So many troubles with his mic setup in many performances in 2000's down his rate for sure ! This one is his best performance of this song ever you can find on youtube. Earlier 99 many playbacks, and after this til today (2024) garbage sound of how he setup or use the mic...
I went on an El Crush all over again like a gitty little kid at 46yrs old. I just wish I'd made it to an El concert back then. I've looked at so much El Debarge in the last few days, I've burnt all of my internet data for the month! Lol but I'll go somewhere and log onto WiFi to watch it. I couldn't stop watching his performance at the Soul Train Awards singing Secret Garden! That was #Intoxicating!
I met him in Ohio a few years ago and he touched my face while singing, my first thought was I give you 20 kids, stop playing with me😂he was at Hollywood Casino in Toledo. Yes, he is scrumptious in person,my goodness ❤
Damn! I learned about the Debarges through Chico in Iggin Me. At the time I thought he was the coolest singer, but after watching El Debarge perform, I’m convinced that El had the most swag of the lot.
holy shit this is amazing. His breath and voice control is perfect. I really wish the music industry would give him and his family their flowers already They need a tribute!
I know this is an old performance but DANG El is singing the HECK out of that song and he looks GOOD!!! And band...the background singers...MY GOODNESS!!! They were so on point! Being able to keep an even temple with someone who has such a natural voice like El is not easy. I can watch this ALL DAY!!! God bless the entire DeBarge Family!!
*CHIIILE, YOU 'SHOULD' HAVE* *SEEN EL'S BROTHER, BOBBY* *DeBarge, SING LIVE, IN* *CONCERT, LIKE I DID!!* *HE WAS IN the GROUP, CALLED* *SWITCH, HE 'AND' EL'S BROTHER* , *TOMMY DeBarge!! But, LIKE EL* , *BOBBY 'COULD' REALLYYYYY* *BLOW!!! I MEAN, I ACTUALLY* *HEARD HIS voice GO 'UP', INTO* *THE RAFTERS of THE MUNICIPAL* *AUDITORIUM* , ( *JUST LIKE* *CHAKA KHAN, AND ALSO* *PHILLIP BAILEY, OF EARTH* , *WIND, AND FIRE!!!* ) *THEIR VOICES SOUNDED* *OTHER WORLDLY, GOING UP* , *UP, UP, AND AWAY, FARRRRR* *UP, 'INTO' THE RAFTERS!!!* 💯 *WHEN I HEARD THEM, I WAS LIKE* 😲😲😲😁👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯 *I saw Chaka KHAN 'WITH' Rufus* , *WITH EW&F, IN '79, 'AND' ALSO* *IN 2001!!!* *MANY OF MY SCHOOL MATES* *DRANK, DID DRUGS, HAD BABIES* , *AND/OR GOT IN TROUBLE with* *THE LAW* ( *WHILE I WENT TO* *MOVIES, BOWLING, SKATING* , *CHURCH, AND CONCERTS!!* ) 😊
what’s even more unmatched is he was doing this as a kid. Writing music and singing like this as a teenager. And just as humble. And still today after going through all the trials and tribulations he still got it like that. The sky needs to rain down flowers on him while he’s still here. Because there is nobody out there doing anything today its music even touch is the level that El DeBarge is on Even as his current age.
Yes! I feel the same! I was always so in love with him from day 1 but the crush grew when he cut that hair. Was wondering where he'd disappeared and it crushed me badly when I heard about the drugs bcuz I just couldn't see that for El, but stuff happens. I just pray he can keep it together to enjoy his older years. He was such a prodigy!
3:33 onwards I meannnnnn LEGENDARY!! Sometimes we see pure talent and think "they should have been bigger" but we lose so many greats too early because for most its unsustainable at the top. Glad God has kept El safe and evolving, hopefully loving and enjoying the music that runs through his veins.
Absolutely, one of the best performance s that I've come across on u tube. I like it, no I love it. Loved the Debarges, Bobby & El. Takes me back every time. God bless.
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debarge is criminally underrated
Agreed 2000%
So many troubles with his mic setup in many performances in 2000's down his rate for sure ! This one is his best performance of this song ever you can find on youtube. Earlier 99 many playbacks, and after this til today (2024) garbage sound of how he setup or use the mic...
