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  • Who Truely Sings This Song.. I've Been Searching all over for this song!

  • First of all she was doing to much to a song that speaks volumes along.

  • THANK YOU WOMAN OF GOD

  • Did she just take off her earrings? Beastin!!

  • Tell the truth now that's what' up tell it like it is

  • this song true title is: THANK YOU

  • Chrystal's natural voice placement causes her mid and upper register to naturally sit in what one might call the passaggio voice which is part of the full (real) voice but has a mix-voice tonal quality when compared to the withdrawn hard voice. For some people, depending on their natural voice types, it may take effort, conscious changing of voice placement, and/or difficult technic to get into their "passagio" area especially if they are not lucky to have very wide ranges.

  • @okebaram She uses every register of the voice,even whistle register. She knows the voice very well. I do not know if she got vocal training but girl is gifted on her technique, along with Melonie Daniels. These two women have flawless technique and can transition through registers with complex ease!

  • @okebaram 3:16 is full chest voice. Her chest voice is extremely high she mixes sometimes, but both her chest and mix voice high like Lashun Pace and sometimes it hard to say if there mixing or full chest. 6:50 is full chest definitely. Most of those notes are full chest. I would say both Shun and Chrystal are soubrette sopranos, there upper registers get stronger the higher they go!

  • @kmaur21 Going by the way you and other youtubers use the term chest voice, "chest voice" would be an oxymoron. What is full chest voice? Full voice is full voice. Singing with a beautiful voice tone sounds better not worse, and is not in any way less impressive than singing hard and loud.

  • She was at Greater Harvest COGIC in Dallas on is past Sunday and she ripped it!

  • @jwill805499 Why doesn't anyone tell me of this things lol

  • Anyone who has been in vocal training class and understand the mechanics of singing operatic they would recognized the type of singing Ms. Rucker is singing. It is not quite falsetto although many people categorize it as so. It is a very difficult technic of using your kegal muscles, diaphram and resonating space to sing. When a person sings full voice they are actually putting the strain on their throat. This type of singing preserves the throat. It is much easier to hit very high notes.

  • Are you talking about the forward toned voice which can sound like falsetto or head voice (but it's really full voice) that the opera sopranos who actually sing in full voice use? Either way, I'd also have you know there are people who can't sing in a key or sing to save their lives that have natural voices which sound like Crystal and some even more falsettoish than Crystal's (believe me!). And indeed, when it concerns Crystal, it is just her natural full voice, not some technique or trick.

  • Somebody tell God thank ya.

  • she sounds great i jus wanna kno one thing,,,,,, is she singin in falsetto?

  • lol. No she is not singing in falsetto. This is her real voice.

  • okay well i love it.... how old is she?

  • @okebaram she actually comes out of "falsetto" at 3:13-3:14.....you can hear the difference in the natural and the "falsetto" or what we loosely call falsetto, altho thats not the technical term

  • @Clemsonshawty I am very good at discerning vocal registers, placement and technique, and I guarantee you 100% that no part of this video was "false" (i.e "head-voice" technically). Chrystal sings in chest voice like most contemporary gospel singers, but she has a light/creamy voice and what people sometimes mistake as falsetto is usually her upper-full-voice/passaggio tone. Actually her voice type is not rare.

  • @okebaram so what do you call that break at 3:13-3:14  She has a voice similar to Loraine Stansil But they low natural voices but utilize a lot more of their head voices (yes i know the technical term but i just prefer falsetto, cus its easier to relate to but Chrystal's head voice is very strong and she utlizes it a lot better than the average person

  • @Clemsonshawty that's her lower register. I've sung in choir with people with such voice types, I mean they sounded like falsetto in mid and upper, and only reason I knew it def wasn't falsetto is because I knew them personally, but their low register was hard and deep. I could explain why to you, but it might take a while. However, there are many people with voices like that that seem to break into another register when they cross into their "passaggio", but its still her real voice all the way

  • @okebaram understandable! I guess because hers and Loraine Stancil's breaks are sooooo severe and sounds so different then I summized that it was falsetto. But thanks for the clarification...thats why you're my favorite poster on youtube

  • @Clemsonshawty awww thanks lol

  • Crystal sometimes uses her head voice and sometimes falsetto and sometimes both together, in a mix. Whatever the girl can SANG!

