backing band

collocation in English

meaningsofbackingandband

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backing
noun
uk
/ˈbæk.ɪŋ/us
/ˈbæk.ɪŋ/
support, especially money, that someone gives to a person ...
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band
noun
uk
/bænd/us
/bænd/
a group of musicians who play modern ...
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(Definition ofbackingandbandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He also performs as a solo act with abackingband.
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He used the name interchangeably for solo shows and for those with abackingbandof available musicians.
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She is then seen in the hotel ballroom for a short segment performing the chorus of the song onstage with abackingband.
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Goh also provided guitar and toured in herbackingbandin support of the album.
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The musician would typically use the looping audio as a backing track providing a virtualbackingband.
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All subsequent recordings featured a fullerbackingbandsound.
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Theirbackingbandchanged from album to album, with the core members listed below.
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It was produced by the duo without an additionalbackingband.
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For her final tour before this planned hiatus, she put together abackingband.
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He participates in many musicians' recording, or plays a bass as a member of various solo singers'backingband.
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He employed the group as hisbackingbandfor the rest of his life.
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They opted to go out without anybackingband, playing theaters in what would later be termed an unplugged format.
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This is the first of his albums to feature a fullbackingband(on many tracks).
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With a permanentbackingband, the group began embarking on worldwide tours.
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Throughout most of the tour, they performed as herbackingband.
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He did not start arranging the group into a full-fledgedbackingbanduntil he began pushing for major label attention in 1997.
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From 1992 onwards, he started to produce more and more live shows, either with abackingband, or solo.
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As a live performer, she is unpredictable and never uses a set list; herbackingbandconsists mostly of different friend-musicians at each show.
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He allegedly showed his appreciation of hisbackingbandby bowing to them rather than to the audience after his performance.
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In 1973, he formed a newbackingband.
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