Playback singer

A singer who records vocals that actors lip-sync in films or other filmed performances. The singer’s voice is heard in place of the performer’s singing voice.

Lip sync: The coordination of mouth movements with recorded or live speech or singing. Actors match their visible mouth movements to the playback singer’s recording.
The Jazz Singer: A 1927 American musical film that helped establish synchronized sound in feature films. Its arrival marked a turning point in filmed song and vocal performance.
Lata Mangeshkar: An Indian playback singer whose career spanned several decades of Hindi cinema. Her voice was associated with generations of leading film actresses.
Live singing: Singing performed in real time for an audience or recording. Unlike playback, the actor or singer produces the vocal during the filmed performance.
Film score: Music composed or selected to accompany a film. A playback vocal is mixed with the film’s musical accompaniment.
Bollywood: The Hindi-language film industry centered in Mumbai, India. Its musical films made playback singing a defining production practice.
Mohammed Rafi: An Indian playback singer known for songs in Hindi cinema and other Indian film industries. His adaptable singing served many actors and musical styles.
On-camera singing: Singing captured as it is performed in front of a camera. It preserves the filmed performer’s own live vocal rather than substituting a recording.
Dubbing: The replacement or addition of recorded dialogue or sound in a film or other audiovisual work. Playback singing is a specialized form of prerecorded sound used in a filmed scene.
Ardeshir Irani: An Indian filmmaker and producer who directed the first Indian talkie, Alam Ara. Alam Ara helped introduce synchronized song performance to Indian cinema.

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