Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Live at Montreux, 1976)
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2020
- Watch Nina Simone perform “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1976
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Music video by Nina Simone performing I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Live). © 2006 Montreux Sounds, S.A., under exclusive license to Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd.
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What is your favorite live performance from the High Priestess of Soul?
*Stars... they come and go*
Smart Monkey oh that was a beautiful rendition of Ian’s song - really really fitting
Mississippi Goddamn
I loves you Porgy will always take the cake
Can we please get the 1968 Montreux version of "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"???
She is the embodiment of cathartic release. The release of all emotion to purge out every pent up aggression, sadness, joy etc. This woman is timeless
It’s because of videos like this that I’m grateful for UA-cam otherwise I probably would never see this. 🤩☺️
You're absolutely nailing it!
Yesss it's amazing
I know the artist's estates should release wonderful gems for fans to purchase on video.
the energy she puts into expressing black collective pain and her own pain with THE most crystal clear strength and beauty and talent is almost a form of kindness so many of us don't deserve. i wish in some ways she never had to burn so brightly in all that fear and darkness. love you forever, Simone
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@@fareshajjar1208 she literally talked about her experience as a black person and for you to say being black was an asset while she got death threats and ridiculed till her dying day because of her day features is mine bending. Her simple expressing that black people should me treated like human almost ruin her career and her didn’t get her money until her last decade. If you don’t know anything please-do everyone a favor and hush .
@@fareshajjar1208 Lol what? So let me get this straight your position is that you believe a poor black kid born in North Carolina during Jim Crow/segregation had more opportunities than the white kids in her town?? Do I need to explain why that's wrong? Also if your primary point is that the local piano teacher was kind enough to take Nina in as a student free of charge shows why Nina was given an opportunity most other kids would not have got, then I agree. But if you're using this one argument to show how Nina somehow had more opportunities than white kids (again during Jim Crow) then you are being completely disingenuous because you are not bringing up all the opportunities the white kids had that Nina did not. Also if you are using the argument to show why Nina's blackness gave her a "HUGE" advantage then you are again wrong. The teacher didn't take Nina in because she was black, she took her in because she was talented. Also no pain from being black??? The reason Nina is performing at montruex (which is in Switzerland) in this video is because she was essentially black listed from radio in the US after releasing "Mississippi Goddamn." in an attempt to essentially ruin her career/silence her. Keep in mind that radio was the heart of the music industry in the 60s/70s. This, along with the treatment of the civil rights protests, made Nina decide to leave the US and move to Africa. If you still don't believe me that a part of Ninas pain derived from racism then listen to "Backlash Blues" from this exact same concert.
Her pain translates into beauty
❤️
She's singing as though she's gazing out the window and hoping.
She's the best that's ever done it
exactly. hoping for something more.
They way you put it is so beautiful and poetic
there's no hope in her message. just pure freedom
She makes it look effortless, playing those keys...damn what a talent.
And singing at the same time too, just incredible.
I think of Hendrix voice, Ninas piano, MCcartneys bass and Jeff Buckleys guitar skills as all massively underrated because of their other skills.
@@DumbBaby ok but to be fair pauls probably one of our best memory writers ever so it makes sense for him
...and when you get towards 01:00..., just listen to the next chord... and that long pauseeeeee! Ohhhhhh u beauty!
I need not say anymore...
She was trained as a pianist at Juilliard, too.
Nina is always about peace and freedom.
I'm a 24 year old man my eyes got wet by looking at her,
Her passion and her voice is extremely beautiful.
She's art.
I will always love HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL.
2024 and I’m glad there’s almost 3 million views for this epic performance.
let's not overlook what an incredible piano player she is. so tasteful and swinging hard.
One of the greatest live performances I’ve ever seen. Just showed my 3 year old son.
It's impossible to listen to Nina Simone without feeling all of the feels! This woman was pure raw emotion. An activist through her music. An intense genius!
Rare that use of the language at your level.
I could listen to this for the rest of my life.
Me too! :-)
Me too
I could listen to it even in death!!!!
