Candidates on The masked singer Prepare the show in several ways, but few of them get the help of their own internal vocal coach. Paparazzo, however, was lucky to have a Grammy winner singer in his corner.
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During Wednesday April 16, episode of the Fox singing competition, Paparazzo was exposed as Matthew LawrenceWho ended his time on the series singing a song by her girlfriend Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas‘Group, TLC.
Lawrence, 45, said exclusively US Weekly It was super intimate to sing “Unprety” given his personal link with the melody.
“Are you kidding?!” I don’t want to massacre her song ”, the Boy meets the world alum joking. “Without forgetting that I had to ask [Chilli’s] comrade [Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins]Because she wrote it. I had to obtain authorization from her. I said to myself: “Oh, it’s embarrassing.” “”
As for the way “Unprety” has even become an option for him to sing, Lawrence has only himself to blame. When he signed for The masked singerHe had to fill out a form listing some of his favorite songs, and he chose the TLC song as one of his pieces of “Guilty Pleasure”. He did not think that the producers would actually give him “unprety”, but he noted that he loved the song since she made his debut in 1999.
“This sacred thing was stuck in my head [when it came out]”, He recalls.” Whenever I was in the shower or in the car, I sang him. So I wrote it, not thinking that it would ever be chosen, but it is. They chose it! I said to myself: “Ok, uh, it’s going to be interesting.” “”
Matthew Lawrence officially started the chilli following his divorce from Cheryl Burke. The actor and the singer of TLC, whose real name is Rozonda Thomas, began to see himself romantically in November 2022, three months after his representative told us that they were “just friends” when they went out together in Hawaii. By the new year, the […]
Chilli, 54, was apparently a good sport on the situation, even giving him two -year -old Some advice on how to top it.
“She’s so professional,” said Lawrence. “The main advice was that you have to punctuate yourself because you can lose your breath – really, you rhythm when you sing, especially if you move and do things and worry about all of this. … [Your voice] is a muscle, and I do not exercise this muscle, so rhythm yourself. She gave me some good little licks to do. She was great, guy.
And was Chilli satisfied with the performance of his partner?
“Yes. Whether real or not, she gave the impression that she was very impressed,” said Lawrence. “She was so soft, so united. She really liked the “hallelujah”. It was his favorite. ” (THE Fraternal love veteran sung Leonard CohenThe emblematic song During the night of Shrek in February.)
Who is it? This is the question on several occasions by the panelists on the masked singer in each episode, and the answer is: everyone. Since the start of the program in January 2019, celebrity competitors have included Joey Fatone, Michelle Williams, Tori Spelling, Mickey Rourke, Patti Labelle, Kelly Osbourne, Bret Michaels, Lil Wayne, Jordyn Woods, Wendy Williams, […]
While Lawrence is made far enough The masked singer Given his lack of professional experience, he said that he had to be convinced to make the show due to a past trauma involving a Broadway hearing failure.
“I’m really afraid of singing,” revealed the actor. “I bombed a very large hearing in Broadway in front of many famous faces. It was horrible, really bad. It was for Whining to play it Johnny Depp Character of the show, and they made an adaptation for Broadway. I do not know if it has never been done or anything, because I would have done it out of my memory. … And since then, I have never really returned to stage.
Lawrence is not sure that he is ready to embark on a new career as a pop star, but her time in the series – in particular his triumph of Shrek Night – helped him lose part of this phobia around singing.
“This is the season of my life when I will start saying yes to things and not to say no so much and to chase fear and to no longer live in this space,” he explained. “It was the purpose of that. And it worked! “
The masked singer is broadcast on Wednesday Fox at 8 p.m. he. New episodes broadcast the next day on Hulu.
