DIMASH ‘Daybreak' Vocal Coach Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Grammy-nominated Opera singer and voice coach WILLIAM has a life-changing experience listening to DIMASH.
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WILLIAM MORRIS
Grammy-nominated Voice Coach for classical, crossover, pop, folk & all genres. Multi-linguist. Pianist. Performance Coach. Stage Director.
Email: bangkokvoicecoach@gmail.com
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Music Studio @ Lad Krabang, Bangkok, Thailand
Tú estás enamorado de este Magnífico ser humano...verdad???,
Yo también.le amo con toda mi alma.
💝💝💖💖🙏
Dimash geatwsy talent is to deliver the song and to tell the story one of the most emotional performance. He is man of contrast, he can prepare you for battle or put you down for nap, he can make you fall in love and also broke your heart. He can make you happy and also sad. I’m saying this as a complimentary
Димаш-гений 21 века.
I think this is absolutely one of Dimash’s best performances. What a voice! Such emotion. Thank you William for your sensitivity. 🙏❤️❤❤
Здравствуйте,сделайте пожалуйста разбор песни Angel Love Димаша.
Simplemente Magistral interpretación 💐
Amazing and perfect Dimash……..loved!…..
I heard this on the radio as it was being reported, years ago. I had to go get my kids from school and never found out what happened to the little boy until I came across this song sung by Dimash.
So sad Katrina. I think Dimash has taken a break from singing it for that reason. I particularly love this song.
Hi, William! Yes, Daybreak is one of my favorite Dimash performances to date. I think he was 10 years old when he first heard this song and it had a profound impact on him. When he performed it on The Singer, he had lost his voice and his throat was very sore. He went to the doctor and the doctor did everything he could to get his voice back to a point where he could still sing. But the doctor told Dimash not to use any of his high notes. He did a great job singing it. I could tell he wasn't at his absolute best, but he still did it. He actually did hit the G5, which surprised me, remembering the doctor's warning.
Hi Jennifer, I think that's why he sang it with such deep intensity at Bastau the following year. I heard that he doesn't sing this song anymore. Is that correct?
@@BangkokVoiceCoach I haven't heard him sing it lately, but I'm not 100% sure if he no longer sings it.
@@BangkokVoiceCoach Thats right. He hasnt sang it since 2018. I'm not sure why. Maybe he just has so many songs he can no longer fit it in his schedule
Someone told that Dimash couldn't sing that song any more because it's too emotional - and we know what happens with the voice when one gets emotional.
@@pirkkoukkonen8039 ah I see
Hi,thank you very much za Dimashe.Love.Brillliant.|Greetings from Czech republic,Evropa
Dimash voice should classified Unesco Cultural Heritage!! Greetings from Albania 🇦🇱
UNESCO Dimash. ❤️Or Ambassador
In 2017, i was one of a million following Dimash who was worried performing this song due to sickness... but he made it afterall. I can't believed it's been 5 yrs.
That's really cool Nu. Are you in China?
You were lucky to see him,as a 23 year old.hes just getting g better .lo e from 🇬🇧
I can see your emotion throughout this review. This performance brings me to tears everytime I view it. Thank you for your amazing and heartwarming reactions. ❤️
William thank you so much for sharing this touching story. Of course Dimash is so sensitive towards humanity. Such a blessed soul💕💕
Hello William. There was my life before Dimash and my life with Dimash for 5 years! what a miracle ! what talent! what a voice, what ecstasy, what happiness to listen to it every day. What a joy to live in his time! Thank you for your very interesting and enlightened reactions 👏👍 greetings from France
I agree!,🥰❤️🇨🇦
Thank you for how you presented this. The tragedy, Han Hong, the adoption, the song, Dimash's loosing his voice, and this incredible performance. Beautifully put together by you for us. And then to talk about his voice and what he does and why and sharing your expertise.... well done. Thank you
Thank you Sandra. This song is really beautiful.
@@BangkokVoiceCoach If you want to watch The Singer performance I would recommend going to Gloria Wu you tube channel (no copyright problems) She shows it with subtitles. You can see how much pain Dimash is in.