Yessss!❤
@@mistyday1236
Me three
There was absolutely no one like Nina Simone.
she was more appreciated outside the USA...even lived in The Netherlands and France where locals became her friends and embraced her till her death...what a QUEEN
Same with the blues legends. Racist USA, civil rights era..
In Switzerland too
Because she was an angry woman They didn’t like her in the United States
@@johnboys4697
You mean because she was a BLACK WOMAN!
BLACK women are not angry 😤
@@edwardquaye8312 so you’re saying black women can’t be angry
"Everybody should be free...because if we ain't, we're murderous". Quite!
ok, I thought she said "we murder us". You're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong
@@janinge8696 haha. But that doesn't really make sense - it's ungrammatical, and why would we want to kill ourselves? You could be right, but I think "murderous" makes more sense. ;)
@@CathyKitson i take it both ways and anyways grammar is a fools idea. In these hoods we're forced into, children do take eachothers lives.
@@riahoodlum5698 That's true. It could be either.
@@CathyKitson it is make sense we murder are self inside the soul.
Wow!! Why didn't the world change for the better immediately after Nina Simone sang this?!! She's so incredible! Still important to listen to today (2020).
Especially now!
At least somebody gave it a listen respect Rebecca Edwards share it with your friends and family let's get this heard for Nina's sake she would appreciate highly In my opinion. Spread the love not hate only for those who oppress the masses
@@moe42o especially especially now!
Why now? Black people have all the rights, even preferential treatment.
@@skypekai they have the rights but are still badly mistreated sometimes. More than white people. They still deserve justice you know... equality...
THE EPITOME' OF EXCELLENCE!!! HALLELUJAH!!!
A song that’ll turn a “tough guy” into a weeping infant! I speak from experience!!!
Brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to this song 😂. The song's lyrics/message, combined with her expressive performance reaches down into your soul to pull up powerful, beautiful, and dark experiences all at the same time. Wow! Thank you for this performance Nina Simone. Rest in peace 🙏🏾.
They played this as we entered my aunts funeral & it hit hard 😢 wish we could be free like her from so many pains & trials of life
Miss Nina non posso dire quale sia la sua performance più gradita...anche perché lei ha il dono di non suonare mai allo stesso modo un suo brano....io l adoro ❤❤❤❤❤
The message in this songs is a timeless masterpiece. It still resonates strongly in april 2021.
Here in April 2021 as well🥰
her message gets more powerful with time. she deserved so much more in her lifetime. the world is a cruel place, built on disturbing power structures that refuse credit to some of the most amazing, gifted and genuinely kind individuals that have existed.
Stopped by December 2021 - I agree Inno
Xmas 2021, resonating more and more...
July 2023, as well, and, I fear, in 2033 and beyond, too, if we don't wake up.
She’s almost detached when playing the piano..
So effortless
Brilliant artist
Can’t. Be. Touched.
At one of the darkest times of my life, a mentor of mine recommended this song to me and ever since it has changed my life. I cry every time when I watch this video. Miss Simone was such a beautiful soul that burned so bright.
It's impossible to listen to Nina Simone without feeling the feelings! This woman was pure raw emotion. An activist through her music. An intense genius!
The energy she puts into expressing black collective pain and her own pain with THE most crystal-clear strength and beauty and talent is almost a form of kindness so many of us don't deserve. I wish in some ways she never had to burn so brightly in all that fear and darkness.
"everybody should be free cuz if we ain't we're murderers"
what badass a line
💯
The "eyes" say it all for me - she means it, and she was right and still, unfortunately, very relevant today, some over 40 years later! Keep playing it!
a timeless message, social change is slow, so we repeat one thing like dylan-how many times can a man pretend he does not see?
