11.   Ms. Gifford hosts a morning talk show, although she is a cabaret singer who has performed in cruise-ship commercials and on her Christmas specials.

12.   Music critics and fans alike have squandered hours debating what distinguishes a jazz from a cabaret singer.

13.   One is a serious cabaret singer whose lyric soprano suggests she spent years studying the mother of them all, Barbara Cook.

14.   Still, do not make the mistake of calling her a cabaret singer.

15.   The book was lauded by the cabaret singer Bobby Short in The New York Times Book Review.

16.   This hardly seems a time to turn politics over to cabaret singers and rap musicians.

17.   Tom Postilio, an engaging young cabaret singer from Long Island, has already earned comparisons to the young Frank Sinatra.

18.   Willey is neither a cabaret singer nor a starry-eyed young intern.

19.   Cabaret singers these days tend toward the bland.

20.   FEATURE-US-EARTHY EARTHA, on Miss Eartha Kitt, the consummate cabaret singer.