@@joycemyers3803 great suggestion Joyce. 🙏
Amazing pertormance ! Dimash ❤️
A tragic back story, but that itself encapsulates what Dimash does. He performs the story, as much as the notes.
If you want another Dimahs song to react to with a similar tragic back story. His version of Autumn Strong, sung in the I Am Singer 2017 is amazing.
Hi Tom, I will look for autumn Strong. I totally agree, Dimash is all bout the storytelling. Sometimes people get fixated on the notes he is singing because they are so remarkable.
Agree 100%. Well said.
Find it on Gloria Wi’s YT Channel.
Dmash 🙏❤️🙏🙏❤️
Kodus!!! A beautiful reaction! This was his first concert. There’s three performances that stand out in that 3 hours concert. This, daidadau and diva dance. Thank you for reacting.
To me this is one of the best live performances of all times. First of all, the song itself is really beautiful, then the heart breaking story behind it, the adoption, D`s vocals, and the emotion he conveys to the listener. Absolutely fantastic performance.
Yes it’s astounding.
This is one of my favorite performances from Dimash. I love your reactions and the settings you film them! You are super knowledgeable and your breakdowns of the music are amazing. ❤
c'est tellement beau et plein d'émotions. je suis en pleure à chaque fois que je vois cette vidéo. merci beaucoup.
So beautiful
DIMASH IS INCREDIBLE SÍNGER🎵🌟⭐👑🤴
У Димаша во всем идеальный вкус, в выборе песни, музыки. Все делает вкусно. Хочу отметить одежду, всегда смотрю на это. Лучший дизайнер. Всегда идеальный прикид. ❤️🌹🌹🌹
This is a wonderful performance but I love the one he gave on I am singer 2017. There is a video of Dimash going to the hospital for injections in his throat. Because we knew Dimash was in real discomfort on that performance and was so worried he wouldn’t get through it, it seemed to add even more poignancy. He left out the main run, but did a great job. Maybe watch that on your own just to see Dimash doesn’t want to disappoint the audience.
I think we Dears are all very sensitive and touchy when it comes to Daybreak. And that's why we are greatful to reactors like you, who can appreciate the essence of the performance: the pain, fear, frustration and hopelessness of a little boy who is loosing his parents. When Dimash is singing, he IS the boy, kicking and screaming his lungs out. Thank you so very much!
So true!
Exactly. And remember the lyrics of Han Hong are written from the pov of the little boy which makes it all the more personal.
Amazing reaction...you are very special when it comes to making a dignified reaction...and being the virtuous Dimash is not for less...the world needs more people like you, with true knowledge of what a true talent is, someone unique, where your tongue, don't mind when it comes to saying this is the best thing I've seen in my whole life... it's my thinking but following your musical career I know it's yours too.
Thank you Jose. Your message means a lot to me. William 🙏
👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕 Beautiful reaction to one of my most favorite performances !!💕💕💕Thanks so much 🙏🙏🙏
Yes I agree. Daybreak is incredibly special. ❤️
When I first heard this song a long time ago, I felt all this pain, despair and strength, incredible perseverance. And that's without even knowing the translation. Dimash conveys everything so sensually. I'm glad you heard this song. She is incomparable.
You know some of this already - for Dimash, this is the first chinese song that he ever heard, he was 10 at the time, and his whole body began trembling. He first covered this song on The Singer chinese show - and in the backstage footage told what this song means to him. Also, the day when he performed it on the show, he was sick and had lost his voice in the morning. He was taken to the doctor and was given 4 injections in the throat, but they didn`t do much until the hour of the performance came. Before going on stage he could barely speak. When he stepped on the stage, he was thinking of all the people waiting to hear him. And his voice came, and he gave an amazing, heart-breaking performance. When he got off the stage, his voice disappeared again, and it took several days to recover. If you want to see his whole description of what this song means to him, his view on family, footage of Dimash with his family, as background for what this song means to him, plus what technical choices he made to give a perfect performance in spite of the state of his health, here`s the link for The Singer performance, with english subtitles, and behind the scenes footage : ruclips.net/video/uXGF7vgEYKk/видео.html (turn CC on, as subtitles are a hybrif - part of the subtitles are burned into the video, some are accessible by turning on the CC)
He later said in an interview that his throat felt like broken glass when singing, and when I looked closely, I realized that he was pale and his hands were shaking at times.
