Shivers

It is not often that musical performances give you shivers. They come only when the music gives you a sensation of excellence, when the notes are delivered with such feeling, intensity and perfection, that it seems to cut straight through you. It makes me think that the musical sense of humans is more profound than we would think. The shivers seem to come half a second before the brain has grasped the sensation of the music. This time it was an 11 year old girl that moved me with her voice, as she did with the jury on “America’s Got Talent”, where she went on to claim first price. Brandy said she made her want to go practice and gospel icon Yolanda Adams said there was little she could teach her that she didn’t already know. Critic Tammy La Gorce says she possesses a musical dexterity that most established artists twice her age approaches, but never quite nails. And I think that is the best way to describe her talent. If anyone missed out on Bianca Ryan from “America’s got talent”, voila, turn up the volume and enjoy!

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(Notice how Brandy looses herself in the music and on impulse puts her hands behind her head, regretting herself halfway, for an instance doubting if she is properly shaved)

First Appearance on "America's Got Talent", singing "And I am telling you , I'm not going", originally performed by Jennifer Holliday in the 1980's Broadway Musical Dreamgirls.