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{{quote|Excel: Why Kobayashi? Why Mikako? ''[the voice actors' names]''

Hyatt: I do so hate knockoffs. }}

** They did the opening because they had already made an album under the name ''Excel Girls'' wearing the said cosplay.

* Subverted in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' where the characters (and voice actresses) visit a karaoke parlor and sing nothing like they have for the openings/[[Image Song|imagesongs]], but rather sing more like how their characters would.

* The Italian dubs of ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' and ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]'' used this a lot. The second one creepily, having four little girls singing with the same, adult voice.

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* Haruhi Fujioka from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' had to lipsync when it was revealed she couldn't sing, and she doesn't get an image song! Which means more [[Maaya Sakamoto|voice]] [[Caitlin Glass|actor]] irony.

* Painfully obvious in the Swedish dub of Toei's ''Puss in Boots'', where the young princess was played by Marianne Wäyrynen and her singing was done by professionally trained opera singer Anette Stridh.

* Iwasawa and Yui in ''[[Angel Beats]]!'' are both voiced by big name voice actors ([[Miyuki Sawashiro]] and [[Eri Kitamura]], respectively), but their singing voices are by marina and LiSA.

* Iwasawa and Yui in ''[[Angel Beats!]]!'' are both voiced by big name voice actors ([[Miyuki Sawashiro]] and [[Eri Kitamura]], respectively), but their singing voices are by marina and LiSA.

* For the three North American dub CDs released of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', most of the show's voice actresses don't sing their characters' [[Image Song|image songs]]. Jennifer Cihi sings [[Dub Name Change|Serena's,]] songwriter Shandi Sinnamon does Amy's, Sandy Howell does Raye's vocals, and Patricia Tollett does Lita's.

* In [[Love Hina]] dub, during episode 11 and episode 18 when the characters sing, the show switches back to the Japanese vocal track. However, the song in the Spring Special is dubbed by the English [[VAs]].

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* In ''[[James Bond|Dr. No]]'', Honey Ryder had the speaking voice of Monica Van der Zyl, the singing voice of Diana Coupland and the body of Ursula Andress.

* Zac Efron's singing lines in ''[[High School Musical]]'' are all sung by Drew Seeley, with Efron lip-synching. Apparently, it's pretty well done, but you can tell if you know it's there. (For better or worse, he did his own singing in the two others.)

** That was because the vocal range of Troy was written for a tenor, and Zac, being a baritone, couldn't sing that high. The two sequels eventually changed Troy's vocal range to fit Zac's range better.

* Marni Nixon was the live-action queen of this for ages (often uncredited). From [[The Other Wiki]]: Nixon's dubbing career includes:

** The singing voice of Margaret O'Brien in ''The Secret Garden'' (1949)

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* In ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', Jim Broadbent's singing voice is dubbed in by an anonymous opera singer; however, this trope is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|spectacularly]] averted for the two leads, who both sang their own parts.

** Are you sure it's dubbed? Sounds like Jim to me, and Baz Luhrman was determined to cast actors who could sing.

** At least the "Like a virgin"-scene. Baz Luhrman and Craig Pearce say so in the audio commentary. It's because they wanted a very big operatic sound there. Jim actually sang it during the shot, and they thought they were just going to enhance it. But then they found an opera singer who could mimic his voice very well, so he dubbed him.

*** The second soundtrack CD credit an Anthony Weigh along with Jim Broadbent on Zidler's two main songs, Like A Virgin and The Show Must Go On, and IMDB credits him as a voice double (I don't have a copy of the film ATM to check it's credits). So he's not quite an anonymous double, although I can't seem to find much more information in my rather lazy online searching.

* [[Mark Wahlberg]]'s singing was dubbed in ''Rock Star'' by two metal vocalists, even though he had a musician career (which the movie even [[Old Shame|lampoons]] in the credits...).

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** Similary in the [[Musical Episode]] of ''[[Scrubs]]'', Elliot only has only a few sung lines throughout the episode, even during her and JD's friendship song, due to Sarah Chalke's apparent inability to sing. This inability to sing is later worked into Elliot's character as a running gag in Season 8.

* Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann in ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', couldn't even sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" along with the rest of the cast without ruining it, and couldn't sing a single note without being dubbed over.

* In "The Bitter Suite," the first [[Musical Episode]] of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', Renee O'Connor and Hudson Leick (Gabrielle and Callisto) sang with the respective voices of Susan Wood and Michelle Nicastro; Miss O'Connor subverted this in the second one ("Lyre Lyre, Hearts On Fire"), as she ''did'' sing here - along with Miss Wood and Susan Calloway!