Thank you for giving such attention to this particular song - it`s a very important one for us fans, because of it`s backstory, because of Dimash`s heartbreaking struggle with his voice in 2017, and because of the footage with his family, and his view on it :)
Indeed, it’s my most important Dimash experience so far.
Passione 🙏🤩🤴🏻❤️🇪🇸
I cannot help but become tearful every time I hear this song. The beauty, the poignancy, the heartbreak and tragedy are all completely reflected by Dimash each time he performs this piece. Beautiful! Cheers from Canada!
This song is one of my Top 10 favourite songs of Dimash. 🥰
Уильям, большое спасибо за реакцию!
la chanson est émouvante. ..la voix sublime de DIMASH est pénétrante et très touchantes.
One of my favorites performances by Dimash
Finally. I was about to write to you and suggest this beautiful, beautiful song (and story) ❤️
How could it have taken one month for me to discover this!!? ❤️
@@BangkokVoiceCoach It is so many great songs to discover and unfortunately you can't do them all at once. Since you obviously know of his performance when he lost his voice, I hope you have listened to that one too. I personally think it is more emotional.
BTW, it was just a couple of months earlier than this one.
Let me suggest some of his Kazakh songs next. Samaltau (Tokyo Jazz Festival version) or the music video of Ómir óter 😊
Oh, and thanks for mentioning his choice of B minor. I hadn't noticed it.
@@kriknut1 I can’t imagine trying to sing this song with a throat infection. I love his performance in this. I find it very emotional and I like that the high section really emerges from the main part of the song.
Yes it's a beautiful sad song. I should have suggested it too. Sorry for that William. 👍 Love from Norway 🇳🇴
Спасибо за вашу любовь и понимание. Димаш необыкновенный, исключительный артист.
Ich schaue dir so gerne zu…du erkennst und hörst jedes Detail…ich freue mich auf das nächste Video…Dimash brilliante Aufführung…❤
I love your reactions. They are full of interesting information. Greetings from Czech Republic.🙂
Glad you like them!
Спасибо за комментарий. И отдельное спасибо за фото.
Eu li que ele no "The Singer" na China (2017), resgatou essa música de sua cabeça quando era menino, porque além de tudo, a mente dele é prodígio, é um "arquivo musical" vivo, com músicas de todos os tempos, países e idiomas! Não falava Chinês. E cantou dessa maneira!
Dimash performed this at I AM SINGER in China after loosing his voice and being given 5 injections in his throat that were not working -PLEASE,PLEASE go back and hear his performance -the Bastau concert was after his performance in China.
It will be on Gloria Wu's channel - it gives the story of Dimash going to the doctor, the backstory and his performance -
As always William, a wonderful reaction! No one else has ever included any photos of the accident, and even though I've watched this performance a dozen or more times over the past four years, it added something to show me exactly what happened. Thank you for that. Greetings from a Nevada, USA Dear!
Hi Barb. It certainly makes it very real when you see the face of that little boy and his happy parents. So heartbreaking.
Gracias por reaccionar al gran príncipe Kazajo Dimash y por los sub títulos al castellano u español
Да, песня для Димаша знаковая, он услышал ее очень давно и был рад спеть ее в Китае. Она очень трогательная, так как за ней стоит история трагедии. Спасибо за реакцию! И у вас за спиной очень красивый вид!
Dimash's brilliant interpretation of this beautiful song. Sung with the heart, it gently tears our souls.
Thank you Mr. William for reaction. I love your professional and thoroughly prepared reactions. You respect the artist with your professionalism. My deep respect for your work. 💟🍀
Thank you 🙏
Love ur reactions and personality! 👍🏼🤩
Thank you so much 😁
Maravillosa interpretación.!!! Hasta el próximo vidio.Saludos desde Panamá 🇵🇦
THIS IS A VERY SAD SONG BUT IT S BEATIFUL,POWERFUL,WHITH MEANINGS!!!HE IS AN INCREDDIBLE VOICE!!HE TELLS THE STORY WHITH THIS VOICE,HE HAS A BIG HEART!!HE IS THE BEST!!
I absolutely love this song. Did you hear that he has stopped singing it?
