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Torch singer

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torch song
n.
A sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited love.

torch singer n.
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Noun1.Torch singer - a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songstorch singer - a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs
singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings


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Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, O'Sullivan grew up in Cork surrounded by the music of the French torch singers.
You can't fault Parenthetical Girls' third album for ambition: it contrives to sound like an experimental modern opera, a glittering Broadway musical, the soundtrack to a 1940s Hollywood romance, a carousing circus troupe and a fragile, solitary torch singer crooning to the moon.
Born in London to a French mother and Irish father, Camille grew up in Cork surrounded by the music of the French torch singers - a soundtrack which was her inspiration to become one of Ireland's most intriguing artists.
 
 
 
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