Who knew anyone ripping out their soul & leaving it bleeding on a stage could sound so amazing?

You can tell she's really been hurt. She is so talented in the sense that she is so easily able to translate that pain through her voice, whilst it still sounding so sweet and delicate. UGHHH love love love

@JosephUsher

6 жыл бұрын

How do YOU know she's "really been hurt"?!? Maybe she's just very talented. Not everyone who can sing has had to have undergone some traumatic event in order to be as good as they are.

@giapereira6942

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Usher I think her mother had killed herself just a couple months prior, actually.

@lovecomesoftly77

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Usher You're right, there are plenty of talented singers, BUT there are few that sing with so much passion and emotion. You can feel her pain in every word and sound that she sings. We don't all "hear" music the same way. I can hear a song and feel like I'm in the music. My mother can hear the same song and may think that it just sounds good, but she's not moved by it.

@federicoraggio8111

5 жыл бұрын

@@JosephUsher well, her mother committed suicide...

@FlapJackDaddy

5 жыл бұрын

@@JosephUsher Having a great voice doesn't have anything to do directly with what you've gone through in your life but the emotion in one's voice does. The level of emotion in her voice is what REALLY sells this. That depth of emotion you hear is not something someone can just manufacture. She's clearly pulling from a real place. There are plenty of phenomenal singers out there who sing with little emotion but are technically excellent. It's about the pain in her voice. Side note; the biscuits at Bojangles are fantastic.

Yebba takes you someplace ancient - it's like she awakens it in you 💚

@ThatGuyKona

7 жыл бұрын

My goodness, that is a very powerful way to put it!!! An "ancient" place "awakened" inside you. I'm shook

@AstroMoonGoddess

7 жыл бұрын

Kona Combado much love to you, Kona! 💚💚💚

@honeybuzzard2843

6 жыл бұрын

Meghan Dvorak Yea, that's what it is. It goes so deep inside. Like 20 thousand years prior...some cellular shit. DEEP

@jak30341

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it’s almost an emotional cleansing

@tamlynn786

2 жыл бұрын

Raw emotion that gets to the core of a person.

I normally get tired of singers who just rely on constant vocal gymnastics, but for some reason I can't quit watching Yebba singing this. Phenomenal is the right word. Wow.

@raffadizzle

5 жыл бұрын

paxonearth she gives the runs meaning! It’s not just vocal circle jerking. I’ve watched this multiple dozen times already, this performance never gets old.

I just can't.... I cried!!! Literally cried!!! She should be an actress too. I felt her pain FRFR...

You are the FIRST PERSON in this song’s reaction (or ANY) to use the word “melisma”. Dude. Respect. 👏🏼🔥

She reminds so much of Jazmine Sullivan with that emotion and those crisp runs!!!

@artbylisa1031

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Pratt yes!

She takes you around the world and back with her amazing voice. That’s coming from REAL pain. She gives me goosebumps every single time mmmhhmm!!

One of the top 10 best performances by anyone ever!

this woman is really good at portraying emotion

2 years after and this is still mind blowing 😭😭😭

I really like the seriousness with which you do your review. Your approval means something, it is something of value

You can feel the pain radiating out of that performance, even if its not really her pain but a story shes telling you still feel all of the emotion, its overpowering!!!

@bballerryday

3 жыл бұрын

It’s her personal pain. Her northern committed suicide a week prior to this performance

@jeromeb7973

3 жыл бұрын

@@Blonde94 I'm a bit late but her mother committed suicide

You can hear her suffer and you suffer with her. That pains you and so does the beauty of her voice.

@sxm76

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! You described that journey perfectly.

It makes me cry and feel pain that I didn't even know I had before watching this performance.. it's just so emotional! Thank you for reacting to this!

Her and Jazmaine Sullivan need to do a song together!

@AllIAm1

5 жыл бұрын

Mar J I would faint

@kavatava8576

5 жыл бұрын

that would just break the universe. it would be too much.