  • She sings from her diaphram just a very high pitched soprano!

  • Clearly you have no vocal kknowledge. She sings from her chest voice. Or like the other person called it her head voice. She dose not sing full voice at all. But she sounds good at what she does. She is a beast in her own field.

  • Amen! Church is over! Just shouted on the side of my bed! Hallelujah! No comparison! They are all good! Her anointing I'd hers and it's in this song. Their anointing is in their song on their video.... It all means the same.....we are grateful... So we say, thank you, Lord, for all you've done for me!!!!!

  • 6:33....OMGOSH!!!

  • i love the lil boy in da back at 2:06

  • This gurl needs to STAY in the camera at all times!!!! Not only can she BLOW!!! but she is so pleasing to the eye. Always looks so well groomed and appropriate!

  • i wish i could belong to a church like that!

  • she has notes that kim can not do as far as range and i love it

  • The little boys face starting at 1:50 is the best the thing about the video. It reminds me of myself growing up in church.

  • sang girl sang

  • yes!!!

  • I could Never Compare what GOD has put on this earth to help us out of what we are going through on no how dare i even think about it

  • Well said! I don't know when we will grow up and stop the comparisons. Too much carnality in some Christians! Lord have mercy!

  • AMEN!

  • crystal kicks kims butt sometimes

  • I still thin Chrystal and Lashun renditions are the best.

  • This is the best rendition. I like Kim and the others as well. But some are given more credit only because they are well known.

  • im sorry...Kim is a beast...sometimes crystal sounds like a cluckin chicken...lol...im sorry but its true...no one has as much control over a song than Kim...

  • great God! that's so gooood.

    has anyone heard of GospelPundit? they have good stuff about gospel music, too. google them!

  • gurl u betta sang!.....but i have to say that kim still owns this song!

  • This better than Kim's or any rendition I heard sorry!

  • almost

  • It is better sorry! The only reason why people saying Kim's is better because she is more popular! But we all know this rendition is better than all of them even Lashun's who I think is the best rendition besides this one. Chrystal, Lashun, Kim, then, Karen in that order!!!!!!!!!

  • I agree that she sings this song like no other! And she tears it up wherever she goes. She randomly care to my church last year and re-tore the place up after we had calmed down lol. She is the truth.

  • thats what u call stupid sangin!!!

  • Gorgeous!!  Go, Chrystal!

  • How can someone sing so high but such a low speaking voice. Cissy Houston the same way, but can sing the highest notes ever!!!!!!

  • What gets me is those but. but but but than the high but 2:23 that is sick and that keep on keep on keep on,,,,,

  • That was better than kim! But Who really cares! its not a contest! there tellin Gawd thaaaaaannnnnk Ya!!

  • Lawd Crystal when are you going to make a CD? YouTube aint good enough for me all the time!!!!

  • This is very good but has anyone heard a lady named Shontae Hill sing this. She is on fire for God.

  • yah, i heard shontae. she tore it up, too. she has an annointing over her, as well.

  • Shontae is a so Anointed!!! I love Her!!!!!! Everytime I hear her sing she lets god use her totally!!! You have got to hear her whole family check out her and her cuzins on Dionte14, bhype84, and Mintese!!!!!!! They all are anointed to sing!!!!!

  • NO ONE DID THIS LIKE KIM....Crystal Rucker sounds absolutely wonderful on this and annoited, but Kim took that song to the next level

  • I will be glad when we can celebrate each other without bringing up what someone else did in comparison. Both Kim and Crystal are blessing the lord and me and thousands.

  • Yeah i definitely agree, now lets be honest, I'm not comparing I'm just saying that there are some songs that some people own. For eg. certain songs you just know is Beverly Crawford or Vanessa Bell-Armstrong, or vice versa with Nikki or Karen. I was just saying i have never heard anyone sing this song like Kim. Crystal did an excellent job and the song was anointed.

  • i agree with you, wholeheartedly. i like chrystal, and am a "fan". but, i think kim got her on this one, too. like you said, some singers sing songs better than others. it is MY opinion that this song sounds better with an alto singing lead, and not a soprano.

