Lift Every Voice
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Enjoy Committed's version of the "Black National Anthem" as they commemorate Black History month. Follow, like, share and subscribe.
Special thanks to the students of Oakwood University's Department of Communication.
Mahalia Latortue
Nkenge Jones
Symone Coles
Brandon Pridgett
Ashley Berry
Video recorded live at Oakwood University!
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Who is still listening to this amazing heartfelt song on March 3,2024
I still listen to their songs since Sing-Off😁
3/17/2024 I still comeback to listen this, especially when I'm stressed at work ll
ME
I'm listening on Juneteenth 2024.
July 8, 2024 It inspired me on June 8th when it was sung at Glendale, AZ’s Kickoff to Juneteenth Event organized by the Black Business Owners Coalition of Glendale, Marcia Garland, Founder.
Years later and this is still a jam
Agreed.
Right
Yoo David
@@FractXDlol
No matter how many years may pass, this will ALWAYS be a jam.
Bravo, men. Bravo.
I’ve shared this with my middle school students for years now. They get kinda quiet in the presence of this perfect, skillful and passionate version of one of the most important songs in the land. What a blessed recording. Please keep sharing the great song of hope.
If the NFL is going to have this at the beginning of the games they need to have this group perform it. Great job guys.
amen!!!!
This will be sung for only the 1st week of the NFL season b4 each game. Would be nice to clone these guys to sing at every game, but I doubt that can be done.
@Nidstang ᛣ.ᛗ we get it nazi
Did you watch John Batitse (spelling) the US national anthem for NBA? He mixed the two songs
Really!?! I’m shocked they are going to allow it🤔
Total vocal perfection. Outstanding....got a big 6'5" man like me in tears. This got inside me deeply.
+DaOrigTruthSeeker
Me too!
DaOrigTruthSeeker they got a 6.6 women like me in tears. I'm 23
Me three.
I'm just cutting onions....
thats what she said
I have always loved this anthem. This is by far the most amazing rendition I have ever heard.
This is by far, the best rendition of the Black National Anthem.
Please put this on streaming platforms! I love this rendition!
Thank you for this beautiful rendition which inspired my music students to sit, listen, and learn as they realized that 5 good singers could sound like that!
This rendition of the anthem is giving me chills! May we always remember the struggle of our ancestors with expectancy, hope, dedication, faith and a determination to provide a better tomorrow.
Make sure you get those same chills when theres a white national anthem played too! This is racist as F. Black national anthem my ass
@@paintedgamer8090 One of those already exists.
this song sucks mule balls
@@robnichols6943 Do you call yourself a Christian? Do you know Him?
@@KeishiaLeeLouis_Books LMAO,We have ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM and that ISN'T IT. me being christian has nothing to do with not liking a song
My cousin said they played this song at her school. Then she persuaded me to listen to it and now i'm crying cause this is so beautiful.
who is your sister
Choclate Muffin It's my cousin and she said not to say. (sorry!)
+VideoGameGirl u can't tell me
+VideoGameGirl can u tell me the first word of he or her name
I am singing this song
This song needs to hold a place higher than the Star Spangled Banner, it saddens me that I am only learning the history, meaning and weight of this song now. To see crowds with locked arms of all races, genders, orientations and nationalities signing this together moves my heart and soul to a whole new level.
And if you truly think about it this more American than the Star Spangled Banner, and has more meaningful of struggling times and how we can over come it
This is so spiritual and uplifting, this hymn has brought us a long way. No other culture can replicate this talent! #blackmagic #blacknationalanthem
belizeanalienify actually only AFRICAN Americans can sing
non alien Uh..no. My husband was Black and he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. Besides, there are Whites and Asians who can SING.
This should be my 238 times of listening to this. I think this is the best of the Committed I've listened to! May your voices continue being blessed and blended.
Obioma Ebere what u think about this ruclips.net/video/ryRH9Qht9hk/видео.html just want some feedback
Listening to what is sub-titled the "Black National Anthem" should not be listened to even once----unless you want to promote a racist agenda.
I remember being in my middle school's choir class and the choir teacher played this. I was absolute blown away by the vocals (and how handsome they were). Ever since then I would come home and play this video back to back. 😍
Beyond words... I am utterly touched by this interpretation of this very significant song. What a jewel! Thank You!
Outstanding I used to sing this song every morning back in 1980 at Martin Luther King elementary school in Dade county miami, florida. My national anthem says to be true to our God and native land.
Sherwin Jose same school name different state
We also sang this beautiful anthem at Edison Park Elementary in Miami, FL....miss those days
#Goosebumps
Will be proclaiming God’s Word with the inclusion of this song as part of our worship and praise tomorrow morning. Great group, guys!!! Beautifully done. Praise the Lord God forever!!!
