Stevie Wonder - I Can Only Be Me

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  • @TjSpoonManJacques
    @TjSpoonManJacques2 жыл бұрын

    Because of my dark complexion I thought I was the ugliest person in the '80s until I heard this song. That's how much you changed my life. ❤️

  • @HomeworkGuild

    @HomeworkGuild

    5 ай бұрын

    Black is beautiful and Black is Black. ✊🏾

  • @koenraad4618

    @koenraad4618

    4 ай бұрын

    Black is beautiful and will always be beautiful, all colors are

  • @KevinSoulman
    @KevinSoulman11 жыл бұрын

    His songs are gifts from God.

  • @1983denby
    @1983denby7 жыл бұрын

    This is one of my favorite songs from "School Daze", but this is my very first time ever hearing Stevie sing it. I new it was his range but never heard him sing it, and the fact that its Live. Whoa!

  • @whitneydenise

    @whitneydenise

    4 жыл бұрын

    Corey Pugh same here!!!!

  • @jacqulynwebster6591

    @jacqulynwebster6591

    4 жыл бұрын

    Right!!!!! 😳🤩

  • @mauricedorsey7219

    @mauricedorsey7219

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's his song. I heard it first from Stevie. My mom use to have these Motown Anthropology albums, they came with like 4 albums in one. Classic times

  • @TheSureShannonShow

    @TheSureShannonShow

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree most definitely

  • @sunmanpatoo

    @sunmanpatoo

    3 жыл бұрын

    i've been searching for that school daze song for years & found it today. now, just like you, i found the stevie wonder version. let's pray for his continued health & blissings. Hare Krishna!

  • @girldrugs3184
    @girldrugs3184 Жыл бұрын

    I remember being a little girl in the backseat of my moms car and crying to this song. She turned around like what’s wrong baby 😂😂😂. It hit me deep in my 4 year old soul

  • @jewelinwideawake
    @jewelinwideawake13 жыл бұрын

    I love at the very end where Barry White is just captivated by Stevie's voice and had to realize the song was over....that's why he's a musical genius!!!!! Love you Stevie!!!!

  • @LilMama2312
    @LilMama231212 жыл бұрын

    Keith John KILLED this song on School Daze!!!!

  • @arnitalynn4877

    @arnitalynn4877

    3 жыл бұрын

    Cant believe I was that close to meeting Stevie Wonder. Talked to Keith daily when he was blowing the whistle on a dance show called The Scene. His father is Little Willie John, popular for the song you give me fever!!

  • @arnitalynn4877

    @arnitalynn4877

    3 жыл бұрын

    Keith blew this song, but im sorry he will never be Stevie Wonder.

  • @arnitalynn4877

    @arnitalynn4877

    3 жыл бұрын

    Keith John's voice is amazing. I dont compare peoples skill, however he will NEVER be Stevie Wonder!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @johncomeaux4951

    @johncomeaux4951

    4 ай бұрын

    @@arnitalynn4877 most definitely. Stevie might have just done that song at the drop of a dime where I knew Keith John needed preparation. Then Stevie is playing and singing that thing simultaneously and blind I might add.

  • @IsaiahSingsGreat
    @IsaiahSingsGreat5 жыл бұрын

    BUTTERFLIES BEGIN FROM HAVING BEEN ANOTHER AS A CHILD IS BORN FROM BEING IN A MOTHER'S WOMB BUT HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU WISHED YOU WERE SOME OTHER, SOMEONE THAN WHO YOU ARE YET WHO'S TO SAY IF ALL WERE UNCOVERED, YOU WILL LIKE WHAT YOU SEE YOU CAN ONLY BE YOU, AS I CAN ONLY BE ME. FLOWERS CANNOT BLOOM UNTIL IT IS THEIR SEASON, AS WE WOULD NOT BE HERE UNLESS IT WAS OUR DESTINY...BUT HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU WISHED TO BE IN SPACES, TIME PLACES THAN WHAT YOU WERE YET WHO'S TO SAY WITH UNFAMILIAR FACES YOU COULD ANYMORE BE. LOVING YOU THAT YOU SEE, YOU CAN ONLY BE YOU...AS I CAN ONLY BE ME.

  • @alaza61
    @alaza617 жыл бұрын

    How beautiful is this? I mean seriously. Vocals. Thought Provoking Lyrics. A MESSAGE. This is what it's all about man.

  • @spiritqueen9127
    @spiritqueen91275 жыл бұрын

    How I love Mr. Stevie wonder. I can also hear the late legend. Mr. Donny Hathaway doing this song some justice also.

