Celeb News: Cari Cole on Katy Perry: "She's a very good singer."

Lvl8Treeko

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Hi I'm Cari Cole. I'm a celebrity vocal coach and artist development expert. And I help artist find their voice, craft their music, and create successful music careers. I've worked with Donald Fagen from Steely Dan, Courtney Love from Hole, I've worked with the band Journey.

on katy:

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One of the things right away that I as a vocal coach hear in Katy Perrys' voice is a really good tone, so I know that she's trained and low and behold when I went to search and find out how she trains- she has trained classically, so I could hear that tone in her voice. She trained from 9 to 16. She trained operatically, so that's one of the elements. She also stylistically uses some interesting things. She uses the uh-oh-oh, oh-oh. Those little glottals are all throughout her music, like Britney Spears did, she has continued along in that legacy. I think one of the keys to her success has been song choice. She works a lot with Doctor Luke who I just actually had a master session with at the ASCAP Expo Conference, which was awesome. He broke down the E.T song and showed us the whole design of how they created that track and how she came in and she just sang a scatch vocal and the scratch vocal ended up being the final vocal on the record. But that's because she was very- she's a very good singer. She has a wide range and she works really hard at that she's also a really good song writer. So she's the real deal. She's done her work. How to sing like her, really pay attention to her diction. You know, she'll use- Like she doesn't sing "I" straight up it's "ah". There's almost like a country drawl to it but it sounds cool when it's put over pop tracks so pay attention to her diction this is something that producers will do with you in the studio they'll make these corrections. It was something she too had to learn. I think a lot of it comes from diction so pay a lot of attention to how she's pronouncing it. I think that's a big key for her.

The true tea

Pressed, get in here

zach

Sammi

I see no lies here

Venus

Her voice spans one octave

Vulps

Bdawg

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Originally posted by zach

Who?

Bathomet

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Originally posted by Venus

Her voice spans one octave

lol no. Btw shes a professional vocal coach. She knows it better than a troll.

Bad Wolf

She's not a good singer. She has a nice, pleasant voice... but isn't very technical with it.

Her pitch is usually ALL OVER the place.

Reza

im loving all of these random new katy stans. y'all are fiesty

PopBoi

I honestly thought this was going to be about Britney when i saw it get bumped

hew is this girl?

Sammi

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Originally posted by Rainbows

She's not a good singer. She has a nice, pleasant voice... but isn't very technical with it.

Her pitch is usually ALL OVER the place.

She's a solid singer.And I agree about the rest of post. She should take a few singing lessons and work on her technique.

Bad Wolf

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Originally posted by Sammi

She's a solid singer.And I agree about the rest of post. She should take a few singing lessons and work on her technique.

When singing live she just doesn't breathe very well + strains quite easily.

If she worked on her breathing control + pitchiness she'd be an aiight singer.

duybeeGAshantiGA

Singers sing.. Katy doesnt sing.. She gasps air..

Katy is a studio singer. She can sing in studio then they autotune or cut or put layers on top of each other to make it a perfect piece of BIG POP RECORD.

Lvl8Treeko

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Originally posted by Rainbows

She's not a good singer. She has a nice, pleasant voice... but isn't very technical with it.

Her pitch is usually ALL OVER the place.

these vids beg to differ

ya'll are only checkin the firework performances... which she's improved on her tour

Sammi

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Originally posted by Rainbows

When singing live she just doesn't breathe very well + strains quite easily.

If she worked on her breathing control + pitchiness she'd be an aiight singer.

You're right about this. She's quite good at singing acoustic records and ballads but when she's singing up-tempo songs and moves around...then comes the problems.

Lvl8Treeko

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Originally posted by duybeeGAshantiGA

Singers sing.. Katy doesnt sing.. She gasps air..

Katy is a studio singer. She can sing in studio then they autotune or cut or put layers on top of each other to make it a perfect piece of BIG POP RECORD.

Good to see you here, always so pressed.

Lvl8Treeko

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Originally posted by Sammi

You're right about this. She's quite good at singing acoustic records and some ballads but when she's singing up-tempo songs and moves around...then comes the problems.

THIS THIS THIS!!!! It's like that for almost any artist, try singing firework and jumping and moving around like she does and it can be A MESS! I believe she can hit all the uptempo song notes in the studio of course because she's not moving at all. She has more breath so she can hold notes longer, more pitch controlled, etc

S&M

I saw Katy live at the Palace she does sound MUCH better in concert than on tv, but for someone who's been a trained singer since she was 9 years old, she's not up to what I'd expect.

B94

You guys need to stop trying to shade her singing, she isn't even that bad at all. I'm not a fan of her but to say she can't sing is extremely delusional. I take the vocal coaches word over any of you trolls with your sad desperate attempts to shade.:hey****you:The same pressed people trolling .

Mean Trees

She worked with Donald Fagen???? Lawd...