Oooh, that falsetto was amazing at the end.
They sound like the musical group, Take 6. Beautiful voices and sing now!!!!!!!!
Same school - different generations - Oakwood University...
The best version I've ever heard! Years later and I still come back to this one.
BRAVO!!! Standing ovation to you all!
Fantastic! What a terrific arrangement of this hymn. God bless you guys and your ministry.
Simply beautiful! a journey for the senses! BEAUTIFUL!
I can't stop listening! I cry every time I hear it! So grateful...
Beautiful beautiful you can hear the different sounds that was beautiful I love it love it great job brothers My African brothers African-American brothers
Such a beautiful rendition of a gorgeous and meaningful song. ♥
Such a divisive song that proponents call the "Black National Anthem". It's not an effort to bring the country together --- but to divide it. We don't need this type of division in out nation!
@@samjames2552 what the hell are you talking about it's my people national anthem
@@jonathansistrunk6260 Your “people” - what are you talking about? Don’t be divisive - try to bring people together, not divide them!
@@samjames2552 we are all relatives at the end of the day but we are also broken up by tribes and nations. Sam James so what anthem should we represent ?
@@jonathansistrunk6260 the Star Spangled Banner
Amazing what can be done with human voices in harmony.
Perfect Harmony. God Bless You ❤
Found this initially on Facebook last year. I posted it and sang it for days. This morning, it came up in my FB memories and I shared (and listened to it again). This rendition is simply splendid and I don't ever want to forget it, so I came to RUclips to find it and save it as a favorite video. Blessings!
Wow I love the whole history of how you found the song and then found it again . Magical god bless
I'm mexican and I went to an all black school and heard them play this song with out thinking it's true meaning. It's a very beautiful song that gives me hope for some reason.
This is a gorgeous generous version of one of our most important songs, thank you! to all the voices! xox
Killing it! Outstanding ~
Kirk Franklin did a great short version, This right here 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 just beautiful!
Lift every voice and sing has never been sung so amazingly! These five voices can sing to my ears any time. Thank you for sharing your gift! This was sung in school when I was younger.
I rarely get emotional over things like this but I love this. I only know of this through searching police brutality videos (because I live in the UK and police ain't that bad here) and discovering The Advise Show, who played this at the beginning of a livestream. Through darkness comes beauty is what I'd say about this song.
Yasmin E me too
I am blown away. A friend was asking for suggestions for a playlist of songs to play to celebrate the day Trump leaves office, so I went searching for a really good version of the Black National Anthem. I thought maybe a gospel choir or something. And I found you. I don't even know what to say. This is one of the most gorgeous pieces of music I've ever heard in my life. Well done. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us.
I've listened to this an unhealthy amount of times. Love it and outstanding job young men!!
Beautiful! Thank you for your gorgeous harmonies!
Absolutely beautiful I have chills.
Wowii wow and beautiful! BRAVO! Im gonna listen to this years to come.
This is powerful and beautiful, and these guys are each super talented!!! Just, WOW!!!
Flawless! Amazing! Incredible tone! Perfect pitch! God bless!
You guys actually know how to bring each other’s voices together like a actual really good harmonies😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
I remember my elementary school music teacher teaching us this song. This is indefinitely the Black/AA National Anthem. I will make sure to teach my kids this song.❤️🖤💚
Yeah and wheres the white one? Oh yeah that's racist. Jewish? Not mentioned but they've been opposed since they settled in israel. Nope black people were more oppressed. You people are brainwashed.
@@austin4688 Where did i mentioned anyone being oppressed? That’s your guilty conscience talking.🙄
@@austin4688 Btw, quiet as kept, the true biblical Israelites are the descendants of the transatlantic, and Arab slave trade according to prophecy... you didn’t hear it from me tho...shhh🤫😉
@@Jah_Nzola GET HIM BROTHER
💯 🎯 🕎 🙌🏽
Without having seen them when they were singing, I thought they were TAKE SIX! This was so very beautiful!
Take 5
Take 6
Beautiful! Today, this song is fitting for what's going on today! To God, be the glory!
a shame they don't teach this to kids in school anymore. I remember singing this in elementary and middle school
I learned it in grade school, too, and remember it even today. It's a shame that today's kids don't even know about it.
We had this awesome music teacher named Mr. Delmedico and we sung this in choir. This song is really amazing.
I know! This is our anthem
i learned this in 5th grade
Ashley Mosley They do teach it to kids
WOW!!!!!! Amazing.......I'm speechless. ....this makes being a person of color a honor to see black men singing the
Black National Anthem, and they sound amazing with no music. ..Born with Rhythm what can I say other than WOW!!!!!
Fabulous sound. Makes me laugh and cry at the same time!
