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Recent Examples of songstressThe songstress bought two units spanning three floors at the top of Tribeca’s Franklin Tower in 1999, transforming them into a 12,700-square-foot single residence with eight bedrooms and seven-and-a-half baths.—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 13 Apr. 2026 The 57-year-old songstress has officially listed her iconic New York City penthouse for $27 million.—Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026 The video features archival film clips of the latter starlet — also known for high-profile legal battles, media scrutiny aimed at her love life and larger-than-life fame — rather than the songstress herself, who does not appear in the video.—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 Everyone from Summer House cast members Lindsay Hubbard and KJ Dillard, to indie songstress Remi Wolf, to actor and Bravo stan Jon Hamm have expressed their shock and disgust.—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for songstress
Claudine Longet — chanteuse, alleged killer, and Gilmore Girls name-check — has died.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
But the French, bless 'em, have been driving that particular bandwagon for years, and Monroe fits snugly into their longstanding Eurovision tradition of la belle chanteuse with a little something extra in le tanque.
Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide (Mercury) has landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 389,000 equivalent units, not only marking the Vermont troubadour’s first-ever chart-topper but also delivering the biggest streaming debut of 2026.
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SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
4 May 2026
The 78-year-old troubadour bravely refused to engage in the kind of safe, predictable, by-the-numbers show that — apart from Bob Dylan and Paul Simon — too many of his baby-boomer peers are content to dole out night after night to nostalgia-craving audiences.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026