Andrea Martin. She recorded 1998's "Let Me Return the Favor." She's also a very successful songwriter having written Toni Braxton's "I Love Me Some Him", Monica's "Before You Walk Out of My Life", EnVogue's "Don't Let Go", and Leona Lewis' "Better in Time" (among others).
Faith and Monica were the only ones secure enough to just have fun and sing. The other three ladies were constantly battling to see who can get the loudest
true, very true, I always loved that about Monica and Faith too, they never give too much, live or in studio, but i thought Deborah was in a shouting contest
I watched thinking Deborah was going to kill everyone but surprisingly Shanice did really good slipping in and stealing the show, and kudos for auntie Faith for blending in with the rest of the women while playing vocally with Shanice to get her to upstage Deborah Cox
I love how Monica was truly enjoying the the moment and not trying to sing over the other ladies! She’s like “baby we all know I can blow but I’m fina do all that screaming with y’all” 😂😍
I can only imagine the madness that went on behind the scenes on this one. They were trying to outshine one another instead of working as a group! All of that diva-dome and ego on that one stage was probably more than an audience can stand!
I can hear Faith the most outta everyone, but im having trouble hearing Monica !! Is she even singing sometimes....most of these notes are in the upper register
I loved Monica during this.. She was just having fun singing the melody not bothering her self with the others' cat fight for louder vocals.. Shanice, Deborah, Andrea and Faith were wailing up and down the octaves tryna be heard especiallly shanice.. SMH just sing the damn song
LMAO it's true that they all sounded like tea pot kettles going off at 3:13 and Andrea ended up looking and sounding like she was in some horror flick awsome performance from all ladies though.
@rageon202 NOPE!! check again. I reviewed that bit carefully,and though Shanice and though it's hard to tell, who's doing what, I know exactly!! Yes shanice started, but Andrea got in not a split sec after, and just did a normal scale,( from low to high) while shanice was the one who tried to hit the 'money note', and 'best' her @ 3:17 with that loud piercing note, which failed because Andrea wasn't thrown off, and simply finished the scale... you'll c, look, n listen closely!!
Deborah Cox and Shanice AMAZING!!!! Phenomenal harmonizing. Monica was good. Faith Evans and Andrea seemed out of their element. Although Faith sounded good.
good lawd!!!!! they sang that! but i'd give the crown to FAITH on this one....i think she was killin everything she did......Shanice and Debra showed out too tho! monica always does good, and andrea was good too....
i remember when this aired... they killed it - new diva's of Arista got off........ shanice bird chirpin deborah givin you whitney the rest just vibin - andrea and shanice chirpin and yes it did sound like a teapot a damn good tea pot......
My wig flew off at 02:20. Who was the soprano harmonizing with Deborah? She didn't come to play games. 😂 EDIT: the battle of the whistle notes took me out at 03:12
i hear you but you have to realize MC is whatever range she wants to be...she can cover contralo to mezzo soprano and others if she wants too. The original point was that MC has more range. Shanice can go, but whats so appealing about MC is here total coverage in the range department. MC has easy access to all of her range. I know she doesn't always do it live but its still there, never left.
@Kumtekmeon Honestly MC does still have it, she is having problems live but its still there. She sounds amazing when she records. I know people here in nyc that are close to her and her prob is that she smokes. So, i feel you on the shanice thing but its my personal opinion based on following them both since they came out..that MC has more range. I'm telling you MC's lower register is crazy. Whats most amazing about her is her range.
@rageon202 I was talking about Monica.. I never discussed monica's voice.. you brought it into the mix as if i said she was the best SINGER of them all and i didn't. i appreciated the way she acted on stage.. I still stick by what i said about shanice and theres no use of you arguing with me :)
Looking at the comments here,I'm disgusted.Why not appreciate the ladies for what they have done instead of getting personal? I love the song, they love the song, hell, Whitney and Chaka Khan sang the song so what's all this about who's wailing? I'm sure they(these haters) sing the same song in their bathrooms anyway.
how do you know what training anyone's received? Please tell me where and who documented these five octaves Shanice pocesses? You are not understanding what I've typed several times. Again...How can a Soprano "Shanice" have more range than an Contralo-Soprano "Mariah" Mariah can hit more notes on a Piano than Shanice can. Mariah's range has been widely documented. Good finding proper support for your claim that Shanice has more range. You won't find it.