Be afraid... very afraid... I tell you there is reason to be. I have seen what is to come. I do not know the exact day or hour but something wicked brewing soon will boil and we whose eyes are wide open must not shut them in fear and we must not turn away from those we mean to embrace even when they and many it will seem at first turn against us because they have more reason to be afraid. Know who you are. Know the truth to be known. Know what you know not. Know all cannot not be known. Be afraid but be bold. Fear has a friend in faith. Believe in the restoration of humanity as a people of many varieties like facets of a gem. We are beautiful together. This is not politics or religion and I'm not claiming super powers. However any may respond, I have no more to say here. Be well, one and all. I love every human, even those who despise me for I believe in the potential of the human spirit until the moment it is extinguished, but I do not entertain affection for the person shaped by a character built of repeatedly practiced conscious habits of immorality that violate the dignity or worse of others even in the context of having been amply provided for, instructed and guided in development that would allow moral correction. So, whoever you are, reader, my love to you.
@@mollyjaynecallisse2576
that's bold.
And a HARD truth to live.
Live well.
Love well.
Shivers down the spin and tears to the eye. An incredible, life-changing performance.
I watched it yesterday first time, Im blown away can't stop listening to this live
For me..it truly was last year when I found this gem...Life changing...😊
I've just came across this lady, and Im amazed at this talent voice and playing, she was so relaxed
❣️
I second that @Kathryn
damn, she's so beautiful
How can so much beauty emanate from just one person?
They way she stood up at the end... like she just gave everything she had.
What a phenomenal woman!!!
N she did! She knew she killed it!
Does anyone else get moved to tears with this one? lol
Incredible talent, but also what a ravishingly beautiful human being, in every way.
My obsession with Nina Simone surprises me sometimes. ♡♡♡♡
Same♥♥
its what genius does to you. u are like wtf is going on here?
@Wylde Wylde interesting. i saw a comment from ''soccer'' magazine commenting on a messi goal against getafe ''geniuses are capable of anything'' nina simone was in genius category.
I’m telling u
Every since I’ve discovered her beautiful n most irrelevant music
I’m totally obsessed with her
She’s a G.O.A.T. Period ✊🏿🥺💔💔💔💔
It doesn't surprise me. She's amazing.
I have listened to this here on Earth, and surely will continue to listen to it in the next world. What a bomb, and as cool as she is, it comes out naturally….🎹 It resonates with me well as a middle age South African black dude who grew up under Apartheid. My father used to listen to this master piece every Sunday morning before we went to the Old Apostolic Church …..🎹
I just heard about Nina Simone about 2 months ago!! I watched a documentary on Netflix!!What an amazing pianist and singer !! I think she felt strapped down by her abusive husband that only thought about money!! I wish she would have played Carnegie Hall as a classical piano player!! That was her dream for most of her life!!
That spoke to my soul. Bravo. Beautiful.
395 thumbs down....Whut? who doesn't like this? Never mind. I don't need to know.
When she said, “Spirit is moving now”, I could feel that! You can just feel it.
I love r&b, soul, blues, funk 🥳🥳
When she’s just humming the melody after she says that... you can see how she feels it
Powerful soul she is the whole world should listen to what she is saying. Now more than ever
bro, im buzzin here right now from that
@@lewishowe2285 amen
Why isn't this woman recognized as a genius virtuoso in the same league as men such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, etc. ??
Isn't she? When I hear of the greats, I hear of Simone.
Because she's a Black woman
She is
because she didn’t have the hits
I think she is dude. Its The Nina Simone!!
How sweet it would be to find out I can fly
THE GREATEST PIANIST IN HER TIME! Mississippi Goddamn!
a song that is not particularly sad but it makes tears flow so easily
I find it impossibly sad.
