Vocal Coach Analysis: Sydnie Christmas x Somewhere Over The Rainbow x 2024 BGT Winner 

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Sydnie said the BGT vocal coach taught her more in 3 weeks than she learned in musical college, her vocal coach was talking into her earpiece at the beginning and end of each song to encourage her because she was so nervous. She also decided in December 2023 that she was giving up trying to make a career out of music as she couldn't make a living out of it, but then learned she had got through to the BGT audition, so decided this was going to be her last shot. Imagine this woman and her voice being lost forever. Her Instagram is fantastic, just a warm funny human who even plays women's rugby! I love Sydnie as a singer and a great human being.

She really knows how to draw you in. She gives me the same chills as Whitney and Celine.

One thing nobody mentions: not only talented, but she is very beautiful, a lovely young woman. I wish her all success!

She is absolutely a wonderful singer. I’m so proud she won the show. She truly deserves the best

Like Simon Cowell said...Sydnie takes songs that we've heard so much that we absolutely can't stand them anymore...and makes us love them again!

Sydnie is going viral in America. I really hope Simon invites her on AGT this summer for a special performance. Other winners of BGT have made special appearances on AGT.

Absolutely love your feedback! It's great to see the reaction from someone who's well trained and understands the mechanics of such talent- and you do it with great humor.

As a vocal teacher, you are really analyzing the mechanics of her effective & spectacular delivery. Not just reacting but helping us to appreciate the art & techniques of singing & how/why goals & success are achieved.

I'm 66 and just learned to do You Tube in 2013. I have NEVER seen any "got talent" show singer critiqued as much as Sydnie. Just goes to show SHE WILL BE HUGE!!! This was the best critique I've seen.

Sydnie is the first "single woman act" to win BGT in its 18-year history. A woman and a dog won, but not a solo act before. She is a VERY special singer with once in a generational talent, she reminds me of Shirley Bassey with her power. WAY TO GO!!!!

I’m so glad you viewed all 3 performances . Love watching the analysis & enjoy Sydnie’s beautiful voice so much!!

She sings the songs from the inside out. She becomes the music. Love it. I don't care about the any sayers. Of course she is highly trained. How else could anyone be that polished? I love the analysis. Thank you.

FABULOUS REACTION ❤! I love how your trained ear can explain to the untrained ear! It's really appreciated! Definitely subscribed!

This was the Loren Allred arrangement. Loren is Sydnie's hero.

I can’t stop watching her…Sydnie is perfection. I am bummed she only had three performances for the show. She’s very humble. Beautiful girl.

Amazing singing, amazing analysis 👏👏👏

So beautiful great singer of all time. Watched her 100 times or so already.

Since I saw Sydnie just a few days ago I’ve been telling everyone…and now I can tell everyone about you. You are amazing, in many ways I’m sure, in how you break the song down and her interpretation and make it so very real explaining, so I can understand, that while a voice is or can be a gift it’s also something that can be improved by practice, practice, practice not unlike an athlete. Of which I now understand Sydnie is. And you too. Thank you for sharing. Thomas

The way she plays with phrasing and space is next level. Just crazy.

All three performances were pointing at her trials in getting rejected so many times! In tomorrow she vhanged only a day away to always and stuck out her chin to move past the rejection! In My Way she changed the sex and took the rejection in, spat it out and fid it her way! In Over The Rainbow she restyled ot yo let us sll know she wants that Wedt End prize over the Rainbow! All three performances so heart felt! Amazing! Now she is a Quarter of s million pounds richer, has a gig to perform before the King and Royal Family, and West End offers are pouring in! Bravo Syd! Lets ave it!

stop the video as much as u want we are all here for your break down

I enjoyed your analysis. It's Interesting that you mentioned Elphaba because I found a video of Sydnie Christmas singing Defying Gravity and it was awesome. 💕

Another dazzlingly animated analysis, Zoe! I am in awe of your musical mastery - such that I am now thinking of sacking my singing coach.❤️ As for Sydnie - simply beyond words - like riding a cloud of ecstasy, I imagine. Stay safe, my friend, and go easy on the coffee! 👍

You are so awesome when you are happily smiling and excited. Great pieces of advice! Thank you

I hope you watched the full audience reaction after she finished singing. I have never heard anything like it on any talent show I have ever watched. It seemed like it was never going to end. It was incredible. Like Simon said in her semifinal performance, the audience always gets it right. I don't know if that is true or not, but they certainly got it right with her.

