Sounds of Blackness - Optimistic LIVE at the Apollo 1994

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  • @Queenofsole100
    @Queenofsole100 2 года назад +220

    The Black National Anthem 2.0. 🎵🎶💯🔥

    • @thewhitedoncheadle8345
      @thewhitedoncheadle8345 10 месяцев назад +7

      everybodies anthem

    • @victory5784
      @victory5784 7 месяцев назад

      @@thewhitedoncheadle8345it’s for blacks let us have what we created’n

    • @audejagger
      @audejagger 7 месяцев назад +8

      Sounds of blackness ❤️

    • @averyintelligence
      @averyintelligence 6 месяцев назад +2

      What's 1.0?

    • @patfrazier9285
      @patfrazier9285 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@averyintelligenceAin't No Stopping Us Now, McFadden and Whitehead is 1.0

  • @jcstarhawk7536
    @jcstarhawk7536 11 месяцев назад +117

    No lipsyncing here just pure vocal talent ❤ back in the day, God I miss the 90s

    • @tinaBabe4
      @tinaBabe4 7 месяцев назад +4

      Summer 1991! Yessssss☝🏼🙆🏽‍♀🙌🏼

    • @babygirla5717
      @babygirla5717 7 месяцев назад +3

      Facts just pure talent

  • @tiffanyeyoung1800
    @tiffanyeyoung1800 2 месяца назад +23

    How many here miss inspirational music like this? These days you rarely hear any and it's so sad

  • @EasyE6666
    @EasyE6666 Месяц назад +15

    I'm male. I just woke up about my life. I am struggling so bad. No one will help just a tiny bit to breath. I heard this song. Tears to my eyes. Can't give up.

    • @AnAdorableWombat1
      @AnAdorableWombat1 Месяц назад +5

      Please don't give up. I have been there and I know the feeling. I don't know you but I will promise you one thing. Being positive will change your entire life. This is a tough mindset but it works and it has changed my life and I know it can change yours. You got this

    • @melodihester5764
      @melodihester5764 Месяц назад +4

      Just believe you didn’t come across this song by accident. Stay strong 💪🏾

    • @certifiedclyde1422
      @certifiedclyde1422 23 дня назад +4

      As long as you keep your head to the sky 💪🏾💪🏾

    • @EasyE6666
      @EasyE6666 23 дня назад

      @AnAdorableWombat1 Thank you. I didn't. I was just about to. I was let go from a job a month ago. The owner choose the cook over a Executive Chef. I was cussed out by his cook. He let me go because the other guy been there longer and had is wife working there. I told him sir your making the wrong choice. Every bit of my soul knew this. I was down to no food. Cell phone off. Gym membership was a balance of 100.00. No money. I got a job offer out of state... Right when I was about to go. Last Tuesday owner called saying his cook never showed up. Please come now. I did. Then Friday he promoted me to Kitchen Manager. Gave me a week's pay in cash. So I could catch up. Now I am on the pay role with a high salary. He even gave my wife two days out the week as server. Now we looking for a apartment. 🥲 Don't ever give up. 👑 💪 Thank you all for your words of encouragement. I needed it.

    • @MarcusBarker-fj7ro
      @MarcusBarker-fj7ro 16 дней назад +2

      Praying for you brother! Reach out. I dont mind exchanging info to do what i can to bless you

  • @Swoop2565
    @Swoop2565 11 месяцев назад +57

    Ann Nesby is truly Unsung ❤

  • @Passion-X
    @Passion-X Год назад +53

    Still listening in 2023!!!❤

  • @reggiemckinnon3126
    @reggiemckinnon3126 Год назад +58

    Ann Nesby ripped it!

  • @tombrady248
    @tombrady248 2 года назад +80

    I Love this song so much! Black is so beautiful and always has been and always will be!

    • @damon3347
      @damon3347 3 месяца назад +1

      Amen👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

  • @MichaelSmith-np6tf
    @MichaelSmith-np6tf Год назад +50

    When I am feeling down about something, I play this and get back in the game! Love this song!

  • @0091sender
    @0091sender Год назад +29

    Play this soon as u wake up❤

  • @finefeatheredfriend9240
    @finefeatheredfriend9240 Год назад +57

    That ending was spectacular! Black music was so pure back in the days. I miss the 90s soooo much!!!! 😫😭

    • @sujane1984
      @sujane1984 5 месяцев назад +2

      YES YOU CAN HAVE THE PRIZE
      SHE HAS CONVINCED ME IN FULL!!

