Sydnie Christmas - 👏 Over The Rainbow 👏 - Vocal Coach Reaction & Analysis (BGT 2024 Winner!) 

The lovely and expressive face, the adorable quirks, the ready and self-effacing wit, the ineffable charm, the commanding stage presence, the unique and rich timbre of her voice, the softness, breadth, power, range, versatility and emotional charge of her oh so exquisite singing - the whole ribbon-tied Sydnie package: oh wow!

Three straight live performances on worldwide TV, and she nails all three. She is the Best pure vocalist I have ever seen on any talent show (IMO). A voice for the ages.

Power of Liza, expressiveness of Jewel, emotional depth of Barbra, dynamics of Loren. Amazing talent...not just voice, but talent!

With someone like Sydnie, seeing her perform is a big part of the performance itself. She's using more than her voice to communicate, and it's very compelling.

Sydnie is humble, down to earth simple person with the talent is as big as entire universe. Happy travels Sydnie and lets have it!!!❤

One of the greatest singers of our time.

She can take any song and magicly upcycle it in her very own (high) way...I am so in awe...💞

What a magnificent vocalist - I absolutely loved each one of Sydnie’s performances ❤

I've heard a ton of great singers in my day, but I don't know that I've heard a voice that fills a room like hers. It's so dynamic and has incredible clarity. Can't imagine what it's like sitting in the arena.

I have another stunning female vocalist to add to my Greats list! She is so amazing with such a unique voice. Adore her!

I got a distinct Celine Dione feel when she hit the "that I heard of" in the beginning of the video. Then she morphs into a decidedly Lauren Allred belting of the tune. A good singer takes from other good singers in order to form who they want to be as an artist. The end result is originality.

THANK you for this third instalment for Sydnie! She produces the best when she works with the best! Your delight in her skills is great to watch too. More is on its way from her, now, too, the first performance likely the duet with Loren Allred, maybe next month: so deserved.

This gives me chills every single time!!! She is absolutely AMAZING!!! I really enjoyed your comments and analysis very much.Thank you!!

Great analysis and validation that Sydnie earned her win--fair and square. She deserves all the praise and attention. Hopefully, some doors will open.

You did a great job- and you are a great teacher and communicator. It was a pleasure to hear you chronicle this amazing talented woman.

I absolutely love the way the person below my comment described Sydnie's magic. I have little to add except that I would follow her off a cliff like a lemming! I am mad for her and I have seen and heard all the greats ,many in person in my 77 years. I do want to say how much I adore your (Juliette?) commentary and critique. You are both kind and generous and absolutely on the money. You really know your stuff and you illuminate the performances with your know how. This was not my favorite of Sydnie's three performances, which is not to say I did love it. But you made me appreciate the dynamics intellectually and musically. I am moved by every note and word that comes out of her mouth, but I love knowing the reasons why. Other than she is just the rarest of talents.

Sydnie is brilliant!!!

What a beautiful, likeable and passionate Lady... So wonderful face expressions and smile, amazing eyes showing all the passion she has for what she is doing.... And the singer was really good as well... 😉

In addition to all of Sydnie's amazing vocal and entertainment talents she's also a rugby player. Talk about being versatile!

Hi again, Juliet. Great analysis. This arrangement was made by Loren Allred (Never Enough) in a performance by Loren 4 months ago when she was on AGT Fantasy League. You had reacted to Never Enough previously, but I don’t think you reacted to this song when she sang it in the semifinals. Loren’s version is what you hear after Sydnie sings Tomorrow in her audition. Since she had only 3 days between the semifinal and the finals, BGT suggested she sing Loren’s version. Sydnie initially said no because Loren is her idol, but Loren not only approved it but also sent Sydnie a video of support. And after Sydnie won, she said her dream is to collaborate with Loren. Loren responded by offering to do a duet with her. Loren recently posted that she will be in London in early July to perform with Andrea Bocelli, so maybe they’ll get together during that time?

I have followed Sidnie's journey along with many other reactors - by far yours is the most informative, captivating and genuine - thank you for so eloquently verbalising what so many of us feel as we listen to, nay experience, these remarkable performances. Do watch her reaction to the announcement of winning - the humility and grace she shows is both unsurprising and amazing.

YAY! Stopped what I was doing when I saw this…. I love watching your videos because I feel like I learn so much about singing and the choices made…. It’s so cool to understand the mechanics of how I”m being lead on this vocal journey. Thanks so much!

