Talk:Background singer

A Wikipedia search for 'uncredited + vocal' produces 1,527 hits ? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:19, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Unsourced BLP content
The unsourced items are mostly unsourced BLP content, and should not be in the encyclopedia. I plan to return in a couple of weeks to remove any unsourced content, having tagged it today. Pam D  14:40, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Returned, removed. The only uncited stuff now relates to dead people (and one who seems likely to be dead). Please don't replace any of this unless you have a WP:RS. Thanks. Pam  D  13:53, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

What about background musicians?
Just about all the statements about background singers are also true for musicians. Unfortunately, I don't have references as yet but in the past I have read up on sax players who claim to have played with a popular lead singer and yet their names are not credited in the information about the recording. bpage (talk) 13:51, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey Brother
Just to point out that that article says, in the lede: "American bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski provides uncredited vocals for the track." But no source is given there either, and it's not developeed any further in the article main body. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:02, 17 August 2014 (UTC)


 * But we kbow from his voices DemoraVictor (talk) 18:52, 27 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia articles depend on reliable published sources, not what listeners can or can't hear. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:02, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

merge >> Backing vocalist
This is not an article, but a dictionary entry with an attached list. While that list is interesting, it remains a trivia collection; its creation stems from no identified source(s), and is therefore OR, even if performed by a scattered group over an extended period.

My first impulse is to press for deletion of the article. If it has a place at all, that would be as a section of Backing vocalist. Discussion is there underway. Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It doesn't even warrant merging, really — "background singer" is not a special type of backing vocalist, but merely an alternative term for the exact same thing. The sole reason the "uncredited background singer" AFD concluded as "move to this title", rather than "redirect to backing vocalist", is because the existence of "backing vocalist" got overlooked due to the fact that the existing "background singer" redirect was pointing to singer instead of to backing vocalist. But this doesn't need a section in that article — it's just a straight synonym for, not a special subtype of, backing vocalists. I've already performed the redirect accordingly — there was nothing here that needed to be merged into the target article. Bearcat (talk) 19:08, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * That's OK, except that there has so far been no discussion on whether or not to retain the list of uncredited background vocalists. Unless and until there is a consensus to remove that list (and remembering that the decision was simply to rename the article, not to delete it), the list should be retained in the merged article.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:10, 22 August 2017 (UTC)