Stevens (no relation to Nicky) had been performing as a big-band singer since a teenager in the late 1960s.

Mr. Daugherty says he wants to be a big-band singer when he grows up.

Mr. McCullough, the son of a theatrical impresario and a big-band singer, never formally studied design.

The revolution had an element of revenge, as the big-band singer who had once been relegated to a supporting role revived swing in his own image.

His younger brother Ray was also a big-band singer, most notably with Glenn Miller's orchestra.

But for this year at least, only Holland America has a cruise devoted to the most famous (onetime) big-band singer of them all, Frank Sinatra.

His mother, Virginia Ahn, had been a big-band singer with Tommy Dorsey.

Sands was born into a musical family in Chicago, Illinois; his father was a pianist and his mother a big-band singer.

Don Cornell and Giselle Mackenzie, big-band singers.

Hagen was married for 59 years to Elouise "Lou" Sidwell, a former big-band singer, until her death in 2002.