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  • A person who sings, especially professionally.
    singer
  • a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.
    jazz
  • an account of someone's life written by someone else
    biography
  • someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film
    actor
  • Film genre that generates a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what might happen.
    Suspense
  • a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
    blockbuster
  • Film genre fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
    science fiction
  • A film using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects.
    cartoon
  • a form of popular music originating in the rural southern US. It is a mixture of ballads and dance tunes played characteristically on fiddle, banjo, guitar, and pedal steel guitar.
    country music
  • a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of a film
    producer
  • a writer of a book
    author
  • a device that plays instrumental accompaniments for a selection of songs to which the user sings along and that records the user's singing with the music.
    karaoke
  • Stringed musical instrument played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum.
    guitar
  • a famous actor or actress who appears in films.
    movie star
  • Genre of film that tells a love story
    romantic movie
  • A film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.
    action movie
  • Film genre that tells a story with a lot of humour.
    comedy
  • a percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands, typically cylindrical, barrel-shaped, or bowl-shaped, with a taut membrane over one or both ends.
    Drums