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  • five people are deaf!!!

  • Such a shame she isn't with us, to bless us with her voice....Such a voice!

  • How is it I'd never heard of her or her voice before surfing around Youtube tonight. Beauty.

  • @queenbeebee222 Wait until you learn about her story

  • @queenbeebee222 I found her the same way singing Danny Boy, Wait until you hear her life story.

  • @keithis1001 I read it and am so sad that I discovered her so late.

  • The first time I heard Autumn Leaves couldn't believe how Eva voice is so pure and beautiful. Each song she sing carried the emotions of a generation. All we have is her music and I think

    It's enough.R.I.P.

  • Because of her beautiful voice and her untimely death, this song has a very sad quality! I can't listen to it without tears in my eyes and sadness in my heart! But I have to listen!

  • C'mon....You are all sitting in a pool of tears right now. ( Well ...I am anyway ). I agree with The Unsnobbed totaly. There is definitely, Something very Special about Eva's voice. Maybe its the emotions experienced in a hundred lifetimes before, allowing her to express herself in song, so beautifully. I dont know.

    I do know that no one else sounds like her. I like to think that she had the freedom to sing as Eva, rather than anybody else. ( I thank God for that ).

    Fame was'nt her thing.

  • thank you, eva.

  • I love you eva,Sleep in peace...

  • Like ?? I 'cn LOVE this. No1 @ my remembrance service

  • Wonderful song!

  • She's just... so musical

  • I'm sitting here in silence, still trying to write my feelings... I can't explain it, but it is all good.

  • Yes this music, or rather the way it is performed, really touches the soul. It is profound and sublime in it's simple beauty and a true and rare gift. I feel the same about Eva's performances of 'Danny Boy' (which, without fail, always makes me cry) and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'. I can only listen to this music when I am totally alone.

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  • simply beautiful

    

  • Cuanto más la escucho mas grande me parece…

  • Whitney Who!?

  • Check the Eva Cassidy story from ABC News Nightline than someone posted. It is amazing!

  • very very few woman move me, this woman made first place with me. sorry mum.

  • Such a beautiful voice and such a sad story. To those you who have just discovered her.

    You need to get her CD's or download her music. You are the better for it.

  • Beautiful i will never forget you eva, this song can always calm me down and take me somewhere good, thank you eva cassidy.

  • WoW!!! She's incredible. Wherever she is, she is kept alive by the continuation of her beautiful sound. Sound and Light...That is what keeps her spirit alive. Thank You for this beautiful tribute!!

  • This was recorded live, but I can imagine what the conversation in the studio would've been if recorded there. Eva: "How was that? Do we need to do another take?" Studio Engineer: "Nope, I think that'll do."

  • I agree with ThUnsnobbed. Just discovered her, and had a good cry hearing this song, already a favorite of mine from Sting, but Eva's version moved me more and I heard the lyrics in ways I had not before.

  • happy birthday eva..........

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  • a voice of an angel

  • It's not just the singing. She does what all the greats do, she gives that slice of herself to the song.

  • Fortunately, we have recordings of Eva's incredible talent following her untimely death. This song is available on her 'Songbird' CD. It's the first one I've owned - and still the best. The woman was amazing in her earthly body. Can you visualize her, and her incredible voice, in Heaven? I imagine her as God's Choir Director.

  • Sting would have wept at Eva's rendition of his creation. I can see his tears through my own.

  • @Zona57Bob Read his story of his first listening to HER version. Sting apparently can be a bit arrogant, but apparently there were tears.

  • JUST PERFECT !!!

  • WOW. What an amazing legacy she has left. I have never heard of her and was just doing a search for a song I'm going to perform soon. I just have to hear more....

  • @justforfunparties Yes, for sure - you should check out some more of Eva's songs. She not only has the most amazing vocal range, but also superb vocal control too (many of the recordings we have following her untimely death were just from live performances or small studios). Add to that her ability to apparently effortlessly sing an eclectic mix of songs, and put her own interpretation on those songs that beat the originals and you have one of the best singers of 20th Century

  • She is definitely one of the best singers of all time. I am so sad that she has passed. Only first heard of her about 5 years ago. Every song that she covers, and I mean every single one, she actually improves on the original.

  • Mellifluous!

  • Thank you for making this video and the brief bio. Her voice was PURE.

  • Her singing is so beautiful and deep that it almost defies description. About the best singer of popular music that I've ever heard.

  • Unequaled. Sting may have written and popularized the song. Eva elevated it to an unsurpassed level. May you rest in peace, lovely and graceful person that you are.

