![]() ![]() Then again, odds are you'd never get the real Hetfield to sing Toto's "Hold the Line," the Police's 'Every Breath You Take" or most of the other 25 AI James Hetfield covers we've collected below. "The results still aren't perfect and would never replace the real artist." "I try my best to make them sound as good as possible with lots of editing afterwards – usually! Sometimes magic happens and 95% of the vocals are good right away," explained the unidentified person behind the AI Playgrounds YouTube page, where you'll find many of these Hetfield-related items on their AI covers playlist. Of course the Metallica frontman's distinctive growl and mannerisms fit perfectly with classic metal tracks such as Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," but there's also a great deal of fun to be had hearing him digitally replicated on poppier fare such as Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" or Wham!'s saxophone-infused "Careless Whisper." Hetfield has proven to be a popular subject for these AI vocal experiments. As explained in a MusicRadar story last May, this is done by stripping the original a cappella audio file from a song and running it through a software program such as SoftVC VITS Singing Voice Conversion, which has been trained to convert those vocal files into the singing voice of your desired cover artist. The artist never actually sang that particular thing before. – Lady Gaga in 2014 telling the Guardian she would have given up singing had Bennett not become someone she could “relate to.For an AI cover version, fans use artificial intelligence-based programs to replicate an artist's voice and then place it over the music from another artist's song. I tell Tony every day that he saved my life.” “The other day, Tony said, ‘I’ve never once in my career not wanted to do this.’ It stung. He was in the process of perfecting his mesh of rockabilly and Tejano, and the song showcased his new style. – Country singer Tim McGraw in 2006 telling Time magazine about recording a duet with Bennett Song history Fender wrote and recorded 'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights', a blues ballad, for Duncan Records in 1959, during the early stages of his career. ![]() “I know the words to ‘Cold, Cold Heart’ by heart but I was shaking so bad standing 3 feet from him that I had to hold on to the lyric sheet to try to steady myself. “To attend a Tony Bennett concert is to find yourself in the presence of a performer who exudes a rough-hewn natural elegance, devoid of airs … He can still end a song like ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ or ‘How Do You Keep the Music Playing?’ with an old-fashioned, quasi-operatic crescendo but he makes these corny triumphal endings stick in your heart.” – Duke Ellington in his autobiography, “Music Is My Mistress” He gives to credit to everybody with him, including the fourth triangle player.” “Tony Bennett is the most unselfish performing artist today. I’ve met the Pope, Pavarotti – and Tony Bennett.” – Frank Sinatra in a 1965 Life magazine interview. “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.” ![]() If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.” “If you study the masters – Picasso, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire – right up to the day they died, they were performing. – 1995 Good Housekeeping magazine interview In my time, I’ve seen both go out of style but they always come back in vogue again.” * “Through song and art, I can communicate what I believe is the essence of life – truth and beauty. I want people to like me and I get a kick out of making them happy.” (Reuters) – Quotes by and about singer Tony Bennett, who has died at the age of 96: ![]()
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