  • you feel me bro, people always try to blow things out of proportion. I never said that Crystal sounded bad, just saying that Kim owned this song. But All singers are anointed in their own way

  • yah, i feel you. i agree with you. i mean, crystal tore it up. i have to give her props. but, like you said, i think kim owns this song. again, i'm NOT taking ANYTHING away from ms. rucker. i am a fan of her's. but, i really think kim owns this song.

  • i think this was da best version to unless patti labelle do it lol chrystal is hot i lov her she starts off real simple than she tears it up

  • She singing in chest voice that high. I thought she was singing in mix but it is clear that is chest now!!!!!!

  • Kim ain't got nothing on this version. To me she seems to be overrated big time. I love Kim voice and style but Lashun Pace rendition is better than Kim's as well as Karen's. I think this rendition is better than all them Lashun, Karen, and Kim. I don't like to admit that cause Lashun is one of my ultimate favorite gospel as well as Karen but the truth this woman sung this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • that was the best version ever!!!

  • sorry but kim got her on this ..... she still rocks though i love crystal

  • awl yeah i forgot about kim....it just was a better video then kim's becuz they didn't more a lot

  • THANK YOU LORD: WALTER HAWKINS

    LOL

  • u NEED ON CONTRACT ASAP IF YOU DONT HAVE ONE ALREADY YOU HAVE A GIFT

  • Do you notice the guy in the black suit looking at Chrystal like, how in the world is she going that high?

  • God bless very Crystal Rucker and other musical talents from USA! Pray for Brazil and the COGIC here. Thanks to the life of our Missionaries: Bishop Samuel Moore. (CA) Pr the Holy Tabernacle COGIC. And Mother Lee Van Zandt Supervisory Jurisdiction of Women. (Maryland) She's a great singer of old hymns, we love her! We are learning to sing here, as there is in USA.

  • Love this song....like your rendition. Beautiful voice too

  • i like the expression on the little boy's face. while everyone else is trying to play it cool like they don't hear Chrystal running and hollaring all over the scale, the little boy is keeping it real with his expressions of WOW DID YOU HEAR THAT!!?!! That's how I feel too...WOW! SING CHRYSTAL...SING ON!

  • Yeah she's blessed!! But on 6:30 seconds, I am trying to figure out what that was!! She's bad and anointed!

  • sis u r the bomb go head.

  • Oh my God!!! Sang it out Loud for the Lord!!

  • Oh my God!!! Sang it out Loud for the Lord!!

  • does anybody know why she doesnt has a cd out? or if she does where can i purchase one at? she is unbeleiveable...

  • gurl u betta sang it roe bo shanda hey!!!!!!!! i feel like shouting sho noff

  • Girl, I enjoy you every time I hear you. I am so thankful that God has blessed those with the anoint of Christ.....There are a lot of folks that can sing, but if you don't have the anoint you are not touching though that need to be reach.

    Be blessed.

  • LOL At the end she has to slow down her runs so the organist could figure out where she was goin.

  • you betta rebuke the church for listening to you!! I need your worship to minister to god that he may minister to people.. So if you worship they worship! if you showing out, the look at you show!! come one now!!! lol

  • WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THIS COMMENT?

  • i'm confused as well...

  • WHAT?

  • GOD!! She just Gobbled that song up!!

  • Simply beautiful. Please check out my video entitled "Worship You".

  • My SISTER has inspired me to go a long way believe in God and he will carry i know he did us that way. I thank God for every moment with my mom i changed my ways.

  • I've never heard her in person but I love watchn this video cuz I love her voice. Not just cause she can sing but you feel her spirit through her voice and you feel it strong and i just sit here speechless holdin my head..she reminds me of my sister (vocally anyway) I jus love hearing her minister and would love to hear her in person one day

  • crystal that was just a dead church you were singing at. but I know if you were at my chrch singing like that we would have to be rebuilding by now

  • Sang Crys. I am so blessed to know this woman of god on a personal level.

  • Just so you know Krystal did have a stroke (two on one side) but she is healed! She came to my church (H.O.P.E.'s House Christian church int the Vallry) yesterday and toe (ghetto spelling of tore) it up! She gave her testimony and we were truly blessed! Thank God for healing!

