Marian Anderson - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

[outerspaceoutpost]

Amazingly beautiful! Peace be with you.

[trix2810]

stunning recording, just exquisite, thank you

[taylor4005cutie]

beautiful

[12pepap]

Thank you. M.A.

[Shua26]

6 ppl dont have light

[TheMsscountry]

-my teacherr plays this song because this is what we are going over and i think it sounds pretty funny but she has an A.M.A.Z.I.N.G VIOCE!

[cwcwful]

@TheMsscountry What do you mean by going over?

[TheMsscountry]

@cwcwful . I mean like what we are learning about lol.

[TheMsscountry]

@cwcwful i mean like what we are learning

[jylazgirlz]

my teacher plays her songs sumtimes in class

[raedhead]

th great Marian Anderson everybody

[net60man]

Ny erfarenhet som är vacker.

[lurksindarkness]

I was in the 2nd grade when she went to sing with the angels. I was beside myself with grief. At that young age I wated to be an opera singer just like Marian Anderson. What a talent!

[shonkin57]

Interesting to contrast this lovely version with Paul Robeson's (also on youtube). Both do the song in a formal way. Both were black performers who perhaps startled white audiences with their accomplished classically trained voices and sensibilities. For me, the song is bigger than either of them... but I'm so glad they both recorded their interpretations. It is quite simply my single favorite song, bar none.

[PennyQuest]

lyrics?

[MrDomguitar]

flea!

[EnriqueIglesiasism]

She has an Amazing voice but it sounds sooo manly and like the Lion from the Wizard Of Oz....-.-

[tashalee1999]

@EnriqueIglesiasism lol

[DeafMuteZombie]

Wow.

[Najay8701love]

makes me think of my mother, r.i.p ma

[plushsnail]

This almost made me cry at work.

[0shaki]

she had the deepest classical singing voice for a female. She sang Contralto

[glee4ever28]

@0shaki cuz she is

[0shaki]

wow she is great. there was a lot of racism back when she was born

[SagaciousJoy]

@0shaki It still ain't over, friends. There is STILL a lot of racism in American society - it's built into the system we were all born into.

[Vixin21]

@SagaciousJoy

true

[cengizturan560]

Yüzyılımızın en muhteşem kontraltosu..

[ernest671]

This song is divine

[aiglv]

My grandfather met this girl in 1951, thanks to him, she visited Colombia.

[moorzeekable]

incredible voice!

[michaeldenvir]

each time i hear her sing this, it makes me cry

[Lynafleder]

I.... don't know what to say! This is incredible. Beautiful, I mean,.... - Wuuuaaaaargh!! *___*

[early60srcool]

There are no words to describe what I felt as I listened to this incredible sound coming from this incredible woman. She was a trailblazer!

[HarajukuBarbie1000]

Her voice is so Uniquely Beautiful its almost scary. She has been and inspiration to me since i was in the 4th grade. While the other kids were dressing up as ghosts and princesses for Halloween I was Dressed as Marian Anderson. This is Amazing!

[schuylerhamiltonjr]

If you could imaginea God as a Black Mother, and if it would be so, this would be His Voice.I heard this fantastic person,sing many concerts in New York. She was the first black to enter the Metropolitan Opera of New York, where she sang in Verdi's "Ballo in Maschera" the role of Ulrica, a fortune-teller. An unforgettable, unequaled, unearthy performance, engraved in my heart as a divine moment which brought a beautiful change of color to my whiteman's soul.

[chinkyeyezful]

love this :) i sung this at my state competition and got gold...still makes me cry

[gordbard]

God lives.

[Kenzielulu1]

彼女は私が今までの人生で聞いたことがある最もすばらしい声をし­ています！

[nekonotama1]

すばらしいの一語！！！！

[Kenzielulu1]

@nekonotama1 合意

[TheForbiddensoldier]

I am 77. I learned this as a child. There have been many times that I have felt like a motherless child. It moves me.

[sdmbking]

her voice is very beauitful i wish that i was born doing her time so i can meet her and here her voises.

[TheRonDennis]

I can hear the moaning heart in her delivery of this song. The music filled with augmented chords!

[MERKMONSTER88]

I'm not sure how to respond to this... I mean.. WOW

[NOMNOMSUSHIBEAR]

O_O *speechless*

[ThisIsMeOnlyJade]

we read the story about her i expected it to be a lot better but you gotta give brownie point she has a blessing

[iamdevinadams]

@busessuck1 It's an African American Spiritual. Respect.

[Lindsafreena]

I have to sing this for my first solo... I'm gonna shit a brick.

[mclulu11]

oh. my. gosh. 

[jesmarluk]

We used to sing this in elementary school. I loved it - it's melancholy feel. Marian Anderson puts in the sadness combined with the haunting piano. Wish she had not had her voice so "coached" though. The rolling rrrrrs just don't fit this song nor her race. Her ancestors probably sang it much better! Quite a voice though.

[dugongyogurt]

wow! rich contralto; shes awesome!!

[SayukiTogashi]

This woman and the songs she sings are pure history. :) I also love the darkness of her voice. She's one of the rare Altos in the world.

[44okiru44]

i heard about her fame and now her voice is disappointed me

[KandSprodutions]

3 letters LOL

[vonvamp21]

my brother a motherless he died 5 years ago in a train accident. my mom was home with me bro adn my dad was traveling ......story of my brother

[determination9995757]

in tears i write. i was motherless at 13. my mother sent me to a boys home. I felt so abandoned. i did nothing to go. judge informed me i could come home anytime i want. but my mom did not want me there. omg. it still hurts and i am 52 years old. May God be with me.

[madeup1977]

I really feel for you, I cannot imagine what pain you must feel, except I was abandoned by my dad, but then again most of us are.

[determination9995757]

precious one, thank you so much for you empathy. May the Lord Bless and keep you always.

[gangstakim07]

wow! Sometines I feel like a fatherless child! I heard this song from another artist, but Im so happy to know that she is the originator

[maxcine99]

I thought it was Paul Robeson?

[maxcine99]

I thought it was Paul Robeson?

[WoodeytheBigEyedOne]

"Motherless Child" is a traditional negro spiritual.

[henoch66]

There are so beautifull people on this sometimes so dark earth. She is a wonderfull light with her voice.

[noirtriptyline]

@henoch66 Very true...very true. Its haunting isn't it?

[Aleksei5055]

@henoch66 and nina simone

[siramour]

i love this song so much...jeez... divine...

[tranmere789]

She also met Jean Sibelius after he had heard her in a concert in Helsinki. Moved by her performance, Sibelius invited them to his home and asked his wife to bring champagne in place of the traditional coffee. Sibelius commented to her of her performance that he felt that she had been able to penetrate the Nordic soul. The two struck up an immidiate friendship which further blossomed into a professional partnership, and for many years Sibelius altered and composed songs for Anderson to perform.

[MrIV74]

Thank you for this interesting bit of information. A pleasure for me to hear.

[mizofan]

@tranmere789 Thanks for that info; as a great admirer of Sibelius i'm very glad to hear it

[tranmere789]

In 1930 Anderson made her European debut in a concert in Wigmore Hall in London where she was received enthusiastically. She spent the early 1930s touring throughout Europe where she did not encounter the racial prejudices she had experienced in America. In the summer of 1930 she went to Scandinavia where she met the Finnish pianist Kosti Vehanen who became her regular accompianist and her vocal coach for many years.