Beverley Knight - I Am What I Am (Live, Paralympics Opening Ceremony, London 2012)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Beverley Knight sings I Am What I Am (Accompanied by Caroline Parker & Lizzie Emeh) Live in the closing segment of the Paralympics Opening Ceremony, London 2012
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So they save the best Vocalist from Great Britain for the Paralympics.......AWESOME!! I love this woman and her amazing voice.......ABSOLUTELY POWERFUL PERFORMANCE!!!
amazing singer, voice and opportunity. was in the field of play and will never forget it
get goosebumps no matter how many times i watch this ! beverley is amazing xx
I was a marshall at the Opening and Closing Ceremoney of the Paralympics. This was an amazing end to the opening ceremony. The atmosphere was amazing and this video brings me back each time I watch it.
"I am somebody, I am what I am" was going through my head all night after this!
My vote for the Paralympic Anthem!
Fantastic performance from Beverley Knight. I've also been a big fan!
our national treasure. Love it or lose it.
Beverly Knight a true Powerhouse vocalist
+Brooke Haden She is for sure. What a talent! I love that woman. I call her Felicia. That's how I found out about her.
What a power!
beverly night is so underrated. this performance is STUNNING
Just makes me weep with awe every time I hear this.
She's an awesome singer, I love her *^*
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Absolutely breath taking and emotional!! WOW!! I'm so glad its on UA-cam so I share it and hear it over & over!! Great arrangement!! Choir! Beverly Knight.....You has climbed higher and higher!!! Work it!!
bev, you never fail..... you always deliver xxxxxx
Just stunning aye
All rise for Queen Beverley! :)
what a voice,
OMG! Beverley Knight at her scintillating BEST!! I was totally transported on those strong, clean notes and my spirit soared on those powerful sentiments... Kinda reminiscent of Whitney Houston's "One Moment In Time."
My 'soul sistah' throwing it down! She needs to go to studio and record that one now so we can all own her version of that anthem. I am ready to pre-order!!
Beverley turned it into the Church of the Human Spirit! So heartwarming and perfect and upliftingly beautiful :)
Absolutely fantastic. A perfect finale to the Paralympics opening ceremony and wonderfully inclusive without being mawkish. Thanks Bev.
There is no one I would rather hear sing the closing song of the ceremony - they could have given her an advertising jingle and she would deliver it with incredible passion and her amazing vocal. And she looked hot too! Go girl!!
Whenever I am feeling down about the things I am dealing with and how I feel this is the song that picks me up and puts me back on track... absolutely brilliant and brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it
Amazing!!! Such a fitting song that says it all. Sung with such passion by everybody. Got to love it! (....& live mr McCartney, just saying :-p )
moved to tears. Amazing
Love Beverley Knight......amazing
The best singer I have ever seen!! love her!!
❤️Beverley knight she brings joy to the world bless her👏👏👏
I there on stage as one of the volunteer performers. It was magical.
😢 I felt every word Beverley sang. She’s always been one of the greatest singers in the world. A real diamond and a beautiful person.
a star
E-P-I-C
This is fantastic!
my beautiful cousin
Amazing!!!!!!! Perfect song and ending to the ceremony not lets go USA and get them GOLDs
This was absolutely beautiful Bev you electrified that stadium, Sir Paul this is how its done.
love this arrangement!
Beverley Knight: Such a captivating performance and I tell you what SHE is the VOICE of the UK. So man truely stunning vocal moments
1:50 OH MY DAYS, what a resonant & amazingly sustained D5
2:40 - 3:20 !!!
3:40 Shes in another league her stamina and power. What an F#5/G#5
5:58 STUNNING
Dam112 iii
Some twat on Channel Four's "Last Leg" (whose name I still don't know... nor care to know) attempted to berate Beverley's sterling permance. He clearly has a hearing impairment.
I've added this song to my music library - thanks to it being on iTunes... Pure joy!
Beverely. You are an amazing, talented woman. The song was beautiful, touched my soul. So apt. it is ashame that you were on at the end. You need to perform that song again at the beginning of the closing ceremony. Well done. Your in a league of your own.
Save the best for the Paralympics, Love Britain, Love Beverley, just amazing
I loved this so much
Absolutely fantastic! What a voice and great choice for Paralympics!
BK knocked spots of all the so called leg-ends that performed in the olympic and paralympic ceremonies. Quite simply just about the best soul vocalist alive today.
Quality
This has always been my all time anthem since I was a child. Its followed through my life and has inspired me to be myself, absolutely the classic for Diversity, Inclusion and yes, the Anthem for the Paralympic Games
Just phenomenal....what a voice....
CHILLS , that was amazing and the song is beautiful.
You are absolutely right, her voice would be perfect. And Knight was amazing last night.
Britains other Queen.
Thanks, Bev - you said it for all of us last night. It's a song that's equally applicable to all marginalised groups. And they should've followed it up with Twisted Sister's "I Am, I'm Me".
