popular singer

noun

1. a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.

Example Sentences

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.”

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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.

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

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Bobi Wine, a popular singer who has declared his intention to challenge President Museveni for the second time in the 2026 elections, has often been prevented from holding political rallies.

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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.

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