Starlight Express is my GOAT Song
I DEFINITELY LIKE IT. BARS! 😀
Timeless , Greatness
I watch this once a week
I went on an El Crush all over again like a gitty little kid at 46yrs old. I just wish I'd made it to an El concert back then. I've looked at so much El Debarge in the last few days, I've burnt all of my internet data for the month! Lol but I'll go somewhere and log onto WiFi to watch it. I couldn't stop watching his performance at the Soul Train Awards singing Secret Garden! That was #Intoxicating!
me too lmao! and the soul train versions!
Ha ha, weekly dosage!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know what you mean!!! 😂😂😂
Lol ikr💖💖💖
this man has CRAZY live vocals, true indicator of a real singer. Shoutout to El man
Literally the most flawless live vocal performance I’ve ever seen
Word. It's incredible.
Thought same thing
And even after all the drugs & alcohol his voice still sounds good Af live. He does impromptu performances on his IG from time to time
it is so good, but watch whitney houston on merv griffin show 1983 and you might change your mind
The entire debarge family is underrated. They are so damn talented. Their music has been sampled by everybody. Timeless classics! Respect!
I agree. They're so talented yet underrated.
They were J5 clones. After the Jackson left the label, Motown was trying to create the next J5 and groom El as the next MJ.
They never stood a chance
Absolutely
@@blackturkdog what are you talking about. El was never trying to be like Micheal. El is a legend all on his own🙄
@@blackturkdog jealousy is a terrible disease. Go get vaccinated
He still looks good & sound good !!
Amazing how he's dancing around and singing live, but still hitting those notes on point, not even sounding out of breath. That's a Pro!
Been doing it since he was a baby..
A little Baby.
Shove This L Up Your Ass He's obviously not lip-syncing. @3:49 you can hear him stop the phrase to take a breath, these are live vocals
@@alb.3818 lol I thought you told the person to shove this L up your ass until I realized it was the screen name.
He's the man! He still got the voice!!!
@Willie Gordon oh geez LMAO!
No auto tune, no recorded music playing in the background. Just a great performer singing his soul out and a band playing great music with soul
He’s REAL
This performance is perfect. He's dancing around, hitting all those notes, same key as the orig
Is it an octave down? Timbre of his voice sounds bassier.
He's been doing it since he was a Baby..
Expert
The fact that he’s singing his part and his brother’s
voice has stayed safely protected - through all the personal abuse. we are grateful
nhlanhla cyril Mbatha your words really move me, knowing you know his life story:-D
he's such a beloved performer that you can feel the audience loving him until he's able to reach the high notes. i love him and his fans.
No one and I mean no one, I don’t care who it is no one can EVER sing that song like El DeBarge.🩷🩷
AMEN!!
I met him in Ohio a few years ago and he touched my face while singing, my first thought was I give you 20 kids, stop playing with me😂he was at Hollywood Casino in Toledo. Yes, he is scrumptious in person,my goodness ❤
3:41...the voice control. Speechless.
His face at the end, so grateful to be given another chance. We all deserve another chance, life is just too difficult without one.
😊😊❤❤
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He was fine as hell in this performance 😍😍😍
Fine fine fine. Then the notes, dancing prancing all around. Legend. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Im from Brazil This song is so Amazing God Bless U Guys
He ABSOLUTELY KILLED THAT!!!! One of the GREATEST live performances of all time...vocally and otherwise! LOVE that man!!!!
Period 😊❤🎉
OH MY GOSH! I know this is 1999, but it is amazing. No flaws at all. Just like back in the 80's. What a voice!
2019. Still... No match!
@@ashiamatthews94672023 & he still sounds good AF live
2024 and still on my playlist
He's one my favourite vocalists of all time. Along with Michael Jackson Stevie Wonder and Prince
Same
you have a good taste in music
Daryl Allman he was a Jackson clone. after Michael and them left Motown. debarge were the next. family .things didn't out like it should.
blackturkdog Agreed
They TRIED to fashion him after MJ, but El is a Marvin fanatic. It had to come out, eventually.
Anyone watching in 2016, and absolutely love them some El? 😁💲
all day, every day.