  • She sang her heart out here. A lesson in singing extremely well, without an ounce of bullshit. Sting, of course, wrote a beautiful song and sang it well, as is his habit. But she sang her truth and this is her song to me. That said, I can't stop listening to Dark Eyed Molly.

  • Amazing woman. It kinda sad to know she was discovered and made a big a hit after her death. Life just isn't fair sometimes... but that's life.

  • Sounds like she's singing about her own passing.

  • If she could only sing one of my softer songs.

  • Truly Amazing, years later and I still find myself listening to this.

  • She left because she was simply too beautiful for this world.

  • For me, this is one of the most beautiful songs ever. I know it's Sting's song but Eva's combination of voice, guitar, phrasing etc. here is unsurpassed. To think that she did this outside of a studio, at a live performance is amazing. When I meet people who know and love her work, I know I've met someone who truly appreciates good music. Eva doesn't need any hype to sell her music, it sells itself.

  • One of the classics, beautifully done!

  • Sem palavras... Harmonia perfeita entre letra, melodia e interpretação!!! Me emocionei muito ao escutar essa canção hoje!!! Algumas lembranças se tornam inevitáveis... Isso é o que consigo captar sobre "A voz do coração"... E a Eva Cassidy tinha esse dom!!! Cantar com alma e coração!!! Que Deus a tenha!!! E que ela cante entre os anjos!!!

  • Thanks so much for posting the original-Wonderful is an understatement!!

  • the best song in the world

  • Just an incredibly special, beautiful voice.

    Eva, we hardly knew you...

  • Never heard of her until my dad died, then played this at his funeral, i love her music now! what talent! always makes me cry. x

  • Unreal, love you Eva!!! RIP

  • Does anyone notice that there are some mirror images in this video? You'll see the neck of the guitar pointing to the right, and then towards the end it is pointing to the left. You see the Blues Alley logo in the background is a mirror image also.

  • when i realised this is recorded live i got teareyed, such talent.. what happened to music

  • So beautiful <3

  • janis joplin was great to and died early the best go first

  • really a nice song for rumbah

  • There is a live version of Eva performing this song! She was such an amazing talent.

  • There is a god..this proves it..

  • hay versiones que superan la original. Eva cassidy lo consigue con autumn leaves y sobre todo con fields of gold

  • I have great admiration for you, too bad you left early. what a beautiful voice you had eva. miss

  • OH EVA !!!

  • Strength. Comfort. Warmth.

    I'm sorry about your wife....

  • @TheUnsnobbed Thanks. Needed  That . T"

  • Så vakkkert! Det kan neppe gjerast betre enn dette her. Bautiful and brilliant!

  • I just discovered this brilliant woman. I'm sad to learn she died in 1996 of cancer and the world discovered her talent after her death. I'm not a man who easily becomes emotional, especially when listening to songs but, there's something in this woman's voice and her selection of songs that melts me and I find myself a bit choked up. I thought I was emotionally numb to this world until I heard this woman sing. Thank you Eva Cassidy. I wish I knew of you before.

  • @TheUnsnobbed Same Here Son! Survived VietNam. My Wife Died Last year. Her Voice gives me something, strength, ??

  • @TheUnsnobbed I think your, my and all of our experiences after listening to & learning of Eva Cassidy is perhaps why she left so quickly. I can't help but feel a sense of grace when I listen. The more I learn, the more it vibrates. I wonder if she was an old soul reincarnated - slacking ego/need for attention. Wanting only to sing, be, share. I've been profoundly changed by her life & death. Agels waiting for wings ahead of her are stepping aside so she moves 2 front of the line

  • @TheUnsnobbed I know exactly how you feel ... same here Brilliantly put mate.

  • @TheUnsnobbed Im not blamin you but FUCK.... has this guy no sense of timing????

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  • J'ai découvert cette chanteuse que très récemment , un lien qui ma conduit a elle sur youtube .je suis tombée littéralement en amour avec cette femme ,cette voie sublime .Je fus attristé ,moi qui venais juste de la découvrir d'apprendre quelle était décéder . j'ai lu sa biographie .j'ai regardé toute les vidéo live ,ce sont eux que j'affectionne particulièrement c'est comme si je pouvais sentir son âme a travers ces chansons .Merci!

  • This goes right to you heart,lovely

  • Eva made every song she sang her own! She's the best female singer I've ever heard in my life and I don't think I'll ever hear someone better!

  • Ein guter Freund ist am Samstag verstorben, das lied ist wunderschön und passt!

  • enak buat nemenin krja,,,

    ha haa,,,

    _fds_

  • The most beautiful song ever sung, by one of the most beautiful voices that have ever lived...& died far too early. I sob everytime I hear it. It just grabs hold of you & shakes your soul down to it's very core. Just lovely.