  • @storm6051

    @storm6051

    3 жыл бұрын

    Donnie and Stevie are synonymous.......they go hand in hand.

  • @rylanlusk3663

    @rylanlusk3663

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ughh why would you put that in my head that song for Donny omg 😳

  • @crystalcraigeshockley

    @crystalcraigeshockley

    Жыл бұрын

    Definitely Mr. Hathaway.! So much heart!

  • @DreamGyrl360
    @DreamGyrl36014 жыл бұрын

    "Yet who's to say/with unfamiliar faces/you could anymore be?/love the you that you see/you can only be you/as I can only be me..."

  • @BookMultimedia
    @BookMultimedia7 жыл бұрын

    Keith john was A BACKUP SINGER o tour with Stevie in those years. ...he was hired to sing this song for school daze. Also, Keith John's version was a recording, this is a "live performance" Who performs it better shouldn't be an argument. it's sung in the same key and similar vocal tone.

  • @100AmazingFacts

    @100AmazingFacts

    3 жыл бұрын

    I always thought Keith John sounded like Stevie. Now I know why.

  • @olewollberg1962

    @olewollberg1962

    2 жыл бұрын

    ​@@100AmazingFacts There is even more to know about that: When Stevie started to develop his original style he was told by the label bosses to listen to Little Willie John's singing to try to sound more like him. So John became an important influence. Keith John is Little Willie's son... So Keith's and Stevie's styles each in their own ways have been very much influenced by the same singer long before they first met. So this is not an accidental match. This story really blew my mind because I had been wondering how it could be that Stevie had a backing singer sounding quite the same as he. People always talk about Stevie's tremendous impact on every kind of music which is obvious. But it's also very interesting to listen to his roots and major orientations, such as Little Willie John. You'd be surprised how much contemporary RnB is already to be found in John's 50s career.

  • @saundaugherty7004
    @saundaugherty70045 жыл бұрын

    It amazes me that God would give one person so much to share with humanity like he has given this man. It is profound, and he says the things that I cannot Express in my own words. It will be a loss when he has to go away.

  • @oscarmike1131
    @oscarmike11317 жыл бұрын

    thank you School Daze for introducing me to this

  • @davidbabloyan7698
    @davidbabloyan76988 жыл бұрын

    Stevie is the best singer of the world!!! Thank's

  • @LaVonne_208

    @LaVonne_208

    4 жыл бұрын

    No he's not but he IS a great legend

  • @lorisdiglaudi6118

    @lorisdiglaudi6118

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@LaVonne_208 HE IS THE BEST SINGER OF ALL TIME!!!

  • @LaVonne_208

    @LaVonne_208

    4 жыл бұрын

    Loris Diglaudi Ahh sorry but NO

  • @lorisdiglaudi6118

    @lorisdiglaudi6118

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LaVonne_208 oh yes definitely, and who else???

  • @urmom777

    @urmom777

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lorisdiglaudi6118 luther vandross MJ Prince marvin gaye Teddy etc

  • @levanabrzeni
    @levanabrzeni7 жыл бұрын

    Mighty Stevie in his prime. This video is a treasure. The audience was clearly moved and 99 % of it was a famous singer.

  • @FABRIZIOZPH

    @FABRIZIOZPH

    7 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't agree more, he is not from this planet

  • @levanabrzeni

    @levanabrzeni

    7 жыл бұрын

    Might be

  • @DickDabb

    @DickDabb

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yo let me hit that smoke with ya.

  • @rodneychassagne7243
    @rodneychassagne72434 жыл бұрын

    Man this song touches me and lifts me up everytime.

  • @CarFitSki22
    @CarFitSki229 жыл бұрын

    People should type/write/speak for knowledge. The connection between Stevie and Keith John is greater than boss/employee....leader/backup singer. "Little" Stevie Wonder was primarily given to him due the success of a pre-Motown/pre-Barry Gordy singer from Detroit named Little Willie John. Willie John's youngest son is Keith John. There is agape -- Father/Son/"Uncle"/Big Brother love with this connection. One Love.

  • @SisterMotown

    @SisterMotown

    8 жыл бұрын

    +CarFitSki22 THANK YOU! A lot of the GREATS like Smokey wrote songs for others...We are all enriched by their works!

  • @ghordibarifilms

    @ghordibarifilms

    4 жыл бұрын

    Little Willie John. A true legend. Before Sam, Marvin, James... There was Willie!. Thank you for this comment. I actually sang in a group in high school with David John, Little Willie's Nephew. The John Family has a rich history here in Detroit.

