American Reacts to Only Boys Allowed Sing Calon Lan Britain's Got Talent 2012 

Former only boys aloud member, and these were the greatest years of my life! Standing side by side with these boys will NEVER be beaten!

As a former member of Only Boys Aloud, there’s a real sense of pride that just lifts you when you’re singing these songs.

Born Welsh by the grace of god, with passion in our hearts, and voices.

Welsh male voice singing is a tradition that goes back many many years and its a very massive rabbit hole to go down. An enjoyable one of course. Only boys aloud are doing a very great job of keeping the tradition of Welsh male voice singing going and when ever I see or hear them I feel glad that the future is in safe hands

I’m Asian here in U.S, love this choir,they’re preserving their own culture.So touching and uplifting.

Windsor Davies would have a tear in his eye if he was alive today my lovely boys!

There's a massive tradition of Welsh Male Voice Choirs with many excellent examples. I'm English but love the emotion and power of these.

Welsh male choir - one of the best sounds ever created whether it’s a professional group or the terraces at a rugby match

I am English and very proud of my country BUT at times like listening to a Welsh Choir I wish I was born Welsh.

Calon lan means pure heart ❤️ here’s the lyrics in English: I don’t ask for a luxurious life, the world’s gold or its fine pearls, I ask for a happy heart, an honest heart, a pure heart. A pure heart full of goodness Is fairer than the pretty lily, None but a pure heart can sing, Sing in the day and sing in the night. If I wished for worldly wealth, It would swiftly go to seed; The riches of a virtuous, pure heart Will bear eternal profit. Evening and morning, my wish Rising to heaven on the wing of song For God, for the sake of my Saviour, To give me a pure heart.

There really is nothing quite like a Welsh Male Voice Choir. Absolutely amazing!!!!

Beautiful!!! As a retired choir director in the USA it thrilled me to watch this. I watch it over and over! I wish that American Boys in public schools had a better attitude out singing!

We are welsh! We are proud! We are passionate! Yma o hyd!

I played this at my father's funeral, he loved the words. Try to find 'The Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir' - this is one of the most successful choirs Wales has ever produced, from a suburb of my home town of Swansea. They have many best-selling albums. Thanks for the video, making me homesick, lol. Ronnie Barker (of the 2 Ronnies fame) once joked that Welsh men don't actually go home, they just Sing about going home!

Welsh is the original British language 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😊👍

It's a very popular Welsh hymn. It's even sung by the crowd at some sporting events.

I take it you liked that performance? I'm Welsh and it still gives me goosebumps every time I hear these lads., Bendigedig, Cymru am Byth.

Dim ond calon lan all canu, only a pure or clean heart can sing. A beautiful song

Makes me so proud to be Welsh. Gives me goosebumps hearing this. ❤️

I usually skip the backstories, but theirs was amazing. Kudos to Tim and the organisation - kids, parents, mentors, they have made a real impact on young people. Watch their first audition, it was brilliant and also tells the story.

You don’t have to understand it my friend… as long as you felt it. Welsh people sing from the heart….and try to express passion and emotions through music……. Welcome to the sound of Wales…. Enjoy.

The reason some of the letters don’t sound as they should in Welsh, is because it doesn’t actually use the same alphabet as English. The Welsh alphabet derived from Latin but is a phonetic alphabet- with letters with more than one digit (such as ll, ff and rh) being actually considered one letter- and some letters from the English language being left out completely as they are deemed not needed (such as k, q and x). Hope that helps anyone!

You can relate to this and recognize the emotion because you too have a big heart.

Ah thanks for reacting to that. Have a great day, love from Wales.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

It gets you right their doesn't it ! I have watched them singing this over and over and it still gets to me can't beat a good Welsh choir. 😁

I love Calon Lan (Pure Heart in English). I wish it were our national anthem. Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau is quite moving, but Calon Lan is something else. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Wales is known as the land of song. Wales is very rural the population is only about 3,136,383. There are more sheep in Wales than people. It has some of the most beautiful coastline tons of castles and scenic views to keep a photographer happy for a life time.

One of my favourite songs I had to learn as an English man during my time with Blaenafon Male Voice Choir . Bottom bass : )

There is something unique about choir music which touches the soul. I actually prefer it when they have no backing track or a very minor one, but that's just me. This was wonderful.

Calon Lan is a very famous Welsh song, but this was a different arrangement.

You pronounced Calon lan perfectly. It means literally "clean heart".

