![]() ![]() “Then you and I will start singing through them using what the dialogue coach has taught you, and then I will try to figure out with you, how can we make this work singing.”įor Austin Butler’s Elvis, Vetro actually met the star when he was 16, through another one of his clients, Butler’s then-girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens. Go through it and have the dialect coach work with you on what it would sound like if he was just speaking these lines,” Vetro explains. “A lot of times what I'll suggest to the actor is go just speak through the lines of the song as if it's a monologue. Just trying to get into his schedule was tough.”įor many of the high-profile roles he’s currently working on, there’s also a dialect coach in the mix. “Eric's busy back to back, all day every day. “I had to chase him down,” Zakhar Perez says. Zakhar Perez first got connected with Vetro through his friend, the singer Sabrina Carpenter. “He's kind of like a warm hug every time you're here and doesn't make you feel stressed out.” “He's like a fairy godfather,” Zakhar Perez says of Vetro. I’m observing one of Zakhar Perez’s weekly lessons with Vetro, meant to get his voice in shape so that he’s prepared for whenever a prized musical role does come along. Taylor Zakhar Perez, star of the upcoming movie Red, White & Royal Blue, is waving his head around and enunciating HeeeEEEeeeEEE as Vetro bangs away accompanying notes on the piano. “On Sundays,” he says, “I usually only see four people.” Vetro is indefatigable, usually holding eight sessions every day of the week. Now his clients come either via word of mouth or directly from producers for classes that start at $400 an hour. But then as soon as we tried it a couple times, she actually liked it.” So the second year I said to her, ‘What if we tried this thing called Skype?’ She was like, ‘that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. “The first year I flew there something like 95 times up and back, up and back, up and back up. Bette Midler eventually asked him to work with her on her Vegas residency. One thing led to another: a musician he was touring with asked him to accompany her to Los Angeles. “I played the piano and would say, ‘Someday I'm going to play the piano for these people.’ He'd say, ‘You're out of your mind.’”īut Vetro distinguished himself early on as a talented piano player and singer and went on to study in New York City. And my father would say, ‘What makes you think that anybody's ever going to want to work with you on anything?’” Vetro remembers. “When I would watch movie musicals or The Ed Sullivan Show, I'd say, ‘Oh, I want to work with those people.’ I never really wanted to be them. His father, a lawyer, didn’t exactly understand it. The glitz of showbiz was always beckoning. ![]() “I try to teach them how to use their voice.” But if you don't know how to turn it on, it's completely useless,” Vetro says. “Somebody could give you a beautiful laptop-the top of the line, the best one possible. And when he’s not immersed in the acting world, he’s coaching everyone from established pop stars like Ariana Grande and Shawn Mendes to rising talent like Omar Apollo and Dominic Fike. Reilly made Walk Hard, the ultimate music biopic parody-well, Vetro was there too. Will Ferrell’s gorgeous rendition of Andrea Bocelli’s “Por Ti Volare” at the end of Step Brothers? You can thank Vetro for getting his pipes into Catalina Wine Mixer shape. It’s not all serious awards bait-if you’ve heard an actor sing onscreen in the past 15 years, chances are they went through Vetro first. Before that, he worked with Austin Butler for Elvis and Ryan Gosling for La La Land. Vetro is currently getting Timothée Chalamet primed to play Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown. That man is Eric Vetro, the most sought-after vocal coach in America. And when they emerge, they-or at least their voices-are changed. At his instruction, they take deep breaths and they stretch and they mee mee mee mee mee. They make pilgrimages to his home studio or find him on FaceTime or Zoom. And when that time comes, there is one man they go see. ![]() There will come a time in many young actors’ lives when they are asked to sing. ![]()
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