Welcome to the world of Marc Martel. Like he says at his concerts, "we're just a room full of Queen fans enjoying the music." He's the first to tell you he's not Freddie. Love him.

He is amazing he also helped with the singing on the movie. ❤❤

HOLY COW... IT'S UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! He is excellent....

Marc contributed to some of the vocals to the film, "Bohemian Rhapsody ".

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7:45 - Actually, at one point, Roger Taylor DID ask Marc if he ever did any acting, to which Marc said no. I think he's more than content to be a singer. Acting is a bit out of his wheelhouse, as the saying goes. "Quite scary... You close your eyes and you think it's Freddie onstage, and he actually even looks a little bit like him. And, it's not just the one song. It's every song he sings. When we were rehearsing, in Toronto, they were playing Bohemian Rhapsody and I was sitting down writing, trying to work out the set. And I closed my eyes and suddenly got completely spooked out, 'cause I could've sworn it was Freddie. And you know, you have a very fine ear when you do it all your life and it just is absolutely staggering at times. ... He even does the megaphone effect on 'Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon.' It's great. It's quite a joyous thing to see." - Roger Taylor

From what I’ve read, his singing WAS used in the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, for various songs.

The guy is superb, he is not trying to be Freddie. He is merely paying tribute to Freddie. People who cannot understand this are idiots. Marc done much of the vocals on the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. Nice review man. Maybe now JB you might also be ready to take a proper look at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. There are some mega performances at that gig. Elton John & Axel Rose done a superb duet of Bohemian Rhapsody that day, and G&R also done a set of their own songs earlier in the day. People need to see these performances for what they are, merely tributes, nothing else. Nobody is trying to replace Freddie. My personal Fave from the tribute concert is a song which was done by Italian singer Zucherro. 🙂

Your reaction to Marc is the same one we’ve all had. This is as good as Freddie - and it’s done live, in one take (!!!), singing all vocal parts, while he’s playing the piano. Mind blowing.

I had the same reaction that you did the first time I heard Marc Martel sing

Marc Martel - Mercurotti, absolutely stunning!

He is the best Freddie tribute artist imo but nothing can replace the original..............now please listen to "Mother Love" with your box of tissues.

It amazes me when people are still discovering this guy, his audition of somebody to love was huge a few years ago. He is a beautiful singer, he just happens to sound like Freddie he’s not karaoke at all

I was lucky enough to see him live, in the official Queen tribute band, and this is him doing himself. When he’s performing sort of ‘as’ Freddie, he sounds even more like Freddie than he does here.

He did sing in the movie. He just didn’t play as the actor

OMG I have been waiting and waiting for your reaction to Marc Martel!! Your face when he started singing was priceless 😍 Marc does naturally sound like Freddie but he does put on more to make it sound even more like him when he is singing Queen songs. For example he adds the verbrado at the end just like Freddie did and the way he sings the vouls in words, like the letter 'o', just like Freddie. He has the same jaw and facial structure as Freddie. He was here in Sydney Australia last year and i saw him live, he is AMAZING! Please please please react to him doing another 1 of these 1 take KZfaq videos of him singing Love of My Life while playing the piano, it's absolutely beautiful!!! And Killer Queen too!! Marc has a beautiful natural voice of his own and when singing more like Freddie. BUT...of course there will NEVER be another Freddie! But Marc is the only one that comes even close! I love your channel and i just adore you, you have such a gentleness about you and such a kind heart & I love watching your reactions because i love your unconditional love for all types of music 😍💜😘💜

Here is a great story for you JB. My mom, who was a huge opera buff. I mean HUGE. She LOVED Freddie and Queen. She had the skills to really appreciate his voice and his skill. When Freddie died my mom was super upset. I discovered Marc and i played one of his covers and she was blown away and said he was the closest to Freddie that she had ever heard. And I trusted my momma! Now, go listen to his cover of "Don't stop me now". OH and he did help on the Freddie movie. His voice was used.

I love Marc's versions of Queen songs

Did you know that this dude DID do the movie! He played the voice of Freddy singing when it was intimate or live!!....This guy is like Freddy's reincarnation. You can see he has almost the same bone/jaw structure as Freddy, which is one of the main reasons they sound so similar. He can literally move his mouth the same as Freddy's and make the same sound come out:)

Hey guys! This guy is amazing!! Two weeks ago i went to a concert of Mark and his band. I've never heard him before and as a huge queen fan i never listen to a queen Cover so far.... when the Show Starts with "tie your mother down" i was blown away but when he perform borab... i was crying... he never pretends to be freddy and he just sing natural and not as an imitator. In two weeks i go again in the Show.... love it!! Thank you for your genuine reaction!! Watch his Version of "love of my life".... insane!!

I am a HUGE Freddie fan too 🖤 I also I also love Marc. Please listen to more of him!

