Lalah Hathaway - A song for you - Singjazz Festival

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  • A song for you, Leon Russell
    Filmed during Singapore Jazz Festival on the 7th April 2018
    Soundmixed by Martin Descombels, graded by Michel Reynaert, directed by Amos Rozenberg for PARAMAX FILMS

КОМЕНТАРІ • 332

  • @juliecole4848
    @juliecole4848 Рік тому +40

    Wow! The female version of Donny. Beautiful velvety voice that knows when to hold back and when to let go and belt it out! And thank you Leon Russell for writing this song that was destined to be sung by Donny and his beautiful daughter!

  • @sda1225
    @sda1225 4 роки тому +374

    If only she & her daddy could've sang together that would've been MAGICAL

    • @rachybaby72
      @rachybaby72 4 роки тому +18

      She could do a Natalie Cole thing where Natalie sang Unforgettable "with" Nat.

    • @LeandroLLBlessed
      @LeandroLLBlessed 4 роки тому +21

      I can hear donny in her voice all the time.

    • @djspinsandneedles5272
      @djspinsandneedles5272 4 роки тому +13

      Actually there is, "You Were Meant For Me". The producer of the song put the two voices together as a duet...it's a real gem!!! Please UA-cam it!!!

    • @anthonyholley2796
      @anthonyholley2796 3 роки тому +3

      @@rachybaby72 That is exactly what i was thinking!

    • @muhddiallison8482
      @muhddiallison8482 3 роки тому +2

      That would've been amazing

  • @henriquekubakubinski5788
    @henriquekubakubinski5788 3 роки тому +93

    Lalah has the same melismas, vibrato, velvety and airy timbre. But she sings more softly and lightly, she has her own identity. Too talented family. Thanks for existing.

    • @krochelle2619
      @krochelle2619 Рік тому +2

      YES 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾‼️

    • @Nobody-m4t
      @Nobody-m4t 11 місяців тому +2

      😢😢😢😢

  • @oldskooljunky1
    @oldskooljunky1 4 роки тому +86

    Baby was playing that piano too go girl!

  • @reneeedwards9109
    @reneeedwards9109 4 роки тому +406

    There is no doubt vocally that she is Donny Hathaway's daughter. She makes his voice live on.

    • @russellsimonds7148
      @russellsimonds7148 4 роки тому +6

      Fuckin A, bro! ❤❤❤❤

    • @moniettebondu1195
      @moniettebondu1195 3 роки тому +5

      Next generation...improved!

    • @quintillabatts9472
      @quintillabatts9472 3 роки тому +15

      Yes she does, i love me some Donny Hathaway. To me one of the greatest singers there ever was.

    • @floreaalexandruionut7717
      @floreaalexandruionut7717 3 роки тому +1

      She's good, but she's half of what her father was. She's not that special. I feel no emotions from her, only vocal tehnique.

    • @reneeedwards9109
      @reneeedwards9109 3 роки тому +1

      @@floreaalexandruionut7717 Ok I agree that she is not as good as her father was.

  • @myh6948
    @myh6948 5 років тому +202

    I hear Donny in Lalah..so emotional and beautiful..

    • @marvinfairley5408
      @marvinfairley5408 4 роки тому +7

      She an amazing singer outstanding

    • @brendarenfro8682
      @brendarenfro8682 4 роки тому +7

      Please see, if you have not, Lalah sings A Song for You, "Apollo Live" !

    • @tashachere
      @tashachere 3 роки тому +2

      Right 🥺

  • @NewYorkCityBoxing
    @NewYorkCityBoxing 4 роки тому +431

    Her voice is the female equivalent of her Dad's voice.

    • @rachybaby72
      @rachybaby72 4 роки тому +10

      Yep. Though deeper, go figure...

    • @ahmad0322
      @ahmad0322 4 роки тому +8

      @@rachybaby72 not really, donny’s voice was really really deep

    • @KajiVocals
      @KajiVocals 3 роки тому +8

      @@ahmad0322 What? Donny was a natural tenor and rarely ever sang below a C4... He was belting all the way up to D5, and sometimes higher in his songs. Hardly a low voice.

    • @silindilemalaza9522
      @silindilemalaza9522 3 роки тому +1

      It's amazing

    • @nasserdeen1
      @nasserdeen1 3 роки тому +10

      Her dad Donny Hathaway to me is the best singer throughout Eternity.

