Habibati! If you haven't checked it out yet, here's the link to the Retrospective we did about Angelina Jordan, this was a labor of love, we'd be super happy if you checked it out and shared your thoughts.

She did win the Golden Buzzer, unfortunately they cut that out. But it is worth noting that all 4 judges came up on stage to congratulate her. Queen immediately tweeted there approval, and gave her the rights to her version of the song. :)

God given gift

Angelina made me believe in superpowers.

Not only did Angelina get the golden buzzer from judge Heidi Klum, but she also received huge praise from the remaining members of the legendary Queen. Queen were delighted with Angelina's arrangement and shared it on Twitter with the words "WOW, what a rendition" (three years later they repeated their praise on TT in March 2023 with the words "absolutely killed it".) What was unfortunately not to be seen Here, all four judges came on stage to congratulate Angelina (very rarely). BTW, Angelina released her version of Bohemian Rhapsody on January 24th, 2020 under her own label ANGELINA JORDAN INC. shortly after Angelina celebrated her 14th birthday. (to date more than 11 million listeners on Spotify alone) 🤗🤗

Love all your Angelina reactions. Great stuff bro.

yes she started accapella and landed on the right note, her acapella performances have taken the music world by storm, showcasing her incredible vocal talent in its purest form.

Boudy. I agree. I’ve said she’s an easy connector. Whenever I intro her to someone, I know there’s a chance that I’ve created a connection and a friend for life. 🥂

Super thanks,, I love to see your reaction to all her youngest works, like her first studio recording at 6 years old, your Awesome !!

❣ **One of the most amazing journeys in my life, has been, watching Angelina Jordan grow** ❣ Loved your reaction, & was very similar to mine, when I first heard Angelina sing this song 😊

The music follows Angelina, she never follows the music. Since she was 6 years old, she has been rearranging her music to make each performance a work of art. Angelina Jordan is the epitome of the word genius.

And she had had this gift of connecting through her voice since she was a tiny girl in English. She grew up hearing her parents/ grand parents jazz and old classic music. She not only just fell in love with it, she painted her own masterpiece translation of them. Can you imagine hearing a song in a language you don’t know and having it fill you with this gift that is just bursting out of you? Of course her grand/parents I’m sure translated the songs meaning. I have just always been amazed by her. Started singing at 18 months old,(was hard to understand but you could tell what song she was singing) then between 5-7 she had very much perfected her style. She has a 5 octave range, sings in 7 languages, also accomplished dancer and musician (plays piano, violin, and flute. As well as a published author and humanitarian,(which is why she sings in bare feet, until all people have shoes). She is quite a gift to this world.

Awesome young artist. She paints with her voice. She's a unicorn 🦄. She's her own instrument. She is a new color in rainbows we didn't even know existed.

Angelina👣 Calls her Song Style; "Soul to Soul" or "Heart to Heart " She is aware and always has know her Soul-connection abilities . That is Connected with her Life Mission to spread Love and Hope around the World with Her Soulful Singing a promise she made when she was 6 and she has kept that promise to this day. ~ OneLove ~ 🕊

Superb analysis of Angelina's ability to not just sing beautifully, but to covey all the emotion that formed the essence of this work, of art. The same could be said of Angelina, a most extraordinary work of art, herself.

Yes, Heidi gives her the Golden Buzzer. Angelina is one of the greatest Story Tellers. My favorite Angelina Jordan performance. At 13, Angelina makes you feel all the emotions. She sings through my soul. 🍁❣️

She is changing us as if by design & I don't think she even knows. The strange thing is, it's needed right now!

Sorry we couldn’t see 90% of your reaction. Her voice is unique, and it’s unconventionally beautiful in the countless iterations we hear as she demolishes our expectations and surprises us every time. When she was around 12, I stopped thinking of her as a child singer. She is, simply, the best singer I’ve ever heard. But it’s not just her voice. Her ability to interpret lyrics is also unique. She makes us understand their meaning in ways the original artists never attempted. And I also feel, as you do, that she never competes with the original because her take is so different that we have a new way to love the song. Her connection with us individually is so powerful and immediate. She has us at the first note here, we’re on for the full ride, and we’re just in awe at this masterpiece the first, tenth, or hundredth time we hear it.

