Mariah Carey - TOP 5 Polyphonic Whistles

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  • Опубликовано: 16 сен 2015
  • (HD) Mariah Carey Live Polyphonic Example Compilation 1991-2015
    Her voice can be Diplophonia with only whistle register
    Twitter: / diarymariah
    Live Peformances (Album) :
    #5: Emotions 1991 MTV VMA (Emotions)
    #4: I Still Believe 2010 Angels Advocate Tour Barretos (#1's)
    #3: Can't Let Go 1991 Arsenio Hall (Emotions)
    #2: Infinity 2015 Live with Kelly and Michael (#1 to Infinity)
    #1: Vision of Love 2003 Charmbracelet Tour Manila (Debut Album)
    TDOMC
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Комментарии • 529

  • @peterjonesdelacruz
    @peterjonesdelacruz 8 лет назад +1773

    It's called diplophonia. The nodules on her vocal cords sometimes cause them to make two pitches at the same time.

    • @joshuajackson4742
      @joshuajackson4742 6 лет назад +217

      it's not her nodules. It's the way whistle tone is produced. I have no nodules and sometimes when I whistle two notes come out.

    • @hyun808
      @hyun808 6 лет назад +45

      Yeh its normal, usually you gotta do lip/tongue rolls to help with it.

    • @brandonh7965
      @brandonh7965 6 лет назад +58

      I do not have nodules, and in head voice I can make polyphonic voice, Its like whistle and head voice

    • @angelonaro1354
      @angelonaro1354 6 лет назад +9

      Loan H do u have swollen tonsils cause I ahve raspy whistles and head voice sometimes with red tonsils and sometimes it can be caused by nodules

    • @angelonaro1354
      @angelonaro1354 6 лет назад +4

      Joshua Hoy ya but it can be caused by nodules

  • @popland1977
    @popland1977 7 лет назад +1517

    As Patti Labelle refers to her, the eight wonder of the world

    • @kaymills2564
      @kaymills2564 6 лет назад +31

      Boo thas Whitney Houston 😂😂😂lmao

    • @kaymills2564
      @kaymills2564 6 лет назад +10

      Oh Bitchyoumad ask Mariah Carey,she's going to say "child where have u been hiding this whole time"

    • @kaymills2564
      @kaymills2564 6 лет назад +5

      Oh Bitchyoumad did u even pass kindergarten girl looks like u don't even know how to spell..

    • @MioneRubinia
      @MioneRubinia 6 лет назад +2

      Sav! Lool

    • @purpleteardropss
      @purpleteardropss 6 лет назад +5

      Inia k. This time she wouldn't say "I don't know her" lmao

  • @patricktilsley9164
    @patricktilsley9164 4 года назад +707

    1:46 - 1:54 is the greatest Miriah Carey whistle I have ever heard!! I can’t hear enough of it!!

  • @MC-wd7jc
    @MC-wd7jc 4 года назад +500

    She can be polyphonic in belts and falsetto too

    • @winxnights5281
      @winxnights5281 3 года назад +12

      Falsetto yes, but belts 😶🤨🤔

    • @MC-wd7jc
      @MC-wd7jc 3 года назад

      WinxNights she’s done it before and she wasn’t lipping.

    • @winxnights5281
      @winxnights5281 3 года назад

      @@MC-wd7jc link ??

    • @MC-wd7jc
      @MC-wd7jc 3 года назад

      Lilian Wildt yeah same but she wasn’t.

    • @MC-wd7jc
      @MC-wd7jc 3 года назад

      WinxNights idk I forgot it

  • @Eddierockification
    @Eddierockification 2 года назад +120

    I love that sigh of relief she has whenever she knows what came out of her mouth is gold. We stan an inconsistent queen.

  • @justinjordan6502
    @justinjordan6502 4 года назад +42

    2:14 The background singers were nodding

  • @joelparkinson3562
    @joelparkinson3562 7 лет назад +153

    the infinity note intrigues me SO much, for the fact that the polyphonic note began at an Eb6 and transitioned to fifth octave notes, while the C#6 didn't waver in pitch at all

    • @shadowcArey
      @shadowcArey 2 года назад +2

      Is the rasp that is in her head voice.

