Singular Gauduchon metrics

In 1977, Gauduchon proved that on every compact hermitian manifold $(X, \omega)$ there exists a conformally equivalent hermitian metric $\omega_{\mathrm{G}}$ which satisfies $\mathrm{dd}^c \omega_{\mathrm{G}}^{n-1} = 0$. In this note, we extend this result to irreducible compact singular hermitian varieties which admit a smoothing.