singer-songwriter

noun

: a performer who writes songs and sings them

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The singer-songwriter began busking on the ⁠streets of his native Dublin as a teen before forming the popular ​Irish band The Frames in 1990. Reuters, NBC news, 29 July 2026 Getty Images Mexican singer-songwriter Carín León tops the nominations for this year's Premios Juventud with nine nods, ahead of the show's first-ever edition in Europe, airing live from Marbella, Spain, on September 3. Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The music world is mourning Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter and Frames frontman who died this morning in a motorcycle crash at the age of 56. Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026 Read on to see what Hollywood is saying about the late singer-songwriter. Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for singer-songwriter

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