It was a talent contest to find a pop performer.
Since moving to Elektra three years ago she has done considerably better as a pop performer.
It's common to praise a pop performer by saying that she made a concert into a kind of idealized party.
As a young pop performer who looked like any other wholesome child star, he was merely another show-biz celebrity.
She won the title after dancing in a school talent show, when she showed off some moves inspired by the pop performer.
She and her husband wrote for the movies and turned out hits for a second generation of pop performers.
Like other child prodigies, teen-age pop performers rarely come across as originals.
Today hardly anyone sings like him, in part because pop performers rarely have to face down their fans with comparable clarity and candor.
The center's programming is sprinkled with the kinds of pop performers not ordinarily thought to be regulars on the arts circuit.
For vocal dexterity and sheer lascivious aura alone, there can be few better pop performers around.