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Singing is so fundamentally different from speaking that accents rarely persist. You can get characteristics of your native language coming through in singing (Italian, for example, is a very bright language with lots of resonance toward the front of the mouth, which is good for classical singing and something that people who normally speak a darker language like English or German have to learn), but when you start elongating vowels the way one does when singing, that tends to keep accents from coming through.

Though, if anything, good technique calls for other English-speakers to sound more British, since harder R's are a terrible sound to try to sing through. That's less emphasized in pop music, because nothing about good singing technique is typically emphasized in pop music, but if you start doing any classical singing and you try to pronounce "heart" like a North American would, you're going to have a rough time.
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