I love your reaction!!!You are a very good reactor!!!!👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
Another beautiful song is “Your Love” by Dimash! 🙏
I love your touches when you review Dimash. I’ve heard the song many times and know the story. I’ve never seen the pictures you showed us. Thank you for featuring Dimash so beautifully. Bev😊
Thanks Jim. Hope all is well.
Bonjour et merci 🙏
La voix de Dimash nous transmet toute ses émotions et les frissons dans toutes les cellules du corps.
A très bientôt
Asombroso Dimash 💯💯🇨🇷❤️🇨🇷
Thanks for all your reactions of Dimash! Un gran saludo desde España.
Эту песню нельзя слушать без слёз. Хотя множество раз смотрел много версии. Димаш не поет одинаково. Каждую песню улучшает новыми красками. И каждая шедевр по своему. Димаш в каждый песню вкладывает душу и сердце 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓. Помню как то были титры. Что поет от имени ребёнка что выжил. Там вроде были слова про посадки сад или деревья. Могу и ошибаться или путать с другой песней.
Thank you so much William. The great reaction emotional. Very tragedy and emotional history... I love this song!❤️ Greetings from Israel.
Hi Lumila. Thanks for your comment. Hope all is good in Israel.
Love your professional reactions, William. Thank you for the support you give Dimash!! 💞
Thanks!!!! Daybreak is a wonderful song! And DIMASH’s Performance is just mind blowing!!! I looooove it!!!❤️
❤️❤️❤️ From Sevilla THANKS EVER for your emotions 🙏🙏
Thank you again for your professional reaction
This a beautiful reaction to Dimash's performance of Daybreak. He is such a wonderfully talented human being. The love pours out of him threw song. I can never get enough of listening to his voice. It's so beautiful. The lord sent us an angel in Dimash.😇💯
This tecnicaly marvelous
You have moved me so much through your narrating the tragedy behind the song and great analysis of Dimash's singing ability.He was superb and emotional ...making me cry.
With thanks for Your wonderful reactions! ❤️
China opened Dimash to us, and he opened Chinese culture to us. Let me recommend these performances to you:
Dimash & Tengri, "Goose-Swan" | Spring Festival 2019| - ruclips.net/video/8LEXQctl0Q0/видео.html
Dimash & Lee Yugang (2020), "Drunken Concubine" + "Diva Dance"-
ruclips.net/video/8T3J9TqU-QM/видео.html
A wonderful interpretation of two cultures, Dimash's modesty in duets is incredible, he can do more, but he does not want to overshadow his partner.
Oh yes his cooperations with other singers are just an other great aspect of his talent. With tengri he tries to creat a cultural bridge between two nomadic cultures who were not always on good terms the kasakh and the mongolian. Just to see the joy they have singing together is wonderfull.
I’ve noticed that when he is singing with sopranos he remains mainly in the lower part of his voice, even though he could sing her part too!!!
@@BangkokVoiceCoach The stars of the world, with whom the maestro worked, were invited to the anniversary evening of Igor Krutoy (the 65th anniversary of his birth). "TI AMO COSI" was performed by Dimash, Lara Fabian and Aida Garifullina (soprano). There was only one rehearsal in the morning when everyone arrived in Moscow. Then Aida joked, saying that if she had to leave urgently, Dimash would have coped with the role of Aida. Look, all three of them are great there. 😄😉
Thank you so much for the backstory and for your heartfelt reaction and analysis of this gorgeous performance!💝
Υπέροχο τραγούδι!!!👏👏👏❤️🌹🌷🇬🇷
Sin palabras, poderosa..
Esta cansion es bellisima y Dimash la interpreta con el alma,es una de mis favoritas hay otra version en un concierto en China donde la canta totalmente diferente a esta y tambien bellamente interpretada...saludos desde Chile...
It is very nice that you diligently learn the background of the songs performed by Dimash yourself. And the song "Unforgettable Day" Dimash wrote himself when he was still a teenager. Maybe it was thanks to his first crush, maybe!At the 2017 contest "I am a singer" in China, Dimash performed the song "Dawn", ill, and with a high fever. But according to the rules of the competition, he could not miss his performance. And there is a video on RUclips where Dimash, before the performance, is taken to a doctor who gives him an injection of an injection right into his throat. And when they asked Dimash how he was able to sing with such a high temperature, he replied that it was even easier for him to sing on his vocal cords warmed up from high temperature, but he strongly advised against risking others, his vocal cords, so much.