  • Beautiful. Who would have a heart to dislike this song?

  • I don't care what your thinking but this is BETTER than Sting's original. This song belongs to Eva, just like Time after time... Here are real feelings, which I can't find in Sting's voice.

  • So sad that she passed 15 years ago today. Eva we will never forget you. RIP,

    Eva.

  • 4 fucking reatards dislike this song....i dont' really understand people who dislike an eva songs.Independently from the kind music that you listen.If you don't like her songs you have a ZERO choice in music.She's one of the best female voices I've listened in my life,she was a true talent.Probably one day someone has decided that she was too much perfect for to stay in life....that day the music has lost one its daughters.

  • @ViolatorMJ 4 people were blind, deaf and accidentially navigated themselves to the dislike button. That's the only possible explanation in my mind.

  • because when she was alive she hated publicity and the focus on her, she was discovered after when shed died its so sad

  • What an amazing vooice. I simply cannot understand why she never got success when she lived 8(

  • what the hell has this video to do with "the biggest pimple in the world"?

  • when I have had a bad day I go home, put her album on and relax....her beautuful voice is the best antidote I know......I wish I cold have seen her sing live!

  • FOUR PEOPLE have absolutely no clue nor respect for such beautiful talent.

    Yes, this is Sting's song and her rendition is very different. But it's terrific.

  • to had witness her performing live must had being a blessing .

  • Eva's performances never fail to move me. She really knew what music was all about, an expression of emotion. Her renditions are unique and inimitable.

  • She was not of this world, really, too pure. This song haunts me every time i hear it. Love you Eva for being such a special person and artist. xxx

  • beautifull song, just so hard to listen to RIP nana xxx love you and miss you so much xxx

  • beautifull song, just so hard to listen to rip nana xxx love you and miss you so much xxx

  • i have all your songs on my ipod and i love you sssssooooo much i wish you were still alive people loved you and they still do!!!!...xxxx

  • hi im 11 years old and my mum and me and my sis absoloutly loves eva cassidy and mum and i really wanted to see her in concert she is amazing and mum wants an eva cassidy song at her funeral!!!

  • first tunes i have heard when i got off a train on victoria station in london when i came to uk...:)

  • beautful

  • a GoddEsS bar none ...

  • the supreme cover version bar none

  • Perfect voice! Perfect song!

  • This is one of the best montages I have seen on YouTube.com. Well done. I have loved Eva's voice ever since the first time I ever heard it playing on a roommate's CD player. Thank you for this.

  • she has a voice of an angel and pureness

  • I've just discovered this remarkable lady and I'm entirely enchanted. She was a musician and arranger in every sense of those words. She made songs her own, in her own way -- a way that just stuns even the original songwriters, I'm sure. Thanks for this great montage.

  • Sleep well x

  • did you notice she played left handed and right handed

  • This beautiful angel..

  • never can i listen to this song and not cry, her voice is a one off absolutly beautiful x

  • @pace881 +1

    

  • I love this song

  • Beautiful, heartfelt, wonderful. She is simply on the top, even today, tomorrow and everyday.

  • i just wish it was in sinc as it spoils her wonderful song.. she will always be the best..xxxxx

  • She was simply amazing. I wish I'd known about her before she passed. Her versions of songs are now my favorite versions of those songs. A true gift to the world.

  • she has the most beautiful voice and this song always bring a tear to my eye.... I love this song...

  • Sting's version is nothing compared to this one.

  • @Levanino30

    Sting's 'version' is the original, you dummy, he wrote the song. Eva Cassidy is the one doing the version

  • @1958beachbum

    1958beachbum pls choose correct words and dont teach me who is the author of this song which i dont dispute. I just prefer this version with all due respect to Sting. So, think twice before offend anyone. Relax and have a good day.

  • @Levanino30 Im with you, Stings version isnt a patch on this. Thank God he wrote it though.

  • My Rose sent this to me I will love this by the unique Eva forever and always.

    Muriel xxx

  • great track to remember we're all mortal ;(

  • It doesn't matter if the song is originally from another artist, Eva took it and made it her own. She has such a beautiful voice. RIP Eva

  • her voice is so gorgeous!!

    how could anyone press the dislike button after hearing this!

    I dont get it....

  • An awesome performance. She owns this song.... no matter who wrote it. An unequalled redition. Eva's voice and expression have no equal. We miss her so. May God have received her as the angel she is.

  • Love her forever<3<3<3

  • some of the most famous singers never wrote a song. i think almost every musician has done a cover.

