Riverhead High School Winter Concert 08 - Baba Yetu

The Riverhead High School full choir performing Baba Yetu under the direction of Sean O'hara. from Video Games Live and Civilization 4. I perform the Tenor Solo.
Soloists: Julian Keller, Cassidy Stress, and Katie Blasl.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• baba
• yetu
• riverhead
• video
• games
• live
• vgl
• civilization
• sid
• meirs
• tenor
• alto
• soprano
• bass
• blue
• waves
• swahili
• the
• lords
• prayer
• christopher
• tin
• jack
• wall
• tommy
• tallarico

[knucklez2]

PhazonJuke was defenitely the weakest part of the performance but it was good for a high school performance. I think an issue was the language barrier as well, swahili just doesnt sound as natural from a native english speaker

[PhazonJuke]

@knucklez2

:(

I was so ridiculously nervous to do this. I had never had such an important part before. Also in the rehearsal the mic wasn't working so i didn't know how i should have actually sang into it. But i tried my hardest and the crowd liked it, which is all that mattered to me. :)

[Mrmusicmaster88]

is it me or is he relatively flat...and when he sings it doesnt really have any real emotions...but its really kool and good!

[PhazonJuke]

@Mrmusicmaster88

Being as that i was the soloist i can tell you one thing for certain. This was not my best performance.

This was my first like, serious solo infront of a packed auditorium and i was nervouse as hell and didn't do the solo as well as i normally did.

You can tell by just looking at my face actually. xD

[PhazonJuke]

Thanks, and my mom was recording it. She's... as you say technologically challenged.

But, really Christopher Tin didn't dance, so it's not necessary. :P

[Kaldhore]

Learn to hold the camera

Otherwise its on par with every other American version of baba yetu - well sung but does not capture the essence, swinging and swaying doesnt come into the american choir handbook. Mark me down but the evidence is clear throughout utube.

[PhazonJuke]

I wasn't holding the camera, i was the soloist.

As for the swaying and swinging, that is not what the songs about. See the video games live version, you know, where this song comes from. No ones swaying and singing.

Not even Christopher Tin the composer of the song (also the one who sings the solo) swings and sways around.

But thanks for the criticism.

[apolik01]

Sometimes you go too far away from main voice :P

[AaronBalzerMusic]

@PhazonJuke Christopher Tin was not the soloist in the original recording. Ron Ragin from Talisman Acapella was.

[musicfreakkaitlyn]

PWNED!!!!!!!!!

[churchsinger]

oh, that's sooo great - energetic, enthusiastic and different!!!! i really love !!! the singing is really good!

[blondieswims]

my chorus is doing baba yetu and the hallujah chorus too(: (sry i cant spell)