Editing Lip sync (section)

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The [[Super Bowl]] has used lip syncing during singers' performances at the live-to-air sports event. During [[Super Bowl XLIII]], "[[Jennifer Hudson]]'s performance of the national anthem" was "lip-synched ...to a previously recorded track, and apparently so did [[Faith Hill]] who performed before her". The singers lip synced "...at the request of [[Rickey Minor]], the pregame show producer", who argued that "There's too many variables to go live."<ref name="hudson super bowl abc">{{cite news |title=Hudson's Super Bowl Lip-Sync No Surprise to Insiders Super Bowl Producers Asked Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill to Lip-Sync |first1=Luchina |last1=Fisher |first2=Sheila |last2=Marikar |date=February 3, 2009 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WinterConcert/story?id=6788924&page=1}}</ref> Subsequent Super Bowl national anthems were performed live. [[Whitney Houston]]'s rendition of the anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl was also reported to have been lip synced.<ref name="hudson super bowl abc"/> Such pre-recorded performances for the Super Bowl's halftime shows and national anthem have been commonplace since the 1990s; the [[NFL]] has confirmed this as standard practice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sdut-bruno-mars-peppers-halftime-show-mostly-mimed-2014feb04-htmlstory.html|title=Super Bowl halftime show mostly pre-recorded|work=The San Diego Union-Tribune|first=George |last=Varga |date=February 4, 2014}}</ref> In January 1998, singer-songwriter [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]] was criticised for lip syncing the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|American national anthem]] at the opening of the [[Super Bowl XXXII]] to a digitally-recorded track of her own voice. This was noticeable as the singer missed her cue, and thus, did not sing the first few words of the song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJgWT8NMPJs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/NJgWT8NMPJs |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=National Anthem|last=SSK1558|date=23 February 2007|access-date=25 March 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Super Bowl producers have since admitted that they attempt to have all performers pre-record their vocals.<ref name="hudson super bowl abc"/>

Some Olympics events have used lip syncing. In the [[2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony]], the song "[[Ode to the Motherland]]" appeared to be sung by [[Lin Miaoke]] at the ceremony, but it emerged that she mimed her performance to a recording by another girl, [[Yang Peiyi]], who actually won the audition. It was a last-minute decision to use lip syncing, following a Politburo member's objection to Yang's physical appearance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=UcC6CsCicTQ|title= The radio interview of the music director Chen Qigang|website= [[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2545387/Beijing-Olympics-Faking-scandal-over-girl-who-sang-in-opening-ceremony.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080813093038/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2545387/Beijing-Olympics-Faking-scandal-over-girl-who-sang-in-opening-ceremony.html |archive-date=2008-08-13 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Beijing Olympics Faking scandal over girl who sang in opening ceremony|work=The Daily Telegraph | date=August 12, 2008 | location=London | first=Richard | last=Spencer | access-date=May 7, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://vhead.blog.sina.com.cn/player/outer_player.swf?auto=1&vid=15565476&uid=1267084551 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-05-04 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721104121/http://vhead.blog.sina.com.cn/player/outer_player.swf?auto=1&vid=15565476&uid=1267084551 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7556058.stm| title=China Olympic ceremony star mimed|work=BBC News| date=August 12, 2008| first=Michael| last=Bristow}}</ref> International Olympic Committee executive director Gilbert Felli defended the use of a more photogenic double.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=6&art_id=nw20080813092304750C677298|title=Organisers defend fake ceremony singer|author=Independent Newspapers Online|work=Independent Online|access-date=July 9, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/sports/olympics/13beijing.html?ex=1376366400&en=ae38339add1f8a4f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink|title=In Grand Olympic Show, Some Sleight of Voice|last=Yardley|first=Jim|date=August 13, 2008|quote=Under pressure from the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party to find the perfect face and voice, the ceremonies' production team concluded that the best solution was to use two girls instead of one.|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=January 23, 2009}}</ref>

On February 10, 2006, [[Luciano Pavarotti]] appeared during a performance of the opera aria "[[Nessun Dorma]]" at the [[2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony]] in [[Turin]], Italy, at his final performance. In the last act of the opening ceremony, his performance received the longest and loudest ovation of the night from the international crowd. [[Leone Magiera]], the conductor who directed the performance, revealed in his 2008 memoirs, ''Pavarotti Visto da Vicino'', that the performance was prerecorded weeks earlier.<ref name="guardian-lipsync">{{cite news |url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2271470,00.html |title=Pavarotti mimed at final performance |access-date=April 7, 2008 |work=The Guardian  |date=April 7, 2008 | location=London | first=Tom | last=Kington}}</ref> "The orchestra pretended to play for the audience, I pretended to conduct and Luciano pretended to sing. The effect was wonderful," he wrote. Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, said that the tenor had turned the Winter Olympic Committee's invitation down several times because it would have been impossible to sing late at night in the sub-zero conditions of Turin in February. The committee eventually persuaded him to take part by pre-recording the song.