales numbers reflect the wide appeal of the emotional and personal ballads by the 27 year - old British singer, as well as the decision by her independent record company XL Recordings not to make the album available for streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Google Play.

Natasha Singer, writing for The New York Times, put it even more bluntly: «the e-zine is designed as a business marketing vehicle, promoting Google's insights and analyses of consumer behavior to clients like digital advertisers and publishers.»

The phrase «hedge fund» usually conjures up images of the elite Manhattan firms governed by stock pickers such as John Paulson or Paul Singer who can boast of a lengthy career in finance.

Even during that early stage of his career, he brought in clients, such as the Grammy Award - winning hip hop and R&B singer Missy Elliott.

Along with established international brands such as Louis Vuitton and Burberry moving in, a crop of homegrown fashion houses has emerged, including Maki Oh, a Nigerian womenswear label that showed at New York Fashion Week in March, has been featured in Vogue and is worn by American singer Azealia Banks.

Ms. Singer was previously a reporter in the Sunday Business section where her series on the consumer data industry, called «You for Sale,» helped prompt several congressional and federal investigations, as well as the enactment of a student online data privacy law in California.

However, as has become typical following the news of major activist involvement in a stock, shares of both firms soared more than 16 % in Thursday trading, taking a little of that potential upside off the table and incidentally earning Singer about $ 26 million on his newly - disclosed stakes.

But in the realm of finance, as much as we traders appreciate the opportunity to unpack and trade complexity in securities, structures and markets, we wonder if the overall impact of financial innovation, including derivatives, structured products, high - frequency trading and communication advances, is a net negative, albeit with a possibly long delay before the drawbacks become visible» Paul Singer

Noted Israeli singer / songwriter Meir Banai, backed by rocker Yehuda Katz, entertained the crowd with a selection of his classic hits as the summit participants partied into the night.

Dispositions As part of its strategy to dispose of excess land and inventory, the company completed the sale of a parcel of undeveloped land on Singer Island, Florida in May 2014, resulting in $ 11 million of gross cash proceeds and an estimated gain of less than $ 1 million.

Even on the most upbeat of songs, they undercut the music with a haunting keyboard line or, as is often the case, with a plaintive vocal turn by one of the band's two singers.

What dismays me about Miley Cyrus is the same thing that dismays me about the current trend of instantly going to the allowable limit (and a bit over) in dress and act: I get the feeling she feels like she's proving something; that this is not an artistic statement of anything but rather, that she feels like she needs to do this to be accepted as a female singer and entertainer.

That observation resonated with me somewhat, though my parents gave me the «Peter and the Wolf» introduction to instruments as well, and while our house did not echo with the sounds of classical music (in fact, my mother is a country gospel singer - songwriter and radio personality), I did grow up with a moderate understanding of and appreciation for classical music.

I acquired men and women singers, and a harema as well — the delights of the heart of man.

That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

I say this only because Cameron Crowe's documentary, which showed the Pearl Jam's alleged heroic testimony before Congress as they called out the monopoly of Ticketmaster in setting prices for concert tickets, made this band something other than a rehash of «70s stadium rock with a lead singer with a Bono complex.

For instance as a lead guitarist and lead singer in several bar bands He put a successful guitarist in my life who I thought was a «Jesus Freak» and it challenged so many of my preconceptions.

Limbs and Branches was one of RELEVANT's Top 20 Albums of 2008, and has garnered him respect as a singer - songwriter capable of subtle introspection.

Instead, he added an instrumental coda, including two more instruments in the ensemble, almost as if (as Gardiner says) Bach felt «the singer's words were inadequate to express the full joy at the coming of the Holy Spirit.»

«Troops fired shots to allow the singers to leave first as thousands of people were already pushing to leave through the stadium's only exit, which led to shoving and trampling,» said a witness.

A folk - singer puts a melody on top of a chord progression as his offering.

Singer identified this idea as a form of discrimination, as odious as racism and sexism.

The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the irreligious Singer, who as a child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

Pozas was speaking as an advocate for the Great Ape Project (GAP), the brainchild of Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal - rights philosopher Paola Cavalieri.

With fifty of the country's leading gospel singers as backup, he sang.

Josh Tillman, the singer - songwriter better known as Father John Misty, is quickly becoming one of the most interesting musicians in indie rock.

As a christian and singer / songwriter, I thought I'd post a link to a few very rough home video recordings (recorded during a time of depression!!!)

as such, they remind me of eastern mantra singers, mindlessly mouthing adoration of God while fully detached from the present universe where we all live, suffer, and die.

Singer Miley Cyrus, model Cara Delevingne, star of the Twilight films Kristen Stewart and Lily - Rose Depp (daughter of actor Johnny Depp) also publicly identified themselves either as «gender fluid», or at least as falling outside traditional gender labels.

This collection of minds is as antique as Heraclitus and as trendy as Peter Singer.

Arguably, he is presented as a sort of a polar opposite to the healthy vulnerable sensitive type, the type open to the ministrations of therapeutic psychology and the charms of gentle singer - songwriters.