This is one of my ALL-TIME favourite songs!!
2019 and im watching El ❤
2021 and this is my jam!!! Born in 89 but my mama nem had this in rotation. This that soul glow music 🎶
I'm STILL watching on Thursday 9/16/21!!!
He burnt the WHOLE song start to finish sheesh classic give this man his flowers
God broke the mold when he made this man. One of the best songs ever made.
I love how he kept the song just the way the fans knows it as a classic!
Damn! I learned about the Debarges through Chico in Iggin Me. At the time I thought he was the coolest singer, but after watching El Debarge perform, I’m convinced that El had the most swag of the lot.
holy shit this is amazing. His breath and voice control is perfect. I really wish the music industry would give him and his family their flowers already They need a tribute!
dat boy can saaaannnggggg! one of my favorite singers!
Yes! He slips in and out of his chest voice to falsetto with sweet ease!
I can watch this a million times
Please play I like it again!
THAT WAS FIRE !!! 🔥🔥
El is SO anointed by God and I LOVE that God preserved his voice while He had him in His loving and protecting care!!
He so damn fine. So was Bobby God rest his soul. None but GREAT music
Best falsetto in the game
I dunno about that one. It’s close but his brother Bobby from Switch, voice melted like butter
I know this is an old performance but DANG El is singing the HECK out of that song and he looks GOOD!!! And band...the background singers...MY GOODNESS!!! They were so on point! Being able to keep an even temple with someone who has such a natural voice like El is not easy. I can watch this ALL DAY!!! God bless the entire DeBarge Family!!
God bless them indeed, not their evil father tho👀😵
@@gigiarmanyand the dumbass brother bobby who died he molested James
Singers with troubled painful lives always have sing like angels. Just like Billie Holiday and others of same ilk, his voice gets into your soul!
One of the best live performances I’ve seen in a while... El really did his thing here!
El sang tf out of this live performance ! The only thing missing is the blend of the Debarge background, but it was still an amazing performance.
so effortless.
I've never seen such a live performance of perfection. God has blessed him tremendously!
*CHIIILE, YOU 'SHOULD' HAVE* *SEEN EL'S BROTHER, BOBBY*
*DeBarge, SING LIVE, IN*
*CONCERT, LIKE I DID!!*
*HE WAS IN the GROUP, CALLED*
*SWITCH, HE 'AND' EL'S BROTHER* ,
*TOMMY DeBarge!! But, LIKE EL* ,
*BOBBY 'COULD' REALLYYYYY*
*BLOW!!! I MEAN, I ACTUALLY*
*HEARD HIS voice GO 'UP', INTO*
*THE RAFTERS of THE MUNICIPAL*
*AUDITORIUM* , ( *JUST LIKE*
*CHAKA KHAN, AND ALSO*
*PHILLIP BAILEY, OF EARTH* ,
*WIND, AND FIRE!!!* )
*THEIR VOICES SOUNDED*
*OTHER WORLDLY, GOING UP*
, *UP, UP, AND AWAY, FARRRRR*
*UP, 'INTO' THE RAFTERS!!!* 💯
*WHEN I HEARD THEM, I WAS LIKE*
😲😲😲😁👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯
*I saw Chaka KHAN 'WITH' Rufus* ,
*WITH EW&F, IN '79, 'AND' ALSO*
*IN 2001!!!*
*MANY OF MY SCHOOL MATES*
*DRANK, DID DRUGS, HAD BABIES* , *AND/OR GOT IN TROUBLE with*
*THE LAW* ( *WHILE I WENT TO*
*MOVIES, BOWLING, SKATING* ,
*CHURCH, AND CONCERTS!!* ) 😊
I swear he still sounds AND looks like this! Wow!
OMG! I’m completely in awe. The vocal control is just incredible. The audience is melting 🫠
He fuckin nailed those high notes at the end!
He definitely has stage presence and charisma.
My God! What a gift from God! Love you El! ❤️
Oh my God, El Debarge looks so f*cking Gorgeous and sounds gooooooddd !!! mwah mwah mwah
One of the best singers ever in our life time
That man came to sing that night! He was not playing and I, am here, for it! 😂😂❤❤😍😍💪💪✊✊👏👏
El's cold. Stay up El. Great songwriter.