    • @hearsay516
      @hearsay516 6 месяцев назад

      It wasn't really a whistle there. It was more of a falsetto

  • @kennethsoshi03
    @kennethsoshi03 8 лет назад +214

    In her concert in Manila that was her biggest concert in CB tour. :)

    • @rawr3122
      @rawr3122 8 лет назад +43

      There are many filipino lambs.

    • @trishaestanislao5153
      @trishaestanislao5153 8 лет назад +9

      +Andrey Baldove including me!

    • @higorvinicius7570
      @higorvinicius7570 7 лет назад +6

    • @rafaeldomingo2230
      @rafaeldomingo2230 5 лет назад +5

      Shocking, cause that clip was the quietest of all clips

    • @SmnSctt27
      @SmnSctt27 5 лет назад +5

      @@rafaeldomingo2230 because it was an open venue dumbass 30, 000 attended the concert.

  • @divo9455
    @divo9455 7 лет назад +210

    if you listen to butterfly acappella theres some really really nice polyphonic whistles

  • @MdnightWnd
    @MdnightWnd 8 лет назад +484

    I swear, around 0:48-0:49 seconds she sounded JUST like Christina Aguilera.

  • @baglady2652
    @baglady2652 5 лет назад +84

    This right here called DOLPHINphonic

  • @lichyyyyy
    @lichyyyyy 8 лет назад +292

    I have an obsession with these, idk, they sound do weird that I like them
    Btw: I never could hear the D7 in ISB, I only hear two D6s :/

    • @ryanguevera6456
      @ryanguevera6456 8 лет назад +4

      I like the first one though!!!

    • @CloroxBleach-hx9qp
      @CloroxBleach-hx9qp 8 лет назад +8

      Neither can I. I also only hear 2 D6s!

    • @lichyyyyy
      @lichyyyyy 8 лет назад +1

      Clorox Bleach I remember watching a range video and the audio was kinda filtered, so I did hear a 7th octave note. But it was only that time. In other videos, I only hear D6s

    • @CloroxBleach-hx9qp
      @CloroxBleach-hx9qp 8 лет назад +1

      +Lichy Guevara I have always been hearing a D6

    • @ryanguevera6456
      @ryanguevera6456 8 лет назад +1

      Clorox Bleach same

  • @joshuavidad6025
    @joshuavidad6025 5 лет назад +34

    Her belt on 0:48 sounds like her current tone. I love raspiness. 😍😍😍

  • @SnSCandy
    @SnSCandy 8 лет назад +83

    ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS IN THE ARNESIO HALL VIDEO SINGING "CAN'T LET GO!" Mariah is always beautiful but she is STUNNING in that particular performance

  • @alexcal24
    @alexcal24 4 года назад +120

    Yes, polyphonic whistles aside, can we give a shout out to Trey and the two girls behind Mariah in 2:15 who looked SO FUCKING PROUD of her? Supporting her voice and her! Good for them

  • @drunkanchorman8923
    @drunkanchorman8923 3 года назад +45

    ..This is how I imagine my shower performance going.

    • @leeminhoe8037
      @leeminhoe8037 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/nC0PVs1BOio/видео.html

  • @AchillesandArtemis
    @AchillesandArtemis 8 лет назад +145

    listen to the acapella version of butterfly it also happened on her falsetto ad libs in the second chorus in a very clear way

    • @polobaluyut6816
      @polobaluyut6816 8 лет назад +18

      I thought I was the only one to hear those tiny whistles.

    • @AchillesandArtemis
      @AchillesandArtemis 8 лет назад

      +Polo Baluyut its there hahaha

    • @polobaluyut6816
      @polobaluyut6816 8 лет назад +2

      Amit Agmon whispering stresses vocal chords so I guess it just happens because of how hard it is to her nodules.

    • @AchillesandArtemis
      @AchillesandArtemis 8 лет назад +5

      +Polo Baluyut yea but she was still very fluid with her whispers, altho it always seemed like she was more comfortable when she started belting the the bridge, on her performances

    • @duythanhish
      @duythanhish 8 лет назад

      +Amit Agmon could I have the link?

  • @fireninja9742
    @fireninja9742 6 лет назад +51

    Woah. number two switches from a whistle to what sounds like belting. That is sooo cool

    • @fireninja9742
      @fireninja9742 6 лет назад +2

      You can hear vibrato when it changes

    • @jakeyjakes_
      @jakeyjakes_ 4 года назад +5

      I don't think it's a whistle. It's a dry and damaged head voice.

