Just watch The Voice! Yes, we were shocked during the NBC hit's third round of blind auditions when a former member of Jesse McCartney's boy band Dream Street tried to vocally woo Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton into turning their chairs for him.
Gig (music) Gig is slang for a live musical performance. Originally coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians,[1] the term, short for the word engagement, now refers to any aspect of performing such as assisting with performance and attending musical performance.
An Overview of the Gig Economy. The gig economy is the collection of markets that match providers to consumers on a gig (or job) basis in support of on-demand commerce. In the basic model, gig workers enter into formal. agreements with on-demand companies to provide services to the companyâs clients.