Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.
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When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.
In our country, singers are known as the voice of actors.
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.