Maravillosa reacción, poniendo en contexto la historia de la canción y Dimash como siempre llegando a nuestro corazón 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️♥️💐💐💐💐💐💐💐 Saludos 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
When Dimash sang this song on the Singer, he spoke with Han Hong on the phone about the meaningfulness of this song.
After 5 years , still one of my favorite song and performance ❤️🔥❤️ Sad story , but full of hopes 😢 🙏 For me this is a masterpiece ❤️ Thank you and love from Bulgaria ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. Love your reactions.
Bravo.
Omir Oter.
Thank u, once again 🌷
Greatings from an old Danish Dear and Angel ❤️🇩🇰🌷
Thank you. 🙏🌎🕊💙
Очень приятно, что вы старательно сами узнаёте предысторию песен, исполняемых Димашем. А песню "Незабываемый день" Димаш написал сам, когда был ещё подростком. Возможно это было благодаря его первой влюблённости, возможно!На конкурсе "Я - певец" 2017 года в Китае, Димаш исполнил песню "Рассвет", заболевшим, и с высокой температурой. Но по правилам конкурса, он не мог пропускать своё выступление. И на ютьюбе есть видеоролик, где Димаша, перед выступлением ведут к врачу, который делает ему инъекцию укола прямо в горло. И когда спрашивали Димаша, как он смог спеть с такой высокой температурой, он ответил, что ему даже легче было петь, на разогретых от высокой температуры голосовых связках, но очень не советовал так рисковать другим, своими голосовыми связками.
No puedo evitar llorar cuando escucho éste tema cantado con tanto sentimiento a nuestro querido Dimash.Te felicito por interiorizarte de la historia antes de reaccionar no muchos lo hacen Saludos para ti y todos los Dears desde Argentina!!!🤗❤🇦🇷
Well know you have to react to this song from his Chinese contest "Singer" from 2017 becouse he lost his voice the night before this episode and you got to know how he sounds at his worst day!!! More down below on why I think you should react to this...
Episode 8 : 'Daybreak' (Tiān liàng le- Han Hong original artist and writing it!) In Chinese!
Gloria Wu's channel has the back-story about the song that is so sad and from a life story about a boy losing his parents in an awful way. Also you get to hear how Dimash sounds like then loosing his voice the day of the show!!! When he went on he didn’t know if he could sing. Looking close at the other contestants they where so worried about him. He lost his voice again after. Li Jian another contestant bought him a very very expensive Chinese medication for him so he could get better soon! Terry Lin hade gotten a doctors apointment for him. Also Dimash got to talk to Han Hong on the fhone before he got on stage.
ruclips.net/video/uXGF7vgEYKk/видео.html
Also Dimash got to talk to here during this and in episode 14 he got to meet her to. By then Dimash have alreddy meet "Terry Lin" that many alreddy thought Dumash looked like. Terry eas about 51 years young then. He sings a bit like Dimash and he loves Dimash song "Unforgettible day" So mutch so that they have sung it togheter some times. But during this competion they become friends and Terry was so glad however Dimash that is so respectfull started calling him Father or dad becouse thats the biggest respect he could call him.
Terry came in the contest in episode 5 and in episode 9 Dimash started calling him father and in episode 10 every Chinese got to know that. So when Han Hong came to the lastt episode that was a gala for the invirement she dident know this. So when the talked at the start of this episode they asked her what she thought of every artist there. Sha saide that out of respect for Dimash and his talant she took him as a dopted son!!! Well then she found out that Dimash called Terry Dad!!! So it kinda whent to familey photo. That was kinda nice.
I know from being a singer that you feel really terrible - and guilty! - when your voice doesn't work, and you also feel you are letting everyone down. It's a really unpleasant experience!!! Do you think. he sang 'Daybreak' well in the competition? I haven't looked at it yet but did see some videos of him visiting the doctor!
