Wana Baraka

[Babick30]

stage presence was pretty. and this is supposed to be a happy song but it seems like everyones so quiet until the end note, which is the easiest part..

[cutefifsta]

it's quite interesting to see it being sung by non Kenyans. Very well done. This was one of my favourite songs in Kenya the youth really loved singing it at church :)

[illusions142]

Dunno who this is, but if per chance you were an alto at this time, do you remember the girl who started to pass out? 2:31 is a fellow alto putting her stuff down to help her off stage. Yeap. My friend was the girl on the other side and I was riiiight in front of them That's what I remember best from this day. Hahaha.

[RoughridersFan08]

@illusions142 Haha! I was an alto at the time. I was in the second row. I went to Clear Creek, what school were you from?

[illusions142]

@RoughridersFan08 I was from Regina. (The blue and gold robes) :P

[2cats3siblings]

I've been watching a few versions of this song on Youtube, and finally in this video I can hear the 2nd soprano's part! It was my part when my choir sang it in high school - just three of us then. By the way, I think you guys did an excellent job for only learning the song that day with such a huge choir. Good job!

[mariaplotnik]

Good!

I heard this song at Free State University, they sing other version - more quickly.

[gamy4]

i sang this song at the glee club

i'm in the alto section

[aweisle]

Our choir is singing this for our Christmas concert. It's much jazzier and more dynamic, in our interpretation. The conductor is directing it too slowly in this interpretation.

[RoughridersFan08]

We learned the song that day.... We did the best we could with the hour we had to learn it.

Songs can be performed in so many different ways. Yes most people sing this song faster and such. But we did what we could.

[TheBeatles193]

Good job! Our choir is singing this song this year, im so excited!

[bluyanje]

Good job...I like the song and the msg..

[dickhawes]

I agree this is sung way too static. The choir should be rockin'

[RoughridersFan08]

Yeh. I realize this. However. We learned the song that day. We wanted to add something to jazz it up, but the direction was afraid it wouldn't get pulled together. The quality is bad, but I do know, many people were moving to the beat, as much as they could since we had to sing it at a slower tempo haha.

Thanks for the comment though :)

[illusions142]

@RoughridersFan08

Yeah, the director was pretty strict about our tempo and such. And yessssssssss I was definitely rockin a little bit to the beat! Haha

[Devan2]

tempo is a little slow. thats all i have ta say. Other than that its good.

[SoulStar718]

Love it ! just speed it up a little =]

[proud2beawildcat211]

Great job...except I think you could have sang a little more..it sounds like you are trying to be as ginger as you can with each note..the song is usually sang with a robust, almost rejoicing energy..everything else was right on...maybe the temp was a little slow..

but I really loved it.

[bankainojustu]

Learning Swahili in a day and singing it? Good job. CW From Los Angeles.

[RoughridersFan08]

Thanks!

Ya, it took a few hours. I think some of the schools had started practicing earlier but our music came in late.. so we started that day haha!

[Indians4life50]

really REALLY bad!

[vmisoi]

viema (welldone)

for sure those who pray get blessed

kenyan in MD.

[malkiaj1]

This a classic high school christian union song in Kenya! It's a 'greatest hits' of worship music in Kenyan schools!. Interesting rendition and very impressive pronunciation of the language. Thank you for posting and great job.

[RoughridersFan08]

Thanks so much. The language wasn't that difficult to catch on to, we spent about 2ish hours on this song and were able to get it pretty well. Thanks for the comment :)

[Msbea345]

nooo waaaayyyyy...you guys sing swahili so well

[RoughridersFan08]

:) Thanks so much!!

Are you performing it too?

[mjumbedavis2008]

where is this choir from? Glory to God nice voices and the harmonizing is awesome. Its like Kenyans singing thats awesom

[RoughridersFan08]

Iowa. We came from Iowa. Nice huh?

[browneyes1491]

great job. we sang this for choir last year.

i just wish to hear more from soprano 2's on the alleluya's because they had a double forte while everyone else had a single!

but still, it was good. esp cuz i saw you guys learned it that day?

wow.

[RoughridersFan08]

Yeh, we were given the music about two weeks before. As you can tell by the various robes there were many schools there that day. This year it happened to be at my school. But yeh, we learned maybe close to 5 songs with a girl and guy peice that day and performed it that night. We started at like maybe 9 am and ended rehersals at 5ish? I'm not sure :)

Thanks for your comment!

[unencyclopedia]

I love this song. My chorus is doing it as well, and it's so cool singing it. I've never heard it like this, when I wasn't singing it myself.

[RoughridersFan08]

Glad you like, people are always saying we need to be more upbeat and "joyful".. We learned this song that day and performed it that night. We did what we could, glad you like it. Have fun performing it!!

[colelikesitinthebutt]

ne fun men?

[RoughridersFan08]

What?

[ventriloem]

you sound really good but you are just so serious....i think it wouldve helped to be a little happier!! hehe...i know its hard to concentrate on both the song AND your face...just something to work on

[RoughridersFan08]

Well it was only performed once haha.

But you can't really tell, there were some people dancingish.. Idk I do agree. We all wanted to dance but were told we didn't have time to put something together considering it was a one time thing lol.

Thanks and glad you enjoyed the singing part anyway (:

[lilombero]

really great job keep on guys under his mighty hand surely u shall never labor in vain!thanks.

[lilombero]

amazing! where and when was this spectacular vd taken? swahili is so cool really cool i love the singing.

[RoughridersFan08]

My school in January.. It was an awesome day..

The schools in our conference selected a few people from each choir section and we rehearsed from like 9am-5pm and learned I think 5 songs and then put on a concert that night..

[ChaseGarrett]

Im a bass, fourth row.

I sure did! I love them both. I can't wait to see how we sounded on Glory to the Father! :-)

[RoughridersFan08]

Well, obviously I can't make out faces on my bad quality videos :)

You have facebook?

Glory to the Father is on there.

[ChaseGarrett]

Regina! How about yourself?

[RoughridersFan08]

Clear Creek!

Are you a bass or tenor?

I'm an alto, second row.

I don't know if you saw, but I also have And Wherever You Go on youtube. I'm in the process of getting Glory to the Father on here as well.

[ChaseGarrett]

It was so much fun singing this song! The entire day was a blast! :)

[RoughridersFan08]

cyeah it was!

what school did you come with?