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The drummer's reaction kills me everytime

Y’all better put some respect on THEE GREAT Donny Hathaway’s daughter’s name! She is one of the best singers in the game.. she won a Grammy for this exact performance and basically wins a Grammy every year, it seems! What a vocalist and a great great band behind her!

Lalah has 5 Grammy's!! She ain't new to this!!! Berklee College of Music Alum, and Daughter of the Great Donny Hathaway!!!!!! She is truly a vocal beast!! I'm in awe every time I see her live!!!

This is what the Great Donny left us behind his incredibly talented Daughter, Wow!

They won a grammy for this performance.

What to call her vocals: The Hathatone

She literally did a CHORD with her throat WHAT. HOW. This blew my whole EXISTENCE.

5:37ish, I'm laughing... "Her voice is like an instrument, in and of itself"...I'm like lady...you truly have no idea what's about to hit you... 😂😂😂

Tuvan throat singers are using a totally different technique - overtone singing. While she is using polyphonic singing. Lalah actually explained in another video, that throat doctor inspected her vocal cords with video camera - her vocal cords work differently than regular people's - they create 2 openings instead of one, which allows her producing 2 controlled pitches at a time

Lalah won a Grammy for this! Amazing Snarky Puppy, too! She sang 3 notes on that crazy "harmonic" thang!

People of color have ALWAYS brought something transcendental to the human experience...

She's a 5 times Grammy winner who released her first album in 1990 also she's the daughter of the great Donny Hathaway

seeing you love the rest of the song and her mastery of her voice so much then be so baffled at her polyphonic runs = fantastic

The moment you're waiting for is at 6:31

she split her vocal sounds into 3 thank you very much

Yes! She splits chords...She also teaches others to do it (or maybe special ppl, saw her teaching a young singer how to do it) she does it often on her albums

I'm really happy you covered this video. As a musician myself I really appreciate that you're covering a vast variety of singers and musicians . Your insight is so awesome kudos

For those of you who wanna know what basically she did at that part everyone was freaking out was a chord, a triad, she actually hit 3 notes at the same time which is technically impossible . A FACKIN CHORD

This recording won a Grammy for best R&B performance. So I would hope it would be good. She has had 10 Grammy nominations and 5 wins. She was nominated for three Grammy this year so I would say she is well know.

i KNEW it was coming and i was WAITING for your response! Lalah is AMAZING! She IS an instrument - the beautiful product of the incomparable Donny Hathway and Eulaulah!

everyone in that band is a world class musician and they are all just as awestruck by that particular skill. that's the most extraordinary thing

Best. Reaction. Video.EVERRRR! 🤣🏆 Tara wasn’t ready lol

Her instrument should be the #Hathatone as another commenter stated!

Love that you chose a low voiced woman to react to. Contraltos don’t get enough love

Lalah is a GODDESS of musicality.

Lalah was always before her time. Glad people are finally catching up to what many of us her knew back in the day when she attended Berklee College of Music, and that is that her voice and her musicianship is the TRUTH!! This is in part due to the lineage she has as her father Donny Hathaway was a great musician and her mother was a talented singer as well in her own right! Donny's tone alone can break anyone down. That's the kind of history Lalah Hathaway comes from!!

You’re reaction to her harmonizing with herself is insanely priceless. I love how your so knowledgeable and into the music and vocals

Lalah is a vocal master!! I love the warmth of her tone. She’s been singing for 30+ years. I saw an interview years ago where she mentioned that she’d studied different genres of music and music from other cultures. Explains a lot.

Rachelle Ferrell - I can Explain 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💗

Her dad was sick too he could sing the phone book

Lalah's a queen, plain & simple. Truly a master vocalist. Maybe the only case where I'll call a Grammy award-winning performer "underrated"

She can actually split it into 4 chords. She found she could do that at age 13.

OH yes ma’am Ms Lalah BEEN a legend in this game !!!!👏🏾👏🏾

I'm such a fan of Lalah since her very first album. She's undisputed a vocalist unlike any other! I 😍 her!!!!!💜💜💜💜💜💜

Lalah has a beautiful untouchable sound, whenever I listen to her music I get chills. She's in a lane of her own.

😂😂Tara said what just happen?? I just love her reaction

Snarky Puppy is one of my favorite groups!!!!!! So beautiful! Thanks so much Tara for having such a good taste in music lol ;)

If y’all didn’t know, snarky puppy won like 10 awards just alone for this album and this performance!!! Crazy

There's nothing better than watching musicians and singers see Snarky Puppy perform magic in front of them. It's always the same reaction from drummers, bassist, guitarists, pianists and vocalists. Dumbfounded.

