Jazmine Sullivan American Anthem - Reaction & vocal analysis 

I thought I was the only one lol

Same

Amen♥️♥️The white reactors (actual singers) are my faves🤎

#FightPhils & FlyEaglesFly

Right?! That's literally what I'm binging right now.

Haha thank you

I'm glad to be teaching :D haha. And right?! There's not a second of this that leaves me any other type of way than wildly impressed. Jazmine is amazing

It’s a good melody and Jazmine’s performance is one of my favorites so far (love Brandy and Whitney Houston’s renditions too) ☺️. I actually had to google the lyrics recently, cause even though I’ve heard it a bunch of times, I had no idea what some of the words were haha. And for your last point, as someone only watching from the outside, I hope so too. ✨

@@HegeOfficial Hope is a good thing 😉

Oh I bet it was. You’re so lucky ✨ It must have been spectacular experiencing her live! My birthday’s also in March (not that you asked haha)

Right? She’s a treasure! ☺️

Thee Jazmine Sullivan 👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠

So happy to hear that ☺️ thank you, Robb! Jazmine Sullivan deserves the world ❤️ she’s amazing.

Can you react to her live netflix performance, here is the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LaL4Wao_x70.html

Her cover of adore by prince Or her kiss from the rose when she was younger

Check out her covering “gangsta” by kehlani…amazing 🔥🔥🔥

Glad I could serve up something new to you :) And I love that you're learning - so am I still :). There's so much to explore within music in general, let alone vocals, so it's easy to get overwhelmed too, haha. Music is an inexhaustible subject, but luckily it's fun

@@HegeOfficial enjoy your weekend also!! Thank you so much!!

this is the lowest and rarest female voice type in the world. do you know what this job title means? "Against-high" contra-alto. Because true altos have the unique ability to sing almost everything in their chest voice, the way men do!!! They are in the high notes optional club. It's not because they can't, it's just that the lower range that is their comfort zone. I am one myself, and let me tell you, as a kid I've heard men sing and wish I could do the same things they do....... Now I can, I challenge myself to sing in the same key, and it never ceases to amaze me that most of the time I can!!! High tenor and high baritone songs are among my favourites to sing. I wish more people know more about this unique and rare instrument. I am gonna write a book about it.

Do people not agree with you that she is? I love her too, so much

@@HegeOfficial yes , they argue that she’s a mezzo soprano , because her range is so wide , which is true it’s a beautiful range. But range doesn’t make necessarily make you a certain vocal type. Right?…… I love her penmanship also.I love your channel by the way .

@@No-one20244 I always believed her to be a lyric mezzo, but not a contralto

@@byronbostick4310 yeah but she’s definitely a Contralto

Jazmine Sullivan is not a contralto Lol I’ve never heard that ever

Ooh I love Yebba

@@HegeOfficial yes the live version plzzzz like it's a must and when you do I will be watching immediately. Ik your ears will love it

Thank you, Gilles, I try haha :) Have a nice weekend!

@@HegeOfficial you too 🎙️🎶👍

Right? Except for Whitney at the Super Bowl between the Bills and Giants at the beginning of the first Persian War.

You say that, but can you replicate her low notes or they way she bends low notes on "In Love with Another Man".... Have you ever seen any female artists even try to cover that? Same must be said about Toni Braxton, who covers her songs??? They might do "Unbreak My Heart" but 99 percent don't touch the lowest notes with a ten foot pole. This really just shows how difficult such pieces are to sing for higher placed singers, which is most of the population when it comes to female voices. Contraltos are still women, it doesn't mean they cannot manage high notes. Contraltos do not belt past D5 true. It's just that at the E5/F5 they lose the meaty sound because that's just how they operate in pure overly bright head register--something that most avoid because it's very jarring from their normally rich deep fullness that they are used to. Obviously higher voice types, their voices are still meaty past D5. In comparison true mezzos only manage E5 as their highest mixed belt. Sopranos in turn can probably go a bit higher in their mix. Mezzos and contraltos are almost indistinguishable in the fifth octave. However, on a contralto, very quickly her voice quickly morphs into something mysteriously darker, smoky and lower than that of a standard mezzo does the moment she operates in pure chest voice, which spans nearly an octave. this is why like men, they can opt out of singing high notes in a song altogether as most songs cover an octave.

