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The through-line were sounds that leaned toward the smoldering and idiosyncratic — from his use of achingly passionate songs of heartbreak by Roy Orbison and Chris Isaak to his own shadowy recordings with modern torch singers Julee Cruise and Chrystabell.
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Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Tender, knowing, attuned to youthful melodrama yet wise beyond her years: Every generation should be as lucky as Gen Z to get a torch singer like Eilish.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
Libby Holman: This 1923 UC grad was a famed Broadway actor and torch singer, but also a tragic figure.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024
The women performers and artists of this time are so varied — comediennes, torch singers, political singers, grotesque dancers, naked dancers, dadaists and showgirls.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
Dinah Washington, torch singer.
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 27 Apr. 2022
Nothing could have been more portentous of Buckley’s swan song: his attempts to subvert his torch singer image; the growing contrarian imperative that made for parallel musical deconstructions on Sketches as well as Third; and Memphis’s coming role as his place of refuge and demise.
—Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
While the world devours the newest release from a certain divorced British torch singer, another U.K. export enters the global charts.
—Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2021
Listening to Angel Olsen’s records used to feel like stumbling into an empty roadside bar and finding the greatest torch singer the world had ever forgotten.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2022
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Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Tender, knowing, attuned to youthful melodrama yet wise beyond her years: Every generation should be as lucky as Gen Z to get a torch singer like Eilish.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
Libby Holman: This 1923 UC grad was a famed Broadway actor and torch singer, but also a tragic figure.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024
The women performers and artists of this time are so varied — comediennes, torch singers, political singers, grotesque dancers, naked dancers, dadaists and showgirls.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2024
Dinah Washington, torch singer.
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 27 Apr. 2022
Nothing could have been more portentous of Buckley’s swan song: his attempts to subvert his torch singer image; the growing contrarian imperative that made for parallel musical deconstructions on Sketches as well as Third; and Memphis’s coming role as his place of refuge and demise.
—Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
While the world devours the newest release from a certain divorced British torch singer, another U.K. export enters the global charts.
—Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2021
Listening to Angel Olsen’s records used to feel like stumbling into an empty roadside bar and finding the greatest torch singer the world had ever forgotten.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2022
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“Torch singer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/torch%20singer. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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