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When someone in your band decides to leave or gets fired or, heaven forbid, dies, you have a problem.

This is an issue of any member leaves, but if we're talking about your singer, that's a hurt on an

entirely different level. Your front person is an integral part of your singer, that's a hurt on an entirely different level.

Your front person is an integral part of your sound. It's the voice of your music. And there is

nothing more important to your music than its voice. Oh, and it gets worse, too. Your front

person often provides the central image for your bed. That person is the one out front. That

person takes center stage live. That person is the one out front. That person takes center stage live.

That person is the one the camera follows in a video. That person is the one photographers focus on.

And chances are it's that person's name that comes to mind first when you talk to fans.

So, what do you do when that person bails?

Well, you have two choices.

First, you can fold your tent, go home, and maybe come back in a different form with a different name.

Or you suck it up and risk replacing that singer with someone else.

This is hard on so many levels.

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