torch singer

American  

noun

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

---

Etymology

Origin of torch singer

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Tender, knowing, attuned to youthful melodrama yet wise beyond her years: Every generation should be as lucky as Gen Z to get a torch singer like Eilish.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

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

She’s a torch singer for our modern era, which asks too much of those too young, and doesn’t stop until it breaks them.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020

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