  • HOW LUCKY U ARE TO HAVE BEEN THERE TO RECEIVE THAT BLESSING FROM HER..THIS GIRL IS BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE. AND I SING SO I HAVE HEARD SOME GREAT, GREAT SINGIN,,BUT AIN'T NOBODY MESSIN' WITH THIS GIFTED WOMAN! trust me when i tell you.

  • Gurl, you better sang that song!

  • The little boy in the back is too funny. He was laughing at them riffs....Lol

  • at the end of 1:00, the lady in teh background is fiddlign with her dress a bit too much, I think it got stuck in her crack!

  • I love When people sing this song that way! It's so soulful! and Gods spirit is truely on it!

  • YES LORD!

  • she tore it up at 43 rediculous

  • she sounded sort of like nikki ross at 1:45

  • At times, she sounds like Aretha

  • YEAH SHE DOES

  • SOUND LIKE ARETHA

  • I see my people from Ohio Northwest in the house. What's up Tawana, I 'm guessing that 's Brian on the organ. I know that's Courtney and Elder Willis can't be far.  I loe ya'll

    Niecy

    ps sing that song girl and she's preaching too.

    I love her spirit and how she's keeping it real.

    Praise the Lord!!! It's all about God.

  • she to me sounds like vanessa bell armstrong....and kinda looks like the old version of her as well....

  • she aint even playin wit it.....SANNNNNGGG GURRRLLL....PRAISE HIM!!!

  • Secondly, as a vocalist I can honestly rank Crystal Rucker up there with the Lecresia Campbell's, but not according to her vocal ability but anointing. It would not be authentic anointing if she sounded exactly like Lecresia, it would be a copy cat. It's like comparing the K.Clark runs to K. Burrell runs, you can't do it because they have a sound all their own. Let's move past comparing ourselves among ourselves to discerning for the purpose of true worship.

    Much Love

  • First, as a trained classical vocalist, I feel that it is necessary to get an understanding or definition of certain terms. Falsetto will never, nor has it ever been a term used to classify a specific area of a female voice, for too long people, mostly in gospel music have used this term incorrectly. Falsetto is a word used to identify a specific area of a male voice and a male voice only.

  • Yeah you have obviously lost it,cuz she is blazing so hard be it head voice,chest or falsetto

  • Too much falsetto. Not enough head voice. With training she will learn to use her head voice when hitting high notes. They will sound more clear like Lecresia Campbell's notes.

    She is telling the truth about worshipping GOD. People are so caught up by her beautiful voice, that they miss they message.

  • Have you lost your mind? It seems like you learned a new word and applied it improperly. She is naturally high and annointed.  The message is clear--Thank You Lord...

  • she better sang

  • i love this lady...

  • Jesus i felt da anointing hit me soon as she opened her mouth ..hallelujah ..EESHABA ..lol

  • wow... i love how she stopped and ministered. Awesome! makes so much since. Lotta times in church we listen to how people sound and forget to worship the Lord. Wonderful!

  • wow, i just noticed she came out of those earrings.

  • She's prettymuch been all over the United States. She's opened concerts for Karen Clark-Sheard and others. She's carries and awesome annointment. She's from KCMO

  • Okay okay Okay Now Im really torn Up when are you coming to Indy What do i need to get you here

  • I like what she said about people just listening to her and not trying to receive from the Lord. Thats one thing that I hate about musicals and concerts, no one really seems to be trying to receive from the Lord. They just try to hear what the singer is doing and listening for Jesus. I'm SOOOO happy she said that.

  • Sang girl sang!!!

  • WOW!!! Truly amazing to see someone doing what God intend! Minister without holding back the anointing and still remaining humble. "No Superstar Mentality"

  • listen it's finals week and you makin me violate quite hours.

  • I had to get up outta my seat for this one!! Awesome!!

  • she is off the hook. very seldomly are the soprano singers that are tolerable but she knows right when to bring it back. she's amazing.

  • yes god, thank you jesus, sang that song

  • yea, she is it dis is a singer

  • OOOOOOOOOOO HEAVENNNNN! Was I made from the same mold as that anointed vessel..lol I dont think so..no maam!

