Chris Kirkpatrick Is Hummingbird On ‘The Masked Singer’: Interview – Hollywood Life

Hummingbird was unmasked as NSYNC member Chris Kirkpatrick originally of The Masked Singer’s September 28 episode. For Chris, doing The Masked Singer was a double win for him. “I really like the present. And extra importantly, I really like a problem, and that is each of these mixed,” he informed HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.

Chris confirmed off his vocals in the course of the season 8 premiere. HollywoodLife requested Chris if he reached to fellow NSYNC member Joey Fatone, who got here in fourth place in season 1, earlier than he went on the present. “I didn’t attain out to him, however he positively is aware of,” Chris mentioned. “You’ll be able to’t sing with 4 guys for nearly 30 years and — figuring out that they watch the present — that they gained’t determine it out. I imply, it was fairly apparent. He texted me instantly, ‘Hey, nice job, Hummingbird.’ There was no placing the wool in entrance of his eyes.”

The 50-year-old singer was candid that performing within the Hummingbird costume was “powerful” at occasions. “There have been positively some constrictions that usually if I wished to go do a backflip on stage, I wasn’t doing it within the Hummingbird costume. Nevertheless it was enjoyable to form of change who I used to be and attempt to turn into a personality,” Chris continued.

Chris selected to sing Gavin DeGraw’s “I Don’t Need To Be” for his efficiency. “I attempted to do one thing that was not in my excessive falsetto or my excessive voice as a result of I figured if I did a kind of, they might form of determine me out instantly,” Chris informed HollywoodLife. “So I went with one thing a little bit decrease and one thing that will form of throw them off of not listening to my voice on document doing that kind of tune.”

Chris admitted that he initially didn’t inform his son, Nash, about him being on The Masked Singer as a result of “he has a extremely massive mouth.” Nevertheless, Chris and his spouse did reveal Chris’ Masked Singer shock to little Nash on the evening of the season 8 premiere.

“He laughed. He thought it was actually cool,” Chris mentioned of his son’s response to his dad because the Hummingbird. “He wished to see it once more a few occasions. He’s truly simply in the previous few months been discovering NSYNC as nicely. He likes to sing, it’s actually cool to listen to him singing random NSYNC songs out of the blue. Simply because he’ll be doing one thing and simply begin spitting out the lyrics of one of many songs. I’m like, I didn’t even know you knew that.” The Masked Singer season 8 airs Wednesdays on FOX.