Patti's voice is a force of nature. It's sad that she never got the credit she deserved by the music industry. But when it comes to an ability to move an audience with the sheer power of voice Patti La Belle is in a class by herself. And no one and I mean no one can touch her. Even though time has taken some of her power she is still a force to reckon with. Aretha maybe the Queen of Soul, but Miss Patti is a Goddess.
I've always thought that too but realized that whatever we don't get here on earth, nothing compares to what awaits us in Heaven!! Miss Patti is and will be Blessed!!!
Patti Labelle is the Godmother of Soul though. She was given that title some years ago. Aretha is the Queen of Soul, Patti Labelle is the Godmother of Soul, and Gladys Knight is the Empress of Soul. And in the 80s they did give her the title of either the Godmother or the Queen of Rock n Soul, because in the 80s and even in the early early 90s during a little period of time Patti did a couple of songs that had a bit of a rock edge to them! And she did them and did them WELL, because she had such a PIERCING voice! I wish she would’ve did more rock type songs!
Why do you have to mention Aretha? No need to slight the queen in order to lift up Patti. Anyway, Patti was always renown for her powerful performances and vocal acrobats. Her recordings didn't move people the way her performances did. That's why she blew up in popularity during the 80s the height of live television.
@@melregissings First of all I was not slighting Aretha. I called her the Queen of Soul because that's what she is. Just because I called Patti a goddess doesn't mean I was disrespecting Aretha. So the question is why are you trying to make a mess out of something that wasn't intended to be. But I do have to agree that Patti in the studio is not as powerful as Patti live and uninhibited. Most of Patti's best performances have been performed live.
One of the most legendary and remarkable vocal titans to ever grace this earth. A national treasure that has yet to get her dues. There can never be another.
This was on Merv Griffin's show to promote the Broadway Play 'Your Arms Too Short To Box WIth God'. She is simply the best vocally. There are not many dramatic sopranos in the recording industry that can do what she does in her chest and head voice.
@@KajiVocals czcams.com/video/aRwhIjFA0aA/video.html I know it's not approaching dramatic soprano territory but you're not gonna find too many sparsely trained pop singers who can hit a high C6 like at 5:15 and 9:43. CRAZY! RIP Sarah Dash as well!
Great review, I agree no one has that kind of projection live or otherwise. I have seen her live 15 times since the 80's and yes she can go higher and has been singing for over 750 years. LOL There is an acapella version of her performing, Something in the Air Tonight by Phil Collins from the late 80's simple stunning. You asked if there was anyone who could be heard when she hits her high notes. There is a video with her and Teena Marie singing Somebody Loves You Baby from the 90's and she mates Patti's projection and volume. Please check it out.
Shirley Bassey does. And quite larger actually. Patti's projection is largely in her head voice. She wouldn't be able to project her midrange like that because of her approach. She'd lose her higher belts if she did. Patti is a high soprano singing big. It seems massive to us because barely anyone in pop actually has proper projection. Patti's friend Angela Winbush has a similar projection as well. Teena whom you mentioned has a higher and smaller voice than Patti but still projects well.
@@KajiVocals I honestly think it's all the hollering that makes her belts big in that E5-G5 range. She approaches her notes like she yells. It worked for her for a while. The headvoice "woop" is baptist/gospel and probably some classical approach because she sang standards on the early Bluebells days. High belting is a different technique altogether. Probably rooted in gospel. I'm sure opera soprano singers use totally different techniques for notes above the soprano passagio. Most gospel sopranos have G5 for days, and go to C6 using a mixing belt technique, which is essentially a mastery of screaming but with focus 😂 If I try to imitate what Patti does, the best I can describe is It's attempting to control a very high yell 😂 Both Mahalia and Patti were/are accused of screaming but both use that same technique for belting. Their technique makes that yelling sound good. Christina Aguilera screams without a focus or support, rather. Compare her to say Lashaun Pace or Karen. She wouldn't make it in a battle for the long hall 🤣 her throat would give out. It sounds like yelling because it is based on it. But RnB, Soul, Gospel called for that style for the messaging. Both Patti and Mahalia can give "clean" vocals with that style, though. Check out Mahalia "Lord's Prayer" in the studio. Rick James also has a nice tenor voice. I don't think he's trained, though.
Patti's sound is heavy at the top but it's not as resonate as some other high belters. There's a video of her belting with Natalie Cole. Natalie's voice had more ring at the top but not as heavy as Patti's. Heaviness doesn't mean more volume. But it sounds like it's louder because of the force. Starting around G5 Patti's belts start to lose tone. The notes are still big and easily accessible, but it lacks that clear piercing tone that you would here in a young Aretha or young Whitney. Patti's head voice is very big for a pop singer. Not too many in pop who can sing louder than her in head voice.
