Question

Writeacher, I need to rephrase a few verbs related to film stars. I also wanted to prepare a sort of vocabulary to be used when describing music groups.
Can you suggest a website? Thank you very much.


1) She's been involved in show business (?) since she was 7 years old, when she won a talent contest.
2) She first auditioned for a band at the age of eight.
Her big break came (I need to rephrase this) in 1997, when she signed a record contract.
3) After that, her group released (synonym?) several best-selling albums and in the years that followed (in the following years?) they became the most popular female group of all time.
4) They broke up (synonym: split up?) in 2005.Since then, she has had a very successful solo career (rephrase: "solo career").
5) She has already starred in box-office successes (rephrase?) such as Dreamgirls.


to record, to film, to be named etc.

Answer 1

1) She's been performing since she was 7 years old, when she won a talent contest.
<b>(What does she perform? Singing? Playing trumpet? What?)</b>

2) She first auditioned for a band at the age of eight, and her first success was in 1997 when she signed a recording contract.

3) After that, her group released several best-selling albums, and in the following years, they became the most popular female group of all time.
<b>("released" is it!! No synonym for this particular meaning!)</b>

4) They split up in 2005. Since then, she has had a very successful career performing on her own.

5) She has already starred in hit movies, such as <i>Dreamgirls. </i>