This is a song even the men jammed to. Just watch the audience. They did well for it to be 6 different women up there. Im just seeing this. I like all of them. I think they were are label mates of Arista or a subsidiary of Arista i.e. Laface of Badboy
@genius3495 ''Shanice...were wailing up and down the octaves tryna be heard especially Shanice.'' That's about their voice and not how they conduct on stage. Majority rules and so if everyone else singing loud and one isn't how you came to say they were being unprofessional.? You are bias so don't try to deny it.
Shanice, Deborah Cox, and Monica were great.....I WISH THEY COULD HAVE SUNG BY THEMSELVES....Faith would blend more if ANDREA WASN'T THERE....who is she anyways??? BUT BESIDES THAT....SHANICE I LOVE U, DEBORAH COME BACK!!!
That harmony with deborah, and that soprano melted my heart !!! That was good!!!
Brandon Ford that's shanice Wilson
amen
Andrea Martin. She recorded 1998's "Let Me Return the Favor." She's also a very successful songwriter having written Toni Braxton's "I Love Me Some Him", Monica's "Before You Walk Out of My Life", EnVogue's "Don't Let Go", and Leona Lewis' "Better in Time" (among others).
I wish she'd kept writing. Not singing.
I felt Deborah and Shanice gave me what I wanted
Hell yea
Faith and Monica were the only ones secure enough to just have fun and sing. The other three ladies were constantly battling to see who can get the loudest
+Mario Moore Right!
true, very true, I always loved that about Monica and Faith too, they never give too much, live or in studio, but i thought Deborah was in a shouting contest
Idk Deborah is a beast
lol screaming match. Faith secure in her own skin chilled creating those cheeky riffs in all those dead gaps. Genius.
😂😂😂😂 I keep in my own key
Say what you want but Deborah Cox deserves an award for Best Hair
Deborah is showing off her Nippy.. classic i remember when this aired... still love it
I watched thinking Deborah was going to kill everyone but surprisingly Shanice did really good slipping in and stealing the show, and kudos for auntie Faith for blending in with the rest of the women while playing vocally with Shanice to get her to upstage Deborah Cox
This comment explained it ALL. 😂
Thank you for this 😂😂
I love how Monica was truly enjoying the the moment and not trying to sing over the other ladies! She’s like “baby we all know I can blow but I’m fina do all that screaming with y’all” 😂😍
Now I KNEW Shanice was gonna hit a high note! Each one of them did well!
RIP Andrea. Supremely gifted singer/songwriter.😔
Bruhhh I didn’t know she died!!!!
Monica was so pretty here!
Absolutely AMAZING VOCAL HARMONY @02:19 😍🎤🎼OMG !!!
That harmony with chanice and Deborah was everything!
Faith can sing so well. Nice nice voice. Monica too
all that talent on that stage!!!
Monica was a teenager like me at time. She is so beat and I was obsessed with her swag.
ALL THAT TALENT ON THAT STAGE!!
YES! Thank you for uploading this I've been looking for this performance forever.
Thank god for faith Evans she saved this disaster at 3:30 and brought it back to normalcy and Shane finished killing it😍
love to hear them sing!
Deborah was the best
Rip Andrea Martin 🙏🏾
Imagine a girl group with all them together😍😍😍 THE HARMONIES! a group full of beyonces
Mariah
That shit at 3:15 terrorized my soul.
@crdubb17 ..But she did tho!! Shanice though she had the 'whistle market' conered, untill Andrea with the Lowest voice mind you, burst her buble!! LOL
Alright shanice at 2:30!!!!!!!
At 3:24 Shanice looks like "dammm that bitch got me" hahah
I remember this! I had taped it off the tv!
Werd that's my favorite part!
@Chimier LMAO! They were hoping somebody would take the lead, so they could follow.