  • @mael9186
    @mael9186 4 года назад +16

    So she has tried every register 🙌👏😍

  • @Chimmmchak
    @Chimmmchak 3 года назад +16

    She is still legend

    • @rowrrawr6877
      @rowrrawr6877 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/ACoVyNtx7IE/видео.html

  • @Starcrossedslv
    @Starcrossedslv 2 года назад +2

    I saw this one performance of her doing it and the idiots in the comments decided to say it was her playback messing up implying that she was lip syncing

  • @ayeshas5823
    @ayeshas5823 4 года назад +8

    *SOOO BEAUTIFUL! My Queen of WHISTLES!!!! Yasssss, Queen Mariah!* ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ILYSM Queen Mariah!❤️

  • @janeskei676
    @janeskei676 5 лет назад +4

    I like everything about her performances.......just thrilling!!!!!!!!!

  • @alexandreluizalves
    @alexandreluizalves Год назад +2

    She is out of this world

  • @onedollarbleach6891
    @onedollarbleach6891 7 лет назад +12

    Yyyyaaasssss! I live for polyphonics!

  • @DiaryBela
    @DiaryBela 3 года назад +5

    what in the world!? that number 3 is so perfect. i'm shocked!!!!!!

  • @dannilobo5744
    @dannilobo5744 6 лет назад +7

    Whistle Queen 👑 Mariah Carey ❤❤❤

  • @poketube6224
    @poketube6224 3 года назад +1

    Wow that's very astonishing and harmonious

  • @johnaeronrosales1197
    @johnaeronrosales1197 7 лет назад

    im so proud because of her tour in manila

  • @dionhnegronoodle123
    @dionhnegronoodle123 7 лет назад +144

    to me it was a little hard to hear the other notes on top of the whistle notes

    • @elitelokkz
      @elitelokkz 7 лет назад +2

      Dion Howard her Lailah Hathaway does a clearer poly note... one similar to how clearly you can hear it in the last clip.

    • @teammmx
      @teammmx 7 лет назад

      King AndMoreKing - But Laila can deliberately harmonize with herself

    • @KaentukiTheFuki
      @KaentukiTheFuki 6 лет назад +7

      Its hard to the untrained ear. As a singer myself its easy to here those subtle chsnges

    • @Jenseduca
      @Jenseduca 4 года назад +1

      @@elitelokkz Its quite the opposite to me, I dont hear Lailah Hathaway doing harmonizing, it just plain strange sounding noise to my ears

    • @blkindians7974
      @blkindians7974 2 года назад

      @@KaentukiTheFuki as a singer how can you not tell dat these are all vocal mistakes except (cant let go)?

  • @sunburstcavvy
    @sunburstcavvy 2 года назад +16

    She can actually be polyphonic in her belts. A whistle will come out with the belt.

  • @ximenalaudista
    @ximenalaudista Год назад

    BSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!!!!!

  • @antonellaruggiero6868
    @antonellaruggiero6868 8 лет назад +1

    antonella, sorprendente, elegante e raffinata nei movimenti, mititca nel gioco con la voce sempre creativa gentile nel suo essere nel tutto.

  • @marcosjeydson4975
    @marcosjeydson4975 4 года назад +16

    gente essa mulher tem a voz dos anjos

  • @olivianordstrom7287
    @olivianordstrom7287 7 лет назад

    love this song

  • @benjamin6220
    @benjamin6220 6 лет назад

    I am fascinanted by MC's Voice and whistle above all. I share the same vocal dilema on nodules and whistle range. My Record is G#7/A7. Yes!! You deed a Good job!! thank u!!!

  • @princelaveltsopzechoungmo1259
    @princelaveltsopzechoungmo1259 5 месяцев назад

    I appreciate the video. Just wanna add: her best prestation for me, and which should not be neglected, is her live version of "the one"

  • @thecatfromsingapore
    @thecatfromsingapore 8 лет назад +71

    wow 0:48 she still sounds like this

  • @aahronvergin9574
    @aahronvergin9574 8 лет назад +59

    2:11 she got her whistles back. I knew she had it in her :) #Mariah

    • @xcaert7822
      @xcaert7822 3 года назад +9

      Its high falsetto

    • @autocorrect6113
      @autocorrect6113 3 года назад +3

      @@xcaert7822 head voice her falsetto sounds different

    • @zentryii
      @zentryii 2 года назад +3

      @@autocorrect6113 Falsetto is a lighter more air'y version of head voice.

