Sentences with phrase «career as the singer»

Along with blogging at Hawk Eye View, (which, by the way, she launched when she was a mere 13 years old) she's in the process of developing a music career as a singer / songwriter.

Hadiqa Kiani is also one of those faces who started her career as a singer and got a huge fame in it, we all know that Hadiqa's voice is worth listening, so people appreciate her songs.

Long before she became the country's First Lady, she embarked on a career as a singer and songwriter as a teenager.

The 41 - year - old star began her career as a singer when she was...

As Takt, childhood friend of the newest of these «verse maidens», you serve as manager to the team, equal parts guiding their careers as singers and ensuring they're ready for battle.

Starting her career as a singer in nightclubs, she picked up a camera on a whim which led to a career as a full - time photographer.

Price also has a past indie pop career as the singer with Talulah Gosh, a band formed during her time in Oxford.

Not exact matches

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.

He agreed to be interviewed on a two - part Radio 2 programme about Olivia Newton - John, who performed as a backing singer for him during the early days of her career.

(Also, Swaying and Grunting: what I will call my debut album when I launch my third career as a down - and - out country singer.)

Master Sommelier David Keck discovered his love for wine while pursuing a career — and traveling the world — as an opera singer.

David Keck discovered his love for wine while pursuing a career — and traveling the world — as an opera singer.

A post-basketball career as an opera singer could be in the cards if he works at it.

Madame Adelaide decides to leave her fortune from her career as an opera singer to her cats.

As quick to fire off a barbed tweet as he is with a parliamentary put down, in recent years Bryant has fallen out with both the singer James Blunt — who labelled the then shadow arts minister a «classist gimp» after Bryant suggested his music career had benefited from a wealthy background - and the boxer Tyson FurAs quick to fire off a barbed tweet as he is with a parliamentary put down, in recent years Bryant has fallen out with both the singer James Blunt — who labelled the then shadow arts minister a «classist gimp» after Bryant suggested his music career had benefited from a wealthy background - and the boxer Tyson Furas he is with a parliamentary put down, in recent years Bryant has fallen out with both the singer James Blunt — who labelled the then shadow arts minister a «classist gimp» after Bryant suggested his music career had benefited from a wealthy background - and the boxer Tyson Fury.

As someone who once remortgaged his home to fund the career of a rap singer, Norman Lamb is not averse to taking a gamble.

I met a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology a few weeks ago who told me he Batmanned as the lead singer of a punk band, a career he's maintained alongside science for decades.

The e-mail that ended one career for Alison Singer, but started another, arrived as she was cooking dinner for her daughters one evening in January 2009.

Kirschstein's interest in young scientists, Singer tells Science Careers in an interview, was an interest not so much in the scientists themselves as in assuring that future generations of researchers would keep science vigorous.

In my early career, I worked as an opera singer, actress, model, and voiceover artist in New York City, which certainly taught me a thing or two about the importance of self - care and maintaining a positive self - image, regardless of what life throws my way.

Junaid Jamshed after his career as an artist and singer was blessed with this opportunity to change his life in a good way, so after that he appeared as a fashion designer.

In July 2015, he signed a solo recording contract with RCA Records, skyrocketing the singer - songwriter's solo career, as his debut album «Mind of Mine» (2016) and its lead single «Pillow Talk» made its way to number one in the US and UK charts.

Obviously a career vehicle for Quvenzhane Wallis who is lively and game but not as good of a singer or dancer as the other little girls in the ensemble.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

One of Warhol's muses, singer of the Velvet Underground and a woman of legendary beauty, Nico lived a second life after the story known to all, when she began her career as a solo artist.

Actor / singer David Hasselhoff tries to guide his two grown daughters even as he pursues his own career.

An accomplished singer, dancer and actor, he started his career in the music business before making the transition to acting where he emerged as one of the most promising talents of his generation.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

No less a figure than Frank Sinatra once proclaimed singer Vic Damone as possessing the «best pipes in the business,» which he parlayed into a popular recording career in the late 1940s and 1950s with such hits as «You're Breaking My Heart,» «Again» and «My Heart Cries for You,» among many other lush romantic ballads.