  • @renelia21
    @renelia21 2 роки тому +40

    She sounds amazing, just like her dad ❤️

  • @janisclark3743
    @janisclark3743 5 років тому +84

    She was channeling her dad in this song!WOW! WOW! WOW!

  • @butchyboy6152
    @butchyboy6152 3 роки тому +31

    She Should Definitely Do An Album Of Her Dad's Greatest Hits...

  • @niyahseion5469
    @niyahseion5469 4 роки тому +76

    Lalah is such a special gem, that really we didn’t deserve, but Donny left us. I’m very grateful that even with her loss, her passion has led her to share her gift.

    • @Bustedicu
      @Bustedicu 2 місяці тому

      There’s many but you’re right!

  • @carltondean3675
    @carltondean3675 4 роки тому +77

    Donny being my all time favorite male vocalist, by default makes Lalah my all time favorite female vocalist. She has the silk in her voice that only Donny had!!! Amazing!

  • @joshuacraft3332
    @joshuacraft3332 3 роки тому +39

    When she starts hitting those runs towards the end of the song, especially the first “I love you in a place…”, she sounds just like her dad. His music lives on. He influences every generation after him.

  • @goldenlamb777
    @goldenlamb777 3 роки тому +74

    I love the pianist ! She did a great Job on this piece !

  • @mickeyfletcher1630
    @mickeyfletcher1630 4 роки тому +23

    Her father is smiling down from heaven

  • @laraywilliams6627
    @laraywilliams6627 2 роки тому +28

    Her and her father equal vocal perfection ❤

  • @nopjack7278
    @nopjack7278 2 роки тому +20

    Beautiful...Lalah, keep your father's legacy alive...he had a very special gift and he left behind priceless gems for us to enjoy...including YOU.

  • @ciarrajohnson3849
    @ciarrajohnson3849 4 роки тому +32

    That “...than you’ll ever know” was everything😫😫 and the transition to A Song for You...OMG🥺🥺

  • @nicolenixon9923
    @nicolenixon9923 4 роки тому +31

    Food for thought that's his other Daughter playing the Piano...if no one caught it! They have different Moms Donny would be so very proud of these beautiful ladies for carrying on his Legacy 💞😍. They are his Legacy Rip Donny Hathaway. Great job ladies and God bless you both.

    • @letmecommentman
      @letmecommentman 4 роки тому +3

      Are you sure because that doesn't look like Kenya or Donnita or does he have another daughter?

  • @yeliz__
    @yeliz__ 5 років тому +81

    she really is her father's daughter

  • @thelmanelms6313
    @thelmanelms6313 4 роки тому +45

    Beautiful. Just touches the heart of this 73 year old grandmother. Love Donny and his beautiful daughter

  • @chriscook1249
    @chriscook1249 5 років тому +45

    Donny lives on.

  • @skylarberry3754
    @skylarberry3754 4 роки тому +81

    oof the last note always kills me, she hits it just like her dad, took the air out of me, so beautiful

    • @ahmad0322
      @ahmad0322 4 роки тому +6

      Especially that “WeEeEeEeEe were alone”. Sounds exactly like him

  • @Brick_Squared
    @Brick_Squared 3 роки тому +30

    That song stirs so much emotion. When that verse "and when my life is over" is sung. The tears come.

  • @helloxons
    @helloxons 4 роки тому +21

    Wow! Wow! Wow! She just did two songs that are among my very top favs... & did them brilliantly...!!! Her father would be extremely proud...!!!

  • @klapsker714
    @klapsker714 4 роки тому +25

    I have been humbled through this performance.

  • @gertrudebuck366
    @gertrudebuck366 4 роки тому +17

    I just love her down to earth ness!!

  • @raian4815
    @raian4815 4 роки тому +19

    she is the softier version of her dad.... even though i wasnt even born when he was singing, this is still pretty and emotional :)

  • @dannyadams4603
    @dannyadams4603 4 роки тому +43

    Lalah I LOVE U! YOUR VOICE IS OFF THE CHAIN! MY GOD WHO IS THE PIANIST ON THIS SELECTION!!! WOW I FELT AN ANOINTING ON THIS SONG THAT I NEVER FELT B4!!!

