- Can you sing some metal?
You just (screams)
(screams)
- I'm seeing a white person.
(laughing) I don't know why.
(classical music)
- [Man] Hi, will you tell us your name?
- My name is Duranged Pitt.
- My name is Yana.
- My name is Jane.
- [Man] What do you do for a living, Jane?
- I teach guitar, bass, and vocals.
♪ Useless skin withers in the sand ♪
- [Man] Would you consider yourself a singer?
- No, I can't sing for shit.
- [Man] Sing something for me.
- No (laughing)
I can't sing.
You don't want to me to sing, I promise you.
- [Man] Today, we're gonna have you match
singing voice to person.
- Oh (laughing)
- Everybody's gonna group up over here
and then one by one
they'll come here and sing-- - Are they all gonna be here?
Oh, okay. - They're all here
at the same time, yeah.
You ready?
- [Man] Can we have our first person step forward?
- Here, lemme hear something.
Lemme hear something sweet and sultry real quick.
- Sing to me.
♪ L is for the way you look at me ♪
♪ O is for the only one I see ♪
- Holy cow.
This is gonna way more emotional I'm gonna experience
than I thought it was gonna be.
- Special than a motherfucker, shit.
I ain't never had a woman sing to me like that, shit.
♪ At last my love has come along ♪
- [Man] How old is this person?
- Probably like 20s.
- Like if I had to put money on it, I'd guess you're female.
- Yeah, I picture like a woman of color.
You know, African American in there.
- [Man] Why do you say African American?
- 'Cause that's just the tone that I felt
and the style of the music.
- The song choice.
Yeah, that's a piece that I noticed from teaching
that a lot of mixed kids would pick that song to sing.
- I kinda wanna hear her do "Old Town Road".
It's got maybe like a bit of a...
Right?
♪ I'm gonna ride my horse ♪
♪ Take my horse to the old town road ♪
♪ I'm gonna ride till I can't no more ♪
- I would listen to that, like, cover.
I'mma hit you up once I find out who you are.
- Somebody who likes to smoke weed.
(laughing)
People that smoke will get this kind of rasp,
that head voice will disappear which is the high-end.
If you can get into this voice, can you do this?
- If you can get into this voice.
- Just say it, oh no!
- Oh no!
- Ooh no!
- Oh no!
- They definitely smoke weed.
(laughing)
♪ Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams ♪
♪ Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before ♪
- That was "Phantom of the Opera" if y'all don't know.
(chuckling)
♪ You, you got what I need ♪
♪ You say I'm just a friend ♪
♪ Ooh baby, you ♪
- This is probably a dude.
Slick-back hair, maybe some cargo shorts on.
Like Italian maybe?
- I don't know why, I'm getting, like, Asian.
- Can you sing some metal?
You just (screams)
(screaming)
I'm seeing a white person.
(laughing) I don't know why.
I think it's the style of music (chuckles)
- [Man] Thank you.
And we'll bring out the next.
♪ If we were meant to be, we would have been by now ♪
♪ See what you wanna see, but all I see is him right now ♪
- Damn, your voice is dope too, shit.
- Can you fill a little in your noise, make it a little more
(whines) Roger Moore
♪ Roger Moore ♪
(whining)
Yeah (laughing)
- It's a girl, I'm going with initial instinct.
It's a girl.
- I think it's a male.
You know, maybe like some Caucasian with some freckles
sprinkled on him, something like that.
- This person has such a range that it reminds me
of, like, artists that typically, at least
in my memory of an African American.
- Some singing experience, it sounds pretty good.
Can you sing some opera?
(vocalizing)
So no training in that department.
♪ Who do you think you're kidding ♪
♪ He's the earth and heaven to ya ♪
♪ Try to keep it hidden ♪
♪ Honey, we can see right through ya ♪
(laughing)
- You're really nervous, aren't you?
♪ A bit ♪
(laughing)
- In here, the back of the voice begins to waver like that.
It's usually people go, oh my god, I'm terrified!
- Give me some flavor.
Like (beatboxing)
(beatboxes)
Oh god, this person does not beatbox, okay.
- Not a lot of training.
- [Man] Any training?
- Maybe in school, maybe they did choir or something.
But no formal training.
♪ (foreign language) ♪
- [Man] What language was that?
- Fuck if I know, bro.
♪ (foreign language) ♪
- Definitely trained.
Okay 'cause you're singing in a different language.
Probably has a degree.
- She sounds phenomenal.
I'm gonna go with the fact that she's Russian, I mean.
Why else would you know how to sing in Russian?
- But can you sing some country music?
♪ The thing about tractors, sexy ♪
♪ It really turns me on ♪
(laughing)
- Her fingernails are done.
Maybe a dress, I don't know.
I'm seeing another white person.
- [Man] Okay.
Thank you, you can step back in line.
- And I'm gonna be so wrong (laughing)
- [Man] Take your blindfold off, it's gonna be bright.
Turn and look.
(laughing)
They don't look anything like...
Anything I've described.
- Oh shit.
I was hella wrong about some shit, wasn't I?
Damn.
So what were you singing?
♪ Got what I need ♪
- [Duranged] Oh okay, yeah, yeah.
- You're the tenor but you're not white.
(laughing)
I'm white, so wrong.
Oh my god.
- Did I, I got you wrong, right?
- I'm a guy.
My name is Brandon.
And, um... I am native, not African American.
(chuckles) So...
- That one was like a... - I made like ding, ding, ding
So, I mean.
- Were you the one that sang "At Last"?
- No. - No!
Was you?
No?
Was it you?
Wow(chuckles)
Do you smoke a lot of weed?
- I have always sounded this way since I was like a kid.
- [Jane] Really?
- So do you get mistaken for like a black woman a lot?
- Most of the time, I'm a bartender
and people are like are you sick?
Nope. (chuckles)
- [Duranged] Oh, it's 'cause your voice, yeah.
- Just sound this way.
- [Man] And then we had the nervous, younger, early 20s.
- Oh, was this you?
- Yeah. (laughing)
- [Jane] What did I get get right, what did I get wrong?
- I've been in, like, one show in theater
and then I did choir for like half a year.
- Are you trained?
- I went to school, AMDA, but only for like two months.
(chuckles)
- Oh, so you don't have a degree.
- Nope.
- Yeah, the foreign language was the one
that I was like okay!
- Hey, all of y'all are, like, filthy as hell.
I don't even know which one of y'all was lich
but that shit was fire, for real.
- [Man] How was that?
- I'm speechless.
We don't normally go around, you know,
sharing what those preconceptions are,
the things that we see.
- I said there was an Asian man, a black female,
and a Japanese girl, and there's literally
not any of those people here (laughing)
- [Man] Thank you, good job.
(applauding)
♪ Country road, take me home ♪
♪ To the place I belong ♪
♪ West Virginia, mountain mama ♪
♪ Take me home ♪
- See what I did hear? (laughs)