Cynthia Erivo: I did my own singing live on the Genius: Aretha set while playing Aretha Franklin

Variety

“Singing is my second language, the rumor is true, I do sing live on set,” Erivo said at the TV press tour, promoting Season 3 of the Nat Geo Genius anthology series. “It allows me to connect to her music in a way, to open up and be vulnerable and to express the things that you can’t say. It means I can be in the moment and don’t have to fabricate it, it’s there in the words and the moment and the lyrics.”

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