frontman
Americannoun
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frontmen
plural
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a performer, as a singer, who leads a musical group.
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a person who serves as the nominal head of an organization and who represents it publicly.
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Filmed here in 2005, the video sees frontman Gerard Way belt the sorrowful lyrics at the front of church with his bandmates and a group of dancers around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
"If there was no Sabbath, there's no Metallica," says the band's frontman James Hetfield.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
He flew to Bangui to meet with Wagner’s local frontman, Dmitry Sytii, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s former confidant, and Denis Suprunov, Wagner’s local military commander, said researchers and security officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Finally, the Daily Star says Libertines frontman Pete Doherty "did scoff a mega meal", an eating feat that "brought him a new found respect from the British public".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
I'd already given Abie back fifty of the hundred and fifty he'd paid me for the Centaurians' gear, and was starting in on the hundred when Redman walked in flanked by the frontman.
From Noble Redman by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
The frontmen of Milli Vanilli were famously revealed to be lip synching in the 1990s.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
As one of the Dead’s frontmen from 1965 to the band’s dissolution in 1995, he helped pioneer the group’s long-form, jamming approach on concert songs that could last upward of 40 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Relations between the two frontmen soured, however, and Hodgson left the group in 1983.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
The metal world lost one of its most exciting frontmen when Power Trip’s Riley Gale died in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
He mimics a lot of boy band frontmen, namely Harry Styles — but he’s an actor and shaping him into a performer requires a different skillset.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
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