Apart from her whistle register and amazing breath control, there is nothing she can do that today’s artists can’t do… * ignore this ignorant comment *
Many singers can do the whistle singing, but only 2 people have ever been known to sing words while whistle singing- the pronunciation so clear you can hear the words. Those 2 singers are Minnie Riperton and Cleo Laine.
on tht second run she actually held that note THAT DAMN LONG at that pitch just like on the record OMGGGGGGGGG! This woman was a treasure....and she is so beautiful. WoW! #RIP
I literally cried whenever she hit a high note. How blessed we are to be able to hear this wonderful woman and her wonderful songs. So amazingly talented--words can't describe!
On this day in history (April 5, 1975), Minnie Riperton’s single “Lovin’ You” became a number 1 hit on Billboard’s pop singles chart and went on to achieved the same status in over 20 countries around the world. She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph and they had two children: music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph. Minnie Riperton was born Minnie Julia Riperton on November 8th 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the youngest of eight children, born to Daniel and Thelma Riperton. She studied classical music as a child and developed a five-octave vocal range and originally planned to become an opera singer. She studied music, drama, and dance at Chicago’s Lincoln Center received operatic vocal training from Marion Jeffery. Riperton began singing as a session singer at the Chess Records studio when she was just a teenager. She provided backing vocals on records by legendary artist Bo Diddley, Etta James, Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. At age 16, Riperton signed her first professional contract and began singing with an all-girl group named “The Gems” on the Chess label. After “The Gems”, she joined the psychedelic rock group “The Rotary Connection”. During this time Riperton met songwriter and producer Richard Rudolph. They married in 1969 and had a son, Marc Rudolph. Together they worked on Riperton’s first solo album, 1969’s “Come to My Garden”. In 1972 she Riperton she gave birth to her daughter Maya Rudolph. Eventually, Riperton and her family moved to Los Angeles where she to become a member of Stevie Wonder‘s backing group, “Wonderlove”. After touring with Wonder, she returned to the studio to work on her second solo album, “Perfect Angel” which contained the international pop hit “Lovin’ You”. As the story is told, “Lovin’ You” was originally written as a lullaby for her then two-year-old daughter, Maya. In January 1976, Riperton was diagnosed with breast cancer and, in April, she underwent a radical mastectomy. At the time of diagnosis, cancer had metastasized and she was given about six months to live. She was one of the first celebrities to go public with her breast cancer diagnosis but did not disclose she was terminally ill. Despite her prognosis she continued recording and touring. Riperton became a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society in 1977. In 1978, she received the American Cancer Society’s Courage Award, which was presented to her at the White House by President Jimmy Carter. July 12, 1979, at age 31, Minnie Riperton succumbed to cancer in her husband’s arms while listening to a song written especially for her by her friend Steve Wonder.
This song was written by a man for a woman he later married. The song was about his desire to become ONE with her spiritually, mentally, emotionally AND physically!!! Ladies, if you have ever experienced a man as roots with his desire to be ONE with you, you will understand the depth & power of this very BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG!!!!
And ,some radio stations wouldn't play it, saying that it was too sexual. You can tell she wasn't singing it as a sexual song but, a love song. If you've never been loved deeply by a woman or, a man you couldn't understand this beautiful song 💜💯🙏🏽🏆⭐
Simplesmente, maravilhosa! É inacreditável eu saber da existência de uma artista desse nível apenas no século XXI. Com certeza, a melhor da sua geração.
1:32, You know what. No one can ever do this vocally except for her at that time. Ms. Riperton was really an Angel from Heaven acting like a human woman on earth.
I truly believe thats why she died so young. Her time was up. She accomplished what she was sent here to do. And that was touch people's soul with her music. Her music personifies Love. Love is what brings us closer to God. She was Truly a Angel on Earth
Man oh Man!!...didn't appreciate the 70's when I was a kid living it, took it for granted. Truly didn't know how good we had it. This was the era of originality and the legendary GREATS at there purest..can't you just feel the passion? Like someone had mentioned below this an old school mic minus the new technology without the latest State of the art extra enhanced sound effects, no studio touch ups..just the priceless voice of an angel, a passionate performance sounding better than the record..I could feel the LOVE in the music. That is no more today. The love is gone in the music.
