13 years old and she does it like it's nothing. A song so unachievable that most singers would not even attempt it.... ...like it's nothin' There are no limits on what this girl is capable of.
They deserve the credit due each each of their performances. Doing so does not need to diminish the superiority of what each did and for Angelina, the possibility of what she might achieve in her future.
Angelina Jordan (born Angelina Jordan Astar on 10 January 2006) is a Norwegian child singer, of Iranian ancestry, whose audition for the 2014 season of Norway's Got Talent at the age of seven, singing "Gloomy Sunday" in the style of Billie Holiday, became a viral video online, and led to worldwide press coverage.[1][2] She went on to win the competition (at eight) with her performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime". Since then she has worked to raise millions of dollars on behalf of environmental causes and children's charities around the world. She always performs barefoot, after befriending a young shoeless girl while traveling when she was six years old. Jordan wrote a book about the experience and became the youngest published author in Norway. After Jordan's performances of two Billie Holiday songs, "Gloomy Sunday" and "I'm a Fool to Want You", on Norway's Got Talent, as well as "Fly Me to the Moon" on a TV talk show, all went viral online in March 2014, she was featured in Time,[1] Daily Mirror,] People, and other news outlets around the world.[6] She continued in the competition singing Nancy Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" live in the semifinals,[7] and won with her performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime", in the style of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's 1958 recording of the song. In September 2014, she performed "Fly Me to the Moon" on the US television show The View,[8] bringing her wider fame in the United States. She also performed on several TV 2 programs in Norway over the next few years, including multiple appearances on Allsang på Grensen (Singalong at the Border, referring to the border fortress of Fredriksten where outdoor concerts are held) and on TV4 in Sweden. Jordan had a small guest role in the final episode of the Netflix series Lilyhammer, playing a girl who sings in a bar.[9] In December 2014, she realized a personal ambition by performing for Peace Prize recipients Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.[10] Jordan's recording debut, the three-song maxi-single My Christmas, was released in December 2014.[11] To support the release, Jordan performed the songs on multiple TV shows, including an appearance on Christmas Day. In 2015, Jordan began recording music that would eventually be collected on the six-song Angelina Jordan - The EP, released on 27 November 2017.[12] Many of the tracks were posted to her official RU-vid channel[13] well in advance of the EP release, in the form of music videos and lyric videos. These included her covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You", the music video for which was directed by Per Heimly, and Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black", in which Jordan sang her own original lyrics. These two music videos became the most popular videos on her official RU-vid channel, surpassing 5 million views each by 2020. In 2017, she created a second RU-vid channel specifically to present performances of cover songs.[14] In November 2015, Jordan published the book Mellom to hjerter (Between Two Hearts), illustrated by her grandmother, Iranian artist Mery Zamani.[15] The book tells the story of her meeting a poor motherless girl in Asia who has no shoes. After a long conversation in which they discuss their dreams in life, she gives the girl her shoes and the girl promises to pray for Jordan to fulfill her dream to become a successful singer. According to Jordan the book is based on a real incident which she cites as the reason for always performing barefoot.[16] In April 2016, Jordan performed "Fly Me to the Moon" on the first season of the noncompetitive children's talent show Little Big Shots.[17] A year later she performed "What a Difference a Day Makes" on the UK version of the show. She also performed "I Put a Spell on You" on the German edition of the show, Little Big Stars, in 2017. In December 2016, she performed on Alan Walker is Heading Home, a live concert broadcast from Bergen, Norway, where she sang Walker's songs "Sing Me to Sleep" and "Faded".[18] On 15 June 2018, a full album of recordings with Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces (Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps), called It's Magic, was released.[19] The next day, Jordan and the band performed the full album live in a concert attended by Norway's Prime Minister. On 27 June 2018, Jordan performed "Fly Me to the Moon" for Quincy Jones in The O2 Arena in London, as part of his 85th birthday celebration, and also joined with other singers to perform "Man in the Mirror" to close the show.[20][21] In 2019, Jordan performed for former president Barack Obama and other public figures at the Brilliant Minds conference in Stockholm. In October 2019, she competed in the second season of America's Got Talent: The Champions, which was aired in January and February 2020.[22] Her first appearance on the show, singing an original arrangement of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", received a "golden buzzer" from judge Heidi Klum (meaning that Jordan would pass directly into the finals). As with her Norway's Got Talent audition six years earlier, a video of Jordan's performance began to go viral on RU-vid, quickly reaching 10 million views.[23] The performance also garnered praise from Queen's official Twitter account.[24] Shortly afterwards, the video was taken down[23] and Jordan released a studio version of the same arrangement under her own copyright.[25] Jordan's second performance (in the finals), a similarly reworked "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" based largely on a version by Sara Bareilles, was also well received, but she was not among the top 5 acts. In August 2020, Jordan's manager (her uncle, Michael Astar) announced that she had signed with Republic Records.[3] Her first single on the label, "Million Miles", was released on 6 November 2020, on all major digital platforms.[4] An official lyric video was posted to her official RU-vid channel the same day.[26] The track was produced by the Norwegian duo Stargate, who also co-wrote the song with Jordan.[27] She has since released two additional music videos for the song: one showing her singing the song "live" in a recording studio, the other an "official music video" featuring her younger sister.[28][29] Jordan was born in Oslo, Norway, and has lived for extended periods both there and in Los Angeles. She also lived for a time in the Middle East. She has a younger sister who has been featured in two of her music videos. Her father, Gerry Christian Slattman, is Swedish. Her Norwegian mother, Sara Astar, is the daughter of Iranian artist and poet Mery Zamani and a Japanese father.[31][16] Jordan attended the Oslo Waldorf School and participated in the Oslo School of Music and Performing Arts after-school program, where she received vocal training. In addition to singing, she plays the piano, violin, guitar, and flute, and also paints.[32] As of 2020, she is living and going to school in Los Angeles As of 2019, Angelina Jordan’s estimatednet worth is $9.4 million .
