A etymology comes from either "Carrying a torch for him/her"; which means to long for the misused lover. the imaginable originside is that the singer (torch singers come most only female) sang in a sultry, jazzy way to bring out the sensual tones of the voice, so resembling the smouldering torch... although virtually all torch singers have a piece to display their vocal range like than a sensualism of the voice.

Édith Piaf, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Olivor, and Billie Holiday, among others, were reknowned torch singers. Carrying a torch in todays world come Ute Lemper and Diana Krall.

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