It's just.. so perfect. The "note" is indescribable, I honestly don't know how to else to say it. But what does it for me is, the whole entire song is perfect, her voice is perfect, notes and pitches and tones just immaculate. AND THIS IS LIVE?! It's just a blessing of a voice, I am speechless 🤯
I was listening to the radio when they announced that Minnie passed away from breast cancer, as a fan I was in total shock. Her sound had me captivated, I would play her music so much that a friend of mine would say " If you don't play something else I'm gonna scream" I'd laugh and continue to sing but her 5 active range I couldn't touch.
@@valeriesparks5316 Say whuddd?!?!? Bobby and Eldra is some bad brothas! Actually all the siblings are worthy of artistic accolades. Minnie stands in a different spotlight.
When I hear this song it literally makes me cry 😿 this woman had the greatest voice I have ever heard, truly she was the greatest!!! Rest in peace young lady, may ALLAH allow you in paradise!!!
98’ baby here. I’m so glad I was blessed with an ear for music like this. My mom always wonder where I get it from. I just know this can’t be my first lifetime here. I enjoy things way beyond my years in this one too much.
It is a cool double entendre even if it was not his intention when writing it, Minnie’s work always had seductive elements and her delivery definitely left room for interpretation shall we say.
@@myindaedevereaux731 l've always loved Minnie to the max, no question. But I also have much love for Chante', too! After hearing Chante' cover a few of Minnie's songs, I feel she'd do justice to more! ("Love And Its Glory", hint, hint!)
Listening to this as a child in the 70s this was great...as a 56 yr old man, this is beyond sexual, however its so poetic. This proves that you can be creatively descriptive, make a point, and maintain a high level of class and innocence." Unfortunately, in the 80s, creativity was replaced with vulgarity, and now in the 2020s have sexy redd and Lil Rt. I miss when music was music and you had to hone your craft to make it. No samples, no drum machines, only sitting in a room and making it up.
I "discovered" her recently and became very impressed and sad in knowing she's passed so Young, like our Brazilian singer Elis Regina. This world don't deserves someone like this woman. Rest in peace.
@@petterbernard Ty fro the recommendation. In the 1970s, My father use to travel from our home in upstate New York State down to NY city to buy Brazilian albums as imports. I’ll look into the albums you suggested!
Wow what a beautiful powerful angel voice I always enjoyed hearing female voices that sing like this whit so much passion and the lyric is lovely as well gta iv brought me here and I’m glad for it 🤎
I'm in Heaven! To hear the quintesstional Minnie Riperton singing, to perfection one of the most beautiful love songs ever, followed by the great Laura Mayne!!!!! Takes me back to my younger days, the 70s! One of the Greatest Musical Decades, EVER!!!!!❤😂🎉😇😊🥰💯💙💛💜❤️🩹💙🩵👏🤗
I’ve loved Minnie’s singing for years and I have several of her albums. She’s such a perfect singer, with an awesome range. There will never be another like her, not even close.
From Spain..... Oh my God!!!! I m 43 years old and I have to say and admitt she was was a proud a gift from this earth with this talentous and wonderfull angelical voice..... She could be as great singer but passed away as so many young.. Rip her legacy on this earth will lives on forever.... Miss Minney ripperton God bless you a d rest in eternity heaven paradise as forever greetings from South of Spain
So many singers are compared to high octave phrases, listeners don't really hear the singer, its all about everything the singer does before during and after those highlights. I love Minnies' breathy notes, power and tender emotion laced with graceful moments of a knowing experience.
That just brought tears to my eyes! I love this song so much, but seeing her sing like that live... Man it just hits you in the soul. I'm still sniffling!
