Meghan Trainor’s lips may be moving on her new single, but no sound was coming out for about two months earlier this year when the All About That Bass singer developed polyps on her vocal cords.
“They were brutal,” says the 20-year-old singer-songwriter. Doctors put Trainor on complete voice rest, forcing producer and co-writer Kevin Kadish to build tracks for her debut album for Epic Records using demo vocal takes Trainor had recorded as guides.
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When she finally started to sing again, Trainor would get discouraged because her voice initially wasn’t as strong as it had been.
“Kevin would have to calm me down,” she says. “We’d dim the lights, so I wouldn’t get frustrated.” She even recorded some of her vocals lying flat on her back in the studio, to maker her voice sound stronger. “He made me a bed with a mic bent over it, just to get anything out.”
Trainor’s voice finally returned, allowing her to finish the album, due in December. We couldn’t be happier for her, because we can’t get enough of new single Lips Are Moving.
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