She sang a capella in the elimination round at 7 years old, a Billie Holiday song that is very unstructured, note perfect because of her perfect pitch.

My two cents.. Angelina not only has the ability to communicate the emotion in a song better than any singer in memory, at the same time she is equally skilled at conveying the message in the lyrics. I frequently get what a song is about for the first time when listening to her covers. She simultaneously attacks both sides of your brain.

Angelina’s highly developed intuition, instincts and sense of feel has allowed her to be a master story teller since she first started to sing.

Great analysis Boudy, is right. This girl is something unique, so sweet, deep, emotional and completely immersed in singing that she manages to transmit it to your bones. For me it's an angelic song that is renewed every time. I think one of the brilliant aspects of Angelina lies in her ability to use what is called lateral thinking, in the parallel but divergent vision of her that she has of the music and that seems to be absolutely innate and natural. And this is such a perfectly balanced and emotional reinterpretation that it blows you away completely, I still still get emotional even after hundreds of viewings, sorry for the viewing issues.💛🧡❤

Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen have given Angelina the rights to her version of this iconic song . So she may also collect all royalties.

Angelina’s voice and her total being is like an ocean wave or soft summer breeze that takes you in and rushes you to places you have rarely experienced. Your heart rate increases, you find it difficult to catch your breath, chills and shells engulf you. You are now addicted to Angelina Jordan. This coming from a guy that is 76 and has experienced the best vocalists in the world, but none have captured that soft spot like Angelina Jordan does each and every time.

Angelina is unique! Thank you for your reaction and waiting for the next!!🥰🥰🥰

Angelina's original songs are: What is Life kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNxgpZposLSbgnU.html Oslo kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d793n5SHrqqyh5s.html Shield kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rc54acmfsKfTn6M.html Million Miles kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdJ4Y7N0mbapgIU.html 7th Heaven kzfaq.info/get/bejne/laifa5udlseqdH0.html Love Don't Let Me Go kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7tmiryQ3566pWw.html and she was the first to sing these songs but didn't write them I'm Still Holding Out for You kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etxooM10zZvNmXk.html Song for A kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNVjoMuptbORpXU.html Above the Water kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNaUe617tqfIaY0.html

Absolutely phenomenal arrangement by our barefoot princess, after this performance of this classic song Angelina received a tribute message from the band Queen congratulating Angelina on a amazing arrangement of their song, and the guy’s from Queen gave Angelina the copyright to her arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody, also Angelina received the Golden Buzzer from Heidi Klum and progressed to the final of the show, this performance has over 100 million views on social media platforms and is classed as the best audition on a talent show, Angelina is so special her beautiful breathy pitch perfect voice touches your heart and soul she is hypnotic, great reaction thanks 🙏

Yes, she got the Golden Buzzer from Heidi Clum. I don't know why they cut that out here. Great reaction, AMR!

Your statements prove Four Tenets of Angelina-ism: 1. Once you're addicted, you're addicted for life. There is no antidote. 2. No matter how many times you hear her, you're always impressed! 3. One of life's great pleasures is watching people hear her for the first time! 4. She is destined to be one of the all-time greats - Music Mt Rushmore status

Obviously, you got to watch the full performance. For those who do not know The performance of her arrangement of Queen’s, Bohemian Rhapsody, on America's Got Talent, helped launch her international singing career...again. Angelina Jordan a 13-year-old from Norway sang an understated abridged version of the epic song on a recent episode, impressing the audience judges and the band itself. The following morning, Queen retweeted the show’s official account adding "Wow! What a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody! Absolutely killed it🤯" Heidi Klum hit the Golden Buzzer that sent her on to the next round. 🌺😇

Your comments are spot on!

