Hello everybody from giovanni in Milan.
Lip synching is very common in German TV shows. Why? Most of the TV producers will tell you that playing live is too
much work and lip synching is the easier way for both the artist and the TV crew.
I usually work as a musician for some names coming to Italy (I did Geri Halliwell piano player as well as Joe Cocker bassist player, and someone else not as important as them); the curious thing is that even if everytime it's a playback recording/broadcasting, while with Geri it was easy as SHE doesn't even sing when she properly tour, for Joe it was a little bit serious: he wanted a Fender bas player (I have 2 Fender basses - what a coincidence) and when I met him he checked every little detail such as the age of the instrument, why the pick-ups were changed and some other technical stuff; that really surprised me, in a very good way I got to say, he's not even a bass player but what a serious artist is he!!! Always taking care of everything even if the broadcast was simply a playback! This is Mr. Joe Cocker (to share the stage with someone who did Woodstock was a little bit...shocking). Ciao ciao Giovanni