bandleader
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bandleader
Example Sentences
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As a passionate bandleader, Sahad was not just on vocals but also guitar and percussion.
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A guitarist, composer and bandleader who died on Saturday, Taylor's six-decade career played a key role in shaping modern popular music in West Africa.
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This domestic sitcom, starring Lucille Ball as a frustrated housewife and Ball’s then-husband Desi Arnaz as her patient bandleader husband, is the most influential show in TV history, and it isn’t close.
George Simon, in his biography of the bandleader, reports that Miller ran afoul of a highly conservative senior officer who railed against the “newfangled sounds” that Miller’s men were producing.
These five musicians are acclaimed bandleaders and sought-after sidemen, sometimes in each other’s ensembles.
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