torch singer

American  

noun

1. a singer, especially a woman, who specializes in singing torch songs.

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Etymology

Origin of torch singer

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

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torch singer

Flo were nominated alongside jungle artist Nia Archives and torch singer Cat Burns, who scored a number two hit earlier this year with her break-up ballad Go.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022

You might wanna get on that, because, just FYI, the whole world is apparently jonesing hard for some piano-based melodrama sung by a heartbroken torch singer with a wicked sense of humor.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2019

A youthful lady of perpetual sadness, Del Rey still sounds like a torch singer but this time she also reflects on the flames in the world around her.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2017

She remained a proud and affecting torch singer, even as the sound of Latin music shifted around her in the 1960s and ’70s.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2017

“Tomorrow Is My Turn” takes its title from a French pop song by Charles Aznavour, Marcel Stellman and Yves Stephanie, which American torch singer Nina Simone famously recorded in an English translation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2015