She stays snatching souls on an interdimensional plane, period!💜💕💜💕👑👑👑 I promise you E T The Alien and The Predator get The Holy Ghost when they hear Patti LaBelle!💕💜💕 I love your reviews 750 years you ain't never lied, because she's put in enough work for it to be a thousand years! Let me tell you about that head voice Patti is sneaky because she holds that back. I was on stage with her once at The Rockport Music Festival in Massachusetts, and I thought I was cute. I tried to hit that head voice note. SHE pulled her microphone away from her mouth held it at arms length away and hit a note in full voice, a whistle note but it was loud . If she had that Mike to her mouth she would've busted my ear drums. She just winked at me and finished singing, the song. That song was If the shoe 👠 was on the other foot. ALL I could do was wipe the drool off my face. That was around 1998 Been completely bald ever since . I believe Too close to heaven is one of the songs from the musical that she starred in on Broadway, Yourr arms too short to box with God!
I know Patti Labelle New Attitude, Stir it up & heard a nice ballad that Celine Dion did the cover for. Powerhouse vocalist & perhaps underrated. You should react to her 1985 performance from her show with Cyndi Lauper- Time After Time. Must see spectacular performance. Nice Duet!
Her agility is actually quite impressive! I just don’t know why she didn’t really use her agility that much. Listen to this performance of Since I Don’t Have You in 1977. She was able to execute quite complex melisma with pitch and speed. This is the most agile I’ve heard her sing: czcams.com/video/g4z6tPgyjpU/video.html
She has an extremely agile voice. But probably didn't use it often because her style was more power, rasp and range. Along with her yodeling and tone changes. It wasn't really her style
I don't think she has the musical ear to execute a lot of complex runs. Patti was more focused on tone, power, and range. She's not thinking much about melody or lyric when approaching a song. That's what made her different from Aretha or Gladys.
i catch your videos here and there, but for the life of me i'm still surprised that you have not reacted to Patti's Somewhere Over the Rainbow/When You Been Blessed performance on the Arsenio Hall show, Patti singing What A Wonderful World, Patti with Luther and Gladys doing a tribute to Smokey Robinson, Patti singing Forever Young at the Soul Train Honors show, and lastly for pure fun...Patti singing Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend. she completely shows OUT in all of these performances. you seriously need to check them out.
Patti DID have classical training briefly (as a lyric soprano, not dramatic funnily enough). As from singers who would not be drowned out by Patti - Shirley Bassey. She would actually overpower her. But in terms of singers she dueted with. I can only think of Michael Bolton who managed to not be overpowered.
You are insane if you think Shirley Bassey would overpower Patsy. If you have watched her you know their are different levels to her voice. This performance was her singing in a lighter voice. And definitely not Michael Bolton or Cindy L.. I've seen her draw male singers.
Patti's voice is a force of nature. It's sad that she never got the credit she deserved by the music industry. But when it comes to an ability to move an audience with the sheer power of voice Patti La Belle is in a class by herself. And no one and I mean no one can touch her. Even though time has taken some of her power she is still a force to reckon with. Aretha maybe the Queen of Soul, but Miss Patti is a Goddess.
Say that again, yes she's untouchable 💕
I've always thought that too but realized that whatever we don't get here on earth, nothing compares to what awaits us in Heaven!! Miss Patti is and will be Blessed!!!
Patti Labelle is the Godmother of Soul though. She was given that title some years ago. Aretha is the Queen of Soul, Patti Labelle is the Godmother of Soul, and Gladys Knight is the Empress of Soul. And in the 80s they did give her the title of either the Godmother or the Queen of Rock n Soul, because in the 80s and even in the early early 90s during a little period of time Patti did a couple of songs that had a bit of a rock edge to them! And she did them and did them WELL, because she had such a PIERCING voice! I wish she would’ve did more rock type songs!
Why do you have to mention Aretha? No need to slight the queen in order to lift up Patti. Anyway, Patti was always renown for her powerful performances and vocal acrobats. Her recordings didn't move people the way her performances did. That's why she blew up in popularity during the 80s the height of live television.
@@melregissings First of all I was not slighting Aretha. I called her the Queen of Soul because that's what she is. Just because I called Patti a goddess doesn't mean I was disrespecting Aretha. So the question is why are you trying to make a mess out of something that wasn't intended to be. But I do have to agree that Patti in the studio is not as powerful as Patti live and uninhibited. Most of Patti's best performances have been performed live.
patti excepcional! ❤️🇧🇷
Patti has been a beast since the 60’s bro.
