Playback singer

[4] Mohammed Rafi and Ahmed Rushdi[5] are regarded as two of the most influential playback singers in South Asia.

[6] The sisters Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, who have mainly worked in Hindi films, are two of the best-known and most prolific playback singers in India.

[9] The practice is also employed in Hollywood musicals, where such performers are known as ghost singers, though less frequently in other genres.

Notable Hollywood performances include Anita Ellis as the voice of Rita Hayworth's title character in Gilda (1946).

There have been other uses of ghost singing in Hollywood, including Marni Nixon in West Side Story for Natalie Wood's portrayal of Maria, in The King and I for Deborah Kerr's Anna Leonowens, and for Audrey Hepburn's Eliza in My Fair Lady; Bill Lee singing for John Kerr's Lieutenant Cable in South Pacific and for Christopher Plummer's Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music,[10] Lindsay Ridgeway for Ashley Peldon's character as Darla Dimple in the animated film Cats Don't Dance, Claudia Brücken providing the singing voice for Erika Heynatz's character as Elsa Lichtmann in L.A. Noire, and Betty Noyes singing for Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain,[11] a film in which ghost singing is a major plot point.