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Pearl Mae Bailey
United States singer (1918-1990)
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Johnny Cash
United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003)
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Maurice Chevalier
French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972)
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Maria Magdalene von Losch
United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992)
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Bob Dylan
United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
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Ella Fitzgerald
United States scat singer (1917-1996)
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Judy Garland
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)
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Lena Calhoun Horne
United States singer and actress (born in 1917)
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Julio Iglesias
Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943)
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Mahalia Jackson
United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)
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Michael Joe Jackson
United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)
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Asa Yoelson
United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950)
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Janis Joplin
United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)
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Riley B King
United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)
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Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder
Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)
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Huddie Leadbetter
United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949)
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Madonna Louise Ciccone
United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958)
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Robert Nesta Marley
Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)
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Dino Paul Crocetti
United States singer (1917-1995)
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Ethel Merman
United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984)
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Roy Orbison
United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988)
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Edith Giovanna Gassion
French cabaret singer (1915-1963)
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Paul Bustill Robeson
United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)
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Lillian Russell
United States entertainer remembered for her roles in comic operas (1861-1922)
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Paul Simon
United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)
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Bessie Smith
United States blues singer (1894-1937)
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Kathryn Elizabeth Smith
United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986)
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Barbra Joan Streisand
United States singer and actress (born in 1942)
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Sarah Vaughan
United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990)
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Ethel Waters
United States actress and singer (1896-1977)
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Hiram King Williams
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
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Tammy Wynetter Pugh
United States country singer (1942-1998)
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Marian Anderson
United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)
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Charles Edward Berry
United States rock singer (born in 1931)
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Maria Meneghini Callas
Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977)
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Enrico Caruso
outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921)
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Harry Lillis Crosby
United States singer and film actor (1904-1977)
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Placido Domingo
Spanish operatic tenor noted for performances in operas by Verdi and Puccini (born in 1941)
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Eileen Farrell
United States operatic soprano noted for the clarity and power of her voice (1920-2002)
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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967)
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William John Clifton Haley Jr.
United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981)
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George Harrison
English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001)
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Charles Hardin Holley
United States rock star (1936-1959)
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Marilyn Horne
United States operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1934)
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Michael Philip Jagger
English rock star (born in 1943)
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John Lennon
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)
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Jerry Lee Lewis
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
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Swedish Nightingale
Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887)
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Sir James Paul McCartney
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
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John McCormick
United States operatic tenor (born in Ireland) (1884-1945)
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Helen Porter Mitchell
Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931)
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Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior
United States operatic tenor (born in Denmark) noted for his Wagnerian roles (1890-1973)
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James Douglas Morrison
United States rock singer (1943-1971)
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Marta Brigit Nilsson
Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918)
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Jessye Norman
United States operatic soprano (born in 1945)
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Luciano Pavarotti
Italian tenor (born in 1935)
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Alice-Josephine Pons
United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976)
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Rosa Melba Ponselle
United States soprano (1897-1981)
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Elvis Aron Presley
United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977)
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Mary Leontyne Price
United States operatic soprano (born 1927)
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Ernestine Schumann-Heink
United States operatic contralto (1861-1936)
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Peter Seeger
United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919)
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Belle Miriam Silverman
United States operatic soprano (born in 1929)
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Francis Albert Sinatra
United States singer and film actor (1915-1998)
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Richard Starkey
rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940)
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Dame Joan Sutherland
Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)
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Renata Tebaldi
Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922)
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Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa
New Zealand operatic soprano (born in 1944)
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Helen Traubel
United States operatic soprano (1903-1972)
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alto
a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
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baritone, barytone
a male singer
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bass, basso
an adult male singer with the lowest voice
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canary
a female singer
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caroler, caroller
a singer of carols
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castrato
a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice
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chorister
a singer in a choir
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contralto
a woman singer having a contralto voice
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balladeer, crooner
a singer of popular ballads
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folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour
a singer of folk songs
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hummer
a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
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lieder singer
a singer of lieder
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madrigalist
a singer of madrigals
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opera star, operatic star
singer of lead role in an opera
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rapper
someone who performs rap music
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rock star
a famous singer of rock music
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songster
a person who sings
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soprano
a female singer
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tenor
an adult male with a tenor voice
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thrush
a woman who sings popular songs
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torch singer
a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs
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voice
(metonymy) a singer
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warbler
a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song
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yodeller
a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)
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choirboy
a boy who sings in a choir
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coloratura, coloratura soprano
a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music
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countertenor
a male singer with a voice above that of a tenor
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mezzo, mezzo-soprano
a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto
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diva, prima donna
a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
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songstress
a woman songster (especially of popular songs)