@@pragmaticfool5434 Hello, thanks for responding ❤️ “Can you replicate her low notes or the way she bends low notes on “In Love with Another Man” in a lower set, lower tessitura’d tenor so yes. I’m comfortable down to like G#1/A1 albeit my usable projectable chest stops at D#2/E2. some of what you said isn’t accurate. A contralto is literally a “female tenor.” She’s going to have passagio closer to a tenor. Jazmine Sullivan though incredibly beefy, has text book mezzo-soprano or lower set soprano passsgio. The thing is, Jazmine has above average lower chest voice development for a mezzo-soprano and on the remote chance she’s a lower set soprano then outstanding lower chest development. “Mezzo sopranos and contraltos are almost indistinguishable in the 5th octave” not really. When belting, contraltos are going to have to rely more on a head dominant mix. They won’t be able to carry much chest up past B4/C5. Mezzo-sopranos are weird because some can carry very chesty sounds up to F5 but normally around Eb5 to E5. HV is more or less the same just slightly higher. A contralto will be able to make upper middle notes boomy and cavernous between D5-F5. A mezzo will start to bloom in HV around Eb5 and reach that top note quality from A5 and up. I’d say it’s closer in HV for sure but belting, and inherently high octane sort of singing, can’t quite agree. Just to name some outstanding mezzo sopranos, here we go: Grace Jones Young Nina Simone P!nk (albeit the most soprano-like of all mezzos) Good Sis Toni Braxton (all though she is incredibly light and her lows or sort of thin) Mahalia Jackson (I think she’s the best example because she sings most commonly between A4-C5 and will bring the climax up to Eb5. She has a very heavy approach which makes both perspective passagios in the area stand out.)

@@NeffyLe Grace, Nina and Toni Braxton are all contraltos. I am sure of it because only contraltos have pure chest belts up to G4, and I know these ladies do. Grace has done this live with Pavarotti [thanks RU-vid], basically singing tenor in the same set. I also have this. It's like a dark animal coming out of me when I do it. Truly in mixed belt contraltos typically only belt up to D5; this is also the limit Bruno Mars does as a high tenor himself. Toni cannot belt past D5's. She must use her pure HV past after that. That's why she cannot perform meaty E5's the way mezzos do. That's why I say contraltos in the fifth register basically sound the same as mezzos but in reality they are low belters and cannot belt as high as higher set singers. Contraltos and mezzos sound identical with the typical female money notes of C5's and D5's. However when you get contraltos to belt on the fourth octave, they sound completely different, becaue they belt in pure chest tones, thus the dark, heavy, thick, cavernous sound that sets them apart from all other female singers. Toni absolutely has this. And she has a very extensive chest register--she sounds dark, rich for longer as she sings up the scale from D3 to G4. This is also the hallmark of the contralto voice because it spans nearly an octave. therefore like men, they are in the high notes optional club, they can perform complete songs without using head voice/falsetto at all. This is different from mezzos and sopranos who are known for their long middle voice. I say this again: contraltos have an unusually long chest register and basically sing like men in their modal range with a very low tessitura that is only slightly above tenor and slightly below mezzo. the typical lowest modal notes from tenor to soprano goes up one note with each classification. tenor C3, contralto D3, mezzo F3, soprano G3. I'm not making these up, I literally studied classical pedagogy on this for live acoustic singing, these are the lowest notes that carry for certain singers. this is why today even now as before in the classical tradition, the typical lowest note written for females in contemporary music is F3. Someone like Toni challenges that convention by going much lower than that. D3's and C3's [Let it flow" is more tenor reportoire for her] are not atypical written into her music. They even go into A2/Bb2 but those are given out like treats.

another challenging low note song for females is "Hardly Breathing" by Brandy. Her speaking voice is unusually rich and deep. She is a rarity in her own right as a coloratura contralto with what she is capable of in her low range. the other great rarity is Tracy Chapman who is clearly a dramatic contralto who avoids using HV completely in all her recorded materials that I've come across..

@@pragmaticfool5434 Toni’s D3s and C3s are song with a microphone for amplification and it’s clear she’s working to sing below E3. What you mentioned is the nominal projectable note for a given voice type but every voice is different. Again, me, a tenor have no issue projecting down to E2. My lowest absolute note is way below that but still a tenor despite have a gifted chest voice that can give the thickest baritone a run for their money. Toni also doesn’t sing with masculine levels of power between D3-G4. It’s dark in color but not as powerful as even the most mediocre tenor in that area. Brandy is 100% light lyric soprano of the same make as Fantasia however Brandy just has a well developed chest voice for such s fundamentally high voice. Compare brandy to a mezzo, her voice is tiny in the 4th octave. Her voice doesn’t begin to pick up steam until C5. Unfortunately, she’s not a strong belter despite having solid technique there. But she doesn’t show any signs of a third passagio around Eb5 at all. It sounds north of F5 and considering how small her instrument is, until she gets to E5 and up, I’d say she’s a lyric soprano. Not to mention her HV. It is purely that of a light lyric soprano. I think we may have to agree to disagree on some things. Most women that people think are contraltos are actually just average mezzos. People just aren’t used to hearing mezzos so they call them contraltos. Most sopranos with strong lower chests are often classified as mezzos when they are infact sopranos (Keke Wyatt, Beyoncé, Jojo, Brandy) One last question. What do you think Samara Joy’s voice type is? Just curious. ❤️