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Recent Examples of troubadourRed Bandana troubadour, braids like twin ropes lassoing eternity?—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 The guest list — indie-pop troubadour Caroline Polachek, earnest folkie Mustafa, and pop star Lorde — displays Hynes’s gift for putting the right people together.—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025 His passing closes a chapter for fans and fellow artists who saw him as a crucial bridge between genre icons and new voices, embodying the restless spirit of the American troubadour.—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025 Thank you for being a lifer, for being a shirtless, sunburned troubadour, for your friendship, your songs and all the laughs.—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for troubadour
But this award, which was inaugurated in 2023 with a Jesso win, circles the same handful of writers, and country scribes like Jessie Jo Dillon, pop bards like Amy Allen, and reggaeton men-at-arms like Edgar Barrera are just as up next.
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Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
Pizzo, who wrote Rudy and Hoosiers, is the bard of Indiana sports movies — perhaps the bard of all sports movies.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Jan. 2026
Such awe asks for the superhuman from singers, especially in this ensemble from their ravishing high notes.
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
It will be driven by an original soundtrack created by Dan Smith, songwriter and lead singer of Bastille, and Ralph Pelleymounter, songwriter and lead singer of To Kill a King.
Indeed, Smith and his friend and collaborator Ralph Pelleymounter, lead vocalist of the band To Kill A King, came up with a story and a soundtrack.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
His contributions as a background vocalist and songwriter for projects by artists ranging from Kaytranada to The Internet brought him closer to Grammy glory throughout the 2010s, but his first nomination would come in 2025 for En Route, an EP that competed for best progressive R&B album.