    • @user-mr5eq5ch7w
      @user-mr5eq5ch7w 3 месяца назад +1

      Me too and I wasn't even born in the 90's.❤❤❤❤

    • @marvinjgerald6007
      @marvinjgerald6007 Месяц назад

      It has nothing to do with the 90’s per se. It’s how the singers were raised and the choices they made resulting in them coming together in harmony. It’s beautiful soul stirring songs from every generation, irrespective of ones overt emotionalism of any one particular great song.

    • @finefeatheredfriend9240
      @finefeatheredfriend9240 Месяц назад +1

      @@marvinjgerald6007 There’s been nothing like this or comes close in mainstream music at least for the past 15 years. Particularly in black music because that’s where the origins are. A positive message meant for all, but really for the struggle in the black community in all aspects of life in America.

    • @LundenMaxwell-it4yu
      @LundenMaxwell-it4yu Месяц назад +2

      Everything is trash now days

  • @marcusa.fromthebay7514
    @marcusa.fromthebay7514 4 месяца назад +10

    This song did so much to lift up the mind, body and soul of a young man who was struggling to provide for his young marriage and his young family. I thank The Creator for delivering it to us all through this wonderful group.

  • @user-hf9bl5wd9t
    @user-hf9bl5wd9t 17 дней назад +2

    Thank you to all the Angels who would preach knowledge to the People at Wesr End in Atlanta in the 80s and 90s. I love you.

  • @Therealadrianallens
    @Therealadrianallens 2 года назад +47

    2022 this song still gives so much hope to keep pushing on

  • @arresteddevelopment2158
    @arresteddevelopment2158 11 дней назад +1

    PERFECTION 🎉🎉🎉. This song saved my life so many times.

  • @captaintruth
    @captaintruth 11 дней назад +1

    When a people love themselves and have a pure energy to them it transcends any form of social or cultural bounds we know. I'm white with Irish roots (west coast so tanned not ginger haha we have variety too, the original celts spanned to Iberia) and this song gets me fired up from the depths of any battles, brings peace when all I feel chaos and reminds me to stay ... optimistic when all around we've strayed so far from how we should be living. They say frequencies can have energy and effects on the human body. This song is the very best in all of us.

  • @Rahnotrob
    @Rahnotrob Год назад +29

    I really needed this today.

  • @RobbieBlue
    @RobbieBlue 7 месяцев назад +11

    The beat just feels good high vibration

  • @pattidenise8666
    @pattidenise8666 Год назад +35

    I was today years old when I found out this isn’t Patti LaBelle singing lead 😭😭😭

    • @kctaylorsings
      @kctaylorsings Год назад +11

      Right. But what's ironic is she cowrote, The Right Kinda Lover for Patti LaBelle with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Gems Album, 1994)

    • @susiecarmichael5423
      @susiecarmichael5423 7 месяцев назад +4

      Not Patti lol

    • @mochaqueen_88
      @mochaqueen_88 4 месяца назад +2

      I thought it was Aretha Franklin

    • @662chillin
      @662chillin Месяц назад +2

      That's the legendary Ann Nesby

    • @papi2134
      @papi2134 12 дней назад

      Ann Nesby from Rockford IL❤

  • @chestermijnals6914
    @chestermijnals6914 11 месяцев назад +15

    I love how Sounds Of Blackness always came from Afrocentrism

  • @ttee3618
    @ttee3618 8 месяцев назад +16

    Ann has one of the best voices of all time!

  • @DonnellPrince
    @DonnellPrince 7 месяцев назад +7

    This is how you come to the Apollo Theater. Harlem stand up. FBA Stand up we are winning in the struggle towards complete Freedom, Justice, and equality. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

  • @yocomdw1274
    @yocomdw1274 2 дня назад

    This song is always right on time. ❤❤❤

  • @jrallday
    @jrallday 3 месяца назад +5

    This so is so beautiful. It's like a prayer.

  • @Petdoc88
    @Petdoc88 Год назад +15

    Ann Nesby !! Head & Shoulders above the rest !

  • @knight9k
    @knight9k Месяц назад

    Takes me bavk to the early 90's...Great song, good times..🤙🏾

  • @rodm.5071
    @rodm.5071 2 года назад +14

    Ok I see you Ann Nesby.

  • @ttee3618
    @ttee3618 8 месяцев назад +8

    Miss Ann is so effortless and fabulous

    • @twoot63
      @twoot63 Месяц назад +1

      Ms Ann know she betta sang!! She killin and not even trying..

  • @alacarte5073
    @alacarte5073 7 месяцев назад +6

    The last soloist, the light skinned lady who sings tenor, is Pat Lacey, one of Luther Vandross bv extraordinaire.

