Let's get this out the way now: T-Pain pioneered the creative use of Auto-Tune in Hip Hop when he treated the pitch correction software as an expressive instrument rather than just a corrective tool.

In a recent social media post, T-Pain, a prominent figure in the music industry known for his distinctive use of auto-tune, addressed an old photo of Christina Aguilera wearing a controversial T-shirt ...

Charli XCX was a major presence in my social media feeds this month even before she announced that Kamala Harris is Brat. I knew a few of Charli’s hits, but my musician friends have been raving about ...

As if he hasn't proven he can sing sans Auto-Tune enough times, T-Painsang the national anthem at the Dodgers Stadium this Monday and absolutely killed it. We caught up with T-Pain at the game to talk ...

There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...

The vocalist expressed her frustrations with musicians using the technology to alter their pitch in recordings Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at ...

T-Pain - or as he's known to many, the king of Auto-Tune. Well, it turns out this guy has a pretty beautiful voice and really doesn't need to be hiding it with those awful effects. Jay-Z tried ...

Chaka Khan is a legend in R&B and pays attention to those who have come after her. She admires some of the new talents but isn’t a fan of those who use auto-tune. It has become a staple in music over ...

If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

Kym Marsh has revealed her shock at the use of Auto-Tune on The X Factor. The Coronation Street actress wrote in her New magazine column that she did not think it was "right" to use the audio ...

The legendary soul singer Chaka Khan is calling out the music acts of today who resort to using auto-tune in their songs instead of raw vocal range. Chaka was at the Angel Ball on Monday, where she ...