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Chris Brown Skewered for Lip-Syncing Awards Song

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:03:34 CDT

Chris Brown just got a little less popular. Singers including Pink and Joe Jonas are lambasting him for lip-syncing "Turn Up the Music," the song he performed at the Billboard Music Awards program. "One day if I lip-sync, I hope I do it as well as him," snorted Pink in...

Oops: Idol Winner Has Lip Sync Miss at Macy's Parade

John Johnson — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:18:24 CST

Entertainers of the world, we understand you need to lip sync every now and then. All we ask is that you at least come close to making it look real. Today at the Macy's parade, American Idol winner Scotty McCreery most definitely did not, notes the Huffington Post . The recording...

Britney Begins Tour With Kids, K-Fed in Tow

Katherine Thompson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:04:37 CST

Britney Spears has set off on her Circus tour, but it won't restrict her family time. The pop princess' ex-husband Kevin Federline, who has custody of their two sons, has agreed to let them accompany the singer—as long as he can, too. For his trouble, K-Fed will get a...

Sydney Olympics Also Featured Fake Performances

Nick McMaster — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:38:01 CDT

The world was shocked to learn that Chinese singer Lin Miaoke was really just a pretty lip-syncher, but fakery seems to be par for the Olympic course: the Sydney Symphony has disclosed that its performers mimed to a backing tape during the 2000 opening ceremony. "It's correct that we were...

2 Chinese 'Songbirds' May Close Games Together

Kevin Spak — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:50:01 CDT

Yang Peiyi, the 7-year-old songstress whom Chinese officials deemed better heard than seen during the Olympic opening ceremonies, may appear alongside her lip-syncing counterpart during Sunday’s closing ceremonies, the Hong Kong Standard reports. Organizers who claimed that the decision to replace Yang with a cuter girl was “in the national...

China Defends 'Olympic Karaoke'

Jess Kilby — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:50:07 CDT

Chinese officials are defending Friday’s lip-synched performance of its national anthem, reports the AP. "There were a number of candidates to sing that song and at the end of the day the artistic directors picked the best voice and the best performer," a spokesman said. The actual singer, a 7-year-old...

Pavarotti Lipsynched Last Performance

Caroline Zimmerman — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:02:52 CDT

Lipsynching isn't just for neophytes like Nikki Hilton—none other than tenor Luciano Pavarotti faked his way through his final public performance at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics, the Guardian reports. In a new book, Pavarotti's conductor and pianist claims that he recorded the cancer-stricken tenor and the...