My husband and I have been in a band together, for the last two years. He plays the guitar, I play the flute. We're all fairly amateur level and it's just for fun.
However we do have a pretty good singer, at first we had a male singer and a female background singer, the male left and we were always planning to find another male singer but it didn't work out so we just kept going with the female.
Recently my husband has suddenly announced that he wants to sing too. I have never known him to have that as a hobby before, at best he would sometimes sing in the shower. Anyway he announced to me that since we are still missing a male singer he will fill the role. We tried it out with the band and even though everyone was polite about it, it became clear he cannot sing anywhere near good. He sings very off key and just doesn't have a pleasant sounding voice. I know it sounds mean, but it's true. I would never discourage him normally but he wants to jump from singing in the shower to being lead singer of a band and expects everyone to think he's great.
We didn't want to shoot him down directly so we told him he should get some singing lessons and then we will see how it works out. Which he clearly felt insulted about. But he did find a singing teacher and has taken a few lessons. Now obviously a few lessons don't make a singer. There is no noticeable progress (yet) so we as a band told him we don't feel comfortable with him being our singer at the next public performance (which was in a few weeks) yet. Ever since he has been in a shit mood, he also applied as a singer with another band without telling me and has recently started criticising me in an overly agressive manner when I play a wrong note on my flute.
I don't know how to get this into his head because everyone else in the band is too polite to outright tell him he sounds bad and if I do it I'll just get some stupid comment.
tl,dr: My husband can't sing but gets pissy when anyone tells him. How do we get over his sudden idea that he is a great singer?
Submitted November 12, 2019 at 01:37PM by FrontTour https://ift.tt/2NJcP1C
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