On her most recent tour, the Rebel Heart Tour, which ran from September 2015 to March 2016, Madonna sang most of the songs live, often augmented by a pre-recorded guide vocal. read more
The balance between the live vocal and the guide vocal varied in each song from night to night. “True Blue” and “La vie en rose”, however, were always sung 100% live, and so were the songs in the acoustic section of the show, which changed from show to show. read more
Madonna sang live most of her life while people like Janet and Michael Jackson lip-synced 90% of their shows (yet, Madonna got the bad rep for 3 or 4 songs in her concerts). Over the years (I'm talking Girlie Show, Re-Invention, Confessions, and MDNA Tours), she lip-synced the first songs or sang over a heavy layer of pre-recorded vocals. read more
Countless stories have been written since about Madonna, 53, miming the words of her 12-minute halftime performance at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis while the Twitter world reveled in the fact that Madge's vocals for Vogue, Music, Give Me Your Luvin' and Like a Prayer were pre-taped. read more