1.   A gay, black female singer would never make it.

2.   As early-music aficionados know, medieval and Renaissance singers made many little pitch adjustments in the music they sang.

3.   Blues singers are making their way through contrary feelings and states of mind, and the voice has to show it.

4.   A plaster of Paris catfish hangs from the skylight and gospel singers make a joyful noise during Sunday brunch.

5.   Affable yet a bit hesitant in some of his responses, the singer makes no excuses for his checkered past.

6.   Employees testified that the singer made it as far as the lobby before collapsing and with her dying breaths, identified her assailant as Ms. Saldivar.

7.   He is looking for a singer to make an album of hip-hop soul songs that he has stockpiled.

8.   If almost any other singer had made this eclectic album of songs referring to addiction, smoking and passion, it would have come off as camp.

9.   In music, America took the black blues and fixed it so white singers would make the money.

10.   On opening night Saturday in the matchbox Dock Street Theatre, the healthy, fresh-voiced and attractive singers made a radiant complement to the luminous sets.