  • @susanafelices6410
    @susanafelices6410 3 года назад +2

    MY HEART HEAVEN DIMENSION ANGELSS

  • @patricktilsley9164
    @patricktilsley9164 4 года назад

    Number 3 is so amazing!!!!

  • @josephustitusflavius1372
    @josephustitusflavius1372 8 лет назад +9

    I can hear a D5/Eb5 also in the last part in VOL Manila tour. It's clearly not just an octave unison of Bb5/6 note. There's a different note that tries to harmonize with the main key note.

  • @ntallas2142
    @ntallas2142 8 лет назад +15

    i think the whistle from vision of love live in 2002 shining through the rain belongs here too

  • @antonellaruggiero6868
    @antonellaruggiero6868 8 лет назад

    antonella, una donna e cantante da un grande e immenso cuore che dona sempre se stessa per gli altri, unica al mondo.

  • @TheeeDanielR
    @TheeeDanielR 4 года назад +5

    In her recent Instagram vocal moments she’s done some polyphonic! POLY-RIAH!!

  • @Danlovar
    @Danlovar 8 лет назад +4

    2:14 That black guy from the center-right side covering his ear LOOOOOOOOL

  • @chepealvsantiago226
    @chepealvsantiago226 3 месяца назад +2

    ❤❤❤ leyenda absolutamente
    Leyendary

  • @mulyadirahel807
    @mulyadirahel807 2 года назад +3

    the queen mariah carey😍🥰🥰😘

  • @evaneimarques1
    @evaneimarques1 Год назад +1

    Essa mulher é tudo de bom através de sua voz e seu coração bondoso ❤❤

  • @thomascareyrey7353
    @thomascareyrey7353 8 лет назад +1

    vision of love ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @sherylsuscano6641
    @sherylsuscano6641 8 лет назад

    idol tlga kita

  • @sabade.
    @sabade. 3 года назад

    made me cry

  • @nighthunter_shade4147
    @nighthunter_shade4147 8 лет назад

    amazing

  • @kasrabrk5383
    @kasrabrk5383 3 года назад +5

    The second one was really well controlled

  • @amirhamzahabdullah7903
    @amirhamzahabdullah7903 4 месяца назад

    ❤my darlin mariah miss u

  • @rumahtanahcilacap1993
    @rumahtanahcilacap1993 2 года назад +1

    Legendary Whistle....

  • @jenpot25
    @jenpot25 2 года назад +1

    Queen #MariahCarey

  • @urestauro6367
    @urestauro6367 6 лет назад +1

    She has the Gift of Music.

  • @susanafelices6410
    @susanafelices6410 3 года назад

    MY Superstar diva favorite

  • @kscoutinho76
    @kscoutinho76 4 года назад +2

    Diva ❤👌

  • @violettevicencio363
    @violettevicencio363 2 года назад

    Glass can shattered

  • @amirhamzahabdullah7903
    @amirhamzahabdullah7903 4 месяца назад

    ❤my angle

  • @erikm8372
    @erikm8372 4 месяца назад

    I’m pretty sure the whistle of "HATEU" is simply multiple tracks of Mimi recorded & played together. I don’t get polyphonic or diplophonic from that. It just sounds like she’s whistling with a lower harmony added for effect. Similar thing is in the song "Bliss", where every chorus is slightly different than the last, but if you really listen (or get the right app/software to separate the parts), she has like four harmonies singing together. It’s so cool to hear each nuance and subtlety done exactly the same for each part!
    We know Mariah records her own backing vocals, hence why her main live singers sound so much like her-they have to! Especially Trey! Mimi has such a great idea of layering harmonies. She loves to layer vocals for that “full” feeling and effect. At the very least, she’ll have two harmonies, like an octave apart, if not more. It’s often her middle range with a lower harmony, like a low octave, one singing the third, one is singing the fifth, and one is an octave above (1-3-5-1 or 1-3-5-8).

