Many people are working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak, but what if your job is as a studio background vocalist? Nashville has a deep talent pool when it comes to singers. Some have sung background for the biggest stars you’ve heard of, all kinds of records, even performed demo recordings for songs that went on to become a giant smash hit.

So if you can’t gather in groups larger than ten, if you’re supposed to sanitize every surface you can if you go to work, then hundreds of studio performers who live here have no options. They’re out of work. Someone had the idea to each sing “it is well with my soul” on their phones.