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Recent Examples of chanterThe main chanter was Obsidian Tiburon, a Taino representative of the American Indian Movement who came down from Orlando to attend the protest.—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2025 On a separate platform to the right of the action, three male chanters sit in a neat row, next to men playing the shamisen, a stringed instrument with a raw and piercing tone which is often used in vocal accompaniment.—Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 For more material takeaways, each attendee was presented with a commemorative quarter featuring Native Hawaiian composer, dancer, chanter and hula teacher Edith Kanakaʻole, purchased by Gold House and shared by the first Native Hawaiian to lead the White House initiative, Krystal Ka‘ai.—Lucia Ruan, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2023 You might be asked to sing along with a Zen-like group of spiritual chanters.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023 Fung continued greeting people, walking away from the chanter, and remaining in the room as most of the crowd disappeared.—Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022 Edith Kanaka'ole, born in 1913, was an indigenous Hawaiian composer, chanter, dancer, teacher and entertainer.—Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022 The New York Post reported that an irate Dolan had directed security guards toward one teenage chanter.—New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020 About a half hour after de Blasio was targeted, former Vice President Joe Biden's remarks were interrupted by chanters who loudly protested the Obama administration's deportation of immigrants, stopping the debate for several seconds.—Jeremy Barr, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Aug. 2019
Margarita shares a special bond with her father, Avi - a doting Israeli who is a cantor at their local synagogue - ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family.
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Troy McMullen,
ABC News,
8 June 2025
Helene Feldstein, 92, grew up immersed in Judaism, with a grandfather who was a rabbi and a cantor.
The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
The voices of the opera’s chorus are being provided by a choir which John conducts, the Pacific Coast Chorale, supplemented by two onstage choristers.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
The schedule for the day-long Hartford Bonanza includes DJ Connie Carmona from 4 to 6 p.m., acoustic folk/hip-hop singer/songwriter Bodhi at 6 p.m., DJ Eric Otero at 7 p.m. amd the soul/hip-hop/jazz fusion of Dwayne Keith & Friends at 8:45 p.m.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2025
The photos of him and Jack marked the singer's tenth Instagram in-feed post that day.
This bears pointing out as many legacy bands and even modern bands these days go back and forth between tunings for songs to accommodate their vocalist, which of course is completely fine.
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Quentin Thane Singer,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Adding former King Crimson bassist/vocalist Boz Burrell and drummer Simon Kirke, the band was complete.
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