songstress

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Recent Examples of songstress In the clip, Norwood signals the engineer before launching into a performance of the theme, which captures the songstress delivering impassioned vocals over a pulsating instrumental. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 11 Aug. 2026 The songstress is renowned for her versatile voice, which moved seamlessly across genres throughout her decades-long career. Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026 Breathless coverage has poured in over the slow news week leading up to the July Fourth holiday, when billionaire songstress Swift will wed Kansas City tight end Kelce and close her long and fruitful era as a single woman. Marc Malkin, Variety, 2 July 2026 But the global fame that Back to Black brought the London songstress only seemed to exacerbate her issues with addiction, and broadcast them to the world via a cruelly unsympathetic tabloid media ecosystem. Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for songstress
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Noun
  • Canadians have entered Eurovision before under different flags — most famously Quebecoise chanteuse Celine Dion, who won the 1988 contest competing for Switzerland.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • The British chanteuse also gave the most pointed speech of the night, calling for a better system for songwriter royalties that isn’t based on radio play.
    P. Claire Dodson, Vogue, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • This one resembles the winsome, acoustic Sea Change (2002) and Morning Phase (2014), dressing the shape-shifting troubadour’s reflective vocals in windswept orchestral-folk adornment.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Known for his gruff vocals, LaMontagne first came to the scene in the early aughts as a timid troubadour.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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“Songstress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songstress. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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