Nicholas Joseph Pitera (born March 7, 1986) is an American singer, animator and
YouTuber
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[ , Pitera worked as a 3D Modeler at Pixar Studios.][ Pitera sang the Triple Dent Gum jingle in Pixar's '' Inside Out''. He was also known as the singing voice of Clarence from 2013 '' Clarence''.
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Career
Nick Pitera is a baritone. Pitera gained his popularity for his extensive vocal range and his unusual feminine falsetto
Falsetto ( , ; Italian language, Italian diminutive of , "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
It is produced by the vibration of the ...
, as he first demonstrated in his most popular video, a cover of "A Whole New World", from the movie ''Aladdin
Aladdin ( ; , , ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with '' One Thousand and One Nights'' (often known in English as ''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of the original ...
'' where he sang both Aladdin and Jasmine's parts.[
In 2011, Pitera released "One Man Disney Movie" using a "']Brady Bunch
''The Brady Bunch'' is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired five seasons from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family of six children, with three boys and three gir ...
'-style grid" to perform "an eight-minute-plus mashup of songs from various big-screen musical fairy tales, from "Beauty and the Beast
"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales'').
Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...
" to " Enchanted," taking on the roles of the heroes, heroines, villains, sidekicks and their furry choirs."[
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In 2012, Pitera released a medley cover of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End theatre, West End and on Broadway theatre, Broad ...
songs entitled "One Man Phantom of the Opera."[
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Pitera has also appeared on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show
''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. The show ran for nineteen seasons from September 8, 2003, to May 26, 2022, in which it broadcast 3,339 episodes. It was produced by ...
'' as one of the audience acts. He sang "A Whole New World
"A Whole New World" is the signature song from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin (1992 Disney film), ''Aladdin'', with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. A duet originally recorded by singers B ...
" from Disney, with himself singing both Jasmine
Jasmine (botanical name: ''Jasminum'', pronounced ) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae. It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are wid ...
's and Aladdin
Aladdin ( ; , , ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with '' One Thousand and One Nights'' (often known in English as ''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of the original ...
's parts.
He released his first self-written original single album called "Better Days" on iTunes
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and Amazon
Amazon most often refers to:
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
on December 4, 2012. He released an EP of five original songs in 2015.
For his work on '' Onward'', Pitera was jointly nominated in 2021 for a VES Award in the category Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature. He also performed "TripleDent Gum Jingle" song with Andrea Datzman for ''Inside Out 2
''Inside Out 2'' is a 2024 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The sequel to '' Inside Out'' (2015), it was directed by Kelsey Mann and was produced by Mark Nielsen, from a screen ...
''.
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Living people
1986 births
American Internet celebrities
American baritones
American countertenors
Pixar people
21st-century American singers
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