Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

Steve Perry, the former singer for Journey, recently criticized the use of Auto-Tune. He spoke to Kyle Meredith about the pitch-correction technology in a recent interview. You can listen to their ...

There’s no sound more prominent in rap right now than that of Auto-Tune. Since the mid 2000s, seasoned OGs like T-Pain and Lil Wayne have finessed the vocal effect into a hit-making cheat code. Based ...

American Idol has already run eight seasons. Since its debut in 2002, watching non-singers belting out of tune has become an amusing addiction. When Karaoke was introduced in the 80's from Japan, it ...

Typically, the music-streaming public remains at arm’s length when it comes to tricks and tips that artists use in the recording studio — it’s too nerdy, too complicated, and only useful to obsessives ...

T-Pain proved his vocal chops when he sat down for NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts series in 2014 Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Believe it or not, Cher's dance anthem "Believe" has just turned 20 years old. The song, released on Oct. 22, 1998, kicked off a Cher renaissance, cemented her role as a pop icon and popularized a ...

Auto-Tune can serve as an additive or a crutch, but it has opened the floodgates for a relentless wave of untalented goons in the mainstream. The constant Auto-Tuning of vocals begets formulated, ...

T-Pain has become a music icon for his use of auto-tune, but it is also the reason for a dark period in his life. On Netflix's This Is Pop, which explores hidden truths about some of the biggest ...

When it comes to vocals, Ariana Grandedoes this. It only makes sense that Ariana would feel the need to defend herself against someone claiming that she's using auto-tune during her live shows. "It ...

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