Just amazing....there's so much to this song....I'm so glad "white America" has gotten a listen to this unimaginably beautiful anthem filled with so much love and hope FORGED THROUGH SUFFERING. Can we switch to this one, please?
@Toccoa Rivera What? Not enough 'bombs bursting in air' and 'rockets' red glare'
@Toccoa Rivera The racism is in “The Star Spangled Banner." From the 3ʳᵈ verse (removed from modern hymnals: there are _four_ verses in the original):
“No ref-uge can save
The hire-ling and *slave*
From the ter-ror of flight,
Or the gloom of the _grave.”_
It wishes _death_ on slaves.
@@JoelERea I said the same thing. THIS needs to be our national anthem. This was beautiful.
@@trishie3376 It’d sure beat “The Star Spangled Banner.” That song is just bad on every level, in every aspect.
I think “America the Beautiful” should be our National Anthem, but “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” should be a top-tier patriotic song like “America the Beautiful” is now.
There's only one America..... pud
Absolutely beautiful tone and blend. These guys are extremely talented!
Best rendition I’ve ever heard!
I've given it 1 year.... I'm pretty sure this is the best rendition of our anthem I have ever heard. Every time I come back I've been more persuaded, and I'm convinced at this point.
You should listen to June's Diary sing it. I really like theirs too.
The best rendition of "Lift every voice" is the one Junes diary. They didnt do the whole song but the part they did i was amazing. You should check it out. JUNES DIARY SINGING "LIFT EVERY VOICE".
Okay... I've happily listened to June's Diary, since two people said I should. I actually listened to several different videos of them singing. While I think they're really gifted singers, their arrangements of the anthem don't compare. Chords, cadence, even doing this whole song... they are not even in the same ball park. Granted, these are two totally different singing groups, with completely different objectives...I'm not at all comparing or contrasting the groups themselves. Because honestly it's apples and oranges. But as far as Lift Every Voice goes, Committed has this in THE BAG. All the way.
I agree. June's Diary's version is beautiful but this one is spine tingling! While both arrangements are amazing, I prefer the cadence and chord choices this one makes. It doesn't hurt that I'm biased because I sing 2nd tenor down to bass and this version is more in my vocal wheelhouse.
Michael Cross country music
WOW JUST AMAZING &BEAUTIFUL
WOW, they Sound So Awesome, Amazing, Wonderful, Great Singing, they put you in the mind of Boys to Men, I Haven't heard Lift Every Voice and Sing, since Grammar School, we had to hear and sing this all the time, in Grammer School, it was like an Anthem, in Grammar School, it's nice to Hear it again, very nice, but I also still Love to Hear O' Say Can You See, God Bless America, and O' beautiful. I ENJOY LISTENING TO THEM ALL, CAUSE TO ME LISTENING TO THEM ALL MAKES ME FEEL Very AMERICAN, WHICH IS WHAT I AM, AN AMERICAN, BORN AND RAISED, IN CHICAGO IL. AT COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL. SO I ENJOY LISTENING TO ALL OF THE ANTHUMS SONGS
That is one of the most miraculous expressions of music I have ever, ever heard. Thank you!
@Leslie Glen there is more similar music available!
You can tell they listened to Take 6 and old school Boys II Men. Great job!
I hope everyone i know who loves music can hear this perfectly sung song.
I had to come back. Lord, today had been a very difficult day for me. Thank you Lord for touching my heart through these young men. Praise Your Holy Name.
Just beautiful!
2021 Men, you are awesome singers, thank you.
Beautiful song!
Brothers in Christ!!! That ending tho!!! Seventh Day Adventist church represent#Committed
are they Adventists though? they really can sing
yes they are.
Yes...
They sure are! :)
hi
Most Beautiful! Wow!
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won
Stony the road we trod
Bitter the chastening rod
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
Yet with a steady beat
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
Out from the gloomy past
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light
Keep us forever in the path, we pray
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand
True to our God
True to our native land
Our native land
Thank you for adding the Lyrics.
As of we couldn’t fucking see😐
Beautiful and hopeful. May the promise it commemorated come, finally, to complete fruition.
Most awesome and wonderful. Thank you all.
They're voices sounds as if they are instruments. BEAUTIFUL!
They are!
I was gonna ask if this is autotune, it sounds that epic
Waaau beautiful voices .keep it up
*ahem* voices are, in fact, instruments :)
AWESOME
SPEECHLESS! It is packed with explosives!
wow!
Monday (12.20.2021.) "Lift every voice" - it cannot get much better than this; I can tell you this much. These men are just beautiful with the harmony and everything else.
So amazing and beautiful!
When homeboy hit that high note I swear I caught the holy ghost. Awesome job like always guys!
James Holiday same
James Holiday lol man I know right
hi
+Maggie Snyder k
James Holiday
Killed it! Thanks guys
Wonderful sound! Recently an 85 year old white man said he had never heard of that song! We all need to hear this song! Tom Zelinski
This makes me cry every time.