Sydnie said on This Morning show that she covered Loren Allred’s song and Loren was very supportive. That’s why the high note was in there. It doesn’t matter. Sydnie has the power to make us all feel emotional. She has to be as emotional to convey that to the audience? She goes to places in her head when she sings to us. Dramatic ends or a gasp is her way of returning back to us …maybe?👍🌹❤️

Sidnie has just released the official music video of my way it's brilliant

Just fascinating what Sydnie has done with this song. Your insights are so good, and you're spot on that so much training and technique is necessary: it's just equally so sad that such skills are often not given the parts in the West End due to not fitting the preferences set. At least our Sydnie is not down beat about it: with the best vocal coach & agency being arranged, now, she ought to secure her dreamed of career path, as she so much deserves. I had also heard of comparisons with the version you mentioned that she was adapting for this performance - so similar, but the Loren Allred connection is indeed the tune here, involving Loren also interacting with Sydnie through it all, and endorsing the song's BGT video on Sydnie's Facebook page, expressing excitement at watching her sing & win, and calling it "our song". They're also arranging a duet for themselves very soon, now, maybe even after Loren does an event with Andrea Bocelli in London, next month. I don't know much at all about all these skills, but I am certain that she and her coach decided to drop the "t" of "can't": perhaps to ease the sound of the vowel change at the very end by using 'only' the "-an" link?

I love what you said on a previous video… that it’s not just a gift… it’s training…. Love it! I’m learning so much from you…. Also I tried a few of the tricks you mentioned on a previous video… and it worked!!

I found your beakdown of Ms Christmas' singing very inciteful, though technical you made it easy to understand what a singer even with natural ability still needs the proper training to produce beautiful music..kudos

I love Sydnie ❤❤❤ kisses from Italy 😘😘😘

This version of over the rainbow. Is from AGT fantasy league from Loren aldred. Loren is her idol. Loren gave her permission to sing her version. BGT vocal coach changed it enough to mske it her own in away. Another stunning performance by Sydnie. You should watch lorens version as well stunning as well. I have added both these versions to my favourite list of this song

Magnificent vocalist, I thoroughly loved each one of Sydnie’s performances

Actually it's a variation of Loren Allred's version. Sydnie talked about this the day after she won in Good Morning Britain

I keep seeing her hit a big note and, almost shyly, turn her head to the right and smile. I like to imagine she's thinking.... Yup. Nailed it. Damn Skippy you nailed it. Dead solid perfect. ❤

Spot on....talent 😮

Great analysis. As someone with no knowledge of singing and what it entails, I found this really informative and made me love Sydnie even more. Your reaction to her performance made it even more special.

superb.. ultimate superb vocal & performance.. & a detailed technical review that i m looking onto.. thx

Gosh, I could watch you fall in love with music over n over again sweetheart. Your joy is infectious. Xo

I didn’t feel like I was watching an audition I felt like I was watching a concert from Sidnie

I love your look and your energy

Hey Zoe! What do you think of this suggestion. Would you love to see Sydnie sing Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers? ....BUT....with a Sydnie like version. I think it'd be amazing!

Miss Sydnie Christmas said some time ago that her aim was "I'm trying to be in the West End!" But now, in my opinion, the West End and even Broadway are too small for Sydnie. She has the talent and ability to not share the stage with other artists. She must want to perform on prestigious stages all over the world! At the very least, she may share these stages with artists at her height! Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey, Liza Minelli, Julie Andrews, Loren Allred and a few more. And, if for some reason, they cannot be physically present, may they be present through Sydnie Voice!!!! Obviously I’m eager to see and hear songs written specifically for Sydnie!

On a old film of Judy Garland I saw on PBS TV. She sang " Over the rainbow" with more melancholy than the movie version. She more than put just as much emotion in this performance, as good as Judy.