** Averted with Lucy Lawless (Xena) and Ted Raimi (Joxer) in both episodes, along with Kevin Smith (Ares) in the first one and Jay La Ga'ia (Draco) in the second.

* The early nineties tv movie ''Freeze Frame'' dubbed its male lead (''[[Kids Incorporated]]'' alum Ryan Lambert) in order to save money.

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* In Jeff Wayne's [[Rock Opera]] adaptation of ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'', Sir Richard Burton is the narrating voice of the Journalist, whereas Justin Hayward is the character's singing voice.

* Inverted by the [[Gorillaz]]: 2D was originally played by real-life singer Damon Albarn, but had a second voice actor, (Nelson de Freitas,) hired to record his speaking voice.

* Milli Vanilli was an extremely popular, award-winning rap/pop group in the late 80s and early 90s that returned a Grammy after it was revealed that the people getting all the credit for the music were just models dancing and lipsynching to uncredited vocalists. They were the original [[Trope Namer]] for [[Same Language Dub|the acting version]].

** They're just the most (in)famous example; several dance-oriented pop groups rely on attractive stand-ins lipsynching to others' voices.

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* The Live action Alvin and the Chipmunks has Theodore voiced by Jesse [[Mc Cartney]] for speaking only. However, Mccartney is a professional singer and did not record his character's singing voice.

* The [[Disney Animated Canon]] is full of this trope nowadays (this isn't really the case though for older films in the series - ie: pre 90's as they tended to virtually all be sung by their corresponding actors).

** Pretty much everyone in ''[[Mulan]]''. The heroine's VA was Ming-Na Wen, but her singing voice was provided by Lea Salonga. Shang's speaking voice was [[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|B.D. Wong]], and his singing voice was ''Donny Osmond'' while in the Chinese version, his singing voice was (awesomely) [[Jackie Chan]].

** Pretty much everybody in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' had a different singing voice, save for [[Robin Williams|Genie]] and Jafar (if you consider the sequels, Iago as well). Jasmine's singing was also performed by Lea Salonga.

** [[Pocahontas]]' VA was Irene Bedard, and her singing voice is that of Judy Kuhn.

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** This was a [[Shout-Out]] to the fact that, originally, the film was going to be a musical with songs written by [[They Might Be Giants]]. As awesome as that could have been, it apparently [[Mood Whiplash|ruined the creepy tone of the movie]], so the idea was scrapped. "The Other Father Song" is the only remnant of the musical idea.

* Notably averted in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoRundeX6O0 Yep, that's really Batman singing there]. The writers discovered that Kevin Conroy was trained as a singer, and figured that it was just too funny to pass up.

** It's not the first time Kevin Conroy has sung in the DCAU, either--in the ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Out of the Past", Bruce and Terry see a performance of "Batman--The Musical!". Kevin Conroy provides the singing voice for the onstage Batman (as does Adrienne Barbeau for the onstage Catwoman).

** [[Mark Hamill]] and [[Paul Williams]] also sing for the stage Joker and Penguin but you can just barely make them out because they sing in unison.

{{quote|'''Batman:''' [[Ear Worm|They're superstitious cowardly lot/They plan and plot but always get caught!]]}}

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* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Fanning the Flames", the song sung by [[Musical Assassin|Ember]] was by a woman named Robin Kimissel while her main actress is Tara Strong. Strangely, this is the only incident of that happening. Ember sings another song in another episode which as far as anyone knows, Tara Strong does. Robin Kimiseel only does one episode and is never heard from again.

** Kimissel was also the singing voice for [[Chalk Zone|Penny Sanchez]]. Rudy and Snap kept their regular voices.

** Averted with pretty much every other Nicktoon.

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' [[Musical Episode]], the pixies, normally voiced by Ben Stein, had their singing voices done by rappers Methold Man and Redman.

** A bit of a subversion, though, in that the two voices (dull monotone as opposed to, well, rapping) were so different that it was very obvious, as with the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode below.

* In an episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' Filbert discovers he has a talent for lounge singing. His regular speaking voice was done by Doug Lawrence and his singing voice by Tom Kenny (Heffer), who in addition to voice acting is also a professional singer.