I'm sorry I found her late, but thanks for this wonderful reaction to Angelina, Omeezy, seeing that little girl who tests herself, with her usual confidence, with a really difficult song and also sung by a superlative singer, kidnaps my soul. It's a tough test even for an adult singer, yet this 13-year-old girl, while sitting quietly, gets something extraordinarily beautiful and well done. Every time it is a real pleasure to see and hear her. 😊 ❤️ It's impossible for me to give a ranking of the interpretations of this little girl, considering her young age and the fact that despite this, she is always, in each of his interpretations, at the height if not better than the original singer. The beauty of her low register, her vocal fry, the breadth of her range put her beyond comparison for me, I just love her 😊 ❤️
Whitney introduced this song brilliantly to the world at 28 or 29yo. AJ took it on it at age 13. Thereby she plants another flag of ownership in the vast musical landscape that she increasingly dominates. I heard she is part a plot by the Norwegian military to take over the world. The way it will work is that on the day she releases her solo album to the world, they will be able to walk into any capital unopposed because all the defenders will be listening to AJ! Great reaction!
"Gutsy girl" Angelina. Having a great deal of courage to cover this Whitney song. Wonderful performance by the gorgeous 13 years old girl. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I’ve heard a lot of people TRY to cover this Whitney song. That is the BEST cover I’ve ever heard done. Effortless. Plus you get a smile and a wave at the end. What an amazing talent.
You have keep reminding yourself that this is a 7th grader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She does a cover like no one else on the planet. She re-writes and/or re-arranges every song she sings to give it that "Angelina Touch". She knows the exact formula of how much she needs to "Angelina-ize" her voice, tone, inflection, emotion, persona and volume with different proportions to perfectly fit every song she sings! She has mastered the art of making her version of a song unique, yet showing complete respect for the Original.
Although it didn't get posted until after her 13th birthday, it was recorded when she was 12 years old singing a song that few adults on the planet would even attempt, never mind pull it off!
13 years old. Whitney was 29 and in her prime. There's a musicality, balance, vibrato, runs and ability to make every song she sings her own. I'm lost......
She is only 13 she kills it every time what ever she sings no more surprises because we know Angelia can do it all I just adore her I know I say that all the time but I'm 67 yrs old. but I just love Angelina for someone so young and unbeatable and singing songs from way back she's is a genius in my eyes she knows her music and exactly how she wants to sing them in her own style I just love her no one can touch her ❤️from Denise in England 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👼🏻😘bye XX
Thank you for this reaction to Angelina Jordan. She does it alot to you .when you think she can’t Get any better and she just getting better and better and she can do any song she want because she can adapt her voice to any kind of music genre.
Thank you for another excellent reaction to Angelina. It has been said that she did this cover of Amy Winehouse in response to comments by some people that she was not able to "belt" a song or to sing in the higher register. She did both and those who commented negatively should wear "sackcloth and ashes" in shame :-) Keep those reactions coming and I and many thousands of her fans will be right there, cheering you on.
Great reaction bro to the best singer in the world. In my opinion she has recorded this iconic song in a single take and I love the fact that she never change her tiny imperfections like almost everybody else does. She is a legend!
Angelina's volume of work at only 14 years old makes many established Artists look lazy and the Quality of the Vocals makes them sound Amateurish !!! Another great video Omeezy !!! 🦁🦁🦁🦁😎😎😎😎.
Body language says it all about your reaction 😁 This is not my quote, but a fellow named Billy Woods recently posted a comment on another channels reaction to this, the best description of what you just saw when he said, "I'd like to imagine someone asked her 'Are you sure you want to try a Whitney song, sweetie?'To which Angelina raised one eyebrow and said the Norwegian equivalent of "Hold my beer". :) Too funny, so thanks Billy Woods. Thanks for another great Angelina Jordan reaction!!