When they sing with passion, with feelings, with happiness and with the reflections on their faces of wanting to do it well; It doesn't matter what language you do it in. Those same feelings impress us "youtube viewers" And it can not be made more beautiful.

i watch a of a lot of your videos but i am Welsh and have just seen this reaction. the passion of the Welsh singing is something that someone who is not Welsh will never understand. thank you for your comments and keep the Welsh dragon going.

Well that's made an old Welsh mam cry...Time to go home I think 🥰❤️

Crikey I love being Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The captions 😂😂😂😂

It's ok to call us Welsh British because we are the original British! Singing is in our blood even if we can't do it great like these boys!

There first audition had two on stage before the rest joined in as a surprise worth a look

I got goosebumps. I wish I were that good

Calon lan the 1 hymn that's sung at my family's funerals

Male voice choirs are a huge tradition in Wales. If you’d like to look up other songs, Sospan Fach is my favourite. I am Welsh but lived in London for work for a long while. One night in 2012 I was in a pub called The Minories which is just under Tower Gateway DLR station, in the arches of the railway (so good acoustics - remember that for later!). I was out with my best mate and on my way to the bar and I thought I was going mad as I could hear Calon Lan being sung… I followed the sound and there was a whole part of the pub which was cut off by a velvet curtain where 40 or 50 guys were singing. They spotted me pulling back the curtain and I apologised and said that I was Welsh and knew the song so was curious and that their singing was beautiful. I went to excuse myself and the conductor (who I hadn’t noticed was standing in front of them) said: “Thank you, we’re singing in the Olympics opening ceremony - what’s your favourite song? We’re warming up!” So I told him Sospan Fach… and then stood there crying like a baby as the whole of the railway arches swelled with this amazing song from my home and they were all turned in my direction. I have never ever forgotten that, they were the sweetest people, with the most amazing voices and, bizarrely, I felt so close and so far from home at the same time. Proper bois, I am so grateful for that experience. PS. The lyrics to Sospan Fach are mad as anything… but the tune is so haunting.

Im a south walian & still proud of the welsh singers wth passion we got its in our blood ..

I'm Scottish, but the Welsh are famous for their choir singing and voices across the UK. They are probably the best singers in the UK on average, something in the genetics for sure. Us Scots and Irish and English sing and make maybe better songs in a popular sense, but the Welsh are generally better at choirs

You should listen the welsh national anthem when wales played Belgium a few years back , now that is powerful .

Recommended video from Cardiff City Stadium in March this year: 'Dafydd Iwan belts out Yma o Hyd before Wales vs Austria!' Yma O Hyd = Still Here. Welsh (Cymraeg) is a direct decendant of the Brittonic language spoken across Britain since before the Romans, English or Normans arrived. 'Still Here' is a proud statement of 2000yrs of defiance. Dafydd Iwan's song has gained in popularity in recent years, sung in schools and by choirs all over Wales. It acts almost as a second national anthem. Wales won the match, by the way.

Watch the crowd at the Wales V Austria soccer match sing “Yma o hyd”. Also there’s video on RU-vid of Wales V Ireland where even the Irish fans sing the Welsh national anthem. Check both out.

My favourite welsh song we sung it at my mother's funeral

If you want to hear a Welsh male voice choir singing a Welsh song, my favourite is Myfanwy ...and while I'm recommending songs to check out, search for "one song to the tune of another ISIHAC" (I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, a long running radio comedy show from BBC)

A pure heart,full of goodness,is like a lily fair

Translation of the chorus is...I'll not ask a life of pleasure. Gold and pearls so little mean. Give me one true heart that's happy. A heart that is happy, a heart that is that clean.

despite being atheist I love this song,it reminds me of my nan,she grew up speaking Welsh but by the time I was growing up she had forgotten how to speak it but she could however remember the words to calon lan , and it always makes me well up when I hear it as I am now but it's happy tears

You should try the angelicus celtis at Britain's got talent. They are Welsh school girl choir I bet they will blow your mind.

This most definitely should’ve won in 2012. Only Boys Aloud were/are amazing!

I recommend looking up Jonathan & Charlotte who were runners up in Britain's Got Talent in 2012. Their audition in particular is quite something.

Thank you for correcting ‘British’ to ‘Welsh’. ‘British’ is just a political synonym for ‘English’.

2:51 -3:04 The silence spoke volumes... ✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

2:34 That last chord was crying out for the tenors to layer a high B-flat on top :) Still, they did a fantastic job with such young voices.

