Two of pop's most lyrical and expressive singers, Ann Hampton Callaway and Sandy Stewart, are featured on several ballads.

Ms. Bumbry remains an expressive singer with a strong connection to her music.

Moré was one of the most expressive singers in popular music.

But Ms. Duquesnay is such an expressive singer that her impersonation transcends parody, and she brings a theatrical conviction to one Holiday signature song after another.

An expressive singer with a seductive smolder to her voice, Ms. Borodina gamely meets the multifarious challenges posed by such a recital.

Alastair Hume remembers that "he developed this extraordinary barrel chest and phenomenal breath control, and could sustain a line for ever: a very dramatic, expressive and communicative singer.

Mr. Tucker was an expressive and diverse singer, able to swoop from a crystalline falsetto to a growling bass.

He's a raw, expressive singer, and his guitar playing rarely fails to increase the emotional stakes of a show.

Mr. Weir, with his clipped, shamblingly laid-back style, isn't a very expressive singer.

Lewis explained that "[Brad's] skills as a songwriter, guitarist extraordinaire and distinctively expressive singer are obvious at many turns on his latest album.