Clearly a taste-maker, she is something of a contradiction: undoubtedly cliquey, yet with a reputation for being down-to-earth and unaffected.

Talvin Singh OK (Island) Talvin Singh is the Anglo-Asian taste-maker responsible for this fusion between East and West.

I am a taste-maker, no less, on whose every word intelligent people hang when deciding what they should or shouldn't be laughing at.

Behold New York's literary taste-makers acting like a bunch of cowardy custards.

These are the taste-makers, the selected few who are granted entry to this elite club.

Customers and taste-makers remain to be convinced.

The consensus among taste-makers says Brown is irrelevant and repetitive, his anger-management issues a stain on a once-great career.

But readers hoping for an in-the-trenches account from Ebert's decades as one of the nation's taste-makers will be disappointed.

The festival has grown from humble roots in 1987 to become a must-attend event for global music business rainmakers and taste-makers.

Her debut album "19" is due for release later this month but, as far as taste-makers and pundits are concerned, she cannot fail.