  • @RussellAthletics
    @RussellAthletics13 жыл бұрын

    This song sounds like Stevie. I didn't know that he wrote this song for school daze and Keith John did a wonderful job performing this song.

  • @gregsbiz1
    @gregsbiz13 жыл бұрын

    Most people cant name their favorite song but this one is mine. Brings tears to your eyes. Janet's face showed it clearly. Stevie is one of the greatest song writers ever. 🙏🏾✊🏾

  • @dnshifter2db
    @dnshifter2db9 жыл бұрын

    One of the last of the musical legends.

  • @lydenmarikh
    @lydenmarikh11 жыл бұрын

    Flowers will not bloom until it is their season...

  • @thechronicles5170
    @thechronicles5170 Жыл бұрын

    Stevie’s voice is so moving and rich

  • @user-gh5mr1qo3m
    @user-gh5mr1qo3m4 ай бұрын

    Stevie Wonder is a WONDER!!! Such a beautiful voice and music that can't be duplicated. He is a gift from GOD to us for our listening pleasure.

  • @jewelinwideawake
    @jewelinwideawake14 жыл бұрын

    OMG...I remember this song from Skool Daze....no wonder I loved this song so much, Stevie Wonder is my favorite artist!!!

  • @JohnDoe-mv6nx
    @JohnDoe-mv6nx9 жыл бұрын

    This man was sent from heaven#Period

  • @hanywitney4799
    @hanywitney47992 жыл бұрын

    Thats Genuis at its Finest! The greatest song ever written in Music History watch the look on the faces of Janet Jackson, Barry White, Sissy Houston theres only one Stevie Wonder an after him they will still be searching for another one.

  • @SPOKENWORDZ1970
    @SPOKENWORDZ19704 ай бұрын

    PLEASE DEAR GOD BRING BACK REAL MUSIC

  • @albsurelove
    @albsurelove7 жыл бұрын

    Such a touching and deep song. so much emotion and raw truth. When I 1st heard this song in the movie SCHOOL DAZE in 1987, it always made me tear up. Pulls at the heartstrings. Especially when you're a young kid and experiencing so much in life and trying to understand..... Stevie is Purely magic and one of the absolute greatest of all times. Feeling grateful that I got to grow up listening to him and being able to experience his GREATNESS! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @audreybowie9442

    @audreybowie9442

    3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful Song! Stevie Wonder is a musical Genius🎹

  • @muthermars
    @muthermars4 жыл бұрын

    Sobering performance. Stevie’s heart-sung poetry moved the audience off their pedestals and eased them all to even ground.

  • @lathorneking6745
    @lathorneking6745 Жыл бұрын

    Janet looked like she wanted to cry. Such a beautiful song. Thank you Stevie

  • @stevomane5684
    @stevomane56844 жыл бұрын

    One of the best live performances

  • @TJTHEFOOTBALLPROPHET
    @TJTHEFOOTBALLPROPHET2 жыл бұрын

    I cry every time! ❤️

  • @lolawon1111
    @lolawon11113 жыл бұрын

    I love you Stevie Wonder for ever you have my heart

  • @djiceman1977
    @djiceman197714 жыл бұрын

    This man is the very reason I learned how to play a piano. In addition to that, this is one of my favorite songs. He wrote my all-time favorite which is 'Ribbon In The Sky'. Thank you so much Stevie!

  • @MorreMorre-lk7qd
    @MorreMorre-lk7qd2 ай бұрын

    Stevies songs speak to the heart and soul ❤️ his music is different from the rest, for me. His melodies always hit different, makes me think about life.. deep song. Grateful to live in same time era as Stevie Wonder 🙏

  • @dln3472
    @dln34722 жыл бұрын

    Play this at my funeral.

  • @HBippy
    @HBippy8 жыл бұрын

    The lyrics are so heavy. I love The truth in the words...

  • @johnfagbore7617
    @johnfagbore76175 ай бұрын

    Stevie wonder is just that more to god i believe because when he sings & makes speeches its from somewhere we wasnt pure of in the humanist sense of the songs he mostly writes in every word 🎉❤

  • @motowninvestor
    @motowninvestor15 жыл бұрын

    His VOICE!!!!!! Is AWESOME!!!

  • @raymonda5476
    @raymonda54763 жыл бұрын

    Eva Cassidy also does a beautiful version of this wonderful song.

  • @LaVonne_208
    @LaVonne_2089 жыл бұрын

    School Daze bought me here

  • @deab5768
    @deab57685 жыл бұрын

    Stevie is the best, I agree as well. not just as a singer, a writer but as a composer as well. I love him...