Shout out to the late Charles Stepney who gave Minnie (yes, she's Maya Rudolph's mother) an early opportunity with the Rotary Connection. Shout out to the late Leon Ware who composed the song.
Still listening in 2024
👇
Same ❤❤❤
Minnie lives inside me. Love her
Me
MY FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST ❤️💯❤️💯
I still have original albums I got as a kid and still play them, I got a dream is my favorite!
Can you imagine hearing Minnie Riperton live... WoW.
These singers today 2000-2024 are soo trash!!!
i was n her living room with her and dick playing guitar and she singing when she was living n chicargo
I wish I had
Minnie is like the final boss of singers 😩 impossible to beat, period.
This type of singing is missed in today's music.
Apart from her whistle register and amazing breath control, there is nothing she can do that today’s artists can’t do…
* ignore this ignorant comment *
@@MarquesTheProducer So why aren't they then???
Very much so
@@PapaBrejj they are. You just have to look for the quality ones
To elaborate on this point, I think what Minnie had that is missing today is authenticity, something pure and real. Soul.
Minnie Riperton, had one of the best voices ever.It is a crime that she does not get the recognition that she deserves.R.I.P Perfect Angel.
Died way too young.
Many singers can do the whistle singing, but only 2 people have ever been known to sing words while whistle singing- the pronunciation so clear you can hear the words. Those 2 singers are Minnie Riperton and Cleo Laine.
Don't you forget my girl Lecresia Campbell
@@obiheyer4567thank you for mentioning her name. I just seen a clip of her singing, but couldn’t find her name.
God bless
Chante Moore love is included
And Mariah Carey
Syreetha Wright has that gift also
The 1970s R&B movement, pure, clean, and so satisfying like water.
Beautiful, @eEdJones! [At first, I misread "satisflying" as "satisfying"!]
Yes ❤
on tht second run she actually held that note THAT DAMN LONG at that pitch just like on the record OMGGGGGGGGG! This woman was a treasure....and she is so beautiful. WoW! #RIP
Practice can take you so far
try this Minnie song ua-cam.com/video/V6PZNOhks-A/v-deo.html
I loved her and her music.So Timeless and Classic. Vocal range off the charts
Yes she did...Beautiful!
Yes - I noticed that too - and she kept it tasteful and understated ...
The purest voice I have ever heard. Listen to this with no studio tricks!
new from Minnie
ua-cam.com/video/V6PZNOhks-A/v-deo.html
What about Randy Crawford?
@@DreiSkins101 love her - but Minnie was the best
@@jtc1964x respect.
Amazing 😍🤯
Minnie Riperton literally had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. Amazingly beautiful!!
I remember this being published on UA-cam i was really into this song
And i couldnt have been more shocked and humbled by it
She’s my favorite female voice of all time
So amazing so a beautiful and blessed singer I love her.❤
I know right, I wholeheartedly agree with that! Amazing and beautiful.
Rest in eternal peace, Mrs Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph. November 8, 1947-July 12, 1979 you are missed so much.
I think it was cancer ...
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@@duwanmorrison2492 z
That day was a very cloudy and miserable day. A day of mourning.
Rarely do wives go before husbands???
There will never be another Minnie Riperton in our life time
I literally cried whenever she hit a high note. How blessed we are to be able to hear this wonderful woman and her wonderful songs. So amazingly talented--words can't describe!
Lol you cried? Go see a doctor brah
I just heard Nile Rodgers say the last time he cried was listening to this song.
Amen
and I Love your @ Handle
It’s Unique, and Beautifuly simple
but not simple if that makes sense lol
Same here, dear. Same here.
@@roberthouston2164 hush
NO WAY SHE SUNG THIS LIVE MANY TIMES OVER!!!....ONE OF THE MOST EROTIC SONGS EVER!!!...STILL BUMPING FOREVER IN 2020!
