Singing legend heralds ‘new tools in service of expression’, on compilation that also features an Art Garfunkel song using AI-generated piano backing
Liza Minnelli has released her first new music in 13 years, adding vocals to an AI-created dance track.
The track, Kids, Wait Til You Hear This – also the title of her upcoming memoir – is an unexpected foray into deep house for the 79-year-old Minnelli, who adds a handful of spoken declarations to the pumping backing.
Minnelli hasn’t released new music since 2013, when she performed a track for US TV musical drama Smash, and she expressed great faith in the potential for AI-created music.
On her Facebook page she heralded the company behind the track, ElevenLabs, as “a six billion dollar techno behemoth [doing] amazing things … What I will not allow this great company to do? Create, clone or copy my voice! … We used AI arrangements. Not AI vocals … The shout outs are all mine!”