  • Pity she didn't do her own stuff. This by Sting and Songbird another brit

    Christine McVie

  • what a beautiful voice.....amazing musician......i can listen to her music all day....wow

  • still get the shivers when I hear her voice

  • One of the most natural & talented singing voices I have ever heard.

    Eva, sadly missed, God bless you!

  • @tiredwornandweak what a load of rubbish. There is no god, no satan. Only evolution and time!

  • What a wonferfull Singer, what a wonderfull wife, every time, when i look her videos, i have tears in my eyes

  • Actually the video that's available now is a condensed version of the full Nightline report. The original was an hour show.

  • Why do they always take the best, gone far far to early,R.I.P

  • @cockneymark "They" didn't take her...listen very carefully to the words of this song, although not written by her. She has a beautiful voice, and GOD wants Angels singing to him....what does that voice sound like? never blame God for a loss, blame satan for giving a constant struggle until the loss in immanent. God will have his day, and on that one, I bwet her voice will ring like a thousand Angels!!

  • @cockneymark "They" didn't take her...listen very carefully to the words of this song, although not written by her. She has a beautiful voice, and GOD wants Angels singing to him....what does that voice sound like? never blame God for a loss, blame satan for giving a constant struggle until the loss is immanent. God will have his day, and on that one, I bwet her voice will ring like a thousand Angels!!

  • I own that video.. but youtube is much better thanks to artists who have put the photos to the voice.. YOU TUBE IS MY LIFE. and happy 48th birthday feb 3 1963

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  • @equalizer919 You don't have to pay. Just type in the address, its free. Try @ abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video­/rainbow--10170062

  • didn't know this singer. never been popular in europe. beautiful voice. and sting's song is one of my favorites ever.

  • @spokeraq

    It's not true she's never been popular in Europe. Check out her Wikipedia page.

  • Thanks for posting this timeless song! Eva Cassidy had a truly beautiful voice and we all miss her so much RIP EVA~ We love ya

  • played this at mums funeral

  • WATCH THE EVA CASSIDY STORY FROM NBC NEWS NIGHTLINE FROM 2001 @ABCNEWS.GO.COM/NIGHTLINE/VIDE­O/RAINBOW--10170062 IT IS 18 MINUTES LONG, BUT WILL BRING YOU TO TEARS. AN AMAZING VOICE !!

  • @randroid88 ....I love Eva just as much as the next person, but there's no way in hell Im paying $24.99 to download THAT. Not a chance.

  • @Equalizer919 I probably screwed up when I left the caps on. The Nightline Eva Cassidy story is FREE. Sorry

  • @randroid88 It's ABC News, and it's still to be found on the Nightline website if you search for it. That program is a real piece of poetry, hats off to Dave Maresh and all who helped produce it. And to Eva, when your soul has had enough rest, I hope you get to sing for a billion years.

  • @Dayepipes Type in abcnews.go.com/nightline/video­/rainbow--10170062 and the Eva bio will play. If I try and copy and paste this site it won't work for some reason. But you are right, this will bring you to tears. I heard it was the most requested Nightline show ever.Wonderful piece!

  • @randroid88 Thank you for the abc news link. That was incredible. For anyone else: If you copy and paste it you just need to remove the '%20' that is added after the word 'video' in the URL and it will then work

  • @randroid88 I just want to thank you for the link! THANK YOU SO MUCH it was difficult not to cry!

  • speak death?

  • To those who have lost love-ones.

    Thank the lord you took the chance to live.

    I say love it is a flower & you the only seed.

    When the night has been to lonely, and the road has been to long, and you think that love is only for the lucky & the strong,.

    Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the suns love in the spring becomes a ROSE.

    Vero Amore non morirà

  • @mytune123: There is no lord. We were born simply because our parent's DNA insisted upon it. Without our permission, I might add.

    The seed is only to made to make another seed. Love is false. Trickery. However, I love Eva. Good day.

  • @Parlemort love is false but you love Eva?? I hope there's nobody depending on you buddy

  • @lakings13 Oh I nearly fell off my seat reading that comment.Love is trickery hahah. Thats a stand up put down if ever i hear one

  • @Parlemort -Oh, did you enjoy the music

  • xxx

  • A fantastic song in her version of Sting's beautiful song.

    Hvíldu í friði, Eva.

    Valgeir, Iceland

  • Such a sad story, such beautiful music

  • She had such a beautiful voice and she's singing up there now with the angels!

  • No one but no one will ever match this ever. Her voice is Angelic, God moving through her.

  • Such a beautiful and haunting voice. The song brought me to tears.

  • my favorite cover of anyone, by anyone...ever.

  • this is a song that can bring me to tears when i listen to it. such a brillaint singer rock on.