Sentences with phrase «fame as a singer»

The movie tells the story of how Ritchie Valens achieved the fame as a singer and of how he dealt with it while he was doing it.

The picture tells the story of Ivan, a country boy who dreams of fame as a singer.

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Before she found fame as a 1960s - inspired sultry throwback singer, Lana Del Rey was a prep - school graduate from upstate New York named Elizabeth «Lizzy» Grant.

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.

Jes Baker, author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls, Grammy - nominated singer and songwriter Mary Lambert, plus - size blogger and designer GabiFresh, Ashley Nell Tipton of Project Runway fame and Valerie Sagun, a proudly curvy yoga practitioner and blogger with over 136,000 followers on Instagram, all look into the camera and share their inspiring - as - hell stories.

Trey Pearson found fame as a married, straight, Christian rock singer.

Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj (/ m ɪ ˈ n ɑː ʒ /), is a Trinidadian - born American rapper, singer Hip - hop artist Nicki Minaj rocketed to fame with tracks like Super Bass, Starships, and later Anaconda.

As this year's big Strawberry Festival draws near, Beth hatches a plan to have famed country singer Jason Keith (Trevor Donovan) be the featured musical performer.

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.

The chart - topping singer who came to fame as the lead singer of the Supremes, earned a lead actress nomination for her 1972 film debut in «Lady Sings the Blues,» playing legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.

In the works for several years, the picture stars Michael Douglas as the famed singer, Matt Damon as his young lover Scott Thorson, and co-stars Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula and Paul Reiser.

Taron Egerton will star as in Elton John in «Rocketman,» the biopic about the famed singer, with Paramount Pictures nearing a deal to finance and distribute worldwide.

Their goal in bringing in the famed comic book creator is to avoid the negative fan feedback they received from X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine going forward and as Bryan Singer said best, to do something more «ambitious» and «broaden out the universe.»

An aging and broke bad - boy rocker from the 1990s gets another shot at fame 25 years later as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.

December 25, 2016 • The British pop singer, who achieved fame as half of the duo Wham!

A rousing storyteller, Ribowsky energetically chronicles Redding's rise from local singer to the King of Soul, as well as his marital difficulties, his personal insecurities and fears, and his reluctance to embrace the fame coming his way, often preferring to work on his farm in Macon where he felt most comfortable.

A native of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Ai Jing is a Chinese contemporary artist whose fame started as a star singer - songwriter.

Of course, they've worked for years in the same building as marketing Professor J. Scott Armstrong, of Heartland & NIPCC (with Fred Singer) fame.