@danielordonez4308

5 жыл бұрын

Her, jazmine, and adele. Because I feel like yebba has characteristics from both of them. Like she has adele a smooth tone but also smoky vocal quality. And she has jazmine power and agility.

@kimberlypepper9264

5 жыл бұрын

Yesss yesss yesss

@4bfam

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect concert is Yebba, Jasmine, and Jill Scott. Jill live is amazing!!!

I have the flu and I just spent the entire day of today watching reaction videos to this most riveting live performance of the century💗....best day I ever wasted 👌

OH MY...that was personal! I felt that in my soul, that's still running up and down my spine with major goosebumps having taken up residence on my entire body! "That's that one" like she didn't just destroy thousands of careers worldwide!?! This woman is a fantastic vocalist, a true artist! One thing in particular that I love is she's not afraid to push her voice to the edge which produces that gravely dirty sound. When a singer can pull you in so close you can feel there pain they are doing something very right, that is a gift! I think I need to go lay down and recover, the emotions are real...WOW, I was not prepared for that! She was all over the place, her range and head voice are ridiculous, she really has me emotionally screwed up right now...that's just something you can't shake off that quickly!

Love this performance, this artist, this reaction and this song. She is very special. I didn’t expect her chest to extend that high in her register in the climax towards the end and all those notes belted freely. The runs...the tone

This is exactly how I reacted!! I can't believe she is not famous!! Beautiful!

I watched a lot of reactions to her performance, and you are the first one who really translate what I think which is that it is phenomenal and I also have never heard anything like that and even though some people have amazing abilities, she has a level that is really really rare I think. And the tone, the velvet of her voice, the beauty of her tone. It is really, I am also speechless even after listening to her over and over since about a week! She's got a very special gift!

I loved how you analyzed this and the way you watched her was like you were looking at all the details of an artists masterpiece... So beautiful!

I was MEZMERIZED and speechless and emotional while i listened to it the first time. And actually still every single time!!!

I feel privileged and blessed to hear her sing

You're so NOT easy to please jajaja I've seen that in many of your videos... But when you are pleased IT SHOWS and it's pleasant for us as viewers keep reacting bro kudos

I adore your austerity, you only seem withheld sometimes, but in fact you're fire under the ashes. Love your reactions.

It’s like she had you in a trance! & that’s rare! Kudos to Yebba!

YEBBA IS A VOICE BOSS...PERIOD!!! 😱😱

I would not have discovered her, if not for Clark Beckham singing with Post modern Jukebox, another musical group here on KZread. Clark Beckham was a contestant on American Idol years ago and did a duet with Abbey Smith, (singing here). Their duet was a cover of John Mayer's song called "Gravity". I discovered Abbey through that video and boy, am I glad I did! She is, like you said, phenomenal. She is sensational..omg.blew me away! I listened to this song over and over and over..Abbey totally transported me back to a relationship I had in my twenties. I was right back..Her pain, her sheer conviction.. especially when she sang, "no way, no way will she take you away from me", I was transported back in time, remembering my own sorrow. I'm over it now but wow..that performance was nothing short of amazing. Her vocals..her sweetness and her strength is what does it for me. This right here, is what EVERY performing artist should strive for! Singing from experience will always "win over" the audience over anything else.. because want to relate to the singer and that's exactly what's going on here.

@lovecomesoftly77

5 жыл бұрын

Lisa T Everything you said is so on point and sounds so much like me, I had to check to see if I wrote it...lol. I had the same experience when hearing this song, for the first time. I’m married with 3 children, but this song took me back to a relationship that I had almost 12 yrs ago....I felt her pain in every note that she sang....whew!!

Wow!!! Mind blowing talent!! Amazingly talented...Speechless 😮❤❤❤ God bless her voice. Brought chills to my soul...no words can't describe how I felt listening to this beautiful woman sing, wow!! she is blessed!!! Love her already.