Patti always gonna put her whole heart into it. The volume she can produce 🥴🔥🔥🔥 love it
She's absolutely THE BEST!!!!!
One of the most legendary and remarkable vocal titans to ever grace this earth. A national treasure that has yet to get her dues. There can never be another.
Amen. Often imitated, never duplicated. The one, the only, …
Patti Labelle.
This was on Merv Griffin's show to promote the Broadway Play 'Your Arms Too Short To Box WIth God'. She is simply the best vocally. There are not many dramatic sopranos in the recording industry that can do what she does in her chest and head voice.
She is not a dramatic soprano. Her sound is only big by pop standards.
@@KajiVocals
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I know it's not approaching dramatic soprano territory but you're not gonna find too many sparsely trained pop singers who can hit a high C6 like at 5:15 and 9:43. CRAZY!
RIP Sarah Dash as well!
She betta sang🔥One of my favorite female vocalist
If this didn’t take you to church I don’t know what will. I love miss patti! ❤
Mariahs godmother for a reason 😌
I would like to see your reaction to Patti's performance of Look To The Rainbow in the black dress. I think Dick Clark introduced her. Its amazing.
Verrrrry good review! Now you need to review that Arsenio Hall from 1991 where it was just Patti on “ an evening with Patti LaBelle”.
The greatest female vocalist of our time!
More patti labelle please ! And from the recent years ,
There is no one..........Patti is in a class by herself! Having said that, your videos are awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Patti!
You said it earlier..... Nobody!!!!
Patti Labelle has always been my favorite! Can you please react to Luther Vandross and Ronald Isley tribute to Patti!
Great review, I agree no one has that kind of projection live or otherwise. I have seen her live 15 times since the 80's and yes she can go higher and has been singing for over 750 years. LOL There is an acapella version of her performing, Something in the Air Tonight by Phil Collins from the late 80's simple stunning. You asked if there was anyone who could be heard when she hits her high notes. There is a video with her and Teena Marie singing Somebody Loves You Baby from the 90's and she mates Patti's projection and volume. Please check it out.
Shirley Bassey does. And quite larger actually. Patti's projection is largely in her head voice. She wouldn't be able to project her midrange like that because of her approach. She'd lose her higher belts if she did. Patti is a high soprano singing big. It seems massive to us because barely anyone in pop actually has proper projection. Patti's friend Angela Winbush has a similar projection as well. Teena whom you mentioned has a higher and smaller voice than Patti but still projects well.
@@KajiVocals
I honestly think it's all the hollering that makes her belts big in that E5-G5 range. She approaches her notes like she yells. It worked for her for a while. The headvoice "woop" is baptist/gospel and probably some classical approach because she sang standards on the early Bluebells days.
High belting is a different technique altogether. Probably rooted in gospel. I'm sure opera soprano singers use totally different techniques for notes above the soprano passagio. Most gospel sopranos have G5 for days, and go to C6 using a mixing belt technique, which is essentially a mastery of screaming but with focus 😂
If I try to imitate what Patti does, the best I can describe is It's attempting to control a very high yell 😂
Both Mahalia and Patti were/are accused of screaming but both use that same technique for belting. Their technique makes that yelling sound good.
Christina Aguilera screams without a focus or support, rather. Compare her to say Lashaun Pace or Karen. She wouldn't make it in a battle for the long hall 🤣 her throat would give out.
It sounds like yelling because it is based on it. But RnB, Soul, Gospel called for that style for the messaging.
Both Patti and Mahalia can give "clean" vocals with that style, though. Check out Mahalia "Lord's Prayer" in the studio.
Rick James also has a nice tenor voice. I don't think he's trained, though.
Patti's sound is heavy at the top but it's not as resonate as some other high belters. There's a video of her belting with Natalie Cole. Natalie's voice had more ring at the top but not as heavy as Patti's. Heaviness doesn't mean more volume. But it sounds like it's louder because of the force. Starting around G5 Patti's belts start to lose tone. The notes are still big and easily accessible, but it lacks that clear piercing tone that you would here in a young Aretha or young Whitney. Patti's head voice is very big for a pop singer. Not too many in pop who can sing louder than her in head voice.
@2:37 is exactly what I'm talking about. very heavy belt, but lacks tonal clarity because of placement.
“He Cares” from “Going to Home To Gospel with Patti Labelle” is a must watch!
“THE QUEEN 👑 WILL NOT BE DENIED”
She stays snatching souls on an interdimensional plane, period!💜💕💜💕👑👑👑
I promise you E T The Alien and
The Predator get The Holy Ghost when they hear Patti LaBelle!💕💜💕
I love your reviews 750 years you ain't never lied, because she's put in enough work for it to be a thousand years!