I can only imagine the madness that went on behind the scenes on this one. They were trying to outshine one another instead of working as a group! All of that diva-dome and ego on that one stage was probably more than an audience can stand!
You're right! Nice tribute!
OMG! Beautiful black divas! This song is extremely difficult!
I can hear Faith the most outta everyone, but im having trouble hearing Monica !! Is she even singing sometimes....most of these notes are in the upper register
Shanice and faith evans !!! My God Imma pass out ! ! I jus didnt kno
oldies baby
I loved Monica during this.. She was just having fun singing the melody not bothering her self with the others' cat fight for louder vocals..
Shanice, Deborah, Andrea and Faith were wailing up and down the octaves tryna be heard especiallly shanice.. SMH
just sing the damn song
YES!!!!!!!!
Indeed. She and Monica were the only ones truly on point and not trying to outdo everyone else.
I love Monica. : )
It's always Deborah for me🔥
Wow!
Deborah def didnt need that mike "I'veeeeeeeeeeeee GoT IT" i felt dat
I love Monica!!!!!
Monica was 17 or 18 years old at the time and can could always hang with the grown women in the room when it comes to singing
LOL.. now that's a good one.... lol
Yes Faith is amazing, and has crazy range shanice too
LMAO it's true that they all sounded like tea pot kettles going off at 3:13 and Andrea ended up looking and sounding like she was in some horror flick awsome performance from all ladies though.
@rageon202 NOPE!! check again. I reviewed that bit carefully,and though Shanice and though it's hard to tell, who's doing what, I know exactly!! Yes shanice started, but Andrea got in not a split sec after, and just did a normal scale,( from low to high) while shanice was the one who tried to hit the 'money note', and 'best' her @ 3:17 with that loud piercing note, which failed because Andrea wasn't thrown off, and simply finished the scale... you'll c, look, n listen closely!!
ITS A SHANCE WILSON WORLD AND WE JUST ARE LUCKY TO LIVE IN IT, SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST SINGERS ON EARTH
3:16 hot mess
It is 😂😂😂😂
@kelvinpyaeko yeah i find this even more entertaining than that epic celine vs aretha battle on divas live XD
Deborah Cox and Shanice AMAZING!!!! Phenomenal harmonizing. Monica was good. Faith Evans and Andrea seemed out of their element. Although Faith sounded good.
LMAO! 3:10-3:25... Is that even singing LOL?!
@crdubb17 No for probally the 1st time ever it was Shanice who tried to outshine Andrea on the whistle...and yet failed!!
@vocalmajor2008 she is a beast!
Shanice is my girl too. Why I never see this on BET or why there aren't any individual performaces from this concert?
lol i think Debrah wanted drop kick shanice for stealin her thunder with that sick harmony at 221
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yes shanice did eat Deborah on that belt! Whitney doesn't even or did ever hit that live!
monica was being lazy on her part singing the 2nd verse low....come on girl wheres the powerhouse & whats with the ghetto ass moves lmao 2:48
That was her key. The only sopranos here where Shanice and Deborah. Faith sang the middle with Monica and Andrea sang the bottom.
good lawd!!!!! they sang that! but i'd give the crown to FAITH on this one....i think she was killin everything she did......Shanice and Debra showed out too tho! monica always does good, and andrea was good too....
3:32 that's the mom from TLC Little People, Big World haha.
Monica held her own. Can't wait for the new album! Still Standing 09!!!
so shanice is a soprano with five octaves...which five in soprano give her five..please explain??
i remember when this aired... they killed it - new diva's of Arista got off........ shanice bird chirpin deborah givin you whitney the rest just vibin - andrea and shanice chirpin and yes it did sound like a teapot a damn good tea pot......
@crdubb17, you are so correct, Andrea messed it up! Well let's hope Shanice gets her day when she releases her next album this year.
My wig flew off at 02:20. Who was the soprano harmonizing with Deborah? She didn't come to play games. 😂
EDIT: the battle of the whistle notes took me out at 03:12
BellBiv DeBro that is Shanice Wilson! check out ‘Ain’t Got No Remedy.’