Love your reaction! I was speechless also! The emotion is insane!

Yebba is mind blowing!

I’ve watched hundreds of reactions and yours was my absolute favorite

When you paused it before the end of verse 1... we felt that!!!

i hear adele, jazmine, and beyonce in her voice. adele tone, with jazz runs, and beys head voice transitions and beys jazzy echo thing thats she does. you can tell shes studied great vocalists

She's amazing and your reaction is spot-on but I'm dying laughing at 4:56 because her hand looks like it's the size of her head from the angle your TV is on lmaooooo

@TronTheTramp

4 жыл бұрын

You got me cracking up 🤣🤣🤣

@daffymuck295

3 жыл бұрын

Like one them joint hands you get at a football game

I can’t count how many times I’ve watched reactions to this song, yours was the one that closely resembled my first time hearing her. There is nobody like her, it’s mind blowing that she’s still not huge

I love that you did not stop the video.... She must have been hurt so deep. I felt every word...I'm in tears.. Thank you for showing us and for sharing your emotions

am speechless, am crying, am sore!!! where is she? where is she hiding?

Wow. That was amazing. Pure emotion.

This is the best performance that I ever seen in my life, so much feelings, so much pain, blow my mind.❤️🙏

YES YES YES YES so glad you reacted to this

Adele and Jazmine Sullivan.....WOW!

@20venice

6 жыл бұрын

cre8tinme yes!!! I heard a little keke Wyatt as well

I needed to come across this. This was my granny's song. But she always sung it slow and acapella. When she died we discovered a tape of her singing it on the karaoke machine at Xmas and played it at her funeral. ❤

Trust me, react to Hear My Prayer - Cover by Callie Day.. fucking out of this world, excuse my french. right up your street too! blown away!

This is my FAVORITE reaction to this song! You are so spot on!

Best way that I can convey how much I love this song goes like this my whole life has been about cars I grew up in a body shop I paint cars for a living I do airbrush work I spot cars in traffic on freeways I've been known to turn around you'll like a little girl when I see something that special needless to say if it has four wheels and drawers I have a connection with it..... I probably watched this video a hundred times before I notice that there was a car behind the guitarist now I know that seems like a strange thing to say but if you knew me at all that would absolutely floor you, I've never seen another performance we're at the end of the song The Artist opens their eyes and you can literally see the second that she realizes she's not alone that she's actually in room of people I wish there was another word in the English language that could describe how beautiful this song was but we'll have to settle for phenomenally perfect!!!

Oh My GOD.....this perfomance is MAGISTRAL, PERFECT, BEAUTIFUL E INCOMPARABLE 😭

I loved that you reacted to this video and I enjoyed your commentary at the end.

I'm a fan of you & her. Your reactions were prefect. I felt the same way . That Girl is BAD Michael Jackson Bad. Unbelievable talent. Just WOW!! Check her out doing SWV s "weak"

My mom would whoop my ass if she saw me that close to the screen lmao😂 Anyway I really enjoyed your reaction!! YEBBA is insanely good

That is gospel. She learned that through church 100% absolutely stunning 😍

Yebba is Abbey Smith! Please (please, please, please) react to Clark Beckham and Abbey Smith sing Gravity! It's beautiful!

Thank you so much. She's amazing!!!!

@justthevoice4529

7 жыл бұрын

No problem :)

Never dated, nothing yet I tear up everytime

I loved watching you take this in

I Loved your reaction!👏🏽🎤👏🏽

You're speaking the spiritual truth my friend yes music and vocal performance embodies it eternally

Omg I love her I only heard of her year ago and she great I got chills with the pain in her butuful singing voice.

Now, this is delivering a song!

You are all of us reacting to this. Love your choice of words and genuinely adore your reactions. Also enjoy your voice when you share it 🤗

Loved your reaction....you felt it and I felt it deep in my soul, she gave it everything, it was beautiful, painful, heartfelt, tragic, sincere etc etc just mind blowing

I love how you really take this in!

