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He sings a note for you to hear (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tenor

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'he sings a' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'note for you to hear' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'note' is 'teno' which is located in the answer.
A single letter 'r' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for tenor that I've seen before include "Male voice (one of three?)" , "character" , "range of 14 across [GIGLI]" , "theme" , "Voice classification of Jose Carreras" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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