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Recent Examples of croonerThe soulful crooner never married.—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025 The jazz crooner died of a heart attack six years later in 1973 at age 37, while recovering from open-heart surgery.—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 Best known as a crooner of award-winning love songs—and perhaps as one-half of a power couple alongside Chrissy Teigen—I’m beginning to think of John Legend as quite the incredible culinarian.—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Oct. 2025 The crooner shares his son with Margaret Zhang (seen above), a Chinese-Australian filmmaker and the former editor-in-chief of Vogue China.—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crooner
Keith Urban's romantic lyrical liberties are to be taken very lightly — so says the country singer amid his divorce from Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman.
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Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
The Beatles—consisting of late founder, singer and rhythm guitarist John Lennon, Paul McCartney, late lead guitarist George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr—rose to fame in the United Kingdom in 1963 before exploding in popularity in 1964 on in the United States.
Witty Nashville upstart Megan Moroney and neo-neo-soul belter Olivia Dean also released their first albums in 2023 but had large leaps into the public consciousness during the September-to-August nomination period.
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Maura Johnston,
Rolling Stone,
6 Oct. 2025
Among the pairings were Imago Records’ Terry Ellis with Black Flag belter and actor Henry Rollins and movie critic Gene Shalit with stunt performer Linda Fetters-Howard.
While dance music vocalists often live in the shadows of the scene, her goal is to put herself, her voice, her personality and her stories at the fore.
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Katie Bain,
Billboard,
24 Oct. 2025
The four-time Academy of Country Music Awards top female vocalist said speaking out on deepfakes and the need for AI guardrails is something close to her heart.
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