You’re right. You’re reaction, it’s correct.

Thank you for getting her, dude! She wrote that song. You know she's lived those words. Again dude! Thank you!

You have a sensitive reaction. The heartbreak is real, from a true place. I want to chase down the guy who hurt her...

Omg!!!! Yebba!!! Yebba! She is awesome.. Do any body know what I'm talking about!!!

She turns sound into sacred. Ahmazing

WOW YEBBA!!!!! SHE IS JUST AMAZING JUST AWSOME WOW,I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY. I HAVE SOME REALLY REALLY FAVORITE SINGERS THAT CAN REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY SING . OMGOOOOOODNESS YEBAA YOU JUST BLEW ME AWAY . WHAT SHE DOES WITH HER VOICE IS JUST AMAZING. SHE NEED TO MAKING MORE SONGS ,I WOULD LIKE TO HER A GOSPEL FROM HER . I BELIEVE SHE CAN RICK THAT TO. PLEASE COME BAVK WHEREVER YOU ARE.

She. Is. gold.

Thank god you reacted to this

Phenomenal she is!!!!

Bro ...you’ve just given the BEST REACTION ANALYSIS on this song by YEBBA 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

5:04 She bout to go to church on us! PREACH GIRL!

"Melisma" Dude, you droppin some great vocab! Keep it up!

please react to Thirdstory and Abbey "Yebba" Smith - Lucky by Britney Spears

@sssinful

7 жыл бұрын

Shannon R Yes!

@deannoahg

7 жыл бұрын

Shannon R omg yes Shannon

U know what you’re saying and seeing

Jasmine Sullivan and Adele had a baby, and named it Yebba.

You are one of the best reactionists on KZread.

3 years later still hitting hard...

jaja I luv your videos every time in front of the big ass tv dude makes me laugh cuz like its kind of life size lol 63k strong

Wow! What a singer... Incredibly excepcional!

I neeed to see her on the big stage she’s right up there

That’s how I felt when I heard her sing!!!!

Everytime I listen to this song I get so emotional

To me personally she sounds more like Jojo and Jazmine Sullivan combined.. in terms of rasp, runs, and the stylistic vowel choices Sounds like jojo especially in 1:52 in this video

He has the most soothing 😌 voice 😌 ever 😌

Song Very emocional! The best Sing in the World!! 💙💛💙

could you react to callie day ( hear my prayer)

@meriaburgess5729

7 жыл бұрын

Yaaassssss

I love watching people getting overwhelmed by a performance

She’s definitely her own vocalist, but I hear so many incredible homages to live Etta James runs and characterizations and even some Bjork fluctuations in the quiet places and then bringing in that gospel power. Not trying to diminish anything she does in the least . I’m just trying to elevate the appreciation of all the amazing vocalizations she is doing combined with her emotion. This song is simply incredible. It will entrance anyone who listens to it.

Loved it thx ❤️

Would you react to a duet she did? Clark Beckham - Gravity feat. Yebba by John Mayer

Please listen to her song "Evergreen"---it was sung in church on the first occasion that she could bring herself back after her mother committed suicide. LOVE THIS WOMAN!!!

She is exelent

Could you react to Clark Beckham's cover of Gravity? Yebba/Abbey is featured in it, she's amazing! Here's a link to that video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k22Owcitn83bf5c.html

@franciscorapalo5

7 жыл бұрын

yes!!!!

@meriaburgess5729

7 жыл бұрын

YESSSS THIS ONE!!!!

@SanFoR00

7 жыл бұрын

YES YES YES

@SanFoR00

7 жыл бұрын

still waiting for your reaction to this, it's a must plsss

@GL2501

6 жыл бұрын

yeeeeeees

Her voice reminds me of a waterfall through the seasons

React to Tim Johnson jr from the Four. He sings "all I want". By Kodaline. Phenomenal

She was phenomenal(x50)

halelulya yebba Beauty in person