4:25
A love making song without ever having to make love and you're right very erotic!
@@phx4closureman yes Please!!!
Glad I'm not the only one who knows what type of coming she's singing about!
I'm not sure if the words back then really meant the same as they do today..
Baby's breath Flora's in her hair.....
Breath taking vocals
🕊️
This song never gets old! SPEECHELESS x who's here? 2023
This woman had the voice of an angel. TIP Minnie ❤
On this day in history (April 5, 1975), Minnie Riperton’s single “Lovin’ You” became a number 1 hit on Billboard’s pop singles chart and went on to achieved the same status in over 20 countries around the world. She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph and they had two children: music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph.
Minnie Riperton was born Minnie Julia Riperton on November 8th 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the youngest of eight children, born to Daniel and Thelma Riperton. She studied classical music as a child and developed a five-octave vocal range and originally planned to become an opera singer.
She studied music, drama, and dance at Chicago’s Lincoln Center received operatic vocal training from Marion Jeffery. Riperton began singing as a session singer at the Chess Records studio when she was just a teenager. She provided backing vocals on records by legendary artist Bo Diddley, Etta James, Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry.
At age 16, Riperton signed her first professional contract and began singing with an all-girl group named “The Gems” on the Chess label. After “The Gems”, she joined the psychedelic rock group “The Rotary Connection”. During this time Riperton met songwriter and producer Richard Rudolph. They married in 1969 and had a son, Marc Rudolph. Together they worked on Riperton’s first solo album, 1969’s “Come to My Garden”. In 1972 she Riperton she gave birth to her daughter Maya Rudolph.
Eventually, Riperton and her family moved to Los Angeles where she to become a member of Stevie Wonder‘s backing group, “Wonderlove”. After touring with Wonder, she returned to the studio to work on her second solo album, “Perfect Angel” which contained the international pop hit “Lovin’ You”. As the story is told, “Lovin’ You” was originally written as a lullaby for her then two-year-old daughter, Maya.
In January 1976, Riperton was diagnosed with breast cancer and, in April, she underwent a radical mastectomy. At the time of diagnosis, cancer had metastasized and she was given about six months to live. She was one of the first celebrities to go public with her breast cancer diagnosis but did not disclose she was terminally ill. Despite her prognosis she continued recording and touring.
Riperton became a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society in 1977. In 1978, she received the American Cancer Society’s Courage Award, which was presented to her at the White House by President Jimmy Carter. July 12, 1979, at age 31, Minnie Riperton succumbed to cancer in her husband’s arms while listening to a song written especially for her by her friend Steve Wonder.
I’m 25 and obsessed with this woman. And I’m only on my 2nd song of hers
I understand. She got me when I was 11 years old.
Enjoy the journey! Minnie ripperton has a beautiful music catalog.
Haha, what's the first song? Les fluers?
I’m 25 and love her too! She was a goddess
Check out Chante Moore....
Here 2024. Listening to Ms. Minnie Riperton's beautiful voice. Such a phenomenal gifted singer. RIH
If you're not feeling this , you just SOULESS ...
This song was written by a man for a woman he later married. The song was about his desire to become ONE with her spiritually, mentally, emotionally AND physically!!!
Ladies, if you have ever experienced a man as roots with his desire to be ONE with you, you will understand the depth & power of this very BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG!!!!
I kind of had my mind in gutter, if you know what I mean.
My goodness 1979 I was just getting out of HS. RIP mu queen no one could touch you.
And ,some radio stations wouldn't play it, saying that it was too sexual. You can tell she wasn't singing it as a sexual song but, a love song. If you've never been loved deeply by a woman or, a man you couldn't understand this beautiful song 💜💯🙏🏽🏆⭐
This is one of my favorite songs by the great Minnie Riperton. She's singing with the Ancestors of Angelic Voices now. God bless you. 🥲😇
She sounds the same love as on her records. I love Ms.Minnie 😭💗
Simplesmente, maravilhosa! É inacreditável eu saber da existência de uma artista desse nível apenas no século XXI. Com certeza, a melhor da sua geração.
