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Shaggy Reveals He Got His Signature Voice by 'Mocking Drill Instructors' in the Marines: 'It Sounded Cool'

In a TikTok video on Saturday, Shaggy opened up about how he got his signature sound from his time in the Marines.

On Saturday, the singer/rapper — whose real name is Orville Richard Burrell CD — opened up about how he got his signature sound in a TikTok video. The "It Wasn't Me" artist then explained how the success of his 1993 cover of "Oh Carolina" made him face whether or not he needed to sing in the same voice throughout his career. There's a part in the record where it's a conversation between two people and you have one guy, which is me at that point, giving that bad advice, like, 'Yo, bro, how could you get caught?

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