Agree totally with your analysis. This brought tears to my eyes and was my intro to AJ. RIP Freddie. She maintains and transmits the soul of a song with that AJ magic. Thanks

Her ability to interpret , story tell , arrange songs are musical genius ! Angelina is always able to connect with her audience as she mesmerizes and captivates them with her unique and entrancing vocal timbre ! You could hear a pin in that performance it was brilliant on all levels ! I agree that the faces of the audience and especially of all the judges said it all !By the way Angelina arranged this masterpiece and she did get the golden buzzer from Heidi Klum ! She did not win this competition go figure that one out ?! Simon desperately tried to sign her but her parents wanted control of her future and not get nto the Simon school of instant fame ! She signed with Republic Records a few years later ! They agreed to let her form and direct her own course slowly till she finished school ! Now this year they will be promoting their star singer to the world with her first debut album in the summer ! Get ready world Angelina has arrived ! So excited ! Thank you so much for your kind, thoughtful and heartfelt comments as they are so much appreciated preciated ! Much love from Canada ! 👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️

Beautiful and haunting. Loved it!! Thanks for sharing your reaction with us viewers. Great reaction!! Sending you love from Texas!!

Love your reaction and you're very informative! I'm at the point now that I feel like she's my own granddaughter bc I get so proud of her! I can't understand this!!

Watcher now as an adult. She’s awesome

From Iowa, USA; OK, WOW ❗🤗🌹Loved your reaction❗ 1. An important thing to remember about AJ is that she refused to sign for a record deal through AGT and they relented and invited her to sing anyway. 2. AJ is currently signed with Republic Records. 3. AJ began singing at 18 months. Her grandmother was a jazz/blues fan and played that genre of music for AJ. She fell in love with it very early on and has even arranged most if not all that she sings from age 8. What an incredible talent. 4. Currently in 2022 she is in her mid-teenage years, stands 6 foot tall and still performs barefoot. The backstory of her encounter with the homeless girl she met while she traveled with her family through Iran at age 6 includes the weather damaged bare feet of the child she gave her own shoes to. 5. The reason she performs barefoot is to bring awareness to her public of the children worldwide who can't afford shoes of their own. She has raised millions of dollars for clothing including shoes for those unfortunate children. 6. AJ sews her own clothes, (the cloth is designed by her grandmother, now deceased). 7. We all hope to enjoy her performances for many years to come. 8. BTW I'm 81yo and have been involved privately in music since my age of 7. 9. Here's AJ, probably 10 or 11 years old, singing an old Cole Porter classic. "Every Time We Say Goodbye" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbiDfJt50rqsenU.html

She was the one who arranged this. She knew what she wanted. I watched her ( Rehearsed) this over end over. Getting the 2 musicians to get things right. Melodies are in her head. She can correct when it’s off what she has in thoughts

She got Heidi Klum's golden buzzer. Right on in what you say about Angelina Jordan. Amazing isn't she? A true gift to us. Thank you for your reaction. I hope you get to Billie Jean---it is fabulous. Grandma Ellen, out and about.

Thank you Sir, look forward to every Angelina reaction since your first.

Great Reaction 👍🙏👣

They cut out golden buzzer and uploaded it for more clicks!

Ive said it before, I’m fully aware it’s not your thing… but her voice is like aged bourbon from a charred oak barrel. It’s smokey with different layers of notes that just hit you. It’s aged, sweet and burns you in a wonderful way. She has an amazing stage presence. She’s a bottle of great bourbon. I can’t figure out a way to describe it better. Aged far beyond her years.

Arab guy, you make it very simple. Great insights

Hey from NYC, AJ is amazing I came across her a few years ago when I was watching talent shows from different countries and I remember thinking this little girl is special. Btw I think you might appreciate a group called Pentatonix, they're A capella and it's nothing you've seen before. Just please give it a chance you'll be surprised and they come with a huge following we're called Pentaholics. Begin with Hallelujah then Daft punk which they won a Grammy for, they also did Bohemian Rhapsody but remember there's no instruments. I subscribed cause I love your reactions, inshala you will give them a listen and your first reaction will get bombarded with the pentafam. Thank you.