    • @deedeelavell9636
      @deedeelavell9636 4 роки тому +1

      DANNY ADAMS The keyboard/Hammond player is Lynette “Hammondgal” Williams ~ she is anointed as she grew up in church learning from her dad, the Pastor.

    • @dannyadams4603
      @dannyadams4603 4 роки тому +1

      @@deedeelavell9636 I KNEW THERE WAS A PARTICULAR ANOINTING IN THOSE FINGER TIPS!!! ANOINTING KNOWS ANOINTING😆😆💜😇!!!

  • @surgeonazfarzaidi2259
    @surgeonazfarzaidi2259 4 роки тому +24

    though the original and authentic belongs to great leon russel, but donny and lala sang this unforgettable classic with even more fluidity and beautiful vocals ...

    • @reykane1880
      @reykane1880 2 роки тому +1

      FACTS THEY OWN THIS SONG

  • @janierunaway112
    @janierunaway112 4 роки тому +27

    Brilliant. Heritage! (And doesn't the pianist kick ass!)

  • @jont39
    @jont39 3 роки тому +11

    Props for the pianist's playing

  • @littlekaza3344
    @littlekaza3344 3 роки тому +15

    Lalal, your Daddy lives on... he has a special place in my heart.. his music touches me every time... Trying times in 2021, Donny keeps me grounded..❤️

  • @josephlovesgod1
    @josephlovesgod1 4 роки тому +26

    BEAUTIFUL! I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS MORE IMPRESSIVE, LALAH OR HER KEYBOARDIST...

  • @yeshivalivingwithalvinlewi9415

    I've heard countless renditions of this soulful classic, typically young singers overkill the texture and mystic of this classic by vocal gyrations, instead of capturing the Aviance of Donnie Hathaway. Thank you Lalah Hathaway for sharing and paying such a delicate and respectful tribute to your father. Blood is thicker than water.

  • @francescam.e.1884
    @francescam.e.1884 4 роки тому +17

    She has an amazing voice! So talented like her father. It would have been such a memorable moment to hear them both singing it together.

  • @reneearismendez293
    @reneearismendez293 4 роки тому +29

    Dear God this woman can sing!! I hear her daddy coming through and it chokes me up! Just beautiful! Ugh now I'm emotional 😩

  • @karenhallman6342
    @karenhallman6342 4 роки тому +20

    All I can say is, WOW!!

  • @beloncekamz2821
    @beloncekamz2821 3 роки тому +24

    This is so therapeutic😍✨✨the sounds of the piano and that amazing voice🔥🔥.

  • @nikiegrant-harris3582
    @nikiegrant-harris3582 5 років тому +29

    Note for note like Her Father The Great Donny Hathaway 👍👌🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Sandlund93
    @Sandlund93 2 роки тому +3

    Wow, 5:30 of that quality is 1 in a million. If not even more rare.

  • @karmishalittle2132
    @karmishalittle2132 2 роки тому +25

    She's an absolute voice twin of her Daddy.!I love that shes carying the baton for her father. I just hate how underrated both of them are. #tears #chills #damn

  • @whatadollslife
    @whatadollslife 4 роки тому +18

    God bless Leon ,Donny and Lalah ..and that piano player

  • @laquettagill
    @laquettagill 4 роки тому +14

    💜💙💜💙💜💙💜✊👊🤩🤩🤩 so underrated on of my top favorite female artist her voice is unmatched

  • @mattlayney3904
    @mattlayney3904 5 років тому +43

    Beautiful voice,beautiful song brings tears to my eyes everytime I hear it

  • @asayudwhaddameant8346
    @asayudwhaddameant8346 2 роки тому +7

    Clean tone, pure sensible phrasing. Love this.

  • @theresabell2492
    @theresabell2492 Рік тому +4

    Black is so beautiful

  • @KyraLovett
    @KyraLovett Місяць тому

    Timeless Music. Thank you Lalah for keeping your Fathers vision alive.

  • @dickyyrrep1383
    @dickyyrrep1383 3 роки тому +4

    It’s there, it’s hard to describe but no one else could do it. Donny you are the man. This girl brings you back.