Lalah Hathaway is incredible and gives a masterclass performance. Oh, and she'll throw in a few polyphonic overtones just for kicks worthy of a Grammy. It's so fun to watch Tara react to this. And, the band gives just the right amount of funkyness to their performance.

I love that you're doing snarky puppy, they're such an interesting and talented group. Lalah was mindblowing too. scat soloing in keys like that with her level of skill is basically magic.

Nothing is greater than a performer who can immature any instrument. What a vocal muscle.

I was waiting until that vocal trick came. I KNEW it would blow your mind. She is definitely one of my fave vocalists.

This was uniquely beautiful, I loved the jazzy vibe

Absolutely amazing. She's like another chapter continuing her father's greatness building her own

Amazing. Layla is a vocal force to be reckoned with. That horn section was flawless.

Lalah , is the offspring of music royalty; Donnie Hathaway as a graduate of Berklee. This explains her talent. Luv her!❤

Ella Fitzgerald used to do the same vocal harmonizing with herself when she was younger. I have aunts her heard her doing it live back in the day.

Did you ever realize that the song is called “Something” and you said it’s called “nothing”😂

Lalah Hathaway just completed a video with Terrell (check his channel) and she stated she found out as a pre-teen that she could do that with her voice. She’s amazing! Yes, her father is Donny Hathaway however her instrument is all her own!

Your reaction to this beast of a vocalist whose performance took us into the stratosphere (absolutely Love her), has me in tears of joy. I mean I'm literally crying and smiling ear to ear!!! Your blown away reaction was not only appropriate, but priceless and it warmed my heart beyond words!!!

That is not tuvan throat singing. Tuvan throat singing is essentially overtone singing, which means shaping your vocal tract to emphasize certain overtones already present in a drone tone, for instance with the 'r' shape which filters down low frequencies and amplifies higher frequencies. What she is doing here is splitting the break between head and chest voice. This requires a high amount of air volume (expel all the air in your lungs in 1-2 seconds), and the right tension in the vocal cords. The closest thing I can compare it to is the sound someone makes when they're exasperated. It is possible to modulate this by opening your throat to make b2 intervals up to Maj3 and maybe a 4th with difficulty. I have played around with this before, but have never met anyone else who could do it, and certainly no one who has actually executed it as effortlessly as she has here.

She's not an alien; that there is Black girl magic and she's got a degree in vocal improvisation.

I love it she start felling lalah Hathaway. Her reaction is amazing

I keep coming back to this song over the years and every time it's just kind of disbelief. Your reaction is about where I'm at even after all these years.... another realm.

When your that good, that you don't need another person to harmonize.

Another great singer that will blow your mind is Rachelle Ferrell.

You and this hair and this outfit are giving me life😍

Can I just thank you for not pausing the music at 5:15? It's the least of your accomplishments but it's truly gratifying to watch a reaction video of someone who can actually feel the sacredness of performances like this and know there's moments where you just CAN'T pause the music; it would be practically sacrilegious. I enjoyed every bit of watching you groove and be awestruck by Lalah and Snarky Puppy. Still to this day, after so many years, this performance brings tears to my eyes and watching others experience it for the first time and appreciate it as much as I do brings me immense joy. Thank you.

Yes! Yes! Yes!! I’ve been listening to Snarky for years now. I was so excited seeing that you were going to react to them. Musicianship at the next level. I couldn’t wait for you listen to the end. Jazz is very cerebral and her knowledge of theory is astounding. Her application is crazy too, she doesn’t just default to jazz riffs, she is interacting with the chordal changes and is one with the band. That stuff is hard to hear and execute unless you a are a student of Jazz. I’m glad you geeked out on this.

Tara, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your reaction of this video. Every though some of your critics, in the comments, have pointed out the wrong name of the song, and maybe your alleged miss-naming of the vocal technique that she used to blow our minds at around 6:00, you are REGAL in your reaction to this masterpiece. Your beauty, your style, and movements are stunning. Please continue. I'm now a new subscriber and a new fan of Snarky. As for Lalah, and her father, I'm an old fan. I'll always love them. Keep up the great work. You brought me this performance because I rarely keep up with recent news of anything. I would not have seen this if it wasn't for you. Thank you again and surprise us by reacting to some of the suggestions from your fans. I'll be waiting.

Oh yeah...shouts to the band! WOW!!!!!!! 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻

I have seen this video sooo many times. When I saw you were reacting to it, couldn't click fast enough! Love me some Lalah!

I’m sooo glad you did this reaction!! More people need to know about Lalah!

