His eponymous 1991 debut produced the smash hit "Crazy," as well as a fruitful partnership between Seal and famed producer Trevor Horn. His most fortuitous collaboration was with house and techno producer Adamski, with whom Seal created 1990's "Killer." The No. Born Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Ongowe' Bongota Adelo Samuel to a Nigerian father and Brazilian mother, Seal earned a degree in architecture and worked as a leather clothing designer before joining the English funk band Push in the 1980s and, later, a blues band in Thailand. The wide appeal and wide range of his sound is, in many ways, a product of the British singer's multifaceted background.
Seal, a.k.a., the Leopard, was unmasked on Wednesday night’s semi-finals, along with The Thingamajig, who was revealed to be NBA player Victor Oladipo.In this age when marketers prefer to direct music at narrow audiences, Seal combines pop, R&B, hip-hop and moody rock with a down-tempo dance vibe. Ibarra says that Seal’s reveal was especially fun for host Cannon, who knows Seal from his time working with his ex-wife Heidi Klum on “America’s Got Talent,” which he used to host on NBC, before hosting “The Masked Singer.” “We try to hide their natural body language and mannerisms that they make, so we give them different mannerisms that they work with,” Ibarra explains. When celebrities sign onto the show, they go through special training, in addition to vocal training and choreography. The show also works with the talent to help conceal their identities, even more than keeping a giant mask on their heads and altering their voices. “Unless it makes it impossible for you to do your job, there is no reason to know.” It’s hilarious because you come into the control room, everyone starts guessing in rehearsal. If you sit in our control, room, most people do not know. Most of our field team does not know because they do not need to know. Certain people in choreography know the contestant’s identities because they have to work with them in training, and the vocal coaches know the singers that they’re working with. Only roughly 25 people across the network, production companies and in production know who the celebrities are - and that’s including including legal, which has to oversee paperwork.
We only call them by their costume name,” Ibarra confirms. “We don’t call them by their names, ever. And every other piece of paperwork only refers to the talent by their character name. The initial talent contract will have the celebrity’s real name, but does not include the show name, “The Masked Singer,” just in case something leaks.
In order to keep everything under wraps, Ibarra says contestants are never referred to by their real names on set, or even in paperwork. “I know that the Unicorn, Tori Spelling, had a tough time with that in Season 1,” Ibarra shares, explaining that Spelling’s children’s peers were constantly asking if their mom was on the show. We tell them not to tell their kids a lot because it’s hard for kids to keep secrets, and it’s not really fair of them, obviously - when you are 7 or 8 years old, you don’t necessarily understand not telling people something,” the showrunner says. “We encourage them to not tell as many people as they can. “No one else is allowed, unless they’ve been pre-approved with an NDA, so it’s not like they can bring people in-and-out of the production,” Ibarra explains. Those few people are then given NDAs and sworn to secrecy. “I really wanted to send a camera, the moment that his kids see that it’s him, but we couldn’t, unfortunately, for various reasons.”Īsked how it’s logistically possible that Seal’s own children wouldn’t notice that their dad was participating in the singing competition show for the entire season, Ibarra explained the process of concealing the singer’s identities, which begins with producers asking the celebrities for a list of every person they want to tell about their involvement before filming begins. “He did the whole thing to surprise his kids and make them laugh,” the showrunner shares.
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