His brother Randy wrote this though
@@myronsmith2114 they wrote it together. El tells the story in his interview with dj scratch
That’s a classic dude right there and a classic song still in 2020! Eeewwww and I like it...
This man had vocals made straight 🔥 from heaven........
My goodness.....
Grand rapids Michigan......
Birthed a singer fa really real.........
what’s even more unmatched is he was doing this as a kid. Writing music and singing like this as a teenager. And just as humble. And still today after going through all the trials and tribulations he still got it like that. The sky needs to rain down flowers on him while he’s still here. Because there is nobody out there doing anything today its music even touch is the level that El DeBarge is on Even as his current age.
Some ppl were just born with that gift to sing...
Mr Golden voice El....
i fell in love with this man when i watched this. can't say anymore.
The definition of smooth. The family was so troubled...the book broke my heart into pieces.
How amazing 🤩 he is a great singer❤
I am proud to say that this song as well this artist is from MY childhood!
Stay clean El you are so talented I would support everything you do.your voice is beautiful.
Yes! I feel the same! I was always so in love with him from day 1 but the crush grew when he cut that hair. Was wondering where he'd disappeared and it crushed me badly when I heard about the drugs bcuz I just couldn't see that for El, but stuff happens. I just pray he can keep it together to enjoy his older years. He was such a prodigy!
This song gives me a chill through my spine every-time
speechless from them high notes!
this dude is on fire
This man always forward never back
The Best Rendition of the song.
Sing it baby. LOVE him so much. He so handsome and good to look at. Still jamming to this FOREVER and ever💖💖💖💖💖💖
3:33 onwards I meannnnnn LEGENDARY!! Sometimes we see pure talent and think "they should have been bigger" but we lose so many greats too early because for most its unsustainable at the top. Glad God has kept El safe and evolving, hopefully loving and enjoying the music that runs through his veins.
When you sing so good that you convince me that you're killing it dancing too ha ha... I think his voice was at its strongest around this time.
I love how his music, voice, look and stage performance! What ever your going through nothing else matters nothing!
Beautiful man.
So happy I found this; he is so smooth
Dammit this is perfection 💙
Wish R&B was like this in 2019. Amazing performance
That first close up on his face, if you didn’t say got damn you lying, and he still looks that way just season
Wow, what a performance!
All his songs are Awesome!!!!!! Very Special!!!!!
This the coldest live version! O yeah 😊😁
Perfect ! His voice is amazing
I am so obsessed with this performance I’m here every day FOR THOSE SWEET LIVE VOCALS OOOO CHILLLE 😮💨 EL SO DAYUM FINNNE TOO I MIGHT JUST COMBUST
Boy is still going strong. Extraordinary voice!!
Dat part where he goes ooooooh ooooohhh nd i like it i like, sends chills up my spine!
El is perfection. He is a musical genius, and an impressive person. His gifts are truly devine. I agree with all the previous comments, too 😍🕺🎶💕👍😊👌
So glad I found this
He’s so fine y’all…😩 He literally aged and became even finer.
I'm under a spell everything I watch him!😍🥰
god put an angel in this world by the name of el debarge. This song can repair any broken marriage
God is Good 🙏 El is favored upon 🙌 May God continue to shine upon El & his family...God bless! Extraordinary performance 👏
What a voice!
imbelievable finish ! how can some of you dislike this ! ?
Bono Boss Exactly
A spirited performance! El sure had 'a fire inside' of him! Oooh, and I like it!
Fantastic falsetto El!🔥
What a cutie!! 💖💖💖
#Swag100. This swag cannot be recreated, copied, or even improvised. Science will be scratching their heads trying to figure this out.
Shourite.
omg, so many great memories listening to this song with my friends
I really, really like his beautiful voice.❤
Yes. I love his voice
Unbelievable voice
Absolutely, one of the best performance s that I've come across on u tube. I like it, no I love it. Loved the Debarges, Bobby & El. Takes me back every time. God bless.
Amazing! He blesses me every time I hear him! His voice is the purest on the earth like a soprano saxophone