How do you singers that normally have an english accent sound american when they sing?

Answer 1

ive always wondered that myself

Answer 2

Most professionally trained singers, especially from the Italian school of singing, work on pronouncing their words with pure vowels. Its actually really hard, because you have to go through every word of your piece and dissect all of the words into IPA symbols (the symbols you find after words in the older dictionaries). These symbols correlate to a pure vowel sound, most common being ah, eh, ee, ih, oh, or oo.

For example, say the word grace to yourself.

Americans commonly pronounce that word gr-ay-s.
A singer trained to sing pure vowels, however, would sing
gr-eh-ce or gr-eh-ih-ce,( two vowel sounds like that next to each other are called a dipthong, which is not only the best word ever, it also means trying to voice each vowel independently without putting a break between the two) while rolling the r's if the piece called for it.

So, essentially, its not so much that International singers sound American, its that they sing with pure vowels and consonants, which are a pretty uniform sound, and therefore, have no accent.

Answer 3

I'm american, and when I was taught to sing, I was told to sound Brittish because they're better at pronouncing their vowels so they sound nice. Maybe we as Americans are just trained to hear either a Country Western accent or the Brittish accent without knowing it.

Answer 4

great question!
My guess is that when english accented singers hear the american songs with no accent, they sing it the same way.
what do you think?

Answer 5

Same way, an english or american person can sound French or Italian. With practice. Listening and speaking the langauge helps.