Just WOW !!!

Yeah! Who is this guy? I froze up. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. 👏

Oh and if you want to understand move about his voice look up "Rebecca vocal athlete" and she is a vocal coach and she analyzes his performance. And she is a HUGE Freddie fan .

Marc Martel is amazing I saw him in 2013 in Queen Extravaganza. A hand picked (by Roger Taylor and Brian May) Tribute band if you will, that was amazing. Thanks for reacting to this. watch Marc in his audition tape singing Somebody to Love. you will be amazed. now you know why he was hand picked by Roger and Brian. Also watch him on his first appearance on the Ellen show.

He do a session like this with the song Killer queen too. You need to watch it. That one will blow you away

He’s good. He won the vocal role for the tribute band that Roger and Bryan put together a couple of years ago. Queen has so many great songs you haven’t reacted to, wish you would get back to them and dig deeper.

Another thing, I saw somewhere that Marc Martel mentions that he and Freddie appear to have similar noses, and nasal cavity that may produce a similar sound although not exact . If you miss reacting to Queen, there’s still time and there’s still more. Try “Heaven for Everyone “ Written and sang when he was dying. Great melody

😂 I had the same “I need to pick my jaw up from the floor” look you had the first time I heard this

I’ve never heard this version. Wow! He’s so talented!

I saw Marc last August he was Amazing. He's got some great videos you can check out. He just recently put up "Who wants to live Forever".. He also has "Love of my life" You take my breath away" just to name a few.

He didn't play Freddie but he did provide some vocals for the film, I've seen a couple people use the word imitator in regards to Marc and while imitating Freddie Mercury for a full Queen set and not destroying your voice would be impressive that's not Marc. He just sounds a lot like Freddie and he does so with every song he's sung, be it Queen covers, Pop covers, or original songs that he's written.

You want to be blown away? Watch Marc Martel live in Montreux performing "Under Pressure.

You should definitely react to more of Marc's stuff (especially Love of My Life and Who Wants to Live Forever), but I'd really, REALLY love to see you react to more Queen. You're one of the few who truly *gets it*, you know? I'd love to see your Queen journey continue on your channel 🙂 You still have tons of content to explore.

He didn't play Freddie in the movie because he's not an actor, but he did most of the vocals

Marc Martel did provide some singing vocals for Rami Malek in the "Bohemian Rhapsody" movie, especially in scenes in which Freddie transitions from speaking to singing, in the studio recording or onstage performing or out and about. From a New York Times article: During the performance sequences in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the movie sometimes employs Mercury’s actual vocals from the Queen archives, but that wasn’t always practical - some scenes demanded a stunt vocal-cord performer. The film’s creators have conceded that the sung vocals in the movie are largely by Mercury and Martel, although they haven’t broken down the specifics of who contributed what; doing so might distract from Malek’s performance. Martel, who received a fleeting “additional vocals” billing, acknowledged that he worked on the movie, but citing his nondisclosure agreement, would not go into detail. www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/arts/music/marc-martel-queen-freddie-mercury-bohemian-rhapsody.html

I think Freddie would've loved to meet Marc. It's so sweet seeing the love and respect JB and Marc have towards Freddie. His legacy lives on, even though he's not around.

Marc has more queen songs and they are all excellent.

You have to check out him sing Queens 'Love if my Life'. He sings it in front of a hotel.

Marc Martel is absolutely an amazing singer and pianist. To answer your question, Marc was used in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. He did most of the vocals when "Freddie" was singing. The entire vocal score of the movie included Freddie, Marc Martel, and Rami Malek who played the lead. Yes, please listen to more of Marc's singing. Actually, the Bohemian Rhapsody you just reacted to was seen on youtube by Roger Taylor and Brian May. They contacted Marc immediately and hired him to work on the movie vocal score as well as join "Queen Extravaganza". This group tours and performs all Queen music. You can check them out on youtube as well. Hope that info help. Love what you do. Keep going. Much love.

That was the most remarkable covers I have ever seen.

Great reaction,if you love this ,you should hear him live with a actual band.

He sang some songs in the movie JB

I love how you love Freddie. Warms my heart❤️

Chills in a leather jacket! Incredible, right? I believe they used some of his voice in the recent movie. Great reaction, JB.

They did use Marc's vocals for some sections of the movie soundtrack, although it was mostly the real deal. His voice is really good & it's amazing that anyone could get close to sounding like Freddie. But as impressive as he is, it's still only an imitation. Now go back & relisten closely to Freddie singing BoRhap & have your heart pierced & butt kicked all over again.💙And you'll think "Oh yeah. There it is. THAT'S the difference".