Hi Boudy! I was a little sad to see that KZfaq wouldn't let you play the entire video, but I was gratified to see your enjoyment and appreciation of Angelina's arrangement and performance. You talk about her ability to connect, and I couldn't agree more. I call it emotional authenticity and it stumps me every time. How has she been able to do this since age 6? I always look forward to your insightful reactions to Angelina. Oh, and Heidi Klum gave her the Golden Buzzer; they're still friends to this day. After your list, you should listen to Angelina's cover of Valerie from Heidi's TV show, Germany's Next Top Model. It's incredible!

Can you explain to us technicalogically-and-social-media-ly-challenged, how to get to where we can watch your entire video - where we can listen with you to AJ's whole presentation, and your reactions along the way?! I've been waiting with great anticipation until you finally would reach this - and now we can only hear the very beginning, and ending! 😥

What took you so long 😊 the reaction will follow

The surviving members of Queen gave her the copyright to her version of this song. They liked it that much.

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If you go back to her earliest professional singing (Gloomy Sunday) she is not just singing from rote memory. Her body language tells you she is emotion, singing from the heart.

SHAMAN - The show must go on Queen cover REACTION!

The word chanteuse comes to mind

I don't understand KZfaq - how some people can play MOST of the entire segment, from the backstage interview BEFORE she goes on stage, to her pre-performance introduction/interview with Heidi Klum, to her incredible performance, to 3 of the 4 judges reactions (NOT Heidi's "Golden Buzzer Mama"), while YT BLOCKS other reactors like this for no apparent reason! Syid, I hope you got to watch EVERYTHING from beginning to end on your own time. It's WELL worth it! 'ana 'astamtie birudud 'afealik tijah 'anjilina jurdan! (I hope that's correct - it's from Google translate. :D)

The remaining members of Queen were so impressed with Angelina's performance that they allowed her to copyright her version - it is available on several music streaming services - she gets the royalties. In addition, here is a video of Angelina performing this song live at one of her Summer 2022 Norway Concerts when she was 16 (she is 17 years old now): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itd9pNxyzpPGo5c.html

After we uploaded the video it got blocked, and after several re-edits and re-uploads, we were left with no choice but to trim out the segment highlighted as the reason for the block :( Full Reaction available over on Patreon.

She's 13. 😊 She got the Golden Buzzer from Heidi but it's not here because you said you couldn't handle them. The guys of Queen contacted her right after this was on and they said they loved it and that she could do covers of any of their songs at any time.

That was little sister Juliette. Jules were so nervous for her big sister. Peace be with you. Elmar from Germany

I will be looking forward to your reaction next monday 😊 Greatings from an old Danish Dear and Angel 🌷🇩🇰❤️

Thanks for opening another music rabbit-hole for me with Angelina. Like I don't lose enough time already on KZfaq. 🤦‍♂

A great video to introduce Angelina’s family, When you react to Bohemian Rhapsody take notice during her performance they highlight audience members in the front row. That is Angelina's Family. From left to right Her uncle and manager Michael Astar, her little sister Juliette, her mother Sarah Astar and her grandmother Mery Zamani. Notice her little sister crossing her fingers as the performance starts and later her mother wipe tears from her eyes. Also remember she said she had waited 10 years to sing for Simon. When she was 3 years old she was begging her mother to go on 'that Simon show'. ♥👣👸🏻🎷

Still my favorite live AJ performance. So much pressure, so much poise, so much emotional transfer. Shouldn't be possible at 13. BTW Heidi gave her the Golden Buzzer -- look up the longer version.

Great thanks for the great reaction 😁 wild bill

Epic!

"I'd rather go blind" is her at 12 getting a new microphone and just sitting down to test it out. It's ridiculous.

