Love Turned to Coach to Fix 'terrible' Singing

30 January 2010

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Courtney Love was so embarrassed by her "terrible singing" on a leaked Hole recording, she hired a vocal coach.

The rocker was left red-faced after an early version of Nobody's Daughter, the title track from the band's upcoming album, leaked on the internet and was ridiculed by fans.

Love admits she then recruited a voice expert - and insists her singing skills returned in just three sessions.

I can f**king sing Violet three times in a row, and I couldn't do that in L

She tells Britain's Nme magazine, "(On) the song Nobody's Daughter, theone that went out on the internet, my singing was so terrible, I couldn't sing on pitch. So I found this vocal coach who taught me what my hard palette and my soft palette meant.

He's Bono and PJ Harvey's vocal coach. I didn't even need to go to him more than three to four times. He gave memy voice back. I can f**king sing Violet three times in a row, and I couldn't do that in L.A.

"I cut down on smoking... well, not so much, I still smoke, I cut down a little bit on it and he told me what you're doing with your larynx when you smoke, which is you're frying it basically, and unless I want to sound like Marianne (Faithful)... as much as I love her, I don't want to sound like her every day".

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