There a history of male voice choirs in Wales especially in mining areas ( unfortunately the mines we're closed down and the areas decimated by the conservative government of Margaret Thatcher )but choirs live on . One you could play this to a Welsh person anywhere in the world it would bring a tear to their eyes whether they speak Welsh or not

I remember singing this in my school as a kid (in Wales of course)

The Welsh can sing!

Music truly is in our Welsh blood Male Voice Choirs are a tradition so deeply embedded in the working class culture its beautiful seeing it on a stage for the UK to see how special it is

It's love love of our country .Wales is the land of song

Brother you should watch “fatty buried at sea” from the film twin town. It was film four miles from my family home. Myfanwy, is the song they sing. It’s the real deal, no flashiness. It’s the perfect backdrop to the song, it epitomises what it means to be welsh. Whatever you feel watching it, that’s what your core emotions as a Welshman are. Please please watch and listen, you don’t have to react, just watch 👍

THIS is why OUR country is called THE LAND OF SONG.

No one sings like the Welsh, these are braw lads, wonderful song & singing.

You have to watch the audition when they first peeformed.

Such a beautiful song x

My favourite song during my childhood!

Nobody sings like THE WELSH we put our hearts into every song .

They say that to be born Welsh is a privilege. Not with a silver spoon in the mouth but with song in the heart and passion in the belly.

There is simple brilliance and there is complex brilliance. This was beautifully complex, yet so simple at the same time.

@3:20 It's clear from a mile away that you don't understand this language, however if you take the time to find the lyrics of this song and then find an English translation and then read that translation, you will come to understand why the Welsh people sing this song with such passion. Every child that attends a primary school in Wales will learn to sing this song and many others just like this too. In Wales we sing! I'm really glad you appreciate it, the word you're looking for is ARDDERCHOG !...

Calon Lan. A Clean Heart.

Good on you mate, love the fact that you have been moved by The Land of Song!

Calon Lan was sung at my Mum's funeral.

English lyrics for this beautiful song!! I don’t ask for a luxurious life, the world’s gold or its fine pearls, I ask for a happy heart, an honest heart, a pure heart. Chorus A pure heart full of goodness Is fairer than the pretty lily, None but a pure heart can sing, Sing in the day and sing in the night. If I wished for worldly wealth, It would swiftly go to seed; The riches of a virtuous, pure heart Will bear eternal profit. (Chorus) Evening and morning, my wish Rising to heaven on the wing of song For God, for the sake of my Saviour, To give me a pure heart.

Siobhan Owen's Calon Lan I love.

@ The Eclectic Beard Thank u pal! All the way from wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

You said Calon Lan exactly as a mid-Wales lad like me would do!

As a current member of OBA this is great!

Excellent Appraisal EB.

Thank you Al 🫶💙

No need to understand it - just feel it (and I speak Welsh!) I’m happy you did.

Your pronunciation of the welsh lamguage is very good - Calon Lan is said as you read it -

You pronounced it fine. It means A Pure Heart

You should watch the video.. Yma o Hyd - Dafydd Iwan and the Redwall.. its sung before Welsh Football Matches, but this is amazing to listen too...

Aloud, not Allowed. It gives it a whole new meaning

Point of order: it's Only Boys Aloud, not 'allowed'. The Aloud Charity encompasses other choirs under the umbrella name 'Only nnn Aloud'.

A Happy Heart. Canon Lan.

Love your reaction! I am Welsh but speak very little (now learning more!) I know every word of the song in Welsh still dont know the whole translation!!

I would love to see your reaction to the 2021 "strictly" where the winner is profoundly deaf and the runner up was a same sex couple. The were absolutely incredible 😁

Beautiful song, Calon Laaarn. The language of the angels, Cymru am byth! Give me not gold or treasures of the world, but just a Pure Heart, I sing by day and night a pure heart!

this was sung at my wedding

This is the most powerfull welsh song👍👍👍👍

I didn’t want to like Britains Got Talent but it can be great, a good old fashioned variety show 🤘🏻🇬🇧🤘🏻

For true beauty and emotion listen to Myfanwy one of the greatest songs of any era or genre

the original live audition i think was even more powerful and raw than this version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AARrVAHnkdY.html

Only correction with your pronunciation is that the 'a' in Lan is a long 'a'. This was the song that my maternal grandfather requested to be sung at his funeral.

my favourite song in school Diolch Sir ( Thank You)

Ayeee it’s my choir 😂