singer-songwriter

noun

1. a performer who writes his or her own songs

Example Sentences

Through my wife [McCauley is married to singer/songwriter Vanessa Carlton].

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He commissioned singer-songwriter Bob Dorough to set the multiplication tables to a rock music song.

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So begins “Song For Zula,” a beauteous six-minute ballad courtesy of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Matthew Houck and co.

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My mom is a singer-songwriter, but she was also very depressed when I was a kid, and I feel like I just sort of embodied that.

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Inside Llewyn Davis follows a singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) as he navigates the folk music scene of the era.

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Related Words

• writer