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holdin' me
I wish I could say
All the things that I should say
Say 'em loud, say 'em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you'd see and agree
That every man should be free
I wish I could give
All I'm longin' to give
I wish I could live
Like I'm longing to live
I wish I could do
All the things that I can do
And though I'm way overdue
I'd be startin' anew
Well, I wish I could be
Like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be
If I found I could fly
Oh, I'd soar to the sun
And look down at the sea
Then I'd sing 'cause I'd know, yeah
And I'd sing 'cause I'd know, yeah
And I'd sing 'cause I'd know
I'd know how it feels
I'd know how it feels to be free, yeah, yeah
I'd know how it feels
Yes, I'd know
I'd know how it feels, how it feels
To be free, no, no, no
We wouldnt even dare fking know what went on inside her head while performing this, there is so much emotion
I am not a p.o.c. but me too would like to feel free. Too much pressure these days. Best wishes from Belgium 🇧🇪 God bless 🙏🍀✌️💯💞🌼
Happy heavenly 88th birthday to Nina Simone, who made her mark as a classical, folk, Jazz, Blues singer, also known as the voice of Civil rights in the 60s as she wrote music & songs dedicated to the
movement
Damn! The ending gives me chills. Unfortunately these lyrics are just as relevant today as they were when she performed this in '76.
What?! How could they not be relevant? It's not about race, it's a human thing! Freedom!
Ive been depressed really bad..im not black ..but this music is so fucking helpful
It's a sin I spent 23 years of my life without knowing this video
"Don't lead me" she is listening to everyone while playing her part perfectly
I think it's: "Don't leave me" - she's finding her way into this audience and beseeching them to follow her. But "Don't lead me" is just as likely: an admonishment to her drummer not to push the beat.
@@lukeslark It's hard to tell, but it seems like the drummer was slightly rushing till the "don't lead me" part. I'm not all that sure, but if you're playing in such an intimate duo it's intuition to tell when someone is rushing before it's noticeable to the listener.
Masterful.
I thought I heard “don’t leave me” which was in reference to her singing about the bird in flying the sky. Like “don’t leave me”... I want to fly too. Just a thought.
@@tonyb.3796 that’s whati always thought too
I wish I knew how to say the things I can say when I’m relaxed, I felt that
makes me weep every time i hear her say
Johnathan livingston seagull aint got nothing on me!!! queen of the universe miss nina simone!!
It's like the piano is part of her body, she's in sync with it as if it's her other voice.
You can always tell when God took his time creating some of us , she was tangible proof !!!
We will never know the strength this great lady had to perform in pain from a husband who beat her and probably the cause of her depression and illness. She sang even in pain, she really was free on stage and some of the lyrics are her true thoughts and feelings.
What else do you need in this world?
I respect (Respect) our struggle
but, today (Today) we are free
we've just chosen (Chosen)
to put chains on ourselves
Indoctrination is still going on today
It's mental slavery and the low culture that we have today was birthed in pain and exploitation. The past is never really past. It affects the present and will indelibly affect the future. Most people don't read and think to know that they are pawns in this country.
She was so uniquely beautiful to me.
Definitely an internal beauty.
Black women possess unique beauty
@@keyboarddancers7751 external beauty, you’re blind
@@togbeosagyefo8705 I'm not blind although my sight is in fact extremely limited (I have to wear contact lenses AND glasses). Nina Simone possessed a unique and *beautiful* talent which I try in some small measure to replicate (🤣) with my modest piano playing ability. However my aesthetic tastes regarding women (like most men I suspect) are *NOT* universal - in other words, there is no fundamental code or standard for beauty to which anybody is obliged to adhere.
this might just be the best song ive ever heard
What an amazing blessing and damned curse to have such talent that it ultimately destroys you. This world doesn’t deserve someone like Nina. Rest in peace ❤
If you find out someone listens to Nina Simone you should instantly become friends with them you can't go wrong
oh Nina... We LOVE you!
2021... we are still here!
The fact that there are people out there that think people of a different color are different or inferior blows my mind.
I love you, no matter who you are, or what you think of me.
I agree. It really doesn’t matter what you look like! But- in the recent comments I saw someone say “Since when they grow legs at Hershey’s!” And “All that chocolate running wild!” That’s a disgusting thing to say. Shame on who said that. Someone sharing their experiences to change the world for the better is still judged by what she was trying to be free. Shame!
After 2020/21 ... we've all forgot what it's like to be free
At 27, I just got to know this lady how wonderful
LESS is always MORE … no need to take your clothes off,talent is all that’s needed ☮️❤️💯‼️
😊THANK GOD for UA-cam. Ninas musical brilliance lives on. she was deep!!! an amazing piano player & song writer.
