Blaine’s Puzzle Blog: NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 26, 2025): Current American Singer

Q: Name a famous current American singer. Replace the last name with a colloquial term for a person from the place where this singer was born and raised. Say the result out loud. Phonetically, you’ll get a form of singing the singer doesn’t usually do. Who is the singer and what is the kind of singing?

I realize why I was having trouble with the puzzle. I knew the singer, but the “phonetically” was what threw me. I had to change my pronunciation for the sake of making the puzzle work.