* There are a couple of examples of this in the animated film ''[[Rock and Rule]]''. Depending on which version you watch, Omar's speaking voice is either done by Paul Le Mat in the film, or Gregory Salata in the TV version; in both versions, his singing voice is done by Robin Zander. Angel's speaking voice is Susan Roman while her singing voice is [[Blondie (band)|Deborah Harry]], and Mok's speaking voice is Don Francks while his singing voice is Lou Reed.

* When Janet Waldo voiced Alice in Hanna-Barbera's TV adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'', Doris Drew provided the singing voice. Waldo and Drew sound nothing alike. Waldo herself is actually a very good singer as evidenced in some early radio performances, so why they felt the need to replace her at all remains a mystery.

* Taken to the point of parody on ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' where (British) Ferb will sing with completely different accents for reggae or rap songs. Most of the other characters sing with the voice actors' voices, however.

** And an In-World example from the same, during the "Summer Belongs to You" special, Phineas hires Clay Aiken for his voice for one musical number, and Ferb gets Chaka Khan. It is obviously [[Lampshaded]].

** Also [[Lampshaded]] with Linda, who admits that her "Lindana" career was done by lip-syncing. In real life Linda is voiced by Caroline Rhea while "Lindana" is performed by Olivia Olson, who also voices ([[Averted Trope|and sings for]]) [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Vanessa]].

* In [[The Rescuers Down Under]], the villain McLeach is voiced by George C. Scott but during the part where he sings his twisted version of "Home on the Range" his singing is done by Frank Welker.

* While [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] often sings in his normal voice, on special occasions he shows off a fantastic singing voice that sounds nothing like him, with him being voiced by a different guest singer every time.

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* In ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Wilma and Betty both had several different singing voices. None of them sounded anything like their speaking voices.

* Notably averted throughout ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''. However, some autotuning was required to improve the quality of several characters, especially in "Come Fly With Us." The lack of this probably explains why Cody sings so little, despite lasting second-longest out of a team that was called to perform more than any other. Notably Ezekiel and Tyler, also voiced by Peter Oldring, don't sing much either. (Of course, you'll find plenty of fangirls who still like Cody's singing anyway...)

* All over the place in ''[[Quest for Camelot]]''; also a major case of [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Kayley is voiced by [[Glee|Teri Schuester]] (speaking) and Andrea Corr (singing); Garrett is voiced by [[The Princess Bride (film)|Westley]] (speaking) and Bryan White (singing); Kayley's mother is voiced by Jane Seymour (speaking) and [[Celine Dion]] (singing); King Arthur is voiced by [[Pierce Brosnan|James Bond]] (speaking) and [[Journey (band)|Steve Perry]] (singing). (And I think we already know that [[Pierce Brosnan]] [[Mamma Mia|should never sing]].)

* All over the place in ''[[Quest for Camelot]]''; also a major case of [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Kayley is voiced by [[Glee|Teri Schuester]] (speaking) and Andrea Corr (singing); Garrett is voiced by [[The Princess Bride (film)|Westley]] (speaking) and Bryan White (singing); Kayley's mother is voiced by Jane Seymour (speaking) and [[Celine Dion]] (singing); King Arthur is voiced by [[Pierce Brosnan|James Bond]] (speaking) and [[Journey (band)|Steve Perry]] (singing). (And I think we already know that [[Pierce Brosnan]] [[Mamma Mia!|should never sing]].)

* Otto the gorilla from [[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]] is voiced by [[Tom Kenny]]; his singing voice for his [[Schoolhouse Rock]] parody song is done by Chris Hardwick.

* In the ''[[Animaniacs]]'' episode "Woodstock Slappy", the speaking voice of the [[The Who|Roger Daltrey]] caricature is voiced by [[Jim Cummings]]; his singing voice, however, is provided by [[Rob Paulsen]].

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* In the [[Looney Tunes]] movie "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters," Daffy's singing voice is provided by Mel Torme. Lampshaded though, in that Daffy swallows a bottle of mouthwash designed to ''give him Mel Torme's voice''.

* In [[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]] The Movie (1998) the villianess Stormella is voiced by Whoopi Goldberg her singing voice is done by Carmen Twillie.

* In ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'s Berry Bitty Adventures'', Strawberry is voiced by Anna Cummer, but her songs are done by [[Sailor Moon|Tracey Moore]].

** Funnily enough, Shannon Chan-Kent, the singing voice for Pinkie Pie in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', voices Cherry Jam, a pop star, but her songs are done by Victoria Duffield.