Pau Roigé Gargallo

When Lana Love received an email from her old performing arts school about casting for a new HBO singing competition, she jumped at the opportunity. The New York-based singer-songwriter had previously been a contestant on “The Voice” and had an album in the chamber, so she thought the series, dubbed “Wings of Voice,” could be the perfect launchpad for her music career. The winner of the show was promised the chance to perform with a Grammy-winning artist, but Love viewed the exposure of being on an HBO series as the real prize. Love flew from her home in New York to Los Angeles three times, on her own dime, for separate auditions and tapings of “Wings of Voice,” which was filmed on an HBO soundstage in Hollywood. She waited in line with more than a thousand aspiring singers, performed for judges and made it to the top 50. But one day before her final taping, Love made a shocking discovery: It was all fake. “Wings of Voice” was not a real singing competition. Instead, the show was an elaborate stunt devised by comedic mastermind Nathan Fielder, orchestrated solely for the purpose of making a tangential point in his social experiment series on HBO, “The Rehearsal.” Full story here: wp.me/pc8uak-1lFMrb