The best part was missing, it was the golden button. sdos Argentina 🇦🇷

I hope there are id rather go blind, endless love and oslo in your play list of aj cover. Cant wait to see that, waalaikum salam

A couple or few versions of this performance video are posted to YT. Some trim more of the beginning, some trim more of the end. They all are unofficial and try to avoid copyright blocking by cutting something.

Boudy, though not in here, but as you heard it, Howie predicted that "this song, this performance, is going to change (her) live and career forever." That was actually the case: the sucessful Stargate production duo (as she of Norwegian origin and now living in LA) got interested in her based on this, invited her, and they produced several songs together. They presented one of those (Million Miles) to Monte Lipman, who is head of Republic Records. That got her signed, and Million Miles and shortly after 7th Heaven were the first two songs published from that collaboration. They are the next two on the playlist. PS: she also acknowledged herself before performing it in her concerts last summer, that "the song has been changing (her) live in so many beautiful ways": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLpzlZeZl9y3ZX0.html&pp=iAQB8AUB

Before I wacth the video. This performance me pone la piel de gallina!!!

They call it Angle Dust

Are you able to travel in September? Live concert tickets for Angelina in New Hampshire went on sale a last week.

Queen loved this so much they gave her copyright to this version

You did miss all the astounding riffs and belts

Best reaction to this I have seen.

Alaska Man Reaction to Reactors....GREAT comments, Thank YOU. Sorry for the yt wokesters messing with your upload.

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Я настолько согласна с тобой! Как четко ты описал ее возможности! Какое уважение к этому самородку! Браво!

Queen posted her performance on social medias sayin :" Wow, What a renditon of Bohemian Rhapsody"

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You have a lot more of AJ to listen to, congrats! Another good reaction from you. Even if AJ is special, I think you would also like Haley Reinhart, both solo and with PMJ (postmodern jukebox) - start with their version of Creep, its amazing. And also check out french singer Lara Fabian singing Je suis Malade live - try not to cry

Please watch her singing I’d rather go blind

🤣😂😭 Great reaction bruh !

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Pude ver aqui no You Tube Mariah Carey e tambem Whitney Houston cantando essa mesma musica da banda Queen...Foi aí que tive certeza de que Angelina Jordan é incrivel,mágica e espetacular!!!Canta muito...

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Unfortunately, ot all ofus could see the complete reaction. That said, would like tosuggest three additional songs as part of this paylist. "It's a Man's World" the James Brown Cover, at 12 Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind at 13 and "I Who Have Nothing" a Ben king origial, but also done by Shirley Bassey. at age 6! in the studio! Thi will change the ordr, but it's worth it.. Love your reactions... highly entertaining, and some great information,..

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I thought I was already subscribed? I just remedied that. 👍🌺😇

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Dimash can also start singing before the first note comes....😊