  • @shaylah2725
    @shaylah2725 Год назад +9

    MINNEAPOLIS STAND UP ❤

  • @prplrayn4877
    @prplrayn4877 Год назад +16

    Ok I was digging around the internet trying to find out why the actress on Queen Sugar looked so damn familiar……once I saw her name I was like BOOM! This song played for months in my neighborhood. Her voice is SICKENING❤! When I say it played everywhere I mean everywhere…so powerful and uplifting.👌🏽

  • @DonnellPrince
    @DonnellPrince 7 месяцев назад +6

    10/2023 Still will get you through anything. I’m 35, and still love this song.

  • @kel-melprevail8127
    @kel-melprevail8127 8 месяцев назад +8

    They all went to Sylvia s for dinner after this performance ...when Sylvia s was good in 94

  • @raylin5905
    @raylin5905 5 дней назад

    This never gets old

  • @kykyakalakya2348
    @kykyakalakya2348 8 месяцев назад +8

    They have always been my favorite group!! ❤❤

  • @strauqq1
    @strauqq1 2 года назад +19

    What a great song!!!!

  • @hollywoocdg
    @hollywoocdg Год назад +6

    jam and lewis really put this together man

  • @KingOfPentacle
    @KingOfPentacle 8 месяцев назад +8

    I love love love this song and so appreciate this. Thank you for sharing. What the world needs today 💖 more music like this.

  • @jclamour1
    @jclamour1 7 месяцев назад +3

    😢❤Beautiful! I pray for us all! The Heavenly Father is a healer!

  • @yogiman4293
    @yogiman4293 2 месяца назад

    The message is the message! Amen!

  • @8amook760
    @8amook760 3 месяца назад +2

    I loooove this song❤

  • @alacarte5073
    @alacarte5073 7 месяцев назад +5

    Love her adds. Love the Apollo, iconic venue.

  • @Dii552
    @Dii552 2 года назад +12

    I love this SONG!

  • @akeillewis7515
    @akeillewis7515 Месяц назад

    Thank you for posting, this live performance brings life to this songs, best version and quality of this live performance i have found 🙏🏾

  • @awsho3294
    @awsho3294 8 месяцев назад +5

    Damn..they threw down! frfr!

  • @noelcabrera4789
    @noelcabrera4789 6 месяцев назад +3

    This gave me goosebumps wow, God is great ❤

  • @lorenzohatcher9818
    @lorenzohatcher9818 27 дней назад

    The best song ever made

  • @andregunts5292
    @andregunts5292 Месяц назад +1

    I love it ✊🏿❤

  • @MYESHIA-DAWN-MATTHEWS
    @MYESHIA-DAWN-MATTHEWS 7 месяцев назад +4

    Loved this I was 12 in 91 when I first heard this love it til this day they rocked it ❤

  • @scoopie7478
    @scoopie7478 7 месяцев назад +5

    Real singing in the 90s. No autotune. Pure vocals

  • @jrallday
    @jrallday 3 месяца назад +2

    It's A Vibe !

  • @billysun7119
    @billysun7119 8 месяцев назад +4

    Quand les artistes avaient encore de l'allure !

  • @PINOYPRIDE909
    @PINOYPRIDE909 15 дней назад

    Please take me back time☝️🙏👑🕊

  • @rodneybrown8683
    @rodneybrown8683 Месяц назад

    Awesome indeed ❤️❤

  • @clarenceawalker1873
    @clarenceawalker1873 7 месяцев назад +2

    As long as you can keep your head to the sky you can win🙏.

  • @Pistons2024
    @Pistons2024 2 года назад +7

    The jam 🔥🔥🔥

  • @tinaBabe4
    @tinaBabe4 7 месяцев назад +2

    🙆🏽‍♀🙆🏽‍♀🙆🏽‍♀🙌🏼💛 **I LOVE MY GOD in HEAVEN.. DEEPLY**

  • @ygkt1339
    @ygkt1339 2 года назад +5

    Greatest page on the tube

  • @troyjohnson6317
    @troyjohnson6317 Год назад +8

    You better keep yo head 2 the sky

    • @rickjohnson8707
      @rickjohnson8707 9 месяцев назад

      MORE NOW THAN EVER ! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @taalakotelo5990
    @taalakotelo5990 2 месяца назад

    Wow, God bless

  • @djscrutinize6721
    @djscrutinize6721 Месяц назад

    Child hold song throughout my elementary years optimistic was the somg played every event and every award ceremony.forever grateful for this music, and im still listening to them until this day 👏🏽🫴🏽

  • @walimvoiceoverartist
    @walimvoiceoverartist Месяц назад

    Man if we don’t get Ann Nesby some flowers right away!!!!!!’

  • @melodysanger103
    @melodysanger103 Месяц назад +2

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY
    MUSICAL DIRECTOR
    GARY HINES
    (MAY 20, 2024

    • @twoot63
      @twoot63 Месяц назад

      HBD Maestro!

