Nicki Swift conducted a survey of 565 respondents to see which actor’s singing voice surprised fans the most. According to the results, Emma Stone had the most surprising voice with 46% of the votes. Most people probably discovered Stone’s musical chops in the hit film “La La Land,” which earned her the Oscar for Lead Actress in 2017. But strangely enough, Stone had multiple other singing roles before her Oscar-winning performance. At 16 years old, she was a contestant on VH1’s singing competition series “In Search of the Partridge Family” — as Entertainment Weekly notes, she did win the role of Laurie Partridge, but the show was never picked up — plus she sang in her breakout role in “Easy A.”
More notably, however, Stone starred as Sally Bowles in the Broadway production of “Cabaret,” which likely helped influence her “La La Land” role. When speaking to W Magazine, she said she was “nervous” about singing in a film, but felt “prepared.” “I had been doing Cabaret eight times a week and I was able to go a little easier on myself about the fact that I am not, you know, the world’s greatest singer by any stretch of the imagination,” Stone said. Despite her singing prowess, she has no plans for ever releasing a studio album. “No, the answer to that is a hard no,” she told Entertainment Tonight Canada when asked if an album was in her future.
Fans also thought “Pitch Perfect” star Rebel Wilson and Andrew Garfield of “Tick Tick Boom” fame had surprising singing voices, having received 21% and 19% of the votes, respectively.