This song literally is perfect
This lady's voice was phenomenal
It was so deep for my 20 year old ears and here I am 50 years later, tearfully still finding the greatest enjoyment!
A beautiful angel from heaven came down and blessed us with her heavenly voice, left and went back home. 😥😥😥
She didn't get the fame Barbara Streisand recieved her voice is unmatched she hit octaves that were not there
Just beautiful. That’s the only word I know to describe her voice
1:32, You know what. No one can ever do this vocally except for her at that time. Ms. Riperton was really an Angel from Heaven acting like a human woman on earth.
I truly believe thats why she died so young. Her time was up. She accomplished what she was sent here to do. And that was touch people's soul with her music. Her music personifies Love. Love is what brings us closer to God. She was Truly a Angel on Earth
I've always loved Minnie Riperton! I still listen to her music! Absolutely beautiful! 🤗🙏🏽💜
Minnie Julia Riperton Rudolph passed away 45 years ago today. R.I.P 🙏🙏🙏
Wow
TOP 5. OF SINGERS OF ALLL. TIME'S OF WOMAN SHE SHOULD BE IN THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF. FAME PERIOD
I saw her in a similar concert at the Paramount, in Austin, TX, in the 70's ... still breathtakingly beautiful!!
this is from Minnie too... ua-cam.com/video/V6PZNOhks-A/v-deo.html
RIP Minnie! I can't think of a talent today that even comes CLOSE to matching you!!
Me either.
Oops chante Moore does
Laura Mayne is the closest look her up!!!
It's cause... there just isn't. The difference between a 9.7 and 9.9 is lot greater than one tends to think it is.
Rachelle Ferrell’s voice is literally an instrument🖤🎤👄
Man oh Man!!...didn't appreciate the 70's when I was a kid living it, took it for granted. Truly didn't know how good we had it. This was the era of originality and the legendary GREATS at there purest..can't you just feel the passion? Like someone had mentioned below this an old school mic minus the new technology without the latest State of the art extra enhanced sound effects, no studio touch ups..just the priceless voice of an angel, a passionate performance sounding better than the record..I could feel the LOVE in the music. That is no more today. The love is gone in the music.
It's just.. so perfect. The "note" is indescribable, I honestly don't know how to else to say it. But what does it for me is, the whole entire song is perfect, her voice is perfect, notes and pitches and tones just immaculate. AND THIS IS LIVE?! It's just a blessing of a voice, I am speechless 🤯
Lol, Perfect Angel.
I was listening to the radio when they announced that Minnie passed away from breast cancer, as a fan I was in total shock. Her sound had me captivated, I would play her music so much that a friend of mine would say " If you don't play something else I'm gonna scream" I'd laugh and continue to sing but her 5 active range I couldn't touch.
HER VOICE, WAS SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT 5 OCTAVE. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN NO ONE SINCE HER.😘😘😘
You're right, there are some that come close but there will never be another Minnie.
Ummmmmmm! Rachelle Farrell
@@exuma6 she too is a beast!
However I receive them in different veins. They hit different.
What about one of those Debarge brothers?
@@valeriesparks5316
Say whuddd?!?!?
Bobby and Eldra is some bad brothas! Actually all the siblings are worthy of artistic accolades.
Minnie stands in a different spotlight.
Them ppl came to hear the whistle 😙 you are missed Mama
This is what soul music is all about. I’m glad to be old enough to have made and fallen in love during this platinum musical era.
I was in college in 1975 at Morgan State University when this song came out. I am still listening today, August 19, 2021. RIP, Minnie.
REMEMBERING MINNIE RIPERTON
(November 8, 1947 - July 12, 1979)
[11/08/2022]
The 1 & only Queen Minnie🔥💖🔥
The queen of 5 octave/vocal range🔥
She sounds so angelic & peaceful🕊
When music was pure.....a long time ago....in a galaxy far far away.
