who was the first singer to release a song using auto-tune
Auto-Tune The earliest commercial use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect in a popular song was Roy Vedas' Fragments Of Life in August 17, 1998 and later in Cher's "Believe" and Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".[citation needed] The effect is not to be confused with a vocoder or the talk box,[11] devices referenced by producers of these songs when they were new to hide their use of Auto-Tune from music audiences. For example, in an early interview, the producers of "Believe" claimed they had used a DigiTech Talker FX pedal, in what Sound on Soundâ€™s editors felt was an attempt to preserve a trade secret.[12] After the success of "Believe" the technique became known as the "Cher Effect".[13][14] Originally, Auto-Tune was designed to discreetly correct imprecise intonations, but Cher's producers used it to "exaggerate the artificiality of abrupt pitch correction." This technique soon became a widespread technique used in live performances and in pop recordings throughout the first ten years of the 21st century. Modern day examples of artists known for using Auto-Tune are T-Pain, Lil' Wayne, Travis Scott, and Lil Uzi Vert.[15]