Its my first time hearing this song and its nice😇
Mrs. Davis my third grade history teacher had the entire class sing this in school every single day. She wanted us to have pride in ourselves and not forget our history.. I remember the words to this whole song because of her.. R.i.p Mrs. Davis she was a great teacher and you gentleman did a phenomenal job.
Who came after hearing "The NFL plans to play the Black national anthem before Week 1 games
#Blacklivesmatter
Me!
I love that they're doing this! I'm going to learn it and sing along!
@Zachary James 2 previous replies prove you wrong.
Wakanda National Anthem
@@haywoodyoudome Are you just gonna keep on reposting this or are actually gonna say something of importance?
Inspiring every time I come back to hear it again. 💕
Asked to hear this rendition. Outstanding! Thank you for sharing this century-plus-old song!
Absolutely exceptional. Extraordinary in every way.
Very nice, always loved this song. I heard this song often in Church, it's really a church hymn. It's so popular over the decades it became the Black national anthem.
Nope. Try again. My great-great grandma was a slave, and she sang this song. Maya Angelou’s movie I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings actually makes note of this. It was sang at her 8th grade graduation in lieu of the National Anthem back in the 40’s.
@@Gapeaches77able it's a hymn. But was later dubbed the BNA. What he said was not made up.
Bravo! Takes my breath away.
If there is a finer rendition of this hymn, I've not heard it. Incredible.
It's the Black National Anthem not a hymn
@@phillip2169 Do you think two things can be true at once, say, for example, that an anthem could also be a hymn?
Hymn: a type of song typically addressed to a deity.
Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
‘Til earth and HEAVEN ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on ’til victory is won.
ANSWER:
GOD of our weary years,
GOD of our silent tears,
THOU who has brought us thus far on the way;
THOU who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our GOD, where we met THEE,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget THEE;
Shadowed beneath THY hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our GOD,
True to our native land
ANTHEM: a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause. Also, a choral composition based on a BIBLICAL passage, for singing by a choir in a CHURCH service.
@@phillip2169 High as what? "The list'ning skies". Who would be listening?
@@phillip2169 Ok people refer to it as the Black National Anthem, that does not mean it is the national anthem. That make sense?
I agree Stefan Bruggemann
Thank you so much, Gentlemen, for this incredible, wonderful vocal presentation!!
They should be the opening performers of this beautiful national song on the NFL & other sports too.
I listen every year, and it’s still my favorite rendition. Amazing job! Brings me to tears😢
One of the finest vocal recordings!
Absolutely beautiful. Truly moving. Happy birthday America, may you continue to grow and may your citizens continue to learn to love EVERY human as themselves.
God bless Earth
This was sooooo beautiful! I had goosebumps & tears in my eyes for almost the entire song! What an amazingly talented group of young men!
Um...BET Entertainment awards should open their show like this. Cause we need to remember!!! Not a lot of people knows about this song and it sad
Simply beautiful. Thank you to this wonderful group for such musical and artful singing.
I have wept through this song repeatedly. Thank you for all those who struggled so hard to make us understand.
Lord Have Mercy!! This is THE BEST RENDITION I HAVE HEARD!! AMAZING!!🎙❤️
Wow! It's like Take 6... the early years! Heavenly harmony 🙏
What you know about take 6? Lol
@@neetrab Claude McKnight and the crew? I've been rockin' with them since the 90s fam! 😉
G alright now!! Yes, they had a couple of songs I liked in the 90s. Them and Commissioned. Commissioned was my favorite. Black gospel Male vocal group.
Mad respect to the bass
True
Lucas Brooks, and the first tenor..
yes! but that soprano is doing something to me!
Ive known of lift every voice and sing for some years, but ive never taken the time to listen to it and i started to tear up. This is beautiful and there should be no reason why people are angry.
I graduated from a Historically Black University & our band (Marching 100) always played this before the National anthem. Before we are American, we are African. “True to our God, true to our native land.”
I used to sing this every February during Black History Month at Mary Lin Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia. It will always be one of my favorite memories...
I asked my son if he knew this song this morning and he immediately started singing it. Made me so proud that I moved him from TX to Atlanta. He said he's known it since he was in 4th grade. Such a beautiful song.
@@ms.keyshawineglass7590 why would moving him from Texas to Atlanta be a reward or praise? WTF
Martin Luther King speeches
Reminds me of Boyz II Men keep up the good wrk guys!!💪💪💪🎤🎤🎵🎶🎼🎹🎹
The belief for unity forever!!!
I usually don't comment on things like this but you guys are awesome. GOD has really blessed you in deed
...Let's pray that God puts a spirit of unity in their hearts instead of an anthem based on a racist divide.