HER VOICE IS LIKE THE SEASON OF SPRING.IT'S SO FRESH,WARM AND COOL ALL AT THE SAME TIME
Listening on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. ❤❤❤
When I hear this song it literally makes me cry 😿 this woman had the greatest voice I have ever heard, truly she was the greatest!!! Rest in peace young lady, may ALLAH allow you in paradise!!!
98’ baby here. I’m so glad I was blessed with an ear for music like this. My mom always wonder where I get it from. I just know this can’t be my first lifetime here. I enjoy things way beyond my years in this one too much.
Had she lived she would've been the ultimate legend receiving tributes and lifetime achievement awards. She had just begun.
I really believe that.
NEVER heard a singer sound THIS CLOSE to the record!!! Flawless and timeless.
The sexiness of this in 2021!
That voice wow,nobody can hit them notes (highs) like that.
So lovely I understand what the song means now. When I was young I thought it was about sex. Not inside my guts, no, inside my heart , spirit my mind.
I remember Leon Ware wrote this track and he said the same. Think he was a bit irritated people assumed it was all about sex.
When you truly love someone you want to pull their soul deep inside of your soul, and never let it go.
It is a cool double entendre even if it was not his intention when writing it, Minnie’s work always had seductive elements and her delivery definitely left room for interpretation shall we say.
Omg!! Nobody can ever cover her🔥🔥🔥
FACTS!! Maybe... Just Maybe.... Chante Moore Maybe 😁
@@myindaedevereaux731 l've always loved Minnie to the max, no question. But I also have much love for Chante', too! After hearing Chante' cover a few of Minnie's songs, I feel she'd do justice to more! ("Love And Its Glory", hint, hint!)
Nobody.
Unfortunately some people have tried ... and failed miserably
Chante Moore
Listening to this as a child in the 70s this was great...as a 56 yr old man, this is beyond sexual, however its so poetic. This proves that you can be creatively descriptive, make a point, and maintain a high level of class and innocence." Unfortunately, in the 80s, creativity was replaced with vulgarity, and now in the 2020s have sexy redd and Lil Rt. I miss when music was music and you had to hone your craft to make it. No samples, no drum machines, only sitting in a room and making it up.
I "discovered" her recently and became very impressed and sad in knowing she's passed so Young, like our Brazilian singer Elis Regina. This world don't deserves someone like this woman. Rest in peace.
Couldn’t agree more
I’m not Brazilian, but my dad loved Elis Regina. I downloaded one of her live albums with Jair Rodrigues from iTunes
@@kittykatz4001 You need to know her best albuns, as Elis & Tom (1973) and Elis, essa mulher (1979). They're available on Spotify.
@@petterbernard Ty fro the recommendation. In the 1970s, My father use to travel from our home in upstate New York State down to NY city to buy Brazilian albums as imports. I’ll look into the albums you suggested!
@@kittykatz4001 I think I'll like them. Hugs.
Wow what a beautiful powerful angel voice I always enjoyed hearing female voices that sing like this whit so much passion and the lyric is lovely as well gta iv brought me here and I’m glad for it 🤎
That's one of those time capsule songs.
this is actually the most beautiful thing i’ve seen in my life
Her high notes unconquerable absolute queen of belting out high notes she’s half humming bird I guess has an angelic voice love her
Look at that scenography! Paradise vibes.
It's time America make monuments for their best singers. Sinatra, Riperton, Presley, and a very long etc. Even Carpenters need one.
This woman was a beast🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I'm in Heaven! To hear the quintesstional Minnie Riperton singing, to perfection one of the most beautiful love songs ever, followed by the great Laura Mayne!!!!! Takes me back to my younger days, the 70s! One of the Greatest Musical Decades, EVER!!!!!❤😂🎉😇😊🥰💯💙💛💜❤️🩹💙🩵👏🤗
Its absolutely insane to find this queen performing this song live 🤯🥳
REMEMBERING MINNIE RIPERTON
(NOVEMBER 8, 1947 - JULY 12, 1979)
[11/8/2023]
Trying to think of a comment worthy of her performance and I'm just tongue tied here. She is so awesome.
