popular singer

American  

noun

1. a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.

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Example Sentences

Among those drilling into the totalitarian granite were underground rock bands such as Boris Grebenshchikov’s Aquarium and Viktor Tsoi’s Kino; the poet, actor and singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky; the rebellious 22-year-old world chess champion Garry Kasparov; the film director Sergei Parajanov, repeatedly imprisoned for being gay yet defiant to the end; and the Soviet Union’s most popular singer, Alla Pugacheva.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a popular singer, Sinatra had already shown an interest in European formal music; as arranger Billy May told me in the 1990s, “at that time Bing Crosby, the No. 1 singer then, had four strings in his orchestra. Frank had 12.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Here, Sinatra is clearly stretching the limits of what was possible for a popular singer—one can’t imagine any of his predecessors or contemporaries essaying a work as long and complex as this.

From The Wall Street Journal

Park sat between two women, a popular singer and a young model.

From BBC

During the trial — which featured testimony from a popular singer of Mexican regional music named Gerardo Ortiz — Del Villar’s attorneys tried to shift the blame onto a former employee of Del Records, Brian Gutiérrez.

From Los Angeles Times