1.   American singers long regarded the German audition tour as a useful career move.

2.   And American singers have a perverse penchant for singing their own native language as if it were Swahili, twisting vowels into the strangest squawks and bawls.

3.   Both companies are havens for young American singers.

4.   But will these East Europeans ultimately change the shape of the operatic world, like the American singers who seized the opportunities in postwar Europe?

5.   Ever since, the foundation has provided essential support to young American singers.

6.   Here was music by an Austrian composer, conducted by a Japanese conductor, with a French orchestra and chorus, and two black American singers.

7.   In exchange for Winnie and friends, the Mail offered to return American football, rap music and touring American singer Barry Manilow.

8.   Sangare is comparable to American singers such as Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Diana Ross and Sarah Vaughn.

9.   Senor Tango is actually nightclub owner and singer Fernando Soler who looks uncannily like American singer Wayne Newton, complete with pencil thin mustache and slicked back hair.

10.   Taussig argues that standards at the Met, and the overall quality of current American singers, have never been higher.