I made a living being a background singer for years.
I wasn't a great background singer.
Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.
I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.
Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
I don't really enjoy singing lead.
I was always so jealous of a band like Fleetwood Mac, for instance, where Christine McVie would sing a whole bunch of songs even though Stevie was the obvious lead singer. It added variety to their shows.