  • @moniquecherice1758
    @moniquecherice17582 жыл бұрын

    One of the most beautiful songs in the world by the very best of the best and thee greatest singers/song writers in the world ~ STEVIE WONDER

  • @grilablitznet3574
    @grilablitznet3574 Жыл бұрын

    Eva Cassidy’s cover of this song can only be described as otherworldly.

  • @Foxybillie
    @Foxybillie11 жыл бұрын

    Stevie, could you help me wherever you are, I want so much to Just Love Who I Am, and really know that I Can Only Be Me. Thankyou for this song, and for all the love you have brought into my life.

  • @ddash28
    @ddash2813 жыл бұрын

    Wow! The more I hear from this guy, the more I am impressed. It is like he is superhuman. He truly has a gift. He is definitely doing what he was supposed to do in life. Because, to cheat the world out of things like this would truly be a crime.

  • @trumusicgen
    @trumusicgen14 жыл бұрын

    Where in the heck, does Stevie get the stuff he writes, its beyond genius

  • @jadastaywoke3776
    @jadastaywoke37764 жыл бұрын

    I love Stevie with a passion, why after all these years I just peeped Janet Jackson in the audience 😍 ...Be You 🌱🌍🖤🙏🏽

  • @SHIGGBELOVED
    @SHIGGBELOVED Жыл бұрын

    PLAYS THIS EVERY MORNING…..

  • @balcon983
    @balcon9834 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. Greatest composer. Singer.

  • @msprissy31
    @msprissy3111 жыл бұрын

    My fav atrist of all time. The most talented and lyrical artist to date. And that voice... Amazing Talent. I looooove me some Stevie. Always!!!

  • @OctoberLibra1
    @OctoberLibra112 жыл бұрын

    This song touches my spirit. It's so beautiful that God did not bless Stevie with sight, but blessed him with a vocie, words and music as if he could see all of God creations, emotions to sing about in song. What a beautiful thing. What a blessing.

  • @LaDamionMassey
    @LaDamionMassey5 жыл бұрын

    I really love to hear why 21 people have this vid a thumbs down.

  • @Citrussun755

    @Citrussun755

    2 жыл бұрын

    It wouldn’t even make sense

  • @theprolificnetwork4670
    @theprolificnetwork467013 жыл бұрын

    This and Stay Gold are my most favorite SW songs.

  • @rkmalonemalone2995
    @rkmalonemalone29959 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the AMAZING..."FLETCHER!!!!" His version is breath taking as well...

  • @colly392
    @colly3927 жыл бұрын

    Janet was feeling it

  • @MarilynFinland
    @MarilynFinland3 жыл бұрын

    Tears. Every time

  • @stephenasearlesii
    @stephenasearlesii4 жыл бұрын

    Sad to say I heard the song for the 1st time yesterday. Stevie Wonder classics don't stop!

  • @user-be9zx2mb4p
    @user-be9zx2mb4p2 жыл бұрын

    Bravo !!!!

  • @0222527
    @022252714 жыл бұрын

    BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL.....TEARS ARE FALLING, THE TRUTH IS A REALITY....JANET WAS MOVED...ONLY STEVIE CAN DO THAT!!

  • @SWEETSDADDY
    @SWEETSDADDY14 жыл бұрын

    4 some wh doesnt have the faculty off sight this man has more insight and is more intune to nature and the human exsperience them most people

  • @patrickjoseph907
    @patrickjoseph9073 жыл бұрын

    Keith is a master (and better than many established successful current vocalists of his genre). But Stevie is Grand master! To a die hard fan, even his faults are acceptable because as well as a vocalist, he is also instrumentalist and inspirationalist. The originator will always carry a greater degree of merit. Compare Beatles' & Michael Jacksons' "Come Together" or Beatles' & Earth, Wind & Fires' "Got To Get You Into My Life"......😎😉💖

  • @vocalstar
    @vocalstar8 жыл бұрын

    Stevie Wonder sang it best because he did it so effortlessly thats where the magic lies its not about all the ad libs all the time plus ad libing is a very small part of singing I know ive sang my own version and after hearing this im redoing mine this is perfection for sure take it from vocalstar

  • @mar217rocks7

    @mar217rocks7

    7 жыл бұрын

    (Enter a hater) I bet your version probably sucks anyway..

  • @tiadekattu9096
    @tiadekattu90963 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

  • @delledean2020
    @delledean202013 жыл бұрын

    stevie does this well, but I gotta say that I love it when Keith John does it........