  • @larrybutler8965
    @larrybutler8965 Місяць тому

    That is so close to her father in spirit and song . Makes you tremble when she hits those runs. You get the different variations of tone like a fine tuned instrument.. Mr Donnie left but he left two song birds to remind us of his legacy..so effortlessly beautiful..

  • @songmansteve
    @songmansteve 3 місяці тому +1

    Donny was a troubled and beautiful soul who made an immense impression upon me in my own vocal career. I recorded with Leon Russell as well in the late 70's.

  • @speakezforkids545
    @speakezforkids545 4 роки тому +16

    Ah man!!! You have brought me to tears!! Amazing Queen!! The audience is just memorized!! Thank you for the memories.

  • @mickeyfletcher1630
    @mickeyfletcher1630 4 роки тому +11

    Her voice is timeless. Breathtakingly beautiful lady with a breathtakingly beautiful voice

  • @freesandy
    @freesandy Місяць тому

    She sang one line and i was in tears. So beautiful ❤

  • @sirtheross9965
    @sirtheross9965 4 роки тому +14

    Simply beautiful. Her voice omg.

  • @mickeyfletcher1630
    @mickeyfletcher1630 4 роки тому +12

    A beautiful lady with a beautiful voice. Love lalah Hathaway

  • @brucestrachan6679
    @brucestrachan6679 2 роки тому +9

    superbly sung

  • @deanakjefferson9278
    @deanakjefferson9278 5 років тому +43

    DAM SHE IS DONNY’S BABY MISS HIM DEARLY GLAD HE LIVES ON THROUGH HER!!!

    • @brendarenfro8682
      @brendarenfro8682 4 роки тому +2

      Please see, Lalah sings Donny, Apollo Live - A song for you!

    • @billyrodgers433
      @billyrodgers433 4 роки тому

      She is a beautiful singer soul and heart is her father!!!! Amazing voice!!!🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

  • @AlexWaller-bg3ef
    @AlexWaller-bg3ef Рік тому +2

    Leon Rusell wrote a beautiful song and Donny Hathaway showcased it to the world . Love this slightly more jazzed rendition as well. Just beautiful!

  • @marionhiggins2529
    @marionhiggins2529 4 роки тому +21

    Lalah your truly God's instrument a Inspirational voice

  • @mortenkalland
    @mortenkalland 14 днів тому

    Lovely

  • @gnrnando88
    @gnrnando88 4 роки тому +6

    First song is "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know", she sings a medley here.

  • @jamietfranklin
    @jamietfranklin 3 роки тому +14

    chills goosebumps awe. And the pianist! Who is she? Thank you for this! Leon Russell Master of Time and Space Donny Hathaway the Soul Lalah the instrument!

  • @arlitastrose2198
    @arlitastrose2198 Місяць тому

    Dammmmnn my head grew.....her voice is as her dad's 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊

  • @Kingdombusiness92
    @Kingdombusiness92 4 роки тому +15

    Wow she sounds like her father 🙌🏾

  • @dahmeneekah
    @dahmeneekah 4 роки тому +6

    When she paused, she it sounded better and more fluid.... Love her! 💖 💖 💖 !

  • @BymanIt
    @BymanIt 2 місяці тому

    Thank you to Lalah for singing this beautiful song, and to Leon Russell for writing it.
    🎺🎷📯🎸🎹🪘

  • @FEMININELY_ME
    @FEMININELY_ME 4 місяці тому

    Somebody like this to keep reminding me to listen to it 🙌🏽

  • @tianrichards
    @tianrichards 3 роки тому +11

    It’s eerily uncanny HOW MUCH she sounds like father- soul to tone to phrasing. Wow, I feel like I was at a Donny Hathaway concert myself!

  • @blancajones7177
    @blancajones7177 4 роки тому +17

    I love her bottom voice

  • @brownsista777
    @brownsista777 4 роки тому +7

    wow here she sounds like her dad ..hmm them are real flying enlightning spirits

  • @valenciasmith7175
    @valenciasmith7175 10 місяців тому +1

    I Didn't understand that her Dad was Truly singing this song 2 & 4 her, until she sang it. I've Always liked the song but I feel the Deep Emotion that Donny has in the lyrics 4 his Baby Girl!!

  • @fisherflips
    @fisherflips 4 роки тому +8

    When she closes her eyes and reopens them... her dad is definitely in there.