Let me tell you about that head voice Patti is sneaky because she holds that back. I was on stage with her once at The Rockport Music Festival in Massachusetts, and I thought I was cute. I tried to hit that head voice note. SHE pulled her microphone away from her mouth held it at arms length away and hit a note in full voice, a whistle note but it was loud .
If she had that Mike to her mouth she would've busted my ear drums.
She just winked at me and finished singing, the song. That song was If the shoe 👠 was on the other foot.
ALL I could do was wipe the drool off my face. That was around 1998
Been completely bald ever since .
I believe Too close to heaven is one of the songs from the musical that she starred in on Broadway, Yourr arms too short to box with God!
WOW!
I know Patti Labelle New Attitude, Stir it up & heard a nice ballad that Celine Dion did the cover for. Powerhouse vocalist & perhaps underrated. You should react to her 1985 performance from her show with Cyndi Lauper- Time After Time. Must see spectacular performance. Nice Duet!
Her agility is actually quite impressive! I just don’t know why she didn’t really use her agility that much. Listen to this performance of Since I Don’t Have You in 1977. She was able to execute quite complex melisma with pitch and speed. This is the most agile I’ve heard her sing:
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And please react to it if you haven’t seen it!
Oh that performance was crazy....she murdered that performance
She has an extremely agile voice. But probably didn't use it often because her style was more power, rasp and range. Along with her yodeling and tone changes. It wasn't really her style
I don't think she has the musical ear to execute a lot of complex runs. Patti was more focused on tone, power, and range. She's not thinking much about melody or lyric when approaching a song. That's what made her different from Aretha or Gladys.
@@thechristianteen9167 right!!!
Pls react to patti labelle loverman live performance🙏🙏(on UNCF)
I almost threw my phone!!!!! Sang!!!!!!
Please react to 2 steps away at the Kennedy center by patti labella !
Can you react to Yolanda Adam's honors Patti Labelle video on CZcams. Yolanda brings Patti to tears with her version of You'll Never Walk Alone
There is noone who can match her high belts.
Over the rainbow 🌈 2014 at the Whitehouse. Check it out if you have not already.
i catch your videos here and there, but for the life of me i'm still surprised that you have not reacted to Patti's Somewhere Over the Rainbow/When You Been Blessed performance on the Arsenio Hall show, Patti singing What A Wonderful World, Patti with Luther and Gladys doing a tribute to Smokey Robinson, Patti singing Forever Young at the Soul Train Honors show, and lastly for pure fun...Patti singing Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend. she completely shows OUT in all of these performances. you seriously need to check them out.
COME ONN Patti!!
You definitely should react to "Somebody loves you" performance at soul train 🙏
Right SEVENHUNNEDFIDDY years 😂
Could you imagine her in the church in the 50's tearing the house down?!
I know the rush hour traffic in LA.....other than that nobody human...react to her singing with Donnie "stand" on the BET awards
chills
You should check out her diva medley awesome singing and great review 👍
@justthevoice please react to her singing in the Kennedy center !
React to patti labelle on ELLEN 2004 at 60 years old !
Nobody in pop is touching pattie. Karen and Twinkie could come close but I think pattie could low key sound then out.
Please you have to react to her performance of over the rainbow at the apollo, for me her best version of this song
Can you react to Patti Labelle on the Jay leno show songing Ain't no way
PLEASE REACT TO ARETHA FRANKLIN
BOTH 1960s Live Performances
IN HIS KISS & NO NO NO I'M LOSING YOU
Maybe Lashaun Pace??
Could you please please react to Kelontae Gavin “Peace be Still”
Can you react to Dorinda Clark cole runs and riffs please
Patti DID have classical training briefly (as a lyric soprano, not dramatic funnily enough). As from singers who would not be drowned out by Patti - Shirley Bassey. She would actually overpower her. But in terms of singers she dueted with. I can only think of Michael Bolton who managed to not be overpowered.
And Cyndi Lauper, surprisingly.
@@teegee7801 Ah yes! Forgot about that duet!
@@KajiVocals
But Pat encourages you to go forth and let have! Shes not insecure. She encouraged Ariana, Mariah, Michael, Ledisi, Cyndi etc.
@@teegee7801 Yes! She also truly loves performing and singing with others.
You are insane if you think Shirley Bassey would overpower Patsy. If you have watched her you know their are different levels to her voice. This performance was her singing in a lighter voice. And definitely not Michael Bolton or Cindy L.. I've seen her draw male singers.
Chaka wouldn't be drowned out.
Chaka ain't a fool!
To answer your question, I think only the girl in this performance comes close: czcams.com/video/tLOfkchwB0o/video.html