That face! Just don't need to say anything. The most beautiful face. I'm an asian so I can't really undertand the deeper meaning of this song. However I just know what she felt while she is sining this song. What a legen.
The downvotes are probably people you would never associate with.
"Not to be chained to any race, any faith....anything" She 100% understood and was free. So Beautiful 💜🦋💜🦋💜
I've just been turned on to Nina Simone. Well, I just now decided to give her a listen. I've heard of her but never gave her an opportunity to carve out a place in my soul. I'm glad I rectified that mistake from youth.
Same here
Congratulations! 😋 She's amazing!
I’m 77. I was a young teenager when a friend of mine decided that I had to get to know about Nina Simone. He made me listen manager. to I loves you Porgy over and over again until I got it. Been a fan ever since. Every payday I would go to Smith’s record store on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans and buy one of her albums. The last time she toured, she came to the Mahalia Jackson theatre in Armstrong (Louis) . I was working at the post office and couldn’t get off. When my shift ended, I went there anyway, and since the box office was no longer manned, I got in free. After she finished, I went to give my price of admission to her.
She sent me a post card that I still have. She said, “You heard my real message.” As fortune would have it, I sat behind my friend, Billy Estavan, who’d originally turned me on to her. That was the last time I ever saw him, as he died of aid soon after.
I wish I knew how to play piano like this🙇🏽♂️
E purtroppo per me non ho mai visto un suo concerto dal vivo❤❤❤❤
As a black woman
I apologize
I've never heard of
Ms. Nina Simone
But I'm loving this 🎵 🎶
Wow, your life is better now. She's the finest musician there has been.
Point is you now do. Welcome sista!
She is there for when you need her
Ms. Linder it isn't you who should apologies! its like Viacom or whomever owns MTV or whatever!?! imagine a world where MTV didnt ditch the M in their name and ACTUALLY played all sorts of musics videos etceteras‽ my own intro to Ms. Nina Simone was a movie of some sort, but cannot recall exactly the film--but what's so cool about this clip amongst other things is the Irony that the listener gets to experience a lil bit o FREEDOM by listening to it! pretty cool! : )
@@jrancourt5020
Thank you for that
Enjoy your Bless week 🙏
I always sense rage in her music, no matter how sweet she tries to sound.
Shes a Queen though.
Often times, ppl mistake strength in black women as anger or rage. American society demands Black women to be strong for survival, yet we have our sweetness and femininity questioned due to our strength. This sentiment is so old and played out. And if you research her, her goal was not to be "sweet", it was to thrive in a highly segregated/racist/sexist world as her authentic self, which took . . . strength.
DAMN RIGHT!!!!
@@jayquashie9982 I love you!
Spirit's Moving Now 🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
Anyone that says they don't like Jazz, has never heard Nina Simone.
LYRICS:
*
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains of steel binding me
I wish I could say all the things that I can say when I'm relaxed
I'm restarting anew
*
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky (don't leave me)
How sweet it would be to find that I could fly
I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free
Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free
*
I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart
I wish I could break all things that bind us apart
I wish you could know what it means to be me
And you'd see, you'd agree
everybody should be free (because if we ain't we're murderers)
*
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I could find that I could fly
I'd soar to the sun, look down at the sea
Man, I know, yes I know
Oh yeah, the spirit is moving now
[humming]
*
I know, got news for you, I already know
Jonathan Livingston Seagull ain't got nothing on me
Free, free, free, free
I'm free, and I know it
Don't wanna be a
And I show it
But I'm still free
And believe in me, it's alright
*
And I'd sing, sing, sing
Cause I would know
I already know
I already know
I found out
how it feels
not to be chained
to anything
to any race
to any faith
to anybody
to any creed
to any hopes
to any-anything
I know how it feels to be free
(stolen from a comment on an older video of this performance)
Ti stihovi su me pogodili.
That was me typing it out and posting it in another upload of this performance, thanks for the mention
Thanks for the lyrics
*Chains that (are) still binding me
*'Cos if we ain't we're murderous
Love
2.52 everybody should be free cause if we aint we are murderers. #truth
Good to point that out!