JB I know how you feel. Queen was a big part of my youth. They use words like doppelganger, or Freddie is channeling Marc cause He knows about Marc from above. Or maybe Freddie's spirit sweetened Marc's singing of Queen songs. Your body may perish but your spirit is eternal. Oh yeah.......time for a DNA test. But as Freddie said when I am gone if you play our music please darling don't be boring. Well Marc is not boring. He is bringing classic Queen from the ashes and making it anew especially for the young ones....

Yes he did sings all songs in the movie

Marc has a Christian band named DownHere . Check out his song called How Many Kings . It will move your spirit to the core.

Most of Freddie's voice was Marc's. More has come out. Brian May has commented that the movie would not have been possible without Marc Martel

AMAZING! ❤️🙏🏻

And if you miss reacting to Queen just keep reacting to Marc singing Queen songs now as a new experience!! You should also react to Marc's audition when he sang Somebody to love, which is when he was discovered! There is also another Marc Martel KZfaq video called The many voices of Marc Martel you should watch! He can sound like so many different singers which apparently being able to do is quite common for alot of people who can just naturally sing as opposed to people who go and learn to sing 💜😘

I know how you feel, if I listen to Adam Lambert with Queen, I will feel I am being disloyal to Freddie.

I heard him live n Virginia in early 2020. Amazing show. He came from the Christian group Downhere.

E ainda tem gente que fala que Marc Martel é um imitador! Ahhhh, faça-me um favor! A voz dele é essa. Não se imita Freddie Mercury. Simplesmente, Marc Martel foi agraciado com esse dom e quando interpreta é isso aí que felizmente ouvimos 🙏🙏

I don't believe that Freddie was done yet. So he "jumped" Marc!!..🎧🙏

He absolutely have played Freddie.

Hey wow!!! Just seeing your reaction to this❤️❤️❤️ I looooved the emotion you showed!!!! Marc is the closest we will ever come to Freddie…..looooong story on the whole thing!!!! I actually know Marc, his wife, and his manager😇❤️ Marc is a super humble guy and a a sweet, precious, HUMBLE person. Yup by now you know he DID contribute to the movie. He has been prior and tons since those years having a stellar career much more than Queen. If you’ve not checked out his channel you can see his videos with his band of more Queen covers!! Have a Blessed Thanksgiving, God bless!!!!

In Marc's concerts he does this song better and does all of queen songs look him up

He was picked by Brian May and Roger Taylor for the Queen Extravaganza and has toured over 150 countries for them !!!!!Also he was on American Idol with both of them..((It was his debut.)!! I think Rami was already chosen for the role in the movie. Marc did the vocals in the movie!!!@

If you want to hear more Queen why not just react to some more of their songs/performances you haven't reacted to yet... The Prophet Song (studio version) Seaside Rendezvous Seven Seas of Rhye The Millionaire Waltz (studio version) It's Late Liar (live at the Rainbow) The Fairy Fellers Masterstroke & Nevermore best heard together (studio) Now I'm Here Love of My Life (live in Rio) Under Pressure (wembley) Lily of the Valley (studio) The whole Montreal concert, even. It's not terribly long.

As per Brian May, they used his voice for some songs in the movie, overlapping some of Freddie’s voice only in certain songs, but they didn’t want a “replica” of Freddie. Also they needed the acting ability of an actual working actor. Rami is Egyptian decent while Freddie is actual ancient Persian decent; regardless of where he and his parents were born....the ability to understand the roots and background was important....

Marc was the voice double for the movie and lost out to Lambert for the band because of the creep factor. Brian and Roger couldn't handle it. He does head a tribute band, "Queen Experience." Marc does "Love of my Life" too! Check it out.

This guy was in a Christian band called Downhere and go check them out.

He was voice on the movie... For the parts were obviously Freddie was around.

Great reaction!

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Look up more of Marc martel singing

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This dude was the vocals in the movie homie

I like your reaction, it's one of the most emotional, it's full of feeling for music, for Queen songs and for Freddie Mercury. And I also like the covers of Marc Martel because it doesn't upset the original songs. And when it does, it does it so well that you think "it's right, it's okay." Because in addition to being a good musician, he has something extra on his side: the voice. Her voice is a gift and, sorry for everyone who sings Queen's songs (including Queen + Lambert), but to hear them sing from "this" voice makes a poignant effect ( this literally destroys me kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hrppgNWE08fWdp8.html ). There will certainly be those who sing them better, those who sing them worse, those who have a more powerful voice, those who have more stage presence, but, in my opinion, this is the best voice for these songs.

I'd like to see you comment on his other videos of him covering other Queen songs..

Marc is not an actor but does a great job impersonating one of the greatest music artists ever, the one and only Freddie Mercury

Marc’s singing was used in various parts of Bohemian Rhapsody so he was very much part of the movie. He does an amazing Mercury. One thing a lot of people say is why Queen doesn’t tour using Marc and why they went with Adam. The reason is they didn’t want to get someone who does Does Freddie. Freddie was Freddie and is the only Freddie. That’s not a dig at Marc’s amazing talent to reproduce Freddie. To them, I think, they would rather have someone different than replace their Freddie.