  • @SleepyBuffalo-lu5dn
    @SleepyBuffalo-lu5dn 2 месяца назад +1

    IF I HAD THIS VOICE, I WOULD NEVER SHUT UP 😮

  • @Filotus
    @Filotus 7 лет назад

    At the end of studio version Anytime You Need A Friend there's a really cool one, her voice just flips, it sounds like, lol.

  • @rafildissjr
    @rafildissjr Год назад

    1:01 This show in Brazil, she was pregnant with twins.
    I was at this show, it was wonderful that day❤

  • @hello_gorgeous_
    @hello_gorgeous_ 3 года назад +2

    I have something similar in my voice when I add strobe to falsetto or do something similar on the lowest notes of the voice. Once I sang D2 and D1 at the same time, but the strange thing is that D2 is my bottom note and I could never get below. Something similar happened with my falsetto, I sang E5 and E4 at the same time. There was a feeling of some kind of split in my voice, I was terribly frightened thinking that this was something abnormal, but my vocal teacher reassured me and said that this happens rarely, but still happens.

  • @antonellaruggiero6868
    @antonellaruggiero6868 8 лет назад

    antonella, dignita e onore dalla personalita speciale. tvb tvb tvb.

  • @clau7113
    @clau7113 5 лет назад

    Thanx 4 the video, now i know what i don't do it when sing.

  • @nikkib2588
    @nikkib2588 2 года назад +4

    I'm a soprano and my range varies sometimes it's a c6 mostly sometimes it goes up to a g6 and some days my upper register doesn't wanna go that high even though a c6 is like easy to reach without singing along🙂I'm hoping one day to actually learn to control my upper range and learn to use it alot better🙂I recently turned 34 and can still hit the notes though🙂

  • @mellimel1174
    @mellimel1174 3 года назад +1

    Layla Hathaway can do the polyphonic sound, not in whistle register but it’s really awesome. She does it on purpose.

  • @hello-yo2rd
    @hello-yo2rd Месяц назад

    I heard D6 and Bb6 in the Vision of Love Manila one

  • @Robloxtwins_
    @Robloxtwins_ 5 лет назад +3

    I didn’t know she sings this were have I been my whole life

    • @kaylamorano8034
      @kaylamorano8034 5 лет назад +2

      Lmao you didn’t know who mariah Carey was😂😂 she’s the best selling female artist of all time

  • @susanafelices6410
    @susanafelices6410 3 года назад +1

    TO GOD LOVE ANGELS SAFE SOULS AMEN

  • @susanafelices6410
    @susanafelices6410 3 года назад

    HEART

  • @blackbeauty5717
    @blackbeauty5717 5 лет назад +6

    Her voice is a gift from God

  • @mengzeli4133
    @mengzeli4133 8 лет назад +17

    I can do a little whistle (I can go up to A7 but I only have control over D6#). And this would happen whenever im trying to hit a whistle when my throat is not clear especially after hitting notes in other registers. Actually if you have seen that video from ariana, she also said that sometimes her voice does this and she doesn't know what's going on (LOL because obviously she's on the same level as most of us who knows how to hit whistle but cant hit it properly). I guess this is why mariah is so amazing that she can go from chest/head to whistle so easy and she barely have problems hitting them in her performances. This video shows a few examples of that and you can see when this happen she was being very smart by either avoiding the whistle (emotion, vogan1991) or waiting for a few second to have her throat clear (emotion 1991 MTV). AMAZING MARIAH.

    • @dancedownyeah25
      @dancedownyeah25 4 года назад

      X X Mariah taught me so well I can do all her whistles true but true not sad at all lmao 🤣

  • @soup8160
    @soup8160 8 лет назад +4

    im her fantastic lamb!

  • @marcel-andrewuttig4688
    @marcel-andrewuttig4688 8 лет назад +5

    Nice video! Didn't this also happen during her BET 2005 Vision of Love performance? :) I feel like this happens even more often for her when she belts when her voice is tired (or when she pushes it)... It happened a lot during the Emancipation of Mimi era whenever she pushed her voice ... and sometimes in 2008 :) At least it was always a good way to tell that she was singing live :)

    • @polobaluyut6816
      @polobaluyut6816 8 лет назад

      It happened the most in 2008. It didn't happen much in 2005.