Hi! I've watched your three analysis about Sydnei so far; "Tomorrow", "My Way" and this one ("Over the Rainbow") and three ones are highly recommended. I love her voice, expressiveness,..., and I keep my first opinion; she is mesmerizing. How much talent there is in the world!. Thank you for your explanations. Greetings 👏👋🎶

What a thrilling reaction - and what masterly analysis - from this most fascinating and engaging of vocal coaches! Thank you so much!👍❤️

Love your videos! 👏👏I'm not a singer, but it's really great to hear an awesome professional give detailed analysis on different performances!

not sure how i found your channel, but i have to tell you how much i like your reaction videos. love the way you break them down fantastic

I know why she hasn't had a successful West End audition yet. Sydnie's style doesnt fit the "traditional" roles. But I have a feeling that she will het her moment in the theater soon with the way musicals are changing and exploring more expressive, conversational and evocative singing style. Sydnie's time is coming! I love her so much!

Regarding those short, staccato notes and occasional longer ones, someone else compared them to raindrops. Now, every time I hear this performance, I feel those drops that presage a shower. ❤

Well that's an early Christmas present. She certainly put new life into an old classic. Great reaction, thanks Juliet 🙂

Love Sydnie’s humor and love her voice... beautiful and breath taking. She’s a very gifted artist and the next Whitney Houston!

Sometimes, after hitting a strong note, she turns her head and smiles. I like to imagine that she's thinking to herself .... Yup. Nailed it. Damn Skippy you nailed it. Spot on. Dead. Solid. Perfect. ❤

Love your reviews the best for "Syd's Decorations" to the songs. Sydnie at the end of that song, her vocal coach whispered " you nailed it girl" then later Syd told her I can finally pay you myself once a week. The next morning at the talk show when asked what she was going to get with the money she won, she said she was getting more vocal lesson from her coach, always learning is always growing.

I am neither a singer nor a voice scholar. I am in no position to judge Sydnie technically compared to other great singers, although it is obvious she is a great talent who has worked hard at her craft. But then great art is always about more than craft and technique. It's about communicating essential truths about the universal human condition in a way that engages us intellectually and emotionally. One of the most fundamental human needs is to be recognized for who we are and what we do. Obviously Sydnie made each of these powerful performances deeply personal- even changing the lyrics in Tomorrow and My Way- but she also, as made clear by the overwhelming response, tapped deeply into that almost universal desire to "be heard," as she said to Ant and Dec after her audition. We could identify with her- made even easier by how funny and engaging she is. I hope she has a long and successful career and it will be interesting, as her life experiences evolve, to see how she might perform these same songs in 5,10,15,20,30 years from now.

Sydnie is very Special she is the complete package hands down!!

This whole arrangement: It sounds like that great singer in the movie Greatest Showman that Hugh Jackman's character bet his life on to put on the stage. But not only the arrangement and delivery, lights, intensity, her voice, the whole thing. But also, that very first part of Over the Rainbow at 3:55 exactly there, "someday I wish upon a star, and wake up where the clouds are far behind me... ...... that's where you'll find me.... Somewhere over the rainbow, Skies are blue"..... THERE. That is not only the arangement from the Israel Hawaiian chap with the ukelele - but it is also a lot like the song "Never Enough"... listen to "The Greatest Showman Never Enough"😊 She is beautiful. She also has a Judy Garland vibe here and there.

What with all the dynamic contrasts, vibratos, note bendings, drawn out notes, money notes, crescendos and decrescendos, I am in a swoon - and that’s just from the vocal coach! Wow! ❤️

Sydnie Christmas has a few older releases out there. Somebody to Love is really quite good and so is For One Night Only. It shows her other sides of performing. What a find Sydnie is. Sydnie is like an oyster and when opened she reveals the most beautiful Mother-Of-Pearl any human has ever seen. Bravo!👍🌹❤️

Finally! Thanks for the great review 🙂

Feel like we have been done out of another great song with her getting a Golden buzzer.dam. but well Deserved.

Her interpretation of 3 classic songs were unique each time, to the point where they were almost 'original' performances. I was captivated each time and anticipating what she woudl do with each song. Incredible!!

If you watch the interview on the tv show. Sydnie says she uses Lorens version but the singing coach changed it enough to make it a bit different from LorenS version from AGT fantasy league. Loren also told her to do it and not worry. Both versions are amazing.loren is her idol as well

Great review as always x

Great reaction as usual. Hope she becomes one of our Broadway legends.

You think that she can’t get stronger, and then Sydnie turns on that vocal afterburner in the end. Holly sh… And that last note is the equivalent of a negative G feeling.

