Doesn't matter if you prefer Fantasia, Cynthia or any of the other incredible women that have sung this song... If they connected and gave with their entire heart every single lyric written in this piece, then they deserve all of the recognition they receive for being strong enough to go through that 8 times a week.

Mark my words right now..Once the color purple movie releases, Fantasia is going to sweep all the acting awards. Fantasia deserves her resurgence into the industry and this will be the moment she needs to remind us why she’s a legend. Too many folks don’t put her in the conversation of greats, well this movie will do just that. Hold me to it…

Fantasia was going through A LOT during this time. So happy that she is still here with us. Amen.

This passion is what happens when Black Americans tell Black American stories.😩🙌🏾

SHE TOOK ME TO CHURCH, THEN DOWN THE STREET FOR WINGS, THEN TO THE COURTHOUSE, THEN BACK TO THE DAMN CHURCH AGAIN!!!! YOU BETTER SAAAAAANG MAMA ❤️

No one can act real suffering. Only life can give you that. The way Fantasia sings this song, really makes me want to live. I can't watch this without crying my heart out. Thank you for this huge inspiration!

LaChance, Fantasia Barrino and Cynthia Erivo. What on earth did we do to deserve THREE Celies of this magnitude?

I can’t get over how beautiful her “take a deep breath is”! You can truly feel the overwhelming emotion and struggle to confront the trauma in that one line!

I mean vocally fantasia is good but i think her intrepertation and attitude is what brings magic to the performance

I knew Fantasia when she was little. She came to a small town named Anniston, Alabama where she fell in love with my mother. Years after my mother passed, I found a tape that she did for my mother. Knowing that a Star, could cherish an old grandmother make me proud to say “ I knew her when she was a little girl running around outside of the church that her grandparents had came to perform. “ Fantasia , I bow to you to say thank you for the happiness you gave Mrs. Watts. She watched your career and talked proudly about you all the time. Fantasia is truly a child of God. We love you.

Fantasia's soon to be Oscar worthy performance of a lifetime

She's gonna kill this role again this Christmas

She always sings this like it was written just for her. Brilliant.

2023 and KZfaq - thank you for preserving this amazing performance by Fantasia.

Who else is here after seeing fantasia in the movie? She ateeee. What a star!

The way she finna be an Oscar winner this year 🙌🏾🔥

Fantasia and Cynthia did a GREAT job.2019 anyone?

LAWD SHE AINT START SINGING AND IM ALREADY BAWLING 😭

Nobody sings this like Fantasia...........not even Jennifer Hudson..sorry......Fantasia makes GROWN ass men shed tears out here.......damn

And the Oscar goes to... Fantasia❤

"I'm Beautiful".....and there go the tears

This is her song…this the version…period! Sang Fantasia!!

Fantasia is one of those singers/performers who sing from DEEP DEEP inside the soul. I cry about 75 percent of the time when I hear her sing. And have since American Idol, especially “Summertime”. Geez, what a gift. No wonder she was completely drained. After performing this over and over again.

AINT nobody singing this song better than, Tasia!

She went somewhere deep and sacred. And we all went with her. This was stellar.

When Tasia sings "tawlest tree" and not "tallest tree" shows you that this song is meant to be sung from deepest of your soul!! Fave version of this song..

Fantasia’s voice seriously is anointed! It makes me cry every time!!!!

ITS FANTASIA'S TIME TO RECEIVE AAAAAALLLLLL HER FLOWERS !!!!!!!!!!

I love how Fantasia really embodied an older woman that’s worked her ass to bone for many years. She walks around as if her body is just exhausted and broken. She really nailed the acting of this character.

Congrats to her on getting the role again in the movie version!

She bout to win that Oscar

Mannnn the moment she started singing I started crying 🫶🏽

And YES LORD, Fantasia sang my mother out of her seat and my Momma was 79 I believe. WE WENT UP AND IN!

Never forget when she won American Idol, after she was announced the winner and she sang, she broke down and SOBBED. They actually cut the mike after a while.

Fantasia will be reprising this role in the colour purple movie in December..

When Fantasia sang this song!!! It made me cry in the movie theater. 😢

Fantasia is an actress, spilling out her emotions with song! ❤❤

fantasia carries the sufferings of centuries in her voice, her willingness to bring forth those feelings for the rest of the world is truly remarkable. most of us choose to keep them deeply buried

There's a stark difference when someone has lived something for real. Fantasia bodied this.

I just left the theater and she did just as amazing in the movie!

“Stand as tall as the tallest tree” the way she sings it.... LITERAL chills. 🥺

It’s so crazy how full circle it’s come for Fantasia

Keep going “Fantasia” so happy for you God Is sure blessing you.

I had the priviledge and pleasure to see Fantasia perform this on Broadway. The raw emotion. The love. The pain. I cried my eyes out. Best performance I have ever seen. Hands down.

This performance by Fantasia captured Celie’s essence to me.

here because of the color purple remake trailer. glad they casted fantasia. she's always perfect for this role.

Fantasia sang that song like she know what she was singing about. It was a lot of truth in that song for her. God bless you Fantasia God bless you to God be all the glory.❤🎉

How many of us are here again (or for the first time) after hearing the news that Fantasia will be playing Celie in The Color Purple movie musical! So happy for her!

FINALLY We're getting Fantasia as Celie in great quality in the official movie musical!!!

Fantasia channeled every woman on the block I grew up on. I'm in a flashback tears mode right now.

