Aretha Franklin Lift Every Voice & Sing LIVE YouTube 

brings tears to my eyes everytime

I can’t speak for every black person, but for me it’s a motivational tool to help with life’s challenges.

@@girlmusician24 you got that right.

No one can sing like The Queen. No other people can reach souls and hearts with spiritual and soul songs like my folks. Good that you feel the spirit and power you heart and mind is open.

I bawl my eyes out.

She’s passed away unfortunately.

how do you define a national anthem?

Anything that includes us is not patriotic to you lmao, we're too black and lowly to be considered American in your eyes. Ridiclous.

Amen lord

She has a terrible voice, and over sings everything. Gah.

@kurtdublin lol

@@ragnardanneskjold7259 The greatest voice in recording history, I can only pity the soulless who can't hear divinity from a celestial place.

kentari bones k

Truly

How beautifully you described it. 💕

@Tony Johnson Anointed means blessed -- so unless you think everyone can sing like that, she had a blessed voice. And both those songs were written by someone else, you realize that right? She put her soul into the recording, that's why it's blessed, that's why we say her voice was anointed.

Definitely A GIFT FROM THE MOST HIGH GOD!! 💝✝️🤎🩶🖤💞💗💕👊🏼☝️🤲

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My condolences to you 🙏

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teenaged godspeed ain't that the truth

teenaged godspeed AMEN !!! ✊🏿✊🏿

Amen to that!!!

She died of cancer or a car crash didnt she

@@truchobolanos it was cancer

Possibly life has taught you the meaning of the words & your soul relates❤

Her and Whitney Houston

@@jarellamos-hicks5005 Whitney had a beautiful big voice with the sweetest tone and sound, but it simply cannot be put on the same level as Aretha's voice, which incorporated every human emotion, more than a voice, her sound was divinity and simply the truth.

@Mark Drinkwater your absolutely right 100% Aretha voice is something we have never heard before!

Absolutely No one comes close to that strong sound emotion energy and feelings Our Queen puts Forth. Whitney is Great but behind Aretha. 👑🎶🎶🎹🎤

@@markdrinkwater1508 she also was the most versatile of all singers!!!

You’re wrong many poc haven’t heard this song just like many POC had no idea what Juneteenth meant until this past June.

@@rsmith2916 Yawn.

Hello, Can you let me know what you think of my rendition?🙏💗💜 drive.google.com/file/d/1j4hS-R-p7eicRTQpVhc_Yq2vCe4XrpH2/view

Me too. It is so beautiful and so much better

Its a great church song. But too long for a sporting event.

What victory would that be ?

2023

Yeah I know I was 14 when I hear her voice in her Freeway of Love song I became her number 1 fan every since then. 🎶🎤

I agree that Americans should know this song, period. This is our nation anthem. However, what I don't agree with, is your erasure of African-Americans which you try to hide under the guise of ''unity among all god-loving people'' and the ''our ancestors paid a great price for us all to be here''. No, MY ancestors had to fight against YOUR ancestors because they enslaved us and paid a price in BLOOD for me to be here today. This is a black national anthem, it was made by us, for us to honor the blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors. Not just for ''god-loving people'' that completely erases the deeper meaning behind it. And while you may be the descendant of a single ''slave'', we are the descendants of millions of slaves who went through an unimaginable hell, 10000x worse and still came out the other end.

@@CHPYXO Thank you! We can’t have nothing for ourselves!

Your right! God has blessed us with great singers but I truly believe she is the greatest and will always be!!! 👑

and is!

This has been nicknamed the Black National Anthem for a century now. You're just finding out about it.

Kerry White true enough, brother. Still not for me. I like national anthem for all. The regular one. And I think as it’s not for me, just for black people. Where is the national anthem for Asian Americans ? When I was a kid, there was no such thing as Asian Americans. Teddy Roosevelt said that there should be no hyphenated Americans. Just Americans . So I will just sit this one out. Last time I was in a football game was in Santa Clara and Colin kaputnick was terrible and we lost by a ton of points. The last time I loved watching the the 49ers was with Joe Montana. Then the sister of Eddie B took over . All these things ruined it for me. I understand others still love it but I am too old for this new football.

@@eroskaw5423 Woodrow Wilson is the one who said that about hyphenated Americans, and he was an extremely racist man who distrusted everybody who wasn’t a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Dennis Archer's inauguration Jan 1994 The 2nd black mayor of Detroit

@@WestJason9 AMAZING, thank you! Fmr. Mayor Archer and I are both alums of WMU. :)

@@FawzVidz You are welcome

Dnetria champ is the perfect . No compromise

Me too Sista. She was the Best !!!

The racist that found out they’ll be playing our anthem before the national anthem... they are SO butt hurt on fb😂

Wrong