How to Use keyboardist in a Sentence

keyboardist

noun
  • The bassist or keyboardist can be tired or hungover and get through the gig.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The jazz keyboardist Chick Corea, who died last year, won two.
    New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Pianist and keyboardist Robert Glasper is a man of many hats.
    Michael J. West, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The band added keyboardist Clint Bailey to the lineup too.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 29 July 2021
  • John Gosling, former keyboardist for The Kinks, has died at age 75.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The band consisted of a drummer and bassist on the right side of the stage, keyboardist, guitarist, and DJ on the left.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
  • First the strings, then two guitarists, two keyboardists, a bassist and a drummer to round it out.
    Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2023
  • The founding member and keyboardist of Depeche Mode died in May at the age of 60.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The singer-songwriter and keyboardist died at age 79 on Nov. 30.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Well, [our keyboardist] Rob Collins died in a car crash during the making of that.
    Annie Zaleski, SPIN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Although Garcia gifted the pipe to Saunders, the keyboardist did not use drugs and hid the pipe.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Last month, Depeche Mode co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher died at the age of 60.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 27 June 2022
  • Jim Beard, a solo artist and touring keyboardist for Steely Dan for the past 16 years has died at age 63.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Chick Corea, the jazz keyboardist who died of cancer last month at 79, also won two.
    New York Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek produced the first four X albums.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 Aug. 2023
  • More than a mere keyboardist in the band, Fletcher was an essential part of the studio team.
    Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • The death was announced by her husband, the keyboardist Craig Doerge.
    New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • In the mix: Suki Waterhouse, who plays keyboardist Karen Kirko in the series.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The band's keyboardist, who died Wednesday after a brief illness at the age of 79, was also the writer of some of the group's most beloved songs.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Depeche Mode on Monday shared the cause of death for co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher, who died last month.
    Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
  • In the meantime, Costello and keyboardist Steve Nieve are touring Europe this fall as a duo.
    Spin Staff, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Dean Daughtry, the keyboardist and co-founder of Atlanta Rhythm Section, has died.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2023
  • David was quirky and weird, but on the other hand, there was [keyboardist] Bernie Worrell, who was equally as weird.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Martin Duffy, a keyboardist for the Scottish rock band Primal Scream, has died.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Singer, keyboardist and bassist Mike Kerr puts the bass front and center, often fuzzed-out and doing a solo.
    Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • What happens when the fingers of a guitarist or keyboardist are no longer limber?
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The announcement comes only a few months after the group’s co-founder and keyboardist Andy Fletcher died at 60 in May.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But most of the real work came from his DJ, drummer, bassist, and keyboardist, while the main man stretched his cannabis charisma over a skeleton of rhymes.
    Jon M. Gilbertson, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2022
  • John Gosling became the first full-time keyboardist to join the Kinks in 1970, contributing to the richer, more expansive sound of many of their albums that decade.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 Sep. 2024
  • He later got hired as the touring keyboardist for Frank Ocean, who quickly picked up on his level of talent.
    Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2024

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