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I think what you said about her having "one of those very peculiar memories" for what note she should start singing at is the right way to think about it. Some people take this a cappella intro (and other examples of her singing a cappella) as evidence that she has perfect pitch, That phrase has a few different possible meanings, but if it is meant in the sense of the technical ability called "absolute pitch" (i.e., name a note and she can sing it, sing or play a note and she can name it), then I disagree. Certainly, we don't have any _direct_ evidence that she has that ability (i.e., no videos of her being "tested" in that way). But I think it goes further than that: I think we actually have sufficient evidence to conclude that she does _not_ have that ability. I'll return to this point below. OTOH, I strongly suspect that she has what is called "relative pitch" (i.e., give her a note and she can sing another note any specified interval away from it, or play any two notes and she can name the interval between them without "counting it out" [or, equivalently, give her the name of any played note and she can name the next note she hears or sing a specified named note based on the interval it is away from the first - looked at in this way, it becomes clear why they are called "absolute" and "relative" pitch: the "relative" ability needs to be "anchored" to an initial reference note, whereas the "absolute" ability works "form scratch" with just any given note]). Relative pitch is probably not really required to be a good singer, but if you have it then you can probably be a very, very good singer, because you're less likely to get off-key. This would seem to explain how she stayed on-key over the entire 2 min 18 sec of her a cappella "I'm a Fool to Want You" performance in the second round of _Norway's Got Talent_ , even during and after the bridge section, where the pitch swings wildly up and down and she half-speaks a couple of lines. Getting back to _this_ performance, I think that - assuming she really didn't get a "reference note" from the guitarist or in her earpiece (either of which is possible) - she might have actually been able to simply "remember" the note she needed to start with based only on her familiarity with the key the song is in and where the notes fit in her vocal range. I say this because of a little experiment I conducted. One day, shortly after waking up, after not having heard this performance the entire prewvious day (at least… maybe even longer than that), I decided to try to sing the opening notes of the song at the right pitch. I sang the first few notes over and over and over, until I could get onto YT and play the video, and it turned out… I was a little off: perhaps a semitone, perhaps a little more… I can't remember now. Anyway, several days later, I tried the same thing: that time I pretty much nailed it _exactly_ - at least, so closely that I couldn't tell the difference. A couple of months later (I think) I tried again, and again I hit _exactly_ the right note (AFAICT). Now, I don't have any special ability with pitch or any real "music theory" knowledge, or anything like that. I mean, I'm an OK singer (or so I've been told) and I seem to have "a pretty good ear", but that's as far as it goes. (OK, I also played the violin, but not especially well, from 5th to 7th grade.) However, I have sung along with this particular performance so many times that I have apparently developed a kind of "memory" for where it sits in my vocal range (or maybe even a memory for the actual notes themselves). I'm sure the next time I try the experimant I won't get the pitch exactly right, but my point is, it is _possible_ to "just know" what pitch to sing at merely from "experience" and not because of any esoteric ability. Now, add to that the facts that Angelina: (1) knows a lot more about her voice than I do mine; (2) knows _a whole lot_ more about "music theory" than I do (for example, she would know the name of the note she needed to start with, and the starting key of the song - neither of which I know); and (3) is, of course, a _helluva lot_ better singer than I am. In light of all that, it wouldn't be especially surprising if she could pull off this a cappella intro without a reference note and without absolute pitch. But I think it's actually more likely that she got a reference note/chord from the guitarist that we just couldn't hear (perhaps edited out) or from elsewhere through her earpiece. (Interestingly, her pitch is not actually perfectly consistent throughout the whole intro. But I'm not going to tell you that. ;) Finally, getting back to those a cappella performances: when you check various examples of her singing a cappella totally "unprompted" (no reference note), and you compare the pitch she is singing at to that of either the original artist or Angelina herself when singing the song with musical accompaniment, you find that sometimes she singing at the same pitch (damned close, anyway), sometimes she is slightly higher, sometimes slightly lower (up to around a full tone off either way, AFAIR). This is what you would expect from someone who has "a very good ear", but not absolute pitch.

What a letdown! I was looking forward to this reaction, a great reactor versus a great performance by Angelina. I even waited a little when I saw the announce of the video to prolong the pleasure😊 And then PFFFFffffT, great bummer, just a few seconds of song. Ouch!😣

The only complaint I hear about Angelina Jordan is that her performances are too short 😧

you didn't see the entire performance.

Por favor reacciona a LA MALAGUEÑA con Ángela Aguilar en PREMIOS LO NUESTRO, totalmente en vivo su presentación. La Princesa de la música Mexicana en todo su esplendor!!!

ARRIBA QUEMANDO EL SOL es una canción que interpreta Pepe Aguilar en su MTV UNPLUGGED. Ojalá puedas reaccionar, saluditos mexicanos. Y de paso, puedes también escuchar y reaccionar en esa misma presentación a toda la familia completa con LA CHANCLA, EL CHIVO y PUÑO DE TIERRA con Ángela de 10 años y Leonardo de 14. Se que te encantará este performance!!!