Jazmine Sullivan American Anthem - Reaction & vocal analysis
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- čas přidán 19. 01. 2023
- Watching Jazmine Sullivan's performance of the American Anthem for the first time, and analyzing those luscious contralto vocals.
Watch the full, uninterrupted performance here: "Jazmine Sullivan's AMAZING National Anthem before World Series Game 5": • Jazmine Sullivan's AMA...
Or watch my previous Jazmine Sullivan reaction performing Girl like me with H.E.R. here: • REACTION: Jazmine Sull...
Thank you so much for watching!
Xx Hege
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🦅🦅🦅🦅 I never get tired of watching people freakout over Jazmine!!!
I thought I was the only one lol
Same
Amen♥️♥️The white reactors (actual singers) are my faves🤎
#FightPhils & FlyEaglesFly
Right?! That's literally what I'm binging right now.
"Honoring America, America should honor her" 💯🎉 No truer words have ever been spoken🎉💯
Haha thank you
I'd love to see your analysis to her singing "lift every voice and sing." I assure you'll love it!
Her voice is SPECTACULAR
Contralto....wow I learned something new today. 😃
This is one of the best National Anthem singing I've heard in a while. That was so good!
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I'm glad to be teaching :D haha. And right?! There's not a second of this that leaves me any other type of way than wildly impressed. Jazmine is amazing
The National Anthem just gets me in the feels anyway, but Jasmyn’s gospel -inspired rendition creates an actual feeling of Hopefulness that America might actually get its shit together. 🦅✨🇺🇸
It’s a good melody and Jazmine’s performance is one of my favorites so far (love Brandy and Whitney Houston’s renditions too) ☺️.
I actually had to google the lyrics recently, cause even though I’ve heard it a bunch of times, I had no idea what some of the words were haha. And for your last point, as someone only watching from the outside, I hope so too. ✨
@@HegeOfficial Hope is a good thing 😉
America should definitely honor her lol 🫡. Jaz is the TRUTH!
Right? She’s a treasure! ☺️
Thee Jazmine Sullivan 👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠
I went to her concert last March for my birthday. Simply amazing
Oh I bet it was. You’re so lucky ✨ It must have been spectacular experiencing her live!
My birthday’s also in March (not that you asked haha)
In the U.S Jazmine Sullivan is considered one of the greatest R&B singers.
That Peabo Bryson note at 7:10 always transports me to my childhood
Please recommend more Jazmine Sullivan live performances here
Can you react to her live netflix performance, here is the link czcams.com/video/LaL4Wao_x70/video.html
Her cover of adore by prince
Or her kiss from the rose when she was younger
Check out her covering “gangsta” by kehlani…amazing 🔥🔥🔥
America should definitely honor her !!😂😂
“Contralto” that’s new to me!! There’s so much about the music world I’m still learning. 😅
Glad I could serve up something new to you :) And I love that you're learning - so am I still :). There's so much to explore within music in general, let alone vocals, so it's easy to get overwhelmed too, haha. Music is an inexhaustible subject, but luckily it's fun
@@HegeOfficial enjoy your weekend also!! Thank you so much!!
this is the lowest and rarest female voice type in the world. do you know what this job title means? "Against-high" contra-alto. Because true altos have the unique ability to sing almost everything in their chest voice, the way men do!!! They are in the high notes optional club. It's not because they can't, it's just that the lower range that is their comfort zone. I am one myself, and let me tell you, as a kid I've heard men sing and wish I could do the same things they do....... Now I can, I challenge myself to sing in the same key, and it never ceases to amaze me that most of the time I can!!! High tenor and high baritone songs are among my favourites to sing. I wish more people know more about this unique and rare instrument. I am gonna write a book about it.
You said it best we can all go home now we have one of the best of our generation she will be appreciated a lot more later in life for sure!!!!
I keep discovering amazing talent through you. You are a great combination of analyst and fan 🎈. This performance was epic.
So happy to hear that ☺️ thank you, Robb! Jazmine Sullivan deserves the world ❤️ she’s amazing.
If there was a world R&B competition, the US and the UK would have to fight❤🤍💙😄😄😄
Thee best! Her and and Whitney are the bar!
Thank you I keep telling people she’s a Contralto and I love jaz she sang
Do people not agree with you that she is? I love her too, so much
@@HegeOfficial yes , they argue that she’s a mezzo soprano , because her range is so wide , which is true it’s a beautiful range. But range doesn’t make necessarily make you a certain vocal type. Right?…… I love her penmanship also.I love your channel by the way .
@@No-one20244 I always believed her to be a lyric mezzo, but not a contralto
@@byronbostick4310 yeah but she’s definitely a Contralto
Jazmine Sullivan is not a contralto Lol I’ve never heard that ever
Hege, You're the best 🇺🇲 👍, Gilles 🇲🇫😉
Thank you, Gilles, I try haha :) Have a nice weekend!
