Katy Perry had a very special fan in the American Idol audience on Sunday!
28.04.2024 - 00:51 / deadline.com
Can you tell who has a “good” voice and who has a “bad” voice just by looking someone in the face who is lip-syncing to a song? This is the question posed to participants weekly on the Fox game show I Can See Your Voice, hosted and created by Ken Jeong.
“The whole show is predicated on, is this a ‘good’ singer or a ‘bad’ singer without ever hearing them actually hearing them sing,” Jeong tells Deadline during a panel at its Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event. “We use visual clues, lip-sync clues, and like detective kind of clues. At the end of the day, the contestant has an opportunity to win life-changing money by determining if the final secret voice is good or bad. And if it is good, then they can win up to $100,000. It’s really just feel-good television at its best.”
Casting and coaching are perhaps the most important elements of the show because the singers are good actors that can fool even the best panelists — a group that includes Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Bailon-Houghton and a variety of guests including Yvette Nicole Brown, Taye Diggs and Dionne Warwick, to name a few.
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“Shout-out to the producers. Logan Clark, our showrunner Dan Martin, who do this amazing job of auditioning all the secret voices months in advance. They really have a great vetting process, and the coaching of it in rehearsals that I’m not privy to,” shared Jeong. “They will coach, if it’s a really great singer, they may coach that person to ‘lip-sync really badly’ or they may do a reverse fake out where, if the panelists thinks, ‘Okay, this person lip-syncs badly, it’s a good singer.’ Or, they might do a double fake out and have a good singer
Katy Perry had a very special fan in the American Idol audience on Sunday!
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