The lounge singer is nearer their age than anyone else in town and, having given up a career as a tax accountant, is pursuing her life's dream in the almost empty hotel club.

Daniela Vega is the first openly transgender actress and model in Chile, and her portrayal of Marina Vidal, a trans woman who works as a waitress in Santiago to support her career as a cabaret singer, signals her as a world - class talent.

Sid Colin began his entertainment career as a guitarist and singer with the popular British dance band, Ambrose and the Squadronaires.

That said, «Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On» is a briskly paced cavalcade of the singer / actress» colorful and classic stage characters, and certainly, as «Variety» notes, the biggest and most glamorous revue of her career.

Day, who began her show business career as a big band singer and musical performer, largely retired from acting after two decades of celebrated performances — including her role in the 1960 comedy Pillow Talk, which earned her an Oscar nomination.

Sarah Swire: Tommy [Reilly] and Roddy [Hart] are both singer - songwriters separately and both have careers as musicians touring with their bands, so they tackled writing the music from that perspective, and wanted to create an excellent soundtrack that could stand alone.

«Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (Unrated) Bittersweet bio-pic revisits the rise and fall of Jackie Paris (1924 - 2004), a once - promising singer who burst on the postwar jazz scene to win the Downbeat Critics Poll as the Best New Male Vocalist in 1953 only to labor in obscurity for most of his career following that explosive debut.

In this case that's an original screenplay set in the early «60s folk scene starring «Drive» and «Sucker Punch» secret weapon Oscar Isaac as the titular folk singer who isn't able to get his career off the ground.

Set in an underground cabaret club during World War II, it follows aspiring singer Maggie and her songwriter George as their budding stage careers falter because of secrets and scandals.

There is also some kudos to Jeff Bridges both his long career and his recent turn as a grizzled country singer in Crazy Heart.

Since then, Singer has gone on to a successful Hollywood career, directing such big budget extravaganzas as X-Men, X2, Superman Returns and Valkyrie.

Sandler began his career as a stand - up comedian and joinedSaturday Night Live as a writer and featured player before starring in, producing and writing numerous films, including the box office smashes The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, The Longest Yard, Big Daddy, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2.

Aw, I really hate to rank Bridges in 10th place, because I was so very glad to see the actor finally win the big prize, but I think I can speak for my fellow AwardsPicks colleagues in saying that Bridges» win as the down - and - out country singer in Crazy Heart was definitely more of a career award than it was his best performance.

December 21, 2013 • The «Downtown» singer began her career accidentally, as an 8 - year - old picked to sing over the radio to WWII soldiers during the Blitz.

An analytical docudrama about the career of the superwholesome pop singer and her death as a result of her anorexia nervosa, the film uses Barbie - like dolls (not actual Barbie dolls, as is often reported) in dollhouselike settings to portray the Carpenter family.

We all knew the singer could hold his own in the acting world, but here he comes across as a man who has been acting for his entire career.

Resnais was in Hollywood hoping to jump - start his American career with an MGM horse - racing picture, but immediately leapt at the chance to work with the singer known in France as Le Roi du Pelvis.

As part of our «Careers in Urban Education» Panel & Discussion, Robert Cotto, Jr. sat down with Berkley Singer for a conversation about her work this year.

Founded in 2009 by Rob Dickinson, a Los Angeles - based Brit with a degree in product design, a successful career as a rock musician and a life - long love of old - school Porsches, Singer Vehicle Design and the cars it creates are the physical embodiment of his all - consuming vision of the perfect 911.

Listed in «Who's Who In America» for the past ten years, his career in the music business began as a singer / songwriter under production agreements with Chess Records in Chicago and both Capitol and Columbia Records in New York, and as a staff writer for Beechwood Music at 1650 Broadway.