Actress With Powerhouse Vocals Reacts to Shock Masked Singer Elimination

If you have not watched and need to maintain the shock, verify again right here after watching the episode … you have been warned!

For Yvette Nicole Brown, showing on The Masked Singer was an opportunity to return to her old flame — singing — regardless of her stunning elimination on Wednesday evening.

Whereas many know the humorous lady for her TV and movie roles in Group, Inside Out: 2, Drake & Josh and a lot extra, her singing chops rival the expertise she has in entrance of the digital camera.

Impressed partly by her fiancé, Anthony Davis, Brown informed TooFab that placing on a masks and strutting her stuff on TMS stage as Showbird allowed her to revisit part of herself she loves a lot, with out the added strain.

“It felt like placing in your favourite pair of tennis sneakers which were damaged in. I used to be like, ‘Oh, hey, buddy. I bear in mind you. I bear in mind what this looks like. I bear in mind the enjoyment of this,'” Brown mentioned of singing once more. “As a result of for me, I used to be by no means a kind of individuals who was like, ‘I need to be the very best.’ It was by no means about that. I simply love music.”

She continued, “I like concord and I like phrasing and lyrics. I like all of that. And so to have been given a little bit of a present that God blessed me with to have the ability to participate within the factor that I like is such a delight. So it was like enjoyable to simply get to do what I like once more.”

Discovering music once more, very similar to discovering love once more with Davis, reminded Brown that life is not over, and in addition helped in her choice to do the present.

“Issues can occur at any time and miracles are nonetheless potential and delay will not be denial, all of these issues. And so if I set love apart and thought that was over and it wasn’t, what else have I put aside that I assumed was over and it wasn’t? And so music was one thing I put aside and thought was over. So perhaps it is not over both,” she shared. “I used to be terrified to sing as myself on The Masked Singer, however I did it anyway. So I am on the level now the place it is like, ‘Let’s have a look at what the following factor that is somewhat bit terrifying that comes. Secure, simply terrifying. And let’s have a look at. And perhaps it will be a sure for a kind of issues too.”

It did not damage that she had a longtime buddy on the judges desk both — her Group co-star, Ken Jeong, who has been guessing Brown as a contestant for seasons now, tonight included.

“He is been guessing me on the Masked Singer for about 12 seasons, and asking me behind the scenes, ‘Would you ever do it?’ for about 12 seasons, so I felt like this was the time to place him out of his distress and at last do the present for him,” Brown quipped, when requested why she determined to lastly do the present.

However with such a robust voice and a connection on the judges desk, it was somewhat stunning to see Brown go house week two.

“It was a shock and never as a result of I am like, ‘I am nice.’ However simply because, you understand, I simply obtained my sea legs and I had already rehearsed my third track and I used to be prepared to come back again and do extra,” she defined. “However, all people’s nice on the present, and all people places of their time and works exhausting. And also you by no means know when your quantity’s up, but it surely was really, I feel, the proper period of time. I obtained to have the expertise, I obtained to shock Ken.”

“And it additionally was a really troublesome time for my dad,” Brown continued. “I am a caregiver. So it sort of was the precise time to sort of are available, pop in after which get to return to actual life and maintain my papa”

“However I used to be shocked. Yeah, I used to be shocked,” she added.

As for that Showbird match, that was somewhat exhausting to navigate — however Brown made it look straightforward.

“, it is somewhat scary as a result of I used to be seeing via her little beak. And I could not, as a result of I had a harness on and I had that massive caboose behind me, I could not put my head right down to see the place I used to be going,” Brown defined. “So I needed to gauge the place the top of the stage was, the place the dancers had been, since you solely can see like this. I needed to gauge the place everybody was. And I used to be simply praying that I did not sweep round with that massive caboose and knock one of many fantastic dancers out. So there’s all of that strain in your thoughts. And you then additionally need to sound good. ? So you may’t let the truth that you are nervous about all these different issues get into your voice. So it was a difficult gauntlet, however I feel I did okay.”

As for whether or not she’s anticipating to listen to from her different Group co-stars after the present airs, Brown mentioned it is doubtless, with co-star, Joel McHale already in on the key as he served as her TMS ambassador, introducing her forward of her efficiency.

“Joel knew that I used to be doing the present and I am ready to see, we’ve a really energetic group chat. I have not but heard anybody going, ‘Are you Showbird?’ So I feel that they both haven’t caught on but or they’re ready for the large disclose to say, ‘I at all times knew,'” she shared. “However we spent a lot time collectively on Group. All of them, they know my voice. They know what I seem like. They know the way I stroll. Nobody can be shocked that it is me. They’d guess me. It’s going to be attention-grabbing to see what their response is.”

Whereas TooFab spoke to McHale in March concerning the upcoming Group movie, which he mentioned was slated to go in manufacturing this yr, issues have sadly not moved alongside as rapidly as they hoped, however Brown mentioned that does not imply this yr is out of the query!

“That is factor. I do not know. I do not suppose Joel was mendacity to you as a result of the plan was to shoot it this yr,” Brown admitted. “However the strike … after which all people’s schedules getting sort of rejiggered. I do not know if all people goes to be free in time to shoot it this yr.”

“I’ll say this, the movie goes to be shot. It will occur. We do have a script and everyone seems to be on board,” she promised. “And we additionally simply obtained that incentive that L.A. offers you to shoot right here. We simply obtained that incentive. So it might nonetheless occur. It might nonetheless occur this yr. I simply know that it’s occurring.”

The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.