@@HegeOfficial you too 🎙️🎶👍
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yes, she gets the recognition she deserves as a contralto! She said herself, she doesn't have a high voice. She is very much influenced by Brandy, who to my ears has the most fluid contralto I've ever heard. These ladies destroy low notes and move between said chest notes with ease and precision. It is insane. I'm a contralto myself, and let me tell you, that ain't an easy feat. that voice is thick, dark and heavy to move for most of us..
Listen to her tiny table it's a must. Also I am a lover of music so if I say anything I must tell you to watch boomerang live by yebba and plz do a reaction vid. I've loved jazmine since a little girl and I can't pick up on what you like in your videos and if you plz do this video I promise it's rewarding in the ears. Yebba provided runs scatting and so much more live and I'm really Tryna sell it in this caption so it'll be like your next vid frfr because it is that insane 😅
Ooh I love Yebba
@@HegeOfficial yes the live version plzzzz like it's a must and when you do I will be watching immediately. Ik your ears will love it
They are all good. Sandi patty sang the national anthem in the 80s, no one can match her.
Right? Except for Whitney at the Super Bowl between the Bills and Giants at the beginning of the first Persian War.
I believed she was a lyric mezzo soprano especially considering how fluid she is in her mid range
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This was my first exposure to Jasmine, believe it or not.! What an impressive range she has! Whenever I hear someone start to sing the National Anthem I wonder 2 things: 1) will the vocalist “go there” to try to hit that high note on the word free (or free-ee 🙂) and 2) will they slaughter the pronunciation of the word perilous, a major pet peeve of mine. Thankfully Jasmine sang the pronunciation as pear-uh-lus. or pear-ill-us, and not pear-oh-liss. AND she hit the high note - and then took it up even higher! She seems to be a master of the runs for sure, but for some reason my little American heart always prefers a pure straightforward clear rendition of the National Anthem minus the vocal gymnastics of lots of runs. I can appreciate those in other songs rather than this one. I bet you know the correct musical term for what I’m trying to say about singing a song with the notes minus runs? I liked her gospel take at times in the song 🙂 And a couple of other quick thoughts, Hege…your sweater looks so beautiful with your hair color! AND my question - when doing a reaction video of a live performance, how would you handle it if someone sang any wonky or off-key or pitchy notes? Just curious, since I don’t recall you having had to deal with that before 🙂 and you’re such a positive person 🥰Thanks for another great video, I never expected to see a reaction video to our National Anthem❣️🇺🇸 Super interesting!
She’s not a contralto. Her passsgios are 100% mezzo-soprano or low set soprano. Not only that but her voice exhibits blooming qualities between EB5-F#5 and she’s able to carry an M1 modal sound up to E5/F5. No true contralto could do that.
I think it’s safest to say she’s a lyric-mezzo. Her natural tessitura is F#4-F#5.
Much love tho ❤️❤️❤️.
You say that, but can you replicate her low notes or they way she bends low notes on "In Love with Another Man".... Have you ever seen any female artists even try to cover that? Same must be said about Toni Braxton, who covers her songs??? They might do "Unbreak My Heart" but 99 percent don't touch the lowest notes with a ten foot pole. This really just shows how difficult such pieces are to sing for higher placed singers, which is most of the population when it comes to female voices. Contraltos are still women, it doesn't mean they cannot manage high notes. Contraltos do not belt past D5 true. It's just that at the E5/F5 they lose the meaty sound because that's just how they operate in pure overly bright head register--something that most avoid because it's very jarring from their normally rich deep fullness that they are used to. Obviously higher voice types, their voices are still meaty past D5. In comparison true mezzos only manage E5 as their highest mixed belt. Sopranos in turn can probably go a bit higher in their mix.
Mezzos and contraltos are almost indistinguishable in the fifth octave. However, on a contralto, very quickly her voice quickly morphs into something mysteriously darker, smoky and lower than that of a standard mezzo does the moment she operates in pure chest voice, which spans nearly an octave. this is why like men, they can opt out of singing high notes in a song altogether as most songs cover an octave.
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Hello, thanks for responding ❤️
“Can you replicate her low notes or the way she bends low notes on “In Love with Another Man” in a lower set, lower tessitura’d tenor so yes. I’m comfortable down to like G#1/A1 albeit my usable projectable chest stops at D#2/E2.
some of what you said isn’t accurate. A contralto is literally a “female tenor.” She’s going to have passagio closer to a tenor. Jazmine Sullivan though incredibly beefy, has text book mezzo-soprano or lower set soprano passsgio.
The thing is, Jazmine has above average lower chest voice development for a mezzo-soprano and on the remote chance she’s a lower set soprano then outstanding lower chest development.
