Miss Iowa 2011 Jessica Pray sings Summertime from Porgy & Bess

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Uploaded by on Apr 16, 2011

http://www.missamerica.org/videocontest/contestants/iowa.aspx
Click the link above to vote for Jessica for Miss America 2012! Miss Iowa 2011 Jessica Pray sings Summertime from George Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess. Jessica Pray will be competing in the Miss America 2012 competition on January 14th on ABC.

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  • @AmandaPanda519 this song was written originally for operatheater. If you look at the real one. It was revamped as a JAzz song though

  • @darcy296 You are right on that score! Just saying.

  • Gorgeous voice. What school do you go to?

  • @vivsters96 Thank you so much! I am a freshman at the University of Iowa.

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  • it felt awkward hearing it in opera for a moment. i'm used to hearing ella fitzgerald's version XD and I sing it in my class so i was expecting the jazz version XD :)

  • so what if this is a jazz song??? try to sing this as good as she does, congratulations jessica!!

  • AMAZING(: I now am in LOVE with this song!!! You are sooooooo good, its unbelievable-3 Your the bestttt(: ILOVEYOUUU

  • I used to prefer the jazz-version of this song but you got me convinced the original version is nice too!

  • @thechinadesk (: I adore this song. And Yeah It's just annoying when people automatically put this song as a Jazz tune when it deff. is not. Trust. It's a killer. lol

  • @darcy296

    I was about to say the same thing, when I saw your rebuttal.

    Even classical music enthusiasts sometimes forget that Porgy and Bess was an opera. Summertime was not a pop tune. It was not a show tune, It was an bona fide, honest to god opera aria!

    George and Ira Gershwin were indeed Tin Pan Alley song writers, but Summertime was definitely not a pop tune.

  • You are AMAZING!! :))

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