  • The girl is baddddd

  • She Killed at Convocation..OMG..I couldn't take it

  • I played drums for her at this banquet in Cincinnati and she wrecked this Patti Labelle song called "New Day."

  • COME ON WIT IT CRYSTAL!!!!

  • my my my

  • this woman can sang!!!!

  • Never heard of this young lady before, but am glad that i stumbled across her videos. She truly has an annointing on her life and she sings beautifully. God bless you Ms. Rucker and keep singing for Jesus!

  • I almost slapped her thru' my computer monitor

  • I feel u!!

  • ha ha

  • Sing it gurl. You can sing and ITS ANOINTED.

  • MY LORD!

  • thank you LORD for all that youve done for me...

  • This woman is a beast. If she ever needed background singers, I'd LUV to be one of them!

  • did ne1 notice how she took dem earrangs off n the begintinc? she was prepared to act up! HAlleljuer!

  • u iz crazy!lol!

  • i love the way she directs and sings, it amazes me when people do that, that is a gift!!!

  • LOL! the young saints reaction in the background!! LOL! SING CRYSTAL!

  • She let them have it!!!

  • U betta sang sis

  • The woman is awwwwweesssssssssoooooooommmmm­mmmmeeeeeee

    This is what you call MINISTRY IN SONG

  • Crystal Rucker's gift is enormous, and she means business when she ministers! Lawd have mercy!

  • oooh want to preach after her!...I pray so!...Singing that makes Preaching easy!

  • Truly anointed young lady!

  • And i love the little boy's reaction in the background when she goes, "nononononononono food" he is genuinely shocked and awed

  • I do to that lil boy is Sooo Funny!!!

  • This lady has no top to her range!

  • LORD JESUS!!! This girl is BAD!!!!!!!!!! She needs to me in the gospel music in the music industry with the Clark sisters and Yolanda Adams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • THANK YOU LORD, FOR ALL YOUVE DONE FOR ME!

  • She is an awesome and a very anointed woman of God. She can sing.

  • I do agree with a lot of people who say that the riffing and running is getting of control...

    However, God has anointed you to with a gift for riffing and running, why not go with that???

    It's obvious that Crystal knows her gift and it's making room for her!!!

    It's so crazy; I, too, grew up seeing Crystal at musicals and concerts. The woman is ANOINTED!!!

    Blessings,

    Shad

  • This is definitely one of my favorite songs....

  • SHE IS SO REAL!

    I LOVE IT!

  • Donny Hathaway is a great example of someone who can move you without doing one riff. These days, with all the runs going on, sometimes, I more impressed by someone who can sing the melody straight but still moves me. I believe that in the days of oversinging, riffs, runs, and embellishments, that it takes even more skill to stick to the melody. Half of the time, most younger singers don't even know what the real melody is because it's been embellished so much.

  • Again she is wonderful! And I think she is right about a lot of people being able to sing today (Now more than ever before). Everybody can run so it has to be more than that to get me. It has to be anointed or , in the case of secular music and singers, I have to get the feeling from them as opposed to how many vocal acrobatics they can do.

  • HEcominINAhonda....TIEmyYELLOW­bowTIE..HEY!!!!

  • I grew up listening to Crystal and she only gets better and better! Go Girl!!!

  • In her preachin, she was so right...we get caught up in what all of us sound like and not getting minstered to. And its ashame because you might miss out on an oppourtinuty of a blessing because you so caught up on how you and you friends sound when ya'll sing or whatever...and I am NOT condeming anyone because I struggle with the same issue...I'm glad Crystal made that issue clear during her ministering...and I respect that.

    Thank You, Crystal

  • (continued from above) ... I have never seen her sing in person but ooh when I do LOLOL. Ol girl is ridiculously gifted. I find it interesting that Crystal and Karen have never sang together on the same stage or in the studio... But I will leave that 1 alone lol. Sang Crystal.

  • I am sorry..... But I LOVE this woman LOLOLOL. "If I could just get 3 people to shout thank ya"... HAHAHA. She ain't lyin about everybody bein able to sing either. It truly does seem like EVERYBODY can sing nowadays (or they CLAIM that they can). LOL And i'm lovin how she waves her arm in a circle when she finishes her runs. That is a true trademark 4 her...(continued below)