  • @theuglychannel3564
    @theuglychannel3564 3 месяца назад +1

    Up at 5 am listening

  • @aarondixon460
    @aarondixon460 7 месяцев назад +1

    Song is beautiful and timeless

  • @KingMD7152
    @KingMD7152 10 месяцев назад +3

    Within you is where I dwell. Blackness

  • @TeamHarlem
    @TeamHarlem 7 месяцев назад +1

    Amen!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤

  • @TheOnlyYLNProdigy
    @TheOnlyYLNProdigy 3 месяца назад +1

    2024 ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

  • @marvinjgerald6007
    @marvinjgerald6007 Месяц назад

    It has nothing to do with the 90’s per se. It’s how the singers were raised and the choices they made resulting in them coming together in harmony. It’s beautiful soul stirring songs from every generation, irrespective of ones overt emotionalism of any one particular great song.

  • @dannyhayden1588
    @dannyhayden1588 Год назад +3

    Musical purity

  • @sosmoothu41983
    @sosmoothu41983 Год назад +6

    House party 2

  • @bbeboda
    @bbeboda 2 года назад +7

    TgotSoul doing Gods work out here lol

  • @damon3347
    @damon3347 3 месяца назад +1

    Black is beautiful 👍🏿🤎🖤🧡💛👏🏿✊🏿👊🏿💪🏿👑🦁🕊️

  • @tahniquawilliams8013
    @tahniquawilliams8013 26 дней назад

    Need The Most High Yah right about now!

  • @liamthompson2604
    @liamthompson2604 3 месяца назад

    Love this song!!

  • @kellyt9292
    @kellyt9292 10 месяцев назад +1

    Higher Learning!

  • @deezytroop8890
    @deezytroop8890 4 месяца назад +1

    How I get here 2024.....oh duh

  • @frankcohen9201
    @frankcohen9201 4 месяца назад

    I love this song🎉

  • @Usercantwelve
    @Usercantwelve 5 месяцев назад +2

    Ms Ann Nesby 💥

  • @noahman1234
    @noahman1234 2 года назад +1

    Love the quality

  • @tonihodgessteward921
    @tonihodgessteward921 Месяц назад

    Very Optimistic

  • @662chillin
    @662chillin Месяц назад +1

    What happened to mainstream singles like this?
    Apollo was tailor made for vocalists like this

  • @leighburton832
    @leighburton832 8 месяцев назад

    This was two years after the song came out!

  • @ericsingletary4083
    @ericsingletary4083 13 дней назад

    Major dance record in the clubs.......

  • @TavaresRaven-ex9eg
    @TavaresRaven-ex9eg 7 месяцев назад

    I'm about to remix.. love this timeless track

  • @jaunhcblack716
    @jaunhcblack716 7 месяцев назад

    Keep ya head up

  • @sandralofton7986
    @sandralofton7986 7 месяцев назад +2

    Where are they now?are they still singing?

  • @toysrus701
    @toysrus701 Год назад +2

    We can have a ball yall

  • @certifiedclyde1422
    @certifiedclyde1422 Месяц назад +1

    Who is the first singer? She blowing

  • @MyDarling572
    @MyDarling572 6 месяцев назад

    Where is the dude who was shirtless in the video? 🔥🔥🔥

  • @MichelleIrvin-bl5tz
    @MichelleIrvin-bl5tz Месяц назад

    First thing I think is successful black people😊

  • @ellisstelly5206
    @ellisstelly5206 Месяц назад

    You can win!!! Exodus 14:14 New International Version 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

  • @TheBobifrank
    @TheBobifrank 7 месяцев назад +1

    Most of them sounded off key except for the big mama adlibing

  • @jaunhcblack716
    @jaunhcblack716 7 месяцев назад

    House party 2, the best

  • @thecomplimentking
    @thecomplimentking 2 месяца назад +1

    #FBACulture

  • @meedoogles
    @meedoogles 2 года назад +3

    six comments?

    • @natalie8105
      @natalie8105 2 года назад

      Does me leaving this commment help?❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @meedoogles
      @meedoogles 2 года назад

      @@natalie8105 YES it does

  • @chrislawuk
    @chrislawuk Год назад +3

    Without the musical, cultural and creative output and inspiration from non-“white” people, my “white” life (in quotes because I actually see myself reflected here, I don’t feel separate even if I may look it) would have been much more unbearable

  • @thewhitedoncheadle8345
    @thewhitedoncheadle8345 10 месяцев назад +4

    ann nesby everytime ❤️

  • @damon3347
    @damon3347 3 месяца назад +1

    Black is beautiful 👍🏿🤎🖤🧡💛👏🏿✊🏿👊🏿💪🏿👑🦁🕊️