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Good suggestion on the live version. In my opinion, the best performance of this song would have to be the one at Red Square - Moscow from 2011 as while it may not have the extended outro, Chester effortlessly nails the high note at the end there (specifically the B4) almost as good as the studio version which is extremely hard to do.

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Thanks for the suggestions - I will check it out!

@@JohanBesterYourVocalCoach Thank you. That's originally Facebook quality audio, 64 Kbps, but still pretty good. There are many more uploads of her performances in different venues--she is very versatile and even mastered pure sounding credible classical soprano technique in the last few years, even though she was not classically trained when younger. Plus she manages to get even more beautiful as she gets older--she's 34 now.

@@fredbloggs6080 She is largely unknown not at the same level reputation of Morissette or Gigi de Lana. And at 34 I don't think she is new in this biz.

@@ThelSuperlKing She's not largely unknown in the Philippines, she's had a string of hit songs for movie and TV themes. From Wikipedia: "In 2018, Jona made Awit Award history as the first Filipino artist sweeping all digital categories - Most Downloaded Song for 'You', Most Downloaded Artist, Most Streamed Song for 'Pusong Ligaw', and Most Streamed Artist - while her self-titled album won Best-Selling Album of the Year." I've been following her for about 10 years, so I didn't say she was new, just the best in my opinion I don't care how popular she is internationally. In my opinion that's a bandwagon effect. About five years ago there were a lot of KZfaq reactions, including coach reactions, to Jona, especially after her Queen of the Night performance on ASAP in Rome that went viral. In 2022 Jona took most of the year off, rarely appearing on TV (she had been a regular on one or another network variety shows since she was 15) or doing concerts. She claimed she was trying to open an animal shelter for stray animals, dogs and cats--she had like 40 cats and 30 dogs--but after a year when she made an appearance again on ASAP to introduce a new single said that it was only 2/3 finished. I think there was some other reason, perhaps a spiritual crisis or maybe she had to rest her voice or she was just burned out, and, my personal opinion, she didn't want to have to deal with all the requirements and restrictions of the pandemic, perhaps including getting vaccinated--if so, it's a smart choice as they have proven to be quite dangerous and ineffective, especially regarding preventing transmission. Morrissette might be my second favorite but I find her singing at times sort of boring; Gigi isn't in their league as far as vocal quality and for the last couple years her supposed live performances with her band have been quite autotuned, so I don't listen to them. But she's good at some genres like rock and jazzier stuff. I just saw a video of a live concert performance where she sings All By Myself with her band, that is not autotuned, in a skimpy outfit (also even skimpier in another video of Unholy)--she's in shape now, and attractive and sexy, entertaining and funny and does a good job with the song. She's also an actress. Jona sings in a variety of styles which the others don't, but she has a tone that appeals to me and she's the only singer that can give me chills, when she goes from soft to explosive quickly. I don't understand why she's not internationally as well-known because she's beautiful, though her appearance has changed over the years---I think she's been tweaking her nose every few years, aside from the first nose job she had when she was like 16, but so has Gigi. Jona rose to fame when she won the first Pinoy pop superstar contest in 2005 at 15, under the auspices of Regine Velasquez. In 2006 she entered the World Championship of the Performing Arts in California and won every category she entered--15 gold or overall champion awards in singing. She's gotten even better in the last five years or so. She's a friend and frequent collaborator with Morissette--in 2016 and 2017 she and Morissette were part of the four girl group on ASAP called Brtit Queens. Check out this performance by Jona from September 2019 (search KZfaq for the exact title)--I think it's the best version I've heard: I'll Never Love Again - Jona | The Aces - evelyn de leon

@@ThelSuperlKing By the way, to add additional information, here is a recent comparison reaction video for Morissette Amon, Jona Viray, and Regine Velasquez. I don't usually like these type of things because the clips are usually of unequal quality. But this reactor was recently introduced to Jona for the first time and among a selection of different singers he thought she was the best. And he has made some astute observations about her singing. In this one I'm not sure about the video itself--it's about the high notes--but it seems but he prefers Jona and if you read the comments, they're almost all in favor of Jona over the others. The title of the video is: THEY ARE THE BEST! - Morissette Amon vs Jona Viray vs Katrina Velarde - SLAYING HIGH NOTES! Here's what one commenter, ForEighteen, has to say about her, which sort of contradicts your level of reputation statement: "Among these three, Jona is the most low-key and least active on social media, but also the most well-received in terms of awards, like/dislike ratios, and positive commentary. She has a humble, demure, classy, and mature aura about her that has helped her gain the respect of her rivals' fans. Aside from having ease and fullness in her upper belts, she has a knack for classical singing and a reputation for sounding "expensive" and "vocally healthful" even while executing her most extreme vocal feats. Her mids and lows are topnotch as well. For many vocal purists and technique connoisseurs, she's the go-to singer among the Filipino divas. After transferring from GMA Network to ABS-CBN, she modified her singing style, switching from a focus on extreme vocals to a focus on storytelling and musicianship, still showing off her range and power albeit in a more controlled and tasteful fashion. The performance at 9:20 is her performance of "Over the Rainbow" at the ACES Araneta Concert. YT user 'TheBrocc' has the best quality."

A lot of people, maybe even most people, can't hear the autotune sound applied to vocals even when used not so subtlely.

@@ThelSuperlKing I find that remarkable, even more so for vocal coaches. I have seen this numerous times with other vocal coaches. Agreed, sometimes it's less obvious, but in this case the artifacts are quite apparent. But even in cases where it is not as obvious as this, there should be some consideration as to what they are actually critiquing, in my opinion, especially in analyzing vocal placement and pitch accuracy when they're listening to a synthetic, autotuned or pitch corrected replacement of the actual voice.

@@ThelSuperlKing I appreciate that you don't use autotune or pitch correction on your own vocals.

@@fredbloggs6080 I don't use it not even Melodyne but often I edit by cutting and pasting from different takes to get the best final result.

@@ThelSuperlKing I thought you said in your about section that you just uploaded the raw video but maybe some of them you do the cut paste. Cut and paste, or splice, is what they've done since the early days of recording. It's different than changing the pitch and tonal quality artificially.

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