one of the best, albeit underrated, singers

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navi tasan

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1) She is one of the best yet underrated singers of our time.
2) She is one of the best, yet underrated, singers of our time.
3) She is one of the best, albeit underrated, singers of our time.

Are those sentences correct?

I read something like #1 in a youtube comment. I can't find it anymore. It might have been deleted, or maybe I am not looking in the right place. The sentence gave me pause.

I am not sure it is logical. I like #2 and especially #3 better, but I have doubts about those too.
 
I'm going to say no, and then wonder yet again what exactly you mean by 'correct'.
 
Thank you very much, Jutfrank,

By correct, I mean grammatical. A sentence that won't have an asterisk in front of it in a book like A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language by Quirk et al.
 
By correct, I mean grammatical.

Would you please say this in your posts. I really do think that it leads to serious misunderstanding of your posts when you don't make it clear that you're talking about grammaticality. As you must know, it's very possible that a sentence is perfectly grammatical but at the same time completetly wrong.

The problem with your sentences is not grammar.
 
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