Leona Lewis doesn't like autotune

Leona Lewis hates it when record producers try to digitally enhance her voice.

The singer “can’t count the times” music industry professionals have tried to use Auto-Tune pitch-perfecting technology on her records. But the 24-year-old star has vowed never to use the software because it makes her voice sound “inhuman”.

“Oh my gosh!” Leona fumed. “I can’t tell you the number of times people have put Auto-Tune on my voice, and I’m like, ‘Please take it off!’ You don’t even sound human; it makes you sound like a robot!”

Leona has no problem being tough about her own music, but when it comes to other people’s songs, she admits she becomes an emotional wreck.

“I’m a positive person, but I’m very, very sensitive,” she told the Daily Telegraph newspaper. “Maybe over-sensitive. I cry in movies, reading books, anything to do with death, just people going through traumatic experiences, anything to do with animals will set me off.

“There are certain songs I can’t go near. I can’t sing Bette Midler’s The Wind Beneath My Wings. I can’t even hear it without wanting to bawl.”