  • @justincase4792

    @justincase4792

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah but Keith's version was recorded in a professional studio and this it's live. Can't really compare them.

  • @LGKids
    @LGKids3 жыл бұрын

    Listen, no listen, lyrics, melody and just plain good music! Peace!

  • @JacquiePotter
    @JacquiePotter10 жыл бұрын

    Perfection. Sunday...chilly sunset...

  • @the1umustlove
    @the1umustlove11 жыл бұрын

    Perfect wedding song

  • @paceman987
    @paceman98714 жыл бұрын

    Thanx a million times. I have been waiting for this for a long time !!. Stevies own version.. great!! I first heard this song by Eva Cassidy. A fantastic version.

  • @panthonymorton
    @panthonymorton Жыл бұрын

    My favorite song from School Daze

  • @nezkeys79
    @nezkeys792 жыл бұрын

    Imagine listening to stevie sing this song back then (and you and i) It's awesome now but damn back then must have been something truly special.

  • @flyygirl228
    @flyygirl22810 жыл бұрын

    Love it

  • @nwimobilenotary5634
    @nwimobilenotary56345 жыл бұрын

    Keith John version is outstanding but Stevie is singing this live in front of his peers. Secondly playing the keyboard and yes Barry was hating lol

  • @susanglick8951
    @susanglick895110 жыл бұрын

    Magnificent!

  • @atmybest4
    @atmybest413 жыл бұрын

    SANG IT STEVIE!

  • @alanmorris7669
    @alanmorris76695 жыл бұрын

    Where was this? What was the occasion? I saw so many of our great artists in the audience! Barry White, Isaac Hayes, Janet Jackson, Little Richard, etc...

  • @msemmafw
    @msemmafw2 жыл бұрын

    Forever classic (2022 ) Bless the Goat🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @vonaustin609
    @vonaustin6092 жыл бұрын

    I love it

  • @Delicious1922
    @Delicious1922 Жыл бұрын

    I love this song!!!!

  • @mistrmik21
    @mistrmik2110 жыл бұрын

    beautiful song!

  • @sheenadavis9759
    @sheenadavis97592 жыл бұрын

    when music was bomb

  • @jamesmurphy-walsh8966
    @jamesmurphy-walsh89668 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic

  • @candymcrank
    @candymcrank6 жыл бұрын

    Love Stevie love this song 💕

  • @guitarvirtualschool8369
    @guitarvirtualschool83692 жыл бұрын

    It"sWonderful!

  • @stephanie3506
    @stephanie35063 жыл бұрын

    SIIIIING STEVIE!!!!!! My God!!!

  • @COBYKOEHL2
    @COBYKOEHL215 жыл бұрын

    I live for this version.Kieth John tears it up 2.

  • @shenekiawalker82
    @shenekiawalker82 Жыл бұрын

    Love this song. ❤😢

  • @rolandhainje
    @rolandhainje9 жыл бұрын

    The Top! Stevie Wonder.

  • @ceylatopete3883
    @ceylatopete38835 жыл бұрын

    Magistral interpretación!!

  • @v8nquish
    @v8nquish12 жыл бұрын

    These lyrics are....amazing

  • @telliwood
    @telliwood14 жыл бұрын

    I know exactly whatyou mean, when I first heard it I was 7 and I remember telling my Mom that the song was pretty enough to have been written by Sevie Wonder.

  • @vonaustin609
    @vonaustin6092 жыл бұрын

    This!!

  • @lydenmarikh
    @lydenmarikh11 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely gifts from God.

  • @susanglick8951
    @susanglick89515 жыл бұрын

    Happy Birthday Stevie

  • @jacquelineward6511
    @jacquelineward65118 жыл бұрын

    classic genus stevie wonder

  • @madeiyi
    @madeiyi10 жыл бұрын

    I love this

  • @sinfulthep773

    @sinfulthep773

    4 жыл бұрын

    And I Like The Appearance Of That Face In That Profile Picture

  • @carleneroberts5670
    @carleneroberts56703 жыл бұрын

    His voice so so Wonderful brings. tears he I'd magical....❤

  • @SPOKENWORDZ1970
    @SPOKENWORDZ19708 жыл бұрын

    LOVE....Deep sigh 👐👐💝

  • @mjlovesall363
    @mjlovesall36311 жыл бұрын

    i've seen school daze it changed me because i had always hated myself y'all should watch school daze.

  • @CantonKing32
    @CantonKing3212 жыл бұрын

    Love