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Recent Examples of troubadour
Red Bandana troubadour, braids like twin ropes lassoing eternity?
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for troubadour
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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.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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Pizzo, who wrote Rudy and Hoosiers, is the bard of Indiana sports movies — perhaps the bard of all sports movies.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Jan. 2026
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Malone was raised in Grapevine and has sold millions of records globally over the last decade in his career as a rapper, singer and songwriter, blurring genre lines between rap, hip-hop, country and rock in the process.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Feb. 2026
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World champion Alysa Liu has developed such a good relationship with one of her favorite artists, Icelandic-Chinese singer Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, that the American essentially has carte blanche to use her music in any programs.—
Dave Skretta,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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Musicians including psych rocker Damon Krukowski and power pop songster Ted Leo have taken to X to blast out their support.—
Caitlin Harrington,
WIRED,
6 Oct. 2023
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Nevertheless, the songster’s rise to stardom is mystifying.—
Quartz,
Quartz,
25 Nov. 2022
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Nearly six months later in December of that year, singer Charles Shaw came forward as one of the real vocalists behind Milli Vanilli’s music, per Entertainment Weekly.—
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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The year was 2016, and the now-lead vocalist María Zardoya was performing at The Kibitz Room, a low-key cocktail lounge attached to the iconic Canter's Deli, while drummer/producer Josh Conway filled in as sound engineer for her set, the duo said in a 2017 interview with Remezcla.—
Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Troubadour.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/troubadour. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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