Gwen Stefani, Katy Perry, and Mary J. Blige all started as backup singers.NBC, John Shearer, Raymond Boyd/Getty Images There's no one right way to make it big as a singer. There's the classic method ...

Many famous musicians started their careers singing backup for other artists. They stood behind the main performer, adding harmony and depth to songs while learning the business. Some of these ...

Every time I hear one of these 1969 songs, I'm instantly transformed into a backup singer whether I like it or not.

Backing singers are the unheralded heroes of popular music, and yet some have given it all up for a regular nine-to-five. Almost every major act has employed them at some point to give their music an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Michael's levels of perfectionism in the studio are well-documented - depending on who you believe, he tried either nine or ...

Whenever you flick on the radio or put on your favorite album, your ears almost automatically tune into the lead vocals in the song. That impeccable singer in the front—you listen to their tone, their ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Cissy Houston, the gospel singer and backup vocalist who guided her daughter Whitney Houston to stardom, died Monday at the age of 91. Cissy Houston began singing ...

Original QUEENSRŸCHE frontman Geoff Tate says that it is "a great idea" for singers to rely on backing tracks to enhance their lead vocals during their concerts. In recent years, more and more artists ...

Meg Walters is a contributing writer at InStyle covering fashion, celebrity news, and entertainment. Here's the latest music theory: fans are convinced that the distant "ahs" in the song were actually ...

The Ghanaian entertainment fraternity has been hit with sorrow following the death of musician and renowned backing vocalist ...