I can’t EVER get enough of Layla Hathaway!!! #GENIUS-N-A-THROAT

Yes, Lalah can Harmonize with herself. Brilliant!

Tara, I have always enjoyed your perspective of the music you review, but you have REALLY impressed me with your knowledge on this one!

Her reaction starting at 6:34 is Priceless 🥰🥰🥰😁😁😁. You better recognize the greatness that's coming from her instrument 👏👏👏👏. From the one and only Miss Lalah Hathaway.

Lalah sang this with Snarky Puppy in Miami last month at the GroundUp Music Festival and it was just as amazing! A special moment.

One of the most beautiful scat line i ever heard from Lala. Iconic

Ok I'm actually touched af, because out of the vocal coaches I follow I've asked them to review this video because it's my favorite song, and I'm from a family of jazz musicians, and you're the first to actually do a reaction to it.

I was just waiting for your reaction to the vocal splitting haha!

That's the most fun, that I've seen you have since I started watching your videos.

This is, by far, my FAVORITE reaction video of yours. I have been a devotee of Laylah Hathaway's since the early 1990s and I've seen her do the throat singing technique in person and I was amazed. Your reaction was EPIC!

Thank you for this reaction. That sick timing!!!! The entire band! Professionals! I'm a great fan of Snarky (I, as a keys player, love Cory Henry)! Lalah Hathaway is amazing. I had a great time watching your reactions (as always).

I love your reactions...im literally sitting here doing the same actions as you EVERYTIME...I respect your knowledge...🙌🏼👌🏼❤

Her voice should be called the Tuvonium. That is one of the most outstanding things I've ever heard! Great video, thank you. A new sub here, peace ✌

I've always watched your vids but today im a subscriber. Every comment I agreed with. But your inner musician kept screaming and that reaction was genuine and mutual! I vibed with your reactions. It feels like your apart of the fam now Lol!

I have been dying for you to watch this!!! Thanks Tara!

Lol lmao ... she was stunned and confused.. I have never seen her lost for words like that!!! I love it!!!

Listen again.all three of the main chord tone and If That WASN'st amazing it was In tune. ...Holy cow! Eargasm

This song reminds me of chilling outside drinking blackberry tea with loved ones that passed on long ago. On a beautiful sunny sunday.

OMG I ASKED FOR THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REACTING TO THIS 😊😊😊😊😊😊

I love how you got in the groove! Your holy cow momentary is priceless. lol love it!!

Tara Simon, Her Father was legendary Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Arranger Donny Hathaway. I encourage you to listen to his music, his voice. You'll be able to hear the rich quality of her low register, and where she got that from. It's unfortunate that we weren't able to get more years of MUSIC from Donny, but what he left us was a Beautiful Legacy.

Sis, your reaction is me!!! The first time I heard her do it ...I didnt know if I was coming or going either! She is phenomenal!!!

That Harmon mute on the trumpet really establishes the hip ambiance of this piece! Reminds me sooo much of Miles Davis!

OMG i asked you to react to this!!!! thank you for doing this video, glad i could share this awesome singer with you

Tara you look flawless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! Work!

TARA! I can't believe you finally watched one of my FAVOURITE VIDEOS on KZfaq! I have been watching your reactions for months now, but this one seemed to have hit your musician spot pretty good. It was amazing to see your body unconsciously reacting to the weird change in chords from the instruments, and also to the amazing improv from Lalah. To whoever understands a MINIMUM of chords and harmonies this video is mind-blowing! Thank you for a great reaction video!

FINALLY!!!! Waiting for you to react this for ages, thanks !!!

That was incredible! I feel like I've heard her do that overtone thing on another song once? Still completely mind-blowing o_o

I'm so happy you reacted to this! Pretty sure I recommended this to you. Lalah's overtones are amazing and the reaction Snarky Puppy had to her singing an actual 3 tone chord is totally relatable. The instrument already has a name, it's called "Lalah Hathaway" ;)

I was just thinking of suggesting this to you earlier today! Thanks to the person that did. The Mongolian singers are incredible, too!

I love seeing other musician's reactions to what Lalah can do! Everyone I've shown this to had the same reaction as you did, "wtf did I just hear"??? They're all speechless. First time visiting your channel and you've got yourself a new sub!

Chill bumps already and I've seen the video before... Lol just waiting for her reaction lol why do I believe that scatting is a rendition of us speaking in tongues/invoking from our religious practices before jazz.

A Vocal Beast. Donny's baby girl.

Are we not lucky to live at a time which allows this to be recorded and shared to so many people? Thanks for highlighting the fantastic performance. Lalahphonic.

Ur welcome!!! I love u so much for reading my comments n make a video for this ur awesome