Same reaction, and I am 54 year old white dude. Your good.

You are no doubt the best reacter out there i love all your reactions special to Queen, i hope you come back to them again soon.

very difficult song well done

I love him!!! They used him in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody for some of the scenes...I highly recommend him doing Killer Queen it’s amazing even better I think than him doing Bohemian Rhapsody kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLyVqLyBsceoh30.html Marcs range is just about the same as Freddie’s

Queen didn’t want this guy because they didn’t want someone to sound like Freddie. He is the closest thing we will ever get to Freddie and I love this guy because he loved Freddie. That’s all that matters!!!

He has studied Freddie sort of and I think his tribute band is called Extravaganza if I remember it right. Look up his video on How To Sing like Freddie. Adam Lambert, the front man of Queen now sounds also really good. Not in the style of Freddie but pretty good singer.

Marc Martel did a lot of the singing for the Queen movie. I suggest you listen to Marc do Nessun Dorma as the Mercurotti. Also look for The Queen Extravaganza in your area. Its Marc with his band doing Queen songs. It's an amazing show.

The reason Marc didn't play Freddie in the movie is very simple. He's not an actor :) He is one HELL of a musician and one of the greatest vocalists in the World and only he and Gary Mullen can mimic Freddie's vocals this flawlessly. Marc even has a striking natural resemblance to him, but they needed a very good actor to portray Freddie, and that worked, obviously, with Rami Malek winning Best Actor at the Academy Awards. But Marc did provide some of Freddie's vocals for the movie, actually. Most of the vocals were Freddie himself from tapes in the past and some were Rami's and the leftovers were Marc's.

like you say best song ever made

Bro, Freddie alive :)

the instrumental cover on guitar by Alip Ba Ta for this is insane. you will love it. just him and his acoustic. He hits every note, beat , riff and freddies' voice with his magic fingers .

Please react to more of marc martel !

bets reaction ever gr8 video

He sang the songs on the movie.

Also do more queen theres tons of songs that weren't the "hits" but are great!!

The closest thing to Freddie you'll ever get!

I'm still as you said. Queen is sacred to me and I don't want to hear any covers. I'm only listening now because it's on your channel. I've not yet listened to Adam Lambert with Queen yet either. IMO, this guy does a good impression of Freddie, but I can easily hear a difference. I guess Freddie's voice is burned into my head after over 45 yrs of listening. This guy is good though.

JB, you just HAVE to react to Marc Martel doing Freddie's love ballad "Somebody to Love". It's awesome. And as someone else wrote, he's not trying to BE Freddie, he just happened to win the genetic lottery that gave him the ability to sound similar to Freddie (cavities in his head, shape and form of his throat, mouth etc.) and people nagged him to cover Queen before he became famous. When Queen reunited they were looking for a new vocalist and Marc sent in his audition of "Somebody to Love". Queen chose Adam Lambert because they thought Marc sounded too much like Freddie and it wasn't really what they were looking for (they were looking for a unique singer, not someone who sounded like Freddie). Instead they offered him the spot in Queen Extravaganza, an official tribute band created by Queens drummer Roger Taylor which he toured with for a couple of years. As for the movie, he was actually SINGING some of the material in the movie: "While Malek sang some parts in the film, producers inserted vocal stems from Queen songs as well as filling in parts with Canadian vocalist Marc Martel, a winner of the Queen Extravaganza Live Tour auditions." I recommend Marc's version of "Somebody to Love" that he does live with Queen Extravaganza: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLqGZMaZs67adGg.html

Previously I said “as per Brian May” but on second thought it could have been Freddie’s personal assistant Peter Freestone. They were both on the movie set when it was said. You can’t do a replica of a master like Freddie....his persona was too huge. Best to let an actor do his interpretation of the man.

well in answer to your question he dosnt really look like freddy and hes probably not an actor or simply the producers never had any idea he exists , anyway mate pretenders arnt necessarily pretenders , most of the time covers can be as good if not better than the original , its kind of live vs recorded live is sometimes better because they put a twist on a song and most of the time it works really well , never be afraid of a cover song mate its the same gold mine your use to but with new surprises

Wow 💣they need him not Adam Lambert not sayin Adam cannot sing but dayum🔥

Totally agree about the movie...probably because of $$$....pulling people into the box office usually needs a name...I think this guys mouth structure is a lot like Freddies even!

Ok, Freddie we're not scared of you, you can now take you mask off!

MIA - Paper Planes next please

He dont look like freddie that's why he did play him and hes not an actor. He does the queen extravaganza band all over the world. Marc is great .he did contribute to vocals for movie tho.

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