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crooner

[ UK /kɹˈuːnɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹunɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a singer of popular ballads

How To Use crooner In A Sentence

  • While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice. This week's new exhibitions
  • Hundreds of fans rose to their feet to sing the 1970s crooner's most famous song.
  • The veteran American crooner and his band. Times, Sunday Times
  • Along with Sinatra, an entire generation of tuxedo-clad, slow-moving Italian American crooners followed Crosby to stardom. A Renegade History of the United States
  • A natural, casual, everyday type of voice worked best with radio mikes, and that is exactly what the crooners supplied.
  • It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer," says Elling. News from www.pantagraph.com
  • Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision.
  • All three of these croaky crooners take two turns in the lead vocalist's rocking chair.
  • Stevie Wonder, whom the label discovered when he was 11; Marvin Gaye, who wanted so much to be a jazz crooner before he came into his own in the late 60's; and, above all, Diana Ross, whom the label put its stake in early on, and who was told so many times that she was a star that she drove off one of the Supremes before quitting to launch a solo career. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • The new addition will certainly give the old crooner something to sing about.
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