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Michael Stipe has revealed we may be hearing his trademark voice again, saying "I think I will sing again...I sing in the shower and I'm not bad".
The former R.E.M. frontman has been pretty quiet on the music front since the band announced their split following the release of 'Collapse Into Now' in 2011. The star has only been involved with singing on a sea shanty with Courtney Love for Johnny Depp's pirate-themed compilation and on a surprise appearance with Coldplay's Chris Martin at the 12-12-12 benefit concert in New York, since the end of the band.
Speaking to Anthony Mason on CBS This Morning: Saturday's, Stipe was asked whether he was contemplating retirement, to which he replied: "I think I'll sing again. That's maybe an exclusive? But I think I will sing again, yeah." Mason then asks, "Soon?" "I love my voice and I think it's still… I think it actually got better as I got older. Not soon," Stipe says. "Maybe. I don't know. I sing in the shower. And I'm not bad. You would be surprised at my play list."
If and when Stipe does decide to sing again however, it definitely won't be alongside his former bandmates. After Mason asks whether an R.E.M. is on the cards, Stipe says: "No. That will never happen.I love those guys very much and I respect them hugely as musicians and as songwriters and everything, but I just don't want to do that thing that people do".
Stipe was last in the news earlier this year when he inducted Nirvana into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
