A popular term for a female singer or vocalist- usually one who is also an actress, hence a blend word- Song- plus Stress. A classic example would be the late Judy Garland, who both recorded records and certainly was an actress, mainly, but not confined to, musical roles- a notable non-song performance was in the serious film- a war drama without gunplay or tanks- Judgement at Nuremberg. She played an anonymous victim of sterilization by the Nazis.
Famous oscar-caliber movie Actress but not, to my knowledge a songstress ( singer actress cross-feed) Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida did cut some records, but not to my knowledge, Elizabeth Taylor.
She sings like an angel. Looks like one too. And she works very very hard at everything she does.
She was about five feet tall max. at the time of her death she weighed only 70 lbs according to one source and even the polite Newspapers admitted the body of the songstress was ( Slight and frail) in her glass-enclosed casket. Judy Garland was 4'-11 1/2". Her weight varied from about 85 to 155, averaging around 98 lbs.
according to newspaper accounts, The Songstress succumbed to injuries received-some distance in time from a fall on a steamship. While technically a marine accident, this was not a (Shipwreck) in the usual sense, she probably fell off a ladder or catwalk or something and died some weeks after the event. Miss Russell expired on or about June 6 of l922.-In Pittsburgh, Pa. She lies buried in the Allegheny Memorial Park.
One part of Streisand's was a show business cliche: a New York ethnic who went into show business as a teenager in order to help the pay the family bills, and who never had a chance to go to college.
The Songstress was created in 1983.
The Wandering Songstress was created in 1937.
A songster, though this doesn't appear to be as familiar a term as songstress is.
Karen Carpenter is the most popular Dangdut Songstress in America.
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Dolly Parton
Macy Gray
Ella Fitzergald
Celine Dion
Sinead O'Connor