This one right here is gonna win the Oscar! SAANGGG, Sis!

fantasia will be reprising her role as celie in the color purple movie musical adaptation 🙌🏾

After this movie is released this will forever be Fantasia’s song.

Here after she was announced for the movie. The best choice.

OMG. Nobody does it like Fantasia. She brings tears to your eyes 😢❤❤❤

She is gonna KILL IT in the movie!!!

Fantasía sings with the emotions the movie needs.

Cynthia Erivo hits me in the gut when she sings. Fantasia though, hits me square in the heart.

Fantasia has just gotten better since this. She's always been my Celie.

Who's on here listening to every version of this song available on repeat after watching the new movie. Fantasia is on another level.

Had to revisit this video after seeing the movie casting. God, she’s giving everything. I’m gonna weep in the theater when this movie comes out, I just know it.

Wheewwwww she's winning an Oscar in 2024

I was already crying, but when she walks up to those flowers I was a mess. Such emotion. What a powerful performance.

Cynthia's was incredibly impressive and more technically sound. Fantasias performance is literally gut-wrentching and makes you just want to break down and sob for hours.

Anybody here after watching Cynthia on Terrell?? 🙋🏾‍♀️

Just give her all the awards!!

Here after the amazing trailer

That sob right before the last noted ENDED me! 😭

Fantasia: From the very moment she sang "Summertime," I became a dyed-in-the-wool believer!!! She is simply a talent, whose time has FINALLY come. Go forth my sister and reap the fruit. You deserve it!!!

I alway felt Fantasia is an old soul. Someone who has lived many lives and all that DNA has brought her to interpret a song like this. This isn't singing; this a beautiful, gut-wrenching experience.

I remember saving up my money in college to see this play. It was my first Broadway show and it didn't disappoint. I still get chills each time I watch this performance.

So happy for her 🥺 she deserved this role more than anybody

I saw color purple in New York with Fantasia. I can tell you there was not a dry eye in the theater when she sang this. It hit deep. I love the movie and the Broadway play was so wonderful. Fantasia is an angel!

I drove from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to New York City just to see Fantasia and hear her sing. I'm telling y'all I witness GREATEST! She was phenomenal and empowering, I just love this woman and I'm thankful God has blessed her life. Fantasia has come full circle and 2024 she gonna win EVERYTHING! I read her book "Life Isn't A Fairy Tale" twice and she stated ...to much is given is required! She is definitely a QUEEN!

The emotion in her voice has me in tears.

NOBODY does it with feeling, heart and whole being like Fantasia. Flawless.

honestly, Fanatsia is always going to be my Celie. Cynthia Erivo is amazingly talented and has a stunning voice. But there is something about the way Fantasia sings this that it just does something to your soul. She embodies the years of pain and heartbreak but still choosing life, that is this song, all in her raw real and unbelievably powerful vocals. So much respect for her as an artist.

BREAKING NEWS: Fantasia is going to reprise the role of "Celie" in the upcoming film version of THE COLOR PURPLE musical!!! WOW!!! I smell an Oscar coming.

saw the new trailer of "The Color Purple" movie. That's why I am here. 🥺

I was fortunate enough to see the Color Purple with Fantasia. The ONLY time I've cried at a show. Fantasia is INCREDIBLE! It's a disgrace that she didn't win a Tony for her performance.

She did amazing in the movie

I think this is one of if not the best performances ever captured on film that I have ever seen in my lifetime. And I mean that wholeheartedly

I’ve never seen Fantasia perform I’m here only Cynthia. While i love Cynthia’s version, Fantasia left me with chills. Two great women!

This performance just shows that you don't need to belt a super high not to show strength! Fantasia is a true star! 😍😍😍

Who's bawling after watching this?.. Fantasia is an amazing story teller.. I really felt her performance.. 😭💕

The movie got me here!!! What a talent!!! Love u, FANTASIA!!!

And Ladies and Gentleman THIS is our Celie coming to the big screen!! Get that Oscar ready now!!! We're about to have 2 Oscar winners from American Idol. So glad they chose Fantasia to revive this for the the big screen adaptation.

Took my Grandchildren to see Fantasia on Broadway ... They still talk about her incredible performance! She was Amazing!

Now that they’re doing a live adaptation of this I’m predicting that Fantasia is going to make history and win an Oscar for best actress in a LEADING role.

Fantasia is the best because she has soul, she has the accent,passion and she has lived Celie life before

I witnessed it in person and she was amazing!!!

Fantasia's success here isn't that she has necessarily the biggest voice, nor is she known as an actor, but her commitment to this role and the emotion she portrays. One could try to pass this off as stunt casting, but when she is on that stage, she is Celie 100%. Fantasia does something I don't know if Cynthia Erivo pulls off. Fantasia allows herself to be ugly. I am by no means saying Fantasia herself is ugly, in fact, she is stunning when she dresses up. Celie isn't the most physically attractive person and I would find it hard to believe that someone would call someone that looks like Cynthia Erivo ugly and beat her for it. But Fantasia brings it down and isn't worried about being the face on the poster to sell tickets.

"I'm beautiful" brought me to tears

was the only one who cried after watching this?

Can't wait for her OSCAR

God knew what He was doing when He sent this woman to this planet!

Brings tears to my eyes every time! Fantasia was so connected, and she was well directed! Exceptional 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Fantasia is pure talent she sung dis song da best natural gifted

She's reprising her role as Celie in this year's movie's adaptation. Can't wait!

*waving that church handkerchief!* Yes!!