Sheryl Crow 'controls burps by singing'

Sheryl Crow has revealed that she can control burping through singing.

The singer-songwriter, who has been performing live for 20 years, impressed her band's guitar player Doyle Bramhall II with her ability to suppress wind with her voice.

"Doug just thinks it's fascinating that I can sing through a burp if that means anything to you," she told Pop Eater.

"I can be onstage and, you know, I can sustain a burp until I'm done with a phrase. You know part of it is just doing it, part of it is singing, it's like any other sort of craft of muscle.

"The more you do it, hopefully, the better you get at it, the more you understand it and the better you are able to control."

The 'All I Wanna Do' star, who originally served as Michael Jackson's backing vocalist before embarking on a solo career, admitted that she hopes to emulate the career of folk legend Bob Dylan.

She explained: "Bob Dylan's a great example of someone who didn't want to stay static. He did a very big event in Tokyo with Joni Mitchell and took voice lessons for it.

"So I think good singers and singers who are very alive in their art continue to work at it."

Crow is due to perform on CMA Country Chirstmas this evening.