keyboardist

noun

key·​board·​ist ˈkē-ˌbȯr-dist How to pronounce keyboardist (audio)
: a person who plays a keyboard musical instrument

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Patricia Arquette learns of Lost Highway director David Lynch's death during live interview: 'There's nobody like him' Garth Hudson Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist who was the last surviving member of Rock and Roll legends, the Band, died Jan. 21 at 87. Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025 Barry Goldberg, keyboardist who performed with Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, has died. Marina Watts, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025 Garth Hudson, the keyboardist, sax player and archivist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Band whose farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last Waltz, died Tuesday in his sleep at a nursing home in Woodstock, NY. Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025 Accompanied by a talent-rich group of Brazilian and American instrumentalists that includes keyboardist Herbie Hancock — who had played alongside Shorter in the 1960s as a member of Miles Davis fabled second great quintet — Shorter and Nascimento created something remarkable. George Varga, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for keyboardist 

Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of keyboardist was in 1973

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“Keyboardist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keyboardist. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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