Fantastic. Love Bev knight, love Caroline Parker. Xx
Beautiful! X
Absolutely beautiful!
wonderful voice! i i love it and i love you!!! i am what i am!!!
Just absolutly bloody amazing. Ha i was watching this on my own last night and as soon as i knew who it was and what she was singing i was like arrrrrrrrrrr yeessssssss. x and then she sang it soooo beautifully x
I was there, I was somebody, I AM WHAT I AM!! It was magical! Oh MY GOD I can spot myself at 7:06 !! Beverley Knight is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Beverley Knight ROCKED that STADIUM last night. PHENOMENAL she put Sir Paul to SHAME
you can buy it on itunes :)
Who else thinks she has the perfect voice for one of those 1990s style Disney movie soundtracks, like Beauty and the Beast or Pocahontas? Plus her dress last night was gorgeous :)
Well said......God bless you.
WOW! So inspirational to all of us. Thank you for sharing. Just beautiful!
brilliant version, inspiring and from the hear! well done Beverley :)
As kewl sa !!!! Need say nothing else xxx
loved it!
Lizzie is an alto, she is singing the back up and is fabulous!
As nice as Emeli Sande is... watch and learn how it is DONE. Cannot think of a singer I would have wanted to close the ceremony more than Bev! Amazing!!! :o)
why is this song not on itunes or any other Beverley Knight album? This song is freaking unreal
I have to deal with disability and prejudice every day of my life... trust me this was in no way patronising or overblown... if anything empowering for many people across the world including myself!!!
My comment was in response to an earlier post praising Beverley Knight's amazing performance but saying it was better than McCartney's. Both gave superb contributions to a glorious event but in different ways, and at different stages in their careers!
Actually, the roots of this song being a gay anthem go further back than that. The lyrics from the original song in "La Cage Aux Folles" refer to a drag queen who was also gay, and the story of the show was about acceptance, from every angle, which is how it came to be a gay anthem. However, if you actually take a second and bother to listen to the lyrics, the song has a much deeper message -- about being accepted for who you are. I'd say it was completely appropriate for the Paralympics.
Amazing! As always :)
Please give Paul McCartney a break. He's 70, his voice isn't what it was when he changed rock music forever. His appearance at the Opening Ceremony, and John Lennon's film sequence in the Closing Ceremony, were there surely to represent the contribution that British music has made to the world, music that continues to be loved generation after generation.
Why was this NOT on BBC? It was equally as beautiful as the Olympic opening ceremony. They had no excuse.
AVS 1998
They didn’t have the rights
What are you on Stephen? I suspect you're just enamoured with the version you know. This was a fantastic vocal performance by any standard ... and live too.
Sir Paul should watch this!
Guessing you did not see the entire ceremony.
Ok, but what does Paul McCartney have to do with this video though? It's not like anyone bashed and talked trash about him.
Well, they did actually - Channel 4 had the rights to the entire Paralympics!
Came here to hear Lizzie Emeh perform but all I hear (and see 99% of the time is Beverly Knight). Lizzie is supposed to be performing with her; did they turn her mic off???
to synch the fireworks?
All hail..
What an amazing performance, certainly much more "on," than some of the disaster areas which littered the otherwise brilliant opening and closing ceremonies a few weeks back, Paul McCarteny, The Who, The Pet Shop Boys and The Spice Girls in particular..
As for the lyrics and the gay thing, it's pretty well established regarding the roots of the song, that's not a reason for saying that it applies to all human beings?
Who cares? ..... the lyrics still work.
OMG - this guy is yawning at 1:44 !!
two dislikes...two unloved dougnuts
is that girl by Knight Trisha Braxton?
Bev should have been in the Olympic ceromony too, instead of some of the rubbish like Jessie J that they had on.
were they all miming?
No.
Signing I think.
? This is a gay anthem - why was it chosen for the paralympics???? why not end on Ian Dury?
DISABILITY PRIDE
Beverley Knight, in front of a statue of a woman with no arms singing "I am somebody", well thanks Beverley, thanks for validating that for the disabled population, but it seems that if you have a learning disability, next to Beverley you are nobody, because they turn your bloomin mic off! There are just no swear words to express how I feel about this. awful.
What ARE you on about?
I'm sorry but this is awful. What an absolute circus. As someone who works with disabled people (including one named as accompanying Beverly on this but who cannot be heard at all) and has a disabled son I have to say i am most offended by this. This is patronising, overblown rubbish that says almost nothing about disability and to turn down the microphones of the disabled singers to the point that they can't be heard shows just how much we truly value the contribution the disabled could make.
how to murder a good song. I was waiting for it to actually get going... but it never did
boring, they should have let shirley bassey sing the song
SchwarzWeißDenken Shirley is in her 80s, they already used her up... This black vocalist that you only give few opportunities to and use them even when they about to hit the grave. Expecting some 80 years old woman to still be performing when her Counterparts won't even entertain it. No way
Shirley Bassey probably can't sing like she used to. Voices age and lose power just like the rest of the human body.