When Angelina sings a song of one of her idols, the song becomes an homage, a tribute, never a competition. In these circumstances, and they are numerous, we should never ask who's better in their interpretations of the song, but how well Angelina pays her homage to them, how reverential and respectfull she was in her artistic tribute, how she transforms the song that she liked so much into a personal unique vocal expression of her love for music. In that sense, it is not her who sings: she lets her heart and soul do the singing.
We love you in Scandinavia. ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for sharing our gift Angelina from Norway to America. Her tribute to Whitney Houston is in deep love for an outstanding artist who took the whole world. Thank you America for Whitney Houston she is in our Scandinavian hearts preserved in eternal love. ❤️❤️❤️
You always got My thumbs up for Your Angelina Reactions Thanks for Your Continued Support to Our Singing Angel 👼👣🌟😀👍 "Angelinized" is the right Word to describe what She does to the Songs It's not so much that Her range is over 5 Octaves it's more how She always manages to place those notes Perfectly every time ~ OneLove ~ JBB
God...I love her! I believe Angelina performed this song to shut up the critics who said she had no vocal range! There is a great vocal coach named Frank who analyzed this song with a key board in front of him and said the highest note Angelina sang on this song was an Eb5.....I then researched the highest note Whitney ever sang at was a G5...so AJ is only a couple notes behind Whitney at 12 or 13 years old! How is this possible?????
Wait… that can't be right. Angelina sang a G5 (I believe) in "Unchained Melody" (although in an "operatic" style, not belting): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TroRUF2iwHA.htmlm33s It seems that Whitney might have gotten up to an E6, although only very briefly: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kdDlFlN0YNA.html (But the highest notes sustained anywhere near as long as Angelina's highest notes here seem to be the B5 and C6. [The numbers increase at each C, BTW, in case anyone didn't know.])
@@garykelley8564 I see. Well, for the record, it sounds to me like Whitney's G#5 is still a "belting" voice (technically "mixed" voice?) rather than falsetto (which I assume is what you wanted to exclude). I noticed I linked to the wrong video before. This has been corrected, so you might want to check the link again to see what you think.
@@DonaldLancon Angelina is using mixed voice also in the song.....man...I guess we are splitting hairs...I'm just learning this terminology..it's making my head swim!
This is the first time I've heard her upper register. Most of her songs besides (I put a spell on you) are always so calm and soothing. I'm so impressed with her upper register. Love me some Angelina Jordan 🎵💖💖💖👏👏👏
She takes you to another world, where she's the ruler, and you're the fan. If you don't like being a fan,,, I hate it for you, but you will be, anyway. She's just too good to imagine, It's astonishing, and so fly that you want to say something profane. Like Holy ****ing S***! what the **** did I just hear? Is this a little girl of some ****ing alien from an advanced race, channelling blues from a century ago and the pure power of a dozen legendary singers? Who can say? I'll just enjoy her while she's here, and singing.
Nice reaction as usual. I love this. I think it's a great tribute from one superlative singer to another. Pretty close. In a few years, it will be right there. You can still hear Angelina make it her own with great respect. She does make it look easy.
Angelina is one of the most addictive singers I have ever listened to, & one of the very few, that can pull you right into the song, making you feel, every word, every note, & every emotion. ❤️💙 I always have this feeling that Angelina is not only channeling some of these late great singers, but that they also pass through her, when she is singing their song ❤️💙 A rare beauty, in every sense of the word ❤️💙 Loved your reaction!!!
Hey Omeezy great reaction to Angie as always. What I think your trying to say is she Angelinalizes it. That's what I tell people that she doesn't do covers she takes lyrics & Angelinalizes them. You know you should wear earbuds or headphones, cause your missing a lot of her ornamental's & nuances. Her voice is that special you'll need them to really, fully get all her sounds & skills. Thank you again for reacting to Angie. God bless you dude & your family.
AJ: "Oh oh, what do you mean just a jazz singer that cannot belt.....please hold my soda for a sec..." . Awesome reaction, can't wait for you album to drop :)
She does have that ability to amaze one doesn't she? I am so looking forward to whatever her future holds in store for music lovers everywhere, and I already believe she has given Blues and Jazz a shot in the arm (by introducing it to a new generation) that we who have always loved it will forever be grateful for.
You didn’t need to say much, your body language was worth several thousand words. With Angelina you seldom need to use words, just watch your and other reactors facial expressions and/or body language.
