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One of the Wives, the backing vocalists for English singer Ebony Bones A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody .
Arnold McCuller (born August 26, 1950) is an American vocalist, songwriter, and record producer, born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.He was active as a solo artist and session musician, but is perhaps best known for his work as a touring back-up singer with artists such as James Taylor, [1] [2] Linda Ronstadt, [3] Phil Collins, Beck, Bonnie Raitt, and Todd Rundgren.
Tessa Margaret Niles (née Webb; born 27 January 1961 in Ilford, Essex) [1] is an English singer, best known as a backing singer for a wide variety of contemporary artists. She began her professional singing career in 1979. [2]
John Wallace performed with Chapin for ten years, until Harry Chapin's death in 1981. In live concerts, Wallace would sing very high head tones on songs such as "Taxi". However, John displayed a remarkable vocal range, as he also sang the baritone parts in "Mr. Tanner" and "30,000 Pounds of Bananas". [citation needed]
A backup band or backing band is a musical ensemble that typically accompanies a single artist who is the featured performer. [1] The situation may be a live performance or in a recording session, and the group may or may not have its own name, such as "The Heartbreakers" (the band of Tom Petty), or "Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys" in the ...
The singer in the top right of the third (back) row, Tad Wilson, is an offstage singer and understudy ("cover") for one of the onstage singers, in the event of illness. Some offstage performers are hired solely to play one or more instruments (e.g., synthesizer, rhythm guitar, percussion).
This is a list of singer-songwriters who write, compose, and perform their own musical material. The list is divided into two sections to differentiate between artists categorized as singer-songwriters and others who do not fall under the definition associated with the genre: Traditional singer-songwriters; Others who both write songs and sing
Trained as a violinist, Levine began his career as a studio musician in New York in the 1980s playing both keyboards and violin. He appeared on recordings and/or live performances with Carla Bley, [1] Michael Mantler, [1] John Greaves, [2] Peter Blegvad, [3] Joe Jackson, [4] Lenny Kravitz, [5] Dr. John, Bill Frisell and Marianne Faithfull. [6]