Wow 1:59 on "Cuz I'm the one" Mo sounds EXACTLY like Whitney it's krazy!
Debra singing like Jennifer Hudson and shanice and Andrea having a mariah hugh note battle epic
just imagine if this song was done w/the best female RnB singers from the 70's. Chaka,Natalie,Teena,Patti, and Cheryl.
i hear you but you have to realize MC is whatever range she wants to be...she can cover contralo to mezzo soprano and others if she wants too. The original point was that MC has more range. Shanice can go, but whats so appealing about MC is here total coverage in the range department. MC has easy access to all of her range. I know she doesn't always do it live but its still there, never left.
Shanice is was and always will be a beast .they couldn't touch her but they looked up to her because she had been in the game since the 80 s
Do u have the full concert
@Kumtekmeon Honestly MC does still have it, she is having problems live but its still there. She sounds amazing when she records. I know people here in nyc that are close to her and her prob is that she smokes. So, i feel you on the shanice thing but its my personal opinion based on following them both since they came out..that MC has more range. I'm telling you MC's lower register is crazy. Whats most amazing about her is her range.
The 1st lady of Hip-Hop & R&B Faith Evans got this one!! She's the best
@rageon202 I was talking about Monica.. I never discussed monica's voice.. you brought it into the mix as if i said she was the best SINGER of them all and i didn't. i appreciated the way she acted on stage..
I still stick by what i said about shanice and theres no use of you arguing with me :)
FAITH is amazing af
lol it probably was but its more exciting thinkin that Shanice said in her head, "watch this Deborah," and Deborah sayin, "oh no this b$%#h didnt" lol
when was this
@ablackguy123456789 lol i like the way she tilted her head as if she was challenging her haha
@rageon202 I didn;t even discuss her voice.. I discussed her professionalism
SING FAITH!!!!!
All the ladies are fantastic. …y’ll better not sleep on Faith Evans …just sayin’
@Mattluvzunot please tell these young bucks something Lol
@Mattluvzunot lmfao...okay!
Who is the dark skinned singer?
@shawpan1 She sure is:-)
Looking at the comments here,I'm disgusted.Why not appreciate the ladies for what they have done instead of getting personal? I love the song, they love the song, hell, Whitney and Chaka Khan sang the song so what's all this about who's wailing? I'm sure they(these haters) sing the same song in their bathrooms anyway.
it got kinda outta control after 3:00... ESPECIALLY at 3:11
how do you know what training anyone's received? Please tell me where and who documented these five octaves Shanice pocesses? You are not understanding what I've typed several times. Again...How can a Soprano "Shanice" have more range than an Contralo-Soprano "Mariah" Mariah can hit more notes on a Piano than Shanice can. Mariah's range has been widely documented. Good finding proper support for your claim that Shanice has more range. You won't find it.
This is a song even the men jammed to. Just watch the audience. They did well for it to be 6 different women up there. Im just seeing this. I like all of them. I think they were are label mates of Arista or a subsidiary of Arista i.e. Laface of Badboy
@DeborahCoxFan11 Lmao why Monica gotta be Ghetto lol I love me some MONICA but I agree they were screaming
@Zeebo89 she got that low alto voice tho, its sexy LOL
SANG SHANICE @ 2:30!!!!!!!!!!
@MCLAMB4LiFE And? Shanice was at the higest part of her range..ur just upset MC is secondary to Whitney!!!
@KyoHanjin She is usually ok, it's certainly not her pick of music,too high for her i think.
Damn everybody was trying to top eachother on this one no one wanted to be the bottom ;p
@genius3495 ''Shanice...were wailing up and down the octaves tryna be heard especially Shanice.'' That's about their voice and not how they conduct on stage. Majority rules and so if everyone else singing loud and one isn't how you came to say they were being unprofessional.? You are bias so don't try to deny it.
Shanice, Deborah Cox, and Monica were great.....I WISH THEY COULD HAVE SUNG BY THEMSELVES....Faith would blend more if ANDREA WASN'T THERE....who is she anyways??? BUT BESIDES THAT....SHANICE I LOVE U, DEBORAH COME BACK!!!