There are reactors, and there are coaches. I want to hear from coaches!!! I have been forwarding your videos to my grandson who is starting college next year as a performance major! He has done well enough that the head of the music department, who only takes one new student a year, has made it very clear he wants my grandson to be that student next year! Your videos are giving him a head start. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Your feedback is exceptional

Apparently, she only had 3 days to prepare for this performance.

I’m a professional trumpet player. It’s super interesting how breathing, support, air amount, air speed, tongue(vowel pronunciation) and so many other things are exactly the same for me as you explain for a singer. I’ve never heard a vocal coach or expert break things down before. I’ve now watched a couple of your vids and had to comment! (Ever heard this from a brass player?) Good stuff!

In a interview afterwards.. she said it was lauren allreds version (her idol) that she sang on her time on on the show. She was nervous to do it only had 3 days to rehearse.

I don’t know how to sing, the singer is amazing, and Zoe you are great, I just love to watch your review. You break down very specific Love to watch your reaction.

So glad i found this, being a treat tonight, found out about Sidney and got to see you explain how it kinda works, thank you! The quality of youtube is spesh tonight, beats watching some dude make a house in the jungle 😂

I really enjoy listening to her audition of this. More emotion in it , my 2 bits.

You have a very beautiful voice ❤❤❤

You sound like you are quite the singer yourself Zoe!

It's a reaction video. I want pauses to get the reaction. If you want an uninterrupted performance of the song, look elsewhere. Come here to listen to someone explain why the performance was... spectacular. 😋

This was Loren Allred's version...Loren actually had to give her permission to use this version. The BGT staff arranged it... BGT picked this song for her and she wasn't sick, she just had 3 days to figure it out and as she has said, it was so hard because she had to put her Sydnie Kiss on the version in time. Of course maybe all the interviews she did were wrong...

Hello, first of all an advertisement for Sydnie's new recording of Starlight Express. Extremely good. RU-vid: Sydnie Christmas - Starlight Express (Official Music Video)

Absolutely one of the greatest vocalists I have ever heard...and she is handing out towels and shakes in a GYM!!!! What is wrong with this world????

Sounds like she is doing Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version from hawaii back in the nineteen ninties.

Zoe, that high note isn't so strange if you've heard Eva Cassidy's version. What I liked about the end is that little nod -- she's telling herself she did it!

Sydnie's album was released today!

My favorite vocal coach story: I remember about 60 years ago when the Beatles first came out. A very serious vocal coach was on the TV talking about how bad the vocals were, and the tone, the harmonies, the arrangements all miserable. He, of course, could straighten them out so they might “possibly” have a career. I was later lead singer of a band for 20 years and went to a vocal coach mostly to learn how not to loose my voice by the end of nightly two 2 1/2 hour shows.

Hey Zoe, sorry, ich bin grad nicht in der Stimmung, mich auf dieses Video einzulassen, bin voll im Raye-Fieber - aber als ich dich in meinen suggestions sah, dachte ich, ich muss dich auf Raye's neues magnus opus hinweisen, 'Genesis' - sieben Minuten, eine Reise von der Finsternis ins Licht, absolut atemberaubend die Frau! Liebe Grüße aus der Nachbarschaft!

My only critique is I wish she would have slide up to that last note a bit sooner. It seemed like the first part of "can't" was held just a bit too long

Love Sydnie but imo the best version of this song is by Eva Cassidy. Eva sings more softly and her tone is filled with such heartbreak and longing. She makes me cry every time.

Yes, as of today (7/19) she still hasn’t brought herself to listen to this finale song. She was so nervous and felt like she was so pitchy-she can’t listen to it. 😢which I don’t believe was true. This is the BGT arrangement made for Loren Allred. The wonderful thing about Sydnie is she gives credit for the arrangements in interviews. Tomorrow was born from an artist (forgot her name) who arranged it in Covid. That’s why so serious. Whereas My Way was her own arrangement.