  • @malcolmmcfarlandsr.3591
    @malcolmmcfarlandsr.3591 Рік тому +2

    We are truly grateful & blessed to have her to manifest her own joy and remind us so clearly of her Dad💕💝🌅

  • @braveheart9097
    @braveheart9097 3 роки тому +4

    I love this woman.... It would be really hard for me to sing my daddy's song live like this. Major respect for this woman.

    • @jmk1962
      @jmk1962 3 роки тому +2

      It wasn't Donny's song. It was written by Leon Russell. Donny just covered it although I do agree he sang it better than Leon.

  • @christinesullivan1229
    @christinesullivan1229 4 роки тому +4

    Inherited a voice and soul of liquid gold X

  • @haldenbennett5979
    @haldenbennett5979 Рік тому +2

    Just beautiful.....the way Donny would have done it ❤❤

  • @manifestationofgod1379
    @manifestationofgod1379 4 роки тому +8

    Its a must for me, to see her in concert!!! Amazing gift🧡🧡🧡🧡

  • @yogib8
    @yogib8 6 місяців тому +1

    It’s like her Dad is singing right through her ❤I can hear him💕🌺💕

  • @user-yc9wh6qz5g
    @user-yc9wh6qz5g 5 місяців тому +1

    This girl is crazy!!!!!! ❤

  • @reneewheaton6253
    @reneewheaton6253 4 роки тому +6

    Yessss!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 This song is much needed right now. 🙏🏽

  • @evilzlatan
    @evilzlatan 3 роки тому +3

    Always wanted her to cover I Love You More than You'll ever know 🥰 what a surprise and a treat when I clicked on this video 💕💕💕

  • @susanthomas3729
    @susanthomas3729 4 роки тому +6

    Thank You Lalah for keeping your memories alive through you.May God continue to bless you with Greatness and his Love.🙏❤👂🙌👏💨🙂

  • @maimericks80
    @maimericks80 3 роки тому +3

    Genes ! Like father , like daughter wow!!

  • @genesishigh
    @genesishigh 2 роки тому

    My gawd I’m soooo glad Donny left her for us to enjoy … 😢❤❤❤❤❤

  • @MrDamoavfc
    @MrDamoavfc 2 роки тому +1

    lalah you have done your father proud

  • @claudia1964able
    @claudia1964able 2 роки тому +1

    The best n only, his daughter! Love from Brazil!

  • @margaretpineda1828
    @margaretpineda1828 Рік тому +1

    OHHHHHHH MY SWEET JESUS ..HER VOICE IS AMAZING AND SO BEAUTIFUL ❤😊CHILLS AND GOOSEBUMPS WHEN I HEAR HER SING .. GOD BLESS HER BEAUTIFUL SOUL!! ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘

  • @majesticsmiles524
    @majesticsmiles524 4 роки тому +5

    Like father like daughter ❣️

  • @ferdieluna3765
    @ferdieluna3765 5 місяців тому +1

    Absolutely Beautiful.

  • @seekingenlightenment2026
    @seekingenlightenment2026 2 місяці тому

    I can’t even speak; so filled. Her Daddy had the same effect!! ❤

  • @moniquebarclay4925
    @moniquebarclay4925 2 роки тому +2

    I am shedding tears so beautiful

  • @christopherleeministries
    @christopherleeministries Рік тому +1

    My My My Nobody could have done it better ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @JeanneCiampa
    @JeanneCiampa Рік тому +2

    We were in Gospel choir at Berklee together she's amazing

  • @tammybain6895
    @tammybain6895 2 місяці тому

    And the lady sings beatiful song

  • @thunderousapplause
    @thunderousapplause 14 днів тому

    ohhhh yessssss. gotta buy an album rn

  • @bettercallmall
    @bettercallmall 3 місяці тому

    Bless her Heart.

  • @Butterfly_757.
    @Butterfly_757. 5 місяців тому +3

    God I Trust You with My Life🦋🦋🦋💙💙💙🙏🏽☕️

  • @elizabethgode1763
    @elizabethgode1763 4 роки тому +6

    ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ❤❤❤

  • @catherineharrison4024
    @catherineharrison4024 Рік тому +2

    just beautiful ,definately her fathers daughter ! so wonderful to hear