Given a factoid/trivia type question, generate the topic of the question. The topic is the entity the question talks about.
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Question: Food writer and critic Egon Ronay, who died in 2010, was born in what country, which offers a food related pun?

Answer: egon ronay


Question: Manchild and Buffalo Stance were hits for which singer?

Answer: manchild


Question: Which American vocalist (described by the British newspaper The Guardian as one of the greatest voices of her generation) whose repertoire included jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop, was unknown outside Washington, D.C., until after she died of melanoma in 1996?

Answer:
blues