Loren Allred and Sydnie are my absolute favourite singers! Hope they work together someday

Hello Zoe, Loren Allred sang this version for the first time on AGT 2024 in the spring. She shared the song with Sydnie because she wanted to hear it from her. She then commented on it on BGT on RU-vid. Loren is Sydnie's idol. Sydnie then only had a few days to study. RU-vid: Loren Allred SHINES with "Over The Rainbow" | Semi-Finals | AGT: Fantasy League 2024 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2G7AOscKjE0.html

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"😊

I actually like a slide in the beginning of this song, as long as it's done with intension and not because of lack of ability.

Sydnie is amazing ❤

Definitely informed by Izzy's version of the song. If this is Loren Allred's version as well, her version also is informed by Izzy's version, which is the original of this style. It is not the same as Izzy's all the way through though, she, and or Loren have added their own stamp to the song. Very grand version. That said, from an artistic perspective, I think it is hard to beat Eva Cassidy's version.

Ok so the high note wasn't technically difficult and it's said you aren't poo-pooing it but it's easier than it looks, seems like you are more about technicality which excites you and you being a voice teacher I can understand that. Simon said it's the audience response that is the true gauge of your performance. I must say I have heard some of the most adroit technical vocal performances that just leave me gasping at the wonder of it but have never spent a penny on them because something of humanity is lacking in the expression. It's really par for a singer like Sydnie and it better be at this point of her work honing her talent but it doesn't mean you don't use it to express a moment in music. The immediate moment is what music is about, and in that moment does the music sung transcend itself into speech by speaking into the human heart. I have dollars for that kind of singing, I have serious coin for singers like Sydnie Christmas who can use common par that transcends music into speech that talks to my heart.

That thrown in high note was not to show off, she is cover the Loren Alfred version of the song.

Do you think Sydney Christmas will be compared with Barbara Streisand

Just out of curiosity, will you react to more of the Eurovision grand finals ❤❤❤

Unbelievable. Like watching the ending on a great broadway show!

I get the impression that Zoe would love to coach her. As I think anyone would. It’s like someone wanting to train Mohammad Ali in his early days.

I would love to hear her sing and perform defying gravity from wicked. The same she's able to emotionally connect with an audience would make for an epic performance

Sidie has released on music video Andrew Lloyd webbers starlight express i hope you can react to this its amazing, she has also released an album called 'my way' due for release september 20th and a uk tour in october

I should be eternally grateful if you could do a reaction to, and detailed analysis of, Marcel Marceau in the guise of Bip the Clown. What he lacks in power and range, he more than makes up for in expressivity. Thank you! 👍

❤❤❤You don't like her ,you love her so much the way you look at her style of singing and clap at the same time I love her too, more power Sydnie a great opportunity lies ahead of you

In a TV appearance Sydnie said she hated that performance and cannot watch it as she thought she had sang totally out of tune, hence her sad expression at the end. I thought it was perfect, she is amazing.

please make a reaction to Sleep Token - Bloodsport (from the room below). You definitely won't regret it, the vocalist has an incredible voice.

Loren Alred is claiming this is her version that Sydnie is singing.

Id love for you to react to Laufey, Dodie and Jacob Collier singing wild mountain thyme and the video Ren - Hi Ren both totally amazing performances for completely different reasons. I wouldn't say it's even my type of music but there both mind blowing watch the whole performances you'll not regret it.

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

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I like Sydney's version of this song much better than Lorena's. Loren has a velvet voice, but Sydney is simply a cannon

Good reaction but a 'wing and a prayer' also does miraculous wonders not just singing lessons 😊

You gotta react to Billie Eilish live performance of her song “The Greatest” on Stephen Colbert show

So reminds me of Whitney Houston

I think Israel Kamakawiwo'ole would approve.

I didn't realise that you were from "kia ora" land.. Kia Ora indeed!

I disagree that she will finally end up being in the West End. To be sure, her theatrical training and experience are a most important part of her performance art, but she is beyond that now, so clearly a concert stage performer where not only her absolute talent will show, but her personality as well.

Please react to billie eilish singing the greatest live on the late show.

Billie Eilish THE GREATEST LIVE plssss

Please react to Jona Viray - Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Another spectacular singer from the Philippines.

Hi you are very interesting