Lip-syncing is actually a common practice in many stage performances, due to the difficulty in managing breath pulsation while leaping about. That leads to questions about the artists' actual ability to sing at the quality level of the recording being played during the performance. In these cases, you are basically just watching a portrayal of the song being sung as the dance number takes place. The artist may be holding a microphone that is not connected at all to the sound system at the performance. The audience might as well be listening to the artist on a CD or mp3, but they happen to be paying $75 to see the star "live".
I don't know of any such recordings of Michael Jackson lip-syncing his performances.
It's nearly impossible to jump and land, run around, and dance like Michael Jackson did during his performances without at least some bumpy sounds from your body jostling around. Your breath pulsates when your body jostles.
It may be that Michael trained very hard at both singing and dancing simultaneously and was able to actually pull that off. He did start out singing AND dancing at the same time at a very early age.
Perhaps others here know more background on how MJ managed to NOT lip-sync while performing the way he did, if that is the case.
Just to see how nearly impossible it is to do that, just try to hold a steady note and jump around, run around, and dance like crazy. I don't know how he did it.
Yeah, there will always be parts where you will hear bumpy sounds. You can hear it here at 1:27 of video. Some singers or groups will lip sync less than often though like this group here.
70's & early 80's... I was a DJ at a local club that was one of the hottest places around, lines out the door often, around 79 to 82. Actually won a Dance contest and taught the Latin Hustle back then! Still have an Elvis trophy from it! Hahaha...
A few of the best from then were:
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (the Ladies would all scream when this started...)
Kook & The Gang, Donna Summer, More Michael Jackson, Gloria Gaynor, Dan Hartman, Earth Wind & Fire, I have literally hundreds of them, still have some of the original 33" single LP's that we used with the BPM marked on them by hand... LOL
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Of course you've heard the recordings of Britney Spear's actual voice while performing her act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2uqcQDmy9w
Lip-syncing is actually a common practice in many stage performances, due to the difficulty in managing breath pulsation while leaping about. That leads to questions about the artists' actual ability to sing at the quality level of the recording being played during the performance. In these cases, you are basically just watching a portrayal of the song being sung as the dance number takes place. The artist may be holding a microphone that is not connected at all to the sound system at the performance. The audience might as well be listening to the artist on a CD or mp3, but they happen to be paying $75 to see the star "live".
I don't know of any such recordings of Michael Jackson lip-syncing his performances.
It's nearly impossible to jump and land, run around, and dance like Michael Jackson did during his performances without at least some bumpy sounds from your body jostling around. Your breath pulsates when your body jostles.
It may be that Michael trained very hard at both singing and dancing simultaneously and was able to actually pull that off. He did start out singing AND dancing at the same time at a very early age.
Perhaps others here know more background on how MJ managed to NOT lip-sync while performing the way he did, if that is the case.
Just to see how nearly impossible it is to do that, just try to hold a steady note and jump around, run around, and dance like crazy. I don't know how he did it.
Bob