I’ve loved Minnie’s singing for years and I have several of her albums. She’s such a perfect singer, with an awesome range. There will never be another like her, not even close.
The most beautiful voice I’ve heard in my life. Such a true talent 💕
Have you heard the original version, she hold that note like no other beautiful lady beautiful voice.
Its like The Heavens are singing through her😢 Crazy how she hits those notes soo Clean and effortlessly
Beautiful is not that strong of a word for this lovely talented angel.
new from Minnie
ua-cam.com/video/V6PZNOhks-A/v-deo.html
It's on Midnight Special Soul from Time Life.
Thanks to this special song by Minnie, this became a staple for A Tribe Called Quests, Lyrics 2 Go
🤯That was the most beautiful live song performances I've ever heard 😍
In South Africa and the goosebumps!!
Listening in 2024❤❤❤❤❤
God bless her soul. She should still be here.
When artist could really sing!
From Spain..... Oh my God!!!! I m 43 years old and I have to say and admitt she was was a proud a gift from this earth with this talentous and wonderfull angelical voice..... She could be as great singer but passed away as so many young.. Rip her legacy on this earth will lives on forever.... Miss Minney ripperton God bless you a d rest in eternity heaven paradise as forever greetings from South of Spain
So many singers are compared to high octave phrases, listeners don't really hear the singer, its all about everything the singer does before during and after those highlights. I love Minnies' breathy notes, power and tender emotion laced with graceful moments of a knowing experience.
You can totally feel her passion!! It emanates from every note! What a goddess! 🤍🙏💐
As the tears roll down my face. Thank you Lord for blessing us with this angel. Evidence for the world of see and here amen.🙌
50 years later, you can hear traces of her voice, and her daughter, Maya, Rudolph. What a legacy!
One of the greatest female singers of all time and she is from the southside of Chicago
Beuatiful woman, and wonderful voice. James, songwriter, Malibu, California *Thank you for posting. We saw her in Germany 1975 US Army tour
That just brought tears to my eyes! I love this song so much, but seeing her sing like that live... Man it just hits you in the soul. I'm still sniffling!
I’m crying so hard because that’s sooo Gorgeous Minnie.Rippleton is like no other She’s just herself Beautiful,Angelic and 2Sweet,2 Be,4gotten.
I love this song she have such a soft Beautiful voice. The way she hit those notes it's outstanding.❤
She did not have a voice but an instrument and she could play it
She was properly voice trained to sing at soprano level.
That note and pitch tho 🔥🔥🔥
Such a beautiful woman and voice gone too soon. R.I.P. Minnie
The live performance hits different. Rest in power 👑 Minnie
I just watch her and listen and weep... I dunno what else to do...
That range. Gives me chills
His Drummer Boy rendition has been my all time favorite since I was a kid!
Simply A+ mazing. 💁🏾♂️❤️
new from Minnie
ua-cam.com/video/V6PZNOhks-A/v-deo.html
She sang at the black expo and blew everyone away I never heard anything like that ever
One of Chicago's very own, from the Southside of Chicago, the late great Minnie Riperton. 🎼🎶🎵🎤🎷🎺🎁🎸🎹🥁💃🕺😀💞
Came here from a fleetwood mac video. Glad I did this woman can sing! I will be checking her out. This is definitely my vibe
I Luv Her Music We Lost A Legend Continue To SIP Minnie I Was Born On Yr BD 11/08/1971🙏🏽💔😪
Shout out to the late Charles Stepney who gave Minnie (yes, she's Maya Rudolph's mother) an early opportunity with the Rotary Connection. Shout out to the late Leon Ware who composed the song.