Is not the "american" government a bunch of murderers?? The military, the police, the hospitals, the cdc's (Centers for disease creation), the red Cross, fema, know it!
Our freedom is within us! We are more powerful than we think we are; google "chakras" our spiritual body we've been ignoring or we did not know about them. Time to know and power up!
Guns, rioting, war, protesting, writing books is not the answer. Knowing your true self, looking within and following your heart and intuition is the way to go.
Peace and Love to all❤️💕
HEALING WISDOM TRUTH JOY
U heard that right... Something to think about.. She so deep w her songs
Chills
I think this woman is so beautiful 😍
She was way ahead of her time.
She was right on time. Born to musically protest racial injustice in America.
She is singing about total freedom and that's just marvelous. Lord. She didn't settle for less than the best for she knew the ravages of racist and sexist oppression. Thank you Lord for each and every human you send near us, thanks so much for all those trembling hearts, eager to do good among so many indifferent and greedy hearts...Nina Simone, your heart was strong and so fragile, pushed so many times to the edge but you kept countenance and composure and kept fighting, while your exhausted, frightened and devastated soul, like the souls of so many oppressed Afrorelated humans, was doing its best to cope with the racial terror of those and our days.
I put on this every time i have breakfast
Way superior to the original version
She out did herself with this performance
And we are all richer for it
AbsoLUTELY!!!!
At the moment there are 251 persons not liking this video. - I would certainly want to have a chat with every single one of them...
God damn, Miss Nina - You are a fucking rockstar.
A beautiful and soulful performance of a song about the world, about our individual struggles, and about humanity. This song, I believe, is for all of us. For those being gunned down and tear gassed in peaceful protest. For those in an abusive home. For those trapped in a toxic relationship. For those stuck under the heavy weight of the waning world. It doesn't matter if you are old or young, it doesn't matter who you are or what you've been through. This song is for you.
Damn she could play that there piano!
she trained at a very prestigus music school as a european music pianist, but chose to play BLACK MUSIC
There is no black and white music, there’s no race music. It’s music. Enjoy it, don’t look at the race, look at the talent
@@tesmith47 Actually she loved Classical above all. She had her opportunity for a scholarship denied to her because of the color of her skin and was forced to play jazz to pay for her school. It was also there she began to sing. She was one of the most brilliant composers of the 20th century and blended white and black musical tradition in ways that cannot be duplicated. She was beyond comprehension with her talent.
@@tonyv2373yes, she played EUROPEAN music too
@@klord3677 that is a delusion, ALL MUSIC IS "RACE" MUSIC !! Whites society try to assign grades!!
You're not alone on that one
2021-04-04 South Africa 🇿🇦
Without economical freedom, there is no freedom. Political leaders should must stop self enriching strategies. Remember, there is only one human race...
What a PURE performance. Pure joy, pure light. Just smooth and weightless.
I felt it when she stroke the note at 2:45
Roman Robinson I feel you, bruh. I feel every note that she strikes-and it’s brilliant.
It reverberates through your very soul in the best way possible.
I listened to her in 1945 on radio in Middle village, Queens NY. So there !
Well it may then have been Billie but there's that. Simone came later but had impact like all the most wonderful talent blossoming in the 20th century.
Yuppers just cried all threw that..magical
The NC gospel influence is everything on this song. She had the most unique alto voice that easily slips to levels of baritone. Genius. RIP Nina. ...you are free now.
This is what it looks like if a soul jumped out of a body and sang
I wish I knew how it met to be 🆓 free Miss Nina Simone even the birds are. I'm 🆓 free.
I’m back for more. 🙋🏻♂️
Black lives matter. Still singing for freedom after all these years. Paz y alegría.
BLM stop looking for free TVs from target and Walmart
This is equally beautiful and heartbreaking
It's amazing how some people always have to mention Palestine! Don't they know there are more conflicts in the world and not every song is about them?
Great performance and a beautiful song!