My reaction to Angelina is just like yours…her voice vibrates through my entire body. I can’t get enough of her. She makes me happy…she makes me cry. When she sings “All I Ask”. I fall apart inside because she evokes feelings of the past…and I cry. My prayer for Angelina is “Protect her Father God from the wolves of this world. Keep her sweet, humble and untarnished….and keep singing your heart out Angelina. You are loved.” The song you just reviewed… another mind-blowing performance. Amen
There is no one, there has never been one, who can sing like this girl. Before she turned 14 he had respectfully and with humility taken on such mediocre singers as Billie Holiday, Etta James, Screamn' Jay Hawkins (at 9!!!!!), the one-namers: Whitney, Adele, Rhiannan and re-created a Queen masterpiece live in front of millions on American national TV and though she didn't even come close to winning the show is almost the only performer anyone's talking about. She then moved on to leave us hanging like hungry dogs for her first "adult" album (the adult here refers to her, not the music of her previous album) to drop. I'm an old man and I've always loved music but I've never been intrigued by a singer like this before. I'm simply enthralled.
Been waiting for the Omeezy take on this one for quite a while...lol. The first 5 seconds told me all I needed to know but I still watched all of your reaction. My first time hearing it months ago I believe I forgot to breathe. Angelina, yes, went there and survived it quite nicely. Well worth the wait, thumbs up bro!
Please listen to these top Artists with Headphones on. The Experience is so much more, you can't beat the sound of music running through H.P's! Great Reaction, I've been "Ange-lized"!
Yes, you are right...so many performances, covers, etc. done of this song, and Angelina just blows it away. She shows tremendous diversity, able to hit those notes like the powerhouse diva Whitney was. And I also love how she reminds everyone who she truly is at the end of many of her videos, with that cute smile, wave and often saying, "BYE!!!:" It will be interesting to see where she is in 10 years. Great reaction, it's so much fun seeing your facial expressions while you're listening to something this dynamic or that touches you deeply!
Also I can't find your reaction to 7yr old angelina doing 'summertime' on Norways got talent. It was THAT song where I said to myself...THIS GIRL IS SPECIAL. you need to check that out. Its mind boggling deluxe.
Just another amazing reaction from you Omeezy860 ❤. Besides those two norwegians artists Angelin Jordan and Aurora we have the third norwegian artist who is Susanne Sundfør. Can you Omeezy860 react to Susanne Sundførs "White foxes" official video ? 🤗🤗🤗
What I like about you is that you let us hear Angelina sing and you don't pause her every time you/we are impressed and it it so good to hear just about the whole song. I love your honest reactions and you remind me of my neighbor Miguel and I just love him and his family.
Yeah, now I remember you, you're the dude who told the camera that we should stop playing because Angelina isn't from its planet! How are you doing? Good to see you again.
Great Reaction! Go check out Someone you love which has 3 people including AJ. If you reacted let me kow I want to see your reaction! Keeep up the great site and good luck with the new CD. Let me know how I can get it
11/11???? That’s a power number. ( 11 is a master number which signifies illumination) didn’t you just drop one on 4/25? and you have time to do this and a day job? I always like your reactions. I agree this is different than her norm if such a thing exists. I think she sounded a little tight in her upper throat on the last key change, but that just might be me. I don’t believe I have ever heard her strain her voice. I always feel blessed to hear her...over and over. thanks for getting off of your chair!
Yeah man that album was a test run. Now I know how to properly promote one so this new project is going to be a game changer 💯 And I didn't get it my chair, she blew me out 😅
This is why I do not wear Sox.. they would get blown off. My husband is a music producer and has those golden ears as a recording engineer. Having a few CDs myself, I know the work, play,exhaustion, elation, thinking, feeling, and dedication it takes. especially, finally identifying that one spot where it was just not right... then, voila, you get it and the entire thing is propelled to the dimension that was inside your being to this dimension where we are patiently waiting for your magic. 😉 good luck 👍
I really think your reactions are great, but i am amazed you don't use head phones for the great stuff your missing. Anyway, thanks for being here. : )
❤️🤩hi omeezy Joyce in Tahoe here...my last text to you or one of them that day I had been following you all day and wanted to share what I had learned about you thru your journey thru Angelina.. we both began The Journey days apart tho I didn't view any other reactor after my first encounter thru a VR channel...and had never even seen one.. the short of this long story is I have watched multiple times same reactions. ie...when you said the word "Angelinanize" ...a generic word most say.. by the time she released 7th Heaven I viewed your reaction it said 1 hour ago your prophetic words about her assured me my thoughts about you were right but I have a ways to go before I say further.. I am much older than you and you deserve to know what others Believe about you from what they see and hear...Sooo. I saw a transformation thru your countenance n words about her during your reaction...precious and priceless... makes you one of the lucky ones and you by this reaction she doesn't Angelinanize anything...but Designed by the Crestor. "Can't touch this"...M C Hammer no pun intended... back at you❤️❤️🤩😉😍