![]() Future generations may talk in fearful tones about the night they witnessed Lewis performing earnest 2018 ballad You Are The Reason alongside a slow-dancing couple from the audience who are wearing antlers. Some moments are positively surreal, such as the jazz reworking of Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day or an icky virtual duet with the “iconic vocal” of the late Nat “King” Cole. ![]() Seasonal staples such as Winter Wonderland and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town are rendered – in post-Bublé style – as swing jazz, with big vocal crescendoes, dry ice and a tree that lights up on cue at the end of White Christmas. “My kind of people.”Īfter previous forays into clubbier sounds, here the 38-year old is recasting herself as a sort of Christmassy Ella Fitzgerald. “Has anyone got their trees up yet?” she yells. Without a studio album since 2015’s I Am, she is finally touring 2013 festive album Christmas, With Love. Since then, though, Lewis has split with mentor Simon Cowell and in 2016 pulled out of a Broadway production of Cats citing an autoimmune condition. Watch Aloe Blacc Perform “Wake Me Up” in 3 Languages to Honor Avicii Using Respeecher AI TranslationĬhris Ume Co-Founder of Metaphysic.The 2006 X Factor winner’s career could hardly have got off with more of a bang: No 1 in 35 countries with her first single Bleeding Love, and two UK chart-topping albums. “We’ve just found them!”įollow Follow Tom Cruise Creator Metaphysic Rasies $7.5M to Develeop Metaverse Virtual Beings “I’ve always said, is there such a thing as a perfect contestant?” Cowell asked. As a brand awareness and marketing ploy, however, Metaphysic scored a solid win, even from the notoriously tough judge, Cowell. As for the startup’s AGT future, the performance earned four yes votes from the judges, but the live round finalists have not been chosen yet. The company recently helped Aloe Blacc honor Avicii in his multilingual version of “Wake Me Up,” digitally syncing his lip movements to the performance produced by audio synthetic media platform Respeecher. Metaphysic and Daniel Emmet use deepfake technology to bring Simon's voice to life and perform \'You're the Inspiration\'. Metaphysic first gained fame for creating a virtual Tom Cruise by synthesizing new videos from existing video and audio. Watch a clip from America's Got Talent where Simon Cowell surprises the judges with his singing voice. But when I’m singing, I feel like a superstar. Simon obviously loved it, and stressed the surreal nature of the act in the sense of watching himself perform something he did not, or potentially could not, do.” Metaphysic Reality Simon Cowell was moved by Putri Ariani’s performance during the June 6 episode of America’s Got Talent. ![]() As we are so used to producing content online, it was incredible to see such a positive reaction from a live audience. “The aim of our performance was always to harness the power of AI and synthetic media to create entertaining and meaningful content to delight the audience. The audience enthusiastically roared approval for the AI singer, joined afterward by the briefly shy judge whose virtual face had garnered so much applause. Cowell, who struggled to even look at his doppelganger, appeared to perform for the live audience, a first for Metaphysic. When the crowed roared their approval, Cowell, Mandel, Crews and judges Sofia Vergara and Heidi Klum all put their hands over the buzzer. As Emmet began to sing, a projection of Simon Cowell matched to his facial movements was projected onto the large screen behind him. The show clip sees Metaphysic’s co-founders Tom Graham and Chris Ume on stage explaining their company and the way synthetic media works before bowing out as Emmet walks on for what Cowell called a “mysterious” act. Synthetic media producer Metaphysic introduced the AI Cowell, who lip-synced a performance by former America’s Got Talent contestant Daniel Emmet of “You’re the Inspiration” by Chicago. A synthetic Simon Cowell performed for the flesh-and-blood version during the most recent episode of America’s Got Talent.
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