"Tomorrow" really caught my attention, you don't often see a woman with that powerful of a voice. Then "My Way" made that seem like a warm up song. Now "Over the Rainbow" take her talent up yet another notch. Makes me wish there was one more level in the competition and wonder how far she can go. I guess we will just have to wait for her first album. I'm sure it will be my favorite "Christmas" album !

Reminds me so much of Laura Fabian! All that control and the little tweaks and changes she does to make a ballad so entertaining and heartfelt.

Saw this pop up and had to immediately stop everything to watch Edit: Great reaction

And the last performance off the final

love her gestures

I'm convinced she started singing before she could talk :)

She was born to be singer

You always get it right. You are one of my best finds on YT. It really means a lot to share my music interests with you!👍🌹❤️

she is who she is.

Amazing, Lovely, thoughtful reaction. I wonder, though, if Sydney could deliver this signature huge cresendo night after night in the West End/on Broadway.

Your eyes are absolutely stunning

I was waiting for that direct from Brasil. I ❤ your reations

Lost in Sydnie's spell, I've loved all your reactions and comments and subscribed to your channel. Thank you so much, Juliet. If I can advance a request... Sydnie declared that Tomorrow's arrangement is Marisha Wallace's and Over the Rainbow's arrangement is Loren Allred's. Both singers approved and publicly cheered Sydnie's performances. I would like to hear your comments for their versions. Comparing them with Sydnie if you like. Anyway thank you, Juliet.

She's just brought out her version of "Starlight Express" worth listening to

Holding a note at full power for 9,31 seconds - try it :)

It's amazing that she hadn't been discovered already. She sounds better than half the singers I hear on the radio right now. Special.

How about this Audition dressed in rags rejected Song tomorrow Simon's most hated Song Semi final Better dressed did Audition My way Final Fantastically dressed Over the rainbow golden buzzer Tomorrow finally arived

Thought you should know sidnie has released a music video of Andrew lloyd webbers starlight express,she also has an album being released on 20th September and a uk tour in october. Sidnie won !!!

This girl can really sing. Good job. 😎

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She sang as if she was a professional guest super star singer on the show simply another class and would have been a travesty if hadn't won!

Check out Tim Storms going to walk that Lonesome road Tim Storms holds two world records one for the lowest note and for having the most octaves

Nailed it. But this arrangement is by Loren Alred a few months ago on AGT. Go check it out. Amazing.

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Hey Taylor swift can you hold my beer

Please listen to girl who lives in our street jenny colquitt fields of barley x

Thats it eurovision solved and sorted next year in switzerland lets have ha,

She's singing it kind of in the style of IZ.

Pleased for her n'all, but we've heard three short songs from her, and the hyperbole from the judges, amplified in these comments, is the most extreme and over-the-top hyperbole I've heard in the whole world of all time ever. I am literally on fire I'm so stoked. But I also think it's a little bit excessive. One factoid I saw was that 'Sydnie's triumph at BGT is the first ever by a woman without a dog'. Wow, she doesn't have a dog, doesn't that blow your mind? Well, as a matter of fact, no, since you ask. These reality talent shows are not really about talent, but they use the lives of ordinary people (who are inexpensive and easily manipulated) as story lines in a soapy syrupy drama, that on this occasion has cast the spotlight on the woman without a dog. How will she fare as a professional singer, competing for attention with other professional singers? Only time will tell. One thing she does have though is a great name that already includes the mandatory quirky spelling that helps to catch the public's attention. I can see her being an obvious choice for Christmas TV specials, obviously, cos the show titles write themselves; and also panto, a great seasonal tradition in the UK, and the only live theatre many people ever see, so they're easily pleased. So with that name and this repertoire, a great future awaits her, on the provincial panto circuit, for a couple of years at least. Or maybe she will be huge, who knows? I hear a big voice, I'm not sure I hear the great voice that other people seem to hear.

For ypur next crush , please check out So Hyang singing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - you willl thank me!

This incredible young woman has more talent in her little pinkie than Taylor Swift has in her entire body.

Yes, she has a great voice, BUT....she absolutely destroyed one of the best melody lines in the verse that made this classic song unrecognizable and that awkward key change going back into the chorus was just plain strange and out of place. In the end she won but I am never ok with going rogue and making up your own melody line especially on a classic song like this.

I’ve been waiting for this !! I really like your reaction and comments !! You are the best !

So who pays for the roof repairs - do we know? 🤔🫢