The legendary soul singer Chaka Khan is calling out the music acts of today who resort to using auto-tune in their songs instead of raw vocal range. Chaka was at the Angel Ball on Monday, where she ...
The vocalist expressed her frustrations with musicians using the technology to alter their pitch in recordings Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at ...
There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...
As if he hasn't proven he can sing sans Auto-Tune enough times, T-Painsang the national anthem at the Dodgers Stadium this Monday and absolutely killed it. We caught up with T-Pain at the game to talk ...
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Chaka Khan is a legend in R&B and pays attention to those who have come after her. She admires some of the new talents but isn’t a fan of those who use auto-tune. It has become a staple in music over ...
Kanye West and Jay-Z may be at odds with each other now, especially after West’s comments about the Brooklyn native’s kids. But the two seemed to be as close as brothers back in the day, even ...
T-Pain - or as he's known to many, the king of Auto-Tune. Well, it turns out this guy has a pretty beautiful voice and really doesn't need to be hiding it with those awful effects. Jay-Z tried ...
Chaka Khan thinks that if you need to use Auto-tune to hit your notes, you should get a job at the Post Office rather than in a recording studio. “There is some great stuff out there and there are ...
Kym Marsh has revealed her shock at the use of Auto-Tune on The X Factor. The Coronation Street actress wrote in her New magazine column that she did not think it was "right" to use the audio ...
If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...