@@BangkokVoiceCoach I think he sang really good and I think if you gonna get thouse problems it's just the right song to gett them. If you dident know of the problems he had many might not have heard it. Ofcorse if you really knows how he sings you might find that in Bastau consert his voice is moore clean in some seans. I love the "Singer" competion moore becouse you really feels eatch note moore. It's sad he got thouse problems and I think he feelt werry bad for al the audiens that was there. He has a strong senas of not disipoint them. He got lots of support from the puther contestents too. After he sang he lost his voice again. You can reallyu see how mutch it hurts him to sing. Please react to the "Singer" version to.
Gracias, gracias..
Magistral reacción y Descansen en Paz los padres 🙏
Wonderful and moved song! thank you so much William .. excellent reaction 👌 💖
Gracias por reaccionar a dimash es un buen canal sobre todo profesional🇰🇿♡
Maravilloso Dimash como siempre! ❤️🇲🇽💕❤️🇲🇽💕
This is the song that makes me cry every single time! His emotions are everything ❤❤❤
so heartbreaking indeed. i love both performances.
the prior performance, with him being under the weather, had more "grit" and more "pain",
ironically because of him being sick, i personally ended up feeling more of the paid, and sorrow of the song, because of the "quality of the voice".
I was just re-watching your video review again and was crying with you. What an incredible song and the story! I think Dimash really did it justice. Can't imagine anyone sing it better. Thank you for all your heart and emotions.
Спасибо дорогой. Исполнение на айм Сингер трогательнее. Из за выступления Димаша с простывшим горлом. И аудитории понимающие историю и смысла.
Dimash simplesmente espetacular e apaixonante! Incrível!
👏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏿👏🏾👏🏾👏🏼♥️♥️🎶🎶🇧🇷🇧🇷
Excelente reacción, Gracias por el apoyo a Dimash
So beautiful and moved song , incredible Dimash, thanks William !!!
Sí, ésta canción significa mucho para Dimash. Su voz se escucha hasta el cielo 😇😍🤗🙏 😇
Thank you
DIMASH WAR AND PEACE REACTİON PLEASE
I enjoy listening to and watching your comments and musical reactions. They are interesting and accurate. Thank you. I am waiting for more.
I heard he does not sing this anymore. As you know he inhabits each song and gives everything. It was said he does not want to absorb so much grief, which is understable. Try watching the whole Bastau concert. It is wonderful and, except for this, he is happy, although Daididau is another song that means a lot to him and he does a really fantastic performance. I hope to see a lot more reactions to dimash from you. Cheers
Daididau also has an importand backstory. A good suggestion.
Too much sadness especially as the words were written as though in the voice of the little boy.
Thanks for reacting to this and covering the story behind it :) You are right- this song is important to Dimash :) I think it's nearly up with Dididau - from the same concert :)
I hope you check that out- its a very culturaly important song to kazacks and appareantly Dimash had always wanted to perform it epsecially to international audiences - but in singing it in kazack with such a big home crowd you can see it really got to him by the end. Its another song with traditional kazack instruments. (btw i think its pronounced die-di-dau)
I strongly support your suggestion. It does something to me when i watch him overcome by emotions in the Bastau Version of Daididau. So beautyfull so sad so honest.
Also there is a backstory that ist needed to understand the song.
I will look for this song tomorrow 🙏
Great! You are doing such a splendid job with your reactions to Dimash. Thanks!
@@BangkokVoiceCoach Thanks- even if you just watch it yourself, i hope you enjoy it! The bastau concert version is by far the best- and maybe the most emotional we ever see dimash, at the end. It looks like to me it stopped him singing, at least for a few seconds :)
ruclips.net/video/Ra4v19Rp6cQ/видео.html
His delivery of this is so emotional and his voice at this concert was in incredible condition. (He did diva dance here as well) But the way he tells this story by weaving between pleading and crying and almost screaming at times while delivering a perfect technical performance and managing to keep his voice sounding incredibly beautiful while doing it is such a feat. Hes totally connected to what he's singing.
Diva Dance? You recommend it? I haven’t looked at it yet!
@@BangkokVoiceCoachoh yes..he did it in 2017 in the singer competition but polished it up for bastau..loved the bastau version. So much fun and such an incredible effort too