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Polish singing competition says it is ‘very surprised’ to receive complaints over the show’s use of blackface
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msn.comblackface. The Spanish TV series Your Face Sounds Familiar has almost 50 formats around the world and sees celebrity contestants impersonate musicians in televised performances.
As well as attempting to mimic a singer’s voice, the participants also take measures to look like the stars they are trying to imitate.
The Polish iteration of the reality show has attracted criticism after its white performers impersonated Black artists such as Bill Withers by wearing prosthetics and facial make-up that amounts to blackface.
Blackface is a racist practice in which non-Black people paint their skin darker to resemble a Black person. The performance perpetuates negative and reductive stereotypes.
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