Before long, she was composing romantic ballads and pulsating odes to the Cuban peasantry.

Known as the Young Irelanders, they were romantic revolutionaries who composed ballads, wrote poetry and founded newspapers to promote their revolution.

He strummed the mandolin and guitar, composed ballads and sang in a band, the Lions of Jehovah.

Madonna continued to compose ballads and uptempo dance songs for Erotica (1992) and Bedtime Stories (1994).

Haswell is said to have been a member of the Sons of Liberty and to have composed ballads for the movement.

It was not the time to be composing sagas and ballads!

He composed some 30 operas, ballads and songs.

But I wrote music, composed ballads, and he'd picked up a lute somewhere and had taught himself how to use it.

As court poet, Chand Bardai had the traditional occupation of composing poems and ballads in praise of his patron and based loosely on historical incident.

He also composed historical ballads about the Sikh Gurus, warriors and martyrs called parsangs.