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"CBS News Sunday Morning" gets an exclusive look inside the making of singer Randy Travis' new AI-created song
View Date:2024-12-23 14:13:46
Legendary country music star Randy Travis hasn't released a new single since suffering a stroke in 2013 that robbed him of his cherished singing voice. Until now. "CBS News Sunday Morning" correspondent Lee Cowan gets an exclusive inside look at how cutting-edge artificial intelligence enabled Travis to once again raise his voice in song in a story to be broadcast Sunday, May 5 on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.
"There's just so much chatter about all the negative sides of AI," said Cris Lacy, co-chair and president of Warner Music Nashville. "We started with this concept of, 'What would AI … look like for us?' And the first thing that came to mind [was] we would give Randy Travis his voice back."
Doctors gave Travis ("Forever and Ever, Amen," "Deeper Than the Holler") just a 2% chance of surviving the stroke. Besides paralysis, the area of his brain controlling speech and language was damaged almost beyond repair.
Cowan talked with Travis and his wife, Mary, and also got a behind-the-scenes look at how Travis' longtime producer, Kyle Lehning, with Travis' blessing, crafted a song using the chart-topping singer's past audio tracks as a starting point. With the help of another singer, a specially-designed AI program overlayed Travis' voice on the new recording. With Travis' input, Lehning painstakingly molded the AI-generated vocal into a song that felt authentic to the country icon. "It's not about how it sounds. It's about how it feels," Lehning said.
"Him being here and him being able to be, you know, a vital part of the decision-making process makes all the difference to me," Lehning said.
"It's Randy Travis," said Lacy. "Randy's on the other side of the microphone. … It's still his vocal …There's no reason he shouldn't be able to make music. … And to deprive him of that, if he still wants to do that, that's unconscionable to me."
Cowan was there when Travis' country music friends and family heard the song for the first time. Travis' single, "Where That Came From," was released to the public on May 3.
"It's so weird to try and explain everything that goes through your head when you're listening to it," said his stepdaughter, Cavanaugh Mauch.
Watch a preview clip from Lee Cowan's report above.
To hear the new Randy Travis single, "Where That Came From," click on the video player below:
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