singer-songwriter

noun

1. a performer who writes his or her own songs

Example Sentences

Singer-songwriter Mayer occupies an office on the lot and has been working for months to buy it from the family of the famed Muppets creator, according to a real estate industry source with knowledge of the deal who is not authorized to speak about it publicly.

From Los Angeles Times

The singer-songwriter even helped serve pies at their opening game of the season at home to Liverpool, so it seems fitting that he was at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

From BBC

Nelson was considered the only full sibling to the “Purple Rain” singer-songwriter.

From Los Angeles Times

Amy Winehouse, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter, was that age when she died of alcohol poisoning in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times

Three years later, U2 lead singer Bono, singer-songwriter Bob Geldof and Jones met with Pope John Paul II as part of an effort to erase the debt load shouldered by third world nations.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• writer