    • @Filotus
      @Filotus 8 лет назад

      +Marcel-André Wuttig Yes, that's what I was expecting to see in this video. I love that whistle.

  • @susanafelices6410
    @susanafelices6410 3 года назад

    FREE STARS

  • @mattiapiraino710
    @mattiapiraino710 3 года назад

    it happens sometimes even when she is not using Whistles…check I stay in love performance on X factor (the high part). you are going to hear kinda of a cover whistle

  • @PatrickOronico
    @PatrickOronico 8 лет назад +1

    Nice vid! I think this is the product of her emotion internalization plus vibrato in whistle register.

  • @potatoplayz4653
    @potatoplayz4653 4 месяца назад +1

    0:17 and 0:41 was the best one so far
    1:14 also

  • @theultimatehunt
    @theultimatehunt 4 года назад

    Thats crazy someone vocals can do that!

  • @damig.966
    @damig.966 4 года назад +6

    I need new TOP of polyphonic notes (whistle, chest, head voice) 😍

  • @rioferdinand1351
    @rioferdinand1351 4 года назад

    That's because her voice is split up, so it makes kind of harmony in her whistle register

  • @nathanielz6136
    @nathanielz6136 7 лет назад +9

    Now that I've heard Mariah sound polyphonic, I remember singing songs and hitting some whistle notes and wondering, "did I hit an F6 or a D6?" Other times I sounded like an Octave Unison. It was almost an autotune sound being produced.

    • @allaboutsboyzz4737
      @allaboutsboyzz4737 Год назад

      This ruclips.net/video/gpLm695aeXM/видео.html

    • @luchats
      @luchats 6 месяцев назад

      That’s called sideways vodeling

  • @mateusmoraisreal
    @mateusmoraisreal 8 лет назад +3

    Nasceu pra brilhar!

    • @gulpbiys5705
      @gulpbiys5705 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/nC0PVs1BOio/видео.html .

  • @jumonggtulio2650
    @jumonggtulio2650 3 года назад +8

    0:17 that note!

  • @biggityboggityboo8775
    @biggityboggityboo8775 8 лет назад

    This isn't intended. It's 'scratchyness' or 'raspyness' finding its way into her whistle register. It's mainly due to vocal damage/fatigue (temporary from a cold etc or permanent) with her chords not vibrating uniformly along their edge.

  • @connorcoleman0379
    @connorcoleman0379 6 лет назад

    Infinite is super head voice and I think I still believe is as well

  • @susanafelices6410
    @susanafelices6410 3 года назад

    She is

  • @alfredamolo2811
    @alfredamolo2811 5 лет назад +5

    2:10 Head voicee

  • @Peter-lq4zr
    @Peter-lq4zr 8 лет назад

    This happens sometimes with me to. I was singing a D8 and as I hit the vibrato a D6/7 came out with it. It was very very faint but it was so cool. It's on my channel if anyone wants to check it out.

  • @Dr__Feelgood
    @Dr__Feelgood 2 года назад +1

    What about the perfectly harmonized split towards the end of All In Your Mind on her debut album that she left on record unedited? Can't remember which newspaper/magazine article I read that pointed that oddity out. And there I was assuming after almost 2 decades of having listened ho the damn thing that she just overdubbed the harmony lol. But once you're aware of it, you'll actually notice that she couldn't have done it on purpose stacking her vocals in the studio like that as she does, since uou can hear a certain rawness/imperfection to it because it was an accident, but a beautiful one. 😜

  • @vincentkohlumcfan22
    @vincentkohlumcfan22 3 года назад

    and then you have studio version of all in your mind wewwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • @noncatholiccatholicrat6309
    @noncatholiccatholicrat6309 Год назад

    It’s such a weird feeling when it happens to you. I have vocal nodes and although I don’t have good access to my whistle register, I when I get sick I sometimes do, and my polyphonic notes feel so weird

  • @Themindofp
    @Themindofp 2 года назад +1

    THIS IS EARGASM

  • @americosantos8348
    @americosantos8348 3 года назад

    canta muito viu

  • @connorcoleman0379
    @connorcoleman0379 6 лет назад

    I still believe is head voice and so is infinity