“Mezzo sopranos and contraltos are almost indistinguishable in the 5th octave” not really. When belting, contraltos are going to have to rely more on a head dominant mix. They won’t be able to carry much chest up past B4/C5. Mezzo-sopranos are weird because some can carry very chesty sounds up to F5 but normally around Eb5 to E5.
HV is more or less the same just slightly higher. A contralto will be able to make upper middle notes boomy and cavernous between D5-F5. A mezzo will start to bloom in HV around Eb5 and reach that top note quality from A5 and up. I’d say it’s closer in HV for sure but belting, and inherently high octane sort of singing, can’t quite agree.
Just to name some outstanding mezzo sopranos, here we go:
Grace Jones
Young Nina Simone
P!nk (albeit the most soprano-like of all mezzos)
Good Sis Toni Braxton (all though she is incredibly light and her lows or sort of thin)
Mahalia Jackson (I think she’s the best example because she sings most commonly between A4-C5 and will bring the climax up to Eb5. She has a very heavy approach which makes both perspective passagios in the area stand out.)
@@NeffyLe Grace, Nina and Toni Braxton are all contraltos. I am sure of it because only contraltos have pure chest belts up to G4, and I know these ladies do. Grace has done this live with Pavarotti [thanks CZcams], basically singing tenor in the same set. I also have this. It's like a dark animal coming out of me when I do it. Truly in mixed belt contraltos typically only belt up to D5; this is also the limit Bruno Mars does as a high tenor himself. Toni cannot belt past D5's. She must use her pure HV past after that. That's why she cannot perform meaty E5's the way mezzos do. That's why I say contraltos in the fifth register basically sound the same as mezzos but in reality they are low belters and cannot belt as high as higher set singers. Contraltos and mezzos sound identical with the typical female money notes of C5's and D5's. However when you get contraltos to belt on the fourth octave, they sound completely different, becaue they belt in pure chest tones, thus the dark, heavy, thick, cavernous sound that sets them apart from all other female singers. Toni absolutely has this. And she has a very extensive chest register--she sounds dark, rich for longer as she sings up the scale from D3 to G4. This is also the hallmark of the contralto voice because it spans nearly an octave. therefore like men, they are in the high notes optional club, they can perform complete songs without using head voice/falsetto at all. This is different from mezzos and sopranos who are known for their long middle voice. I say this again: contraltos have an unusually long chest register and basically sing like men in their modal range with a very low tessitura that is only slightly above tenor and slightly below mezzo.
the typical lowest modal notes from tenor to soprano goes up one note with each classification. tenor C3, contralto D3, mezzo F3, soprano G3. I'm not making these up, I literally studied classical pedagogy on this for live acoustic singing, these are the lowest notes that carry for certain singers. this is why today even now as before in the classical tradition, the typical lowest note written for females in contemporary music is F3. Someone like Toni challenges that convention by going much lower than that. D3's and C3's [Let it flow" is more tenor reportoire for her] are not atypical written into her music. They even go into A2/Bb2 but those are given out like treats.
another challenging low note song for females is "Hardly Breathing" by Brandy. Her speaking voice is unusually rich and deep. She is a rarity in her own right as a coloratura contralto with what she is capable of in her low range. the other great rarity is Tracy Chapman who is clearly a dramatic contralto who avoids using HV completely in all her recorded materials that I've come across..
@@pragmaticfool5434 Toni’s D3s and C3s are song with a microphone for amplification and it’s clear she’s working to sing below E3. What you mentioned is the nominal projectable note for a given voice type but every voice is different. Again, me, a tenor have no issue projecting down to E2. My lowest absolute note is way below that but still a tenor despite have a gifted chest voice that can give the thickest baritone a run for their money.
Toni also doesn’t sing with masculine levels of power between D3-G4. It’s dark in color but not as powerful as even the most mediocre tenor in that area.
Brandy is 100% light lyric soprano of the same make as Fantasia however Brandy just has a well developed chest voice for such s fundamentally high voice. Compare brandy to a mezzo, her voice is tiny in the 4th octave. Her voice doesn’t begin to pick up steam until C5. Unfortunately, she’s not a strong belter despite having solid technique there. But she doesn’t show any signs of a third passagio around Eb5 at all. It sounds north of F5 and considering how small her instrument is, until she gets to E5 and up, I’d say she’s a lyric soprano. Not to mention her HV. It is purely that of a light lyric soprano.
I think we may have to agree to disagree on some things. Most women that people think are contraltos are actually just average mezzos. People just aren’t used to hearing mezzos so they call them contraltos.
Most sopranos with strong lower chests are often classified as mezzos when they are infact sopranos (Keke Wyatt, Beyoncé, Jojo, Brandy)
One last question. What do you think Samara Joy’s voice type is? Just curious. ❤️
The announcer has cancer in his jaw, which bulges his cheek out a lot. That's why he is pronouncing funny.