Next up, had she continued, Evans said she was planning to sing “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from “Dreamgirls.”Įvans said the “Masked Singer” appearance reignited a fire under her to perform, and she has booked a handful of dates for next spring. After that, I definitely said I’m going to go with songs that I’m 100% familiar with.” Because I couldn’t breathe and sweat was pouring from everywhere and I almost choked while I was singing. And then because of that being the first performance, we had to make some adjustments to the mask especially. “It wasn’t a song that I had sang before. “The first one was extremely tough, because, I chose to do a song that wasn’t so typical of the genre that people are used to hearing me sing,” she said. Her previous performances included “Diamonds,” by Sam Smith “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World,” by James Brown “Midnight Train to Georgia,” by Gladys Knight & the Pips “Square Biz,” by Teena Marie and “At Last,” by Etta James. And so I’m like, I know he’s not going to remember that, but I’m sure I once he sees who I am, it may come back to him.” And we ended up singing like four or five songs just around the piano. Because we sang together years ago at someone’s house party in Malibu. He kept looking, like trying to figure out who this was. “But the funny thing I was kept seeing him like, I don’t know if they told him the clue before. “We had one rehearsal, I was still masked,” Evans said of singing on stage, in costume, with Bolton. I was totally excited and honored to be asked.”Įvans as Skunk sang “I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You),” by Aretha Franklin, and for her duet sang “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, with Michael Bolton. And I had enough lead time to map out plans.

So it was exciting to be able to do a show that I already enjoy watching and it’s local in L.A. I haven’t been performing at all in the last three or more years.

“And so when my manager got the call, I was elated. “I always thought that would be a fun show to be a part of,” Evans told Variety. Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg thought it Mary J. For Skunk, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke got it right and agreed that it was Faith Evans.

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