Why we need creatives The truth is that we need more creatives in positions of influence â to color the world with beauty and life. Creatives craft poetry in a world that is otherwise content with prose.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Crooner. Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use of microphones.
It is an umbrella term in that virtually anything that includes: 1  7th and 9th chords (bonus with a hefty use of tritone substitutions) 2  a solo-based instrument and/or a vocalist/s committed to a smoother style of crooning. 3  rarely crossing the 100 bpm threshold.