My first time hearing FAOUZIA! "Tears of Gold" Reaction (& Vocal Analysis)
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1:17 - Reaction & Analysis
23:03 - Final Thoughts
Absolutely loved hearing Faouzia for the first time! The belting, the vocal control, the range, all of it -- brilliant. Whether edited or not, whether recorded live or not -- that's all irrelevant when talking about the talent of this singer. What else should I check out from her?!
i'd probably recommend anything from 'Faouzia - Stripped: Live In Concert from the Burton Cummings Theatre' - multiple songs are separated on her channel or "Faouzia - Fur Elise (Live Performance)"
As I know you have limited time, “Fur Elise (Live performance)”
Fur Elise live performance
Fur Elise live performance is incredible, please check it out
@@ThePrivateDream up!
I have been to a Faouzia concert in person, where even the microphone at one point stopped working and she sang acoustic, live, without any background music, and she sounds EXACTLY the same. Regardless of the video/vocal editing that is probably noticed on this video from you, I can attest to her vocal capability and sounds even better in person with even better vocal control. She is a work of art. For a more stripped down version of her voice, watch Tears of Gold Live in Concert at the Burton Cummings Theatre.
I just watched that KZhead short of her singing when the mic broke
@@HolyParsival Desert Rose in Detroit? I was there.
I missed my chance to see her, since the Atlanta show got canceled--twice. Maybe next time! I truly hope so. I felt bad for her being sick both times.
She is very well known for her absolutely amazing control of her vocals. Her entire stripped concert from the Burton Cummings theatre is well worth a listen to. Her new song Fur Elise is my favourite, especially the live version.
I'm blue tops fur Elise by just alittle.
Saw her live in DC,believe me this young lady is from another planet ,she doesn't even need an autotune she was born with it.
I was in DC for her show, even sick she is AWESOME!!
@@carltonbrooks2570 she sure is.
I like her Fur Elise live performance video. Her runs are awesome.
I'm blue beats it by alittle bit. Everybodies obssesed with fur Elise and most reactors resct to that song but she has so many other ones too.
John Legend sang with HER. 😂 "Minefields" was basically finished when they asked Legend if he was interested. His track was recorded and added right before song release. This was also during Lockdown, so they didn't meet in person until shooting the video. Faouzia has sung on tracks by David Guetta. Galantis, French rapper Ninho, Martin Solveig and on Kelly Clarkson's multilingual "I Dare You", and on the arabic only duet version. Even after all this, and two EPs on Atlantic Records, she is still not very well known to audiences.
Hey Peter, here's for you Faouzia singing Tears Of Gold live (while casually playing a grand piano...) in Abu Dhabi three years ago. Just her and the piano, 100% live... She will blow your socks off... (I put a timestamp at the start of the song as this is from a stripped live set of totally 9 songs, 7 originals and 2 covers, sung with a guest pianist. Tears Of Gold was her fifth song in the set, so she's already warmed up, and after it would sing 4 more songs...) She's an incredible powerhouse with complete control and wonderful clarity and precision, topped with some very tasty arabic spices, new favorite of mine... another favorite of mine from that same set is No. 7 "How It All Works Out", her last original song in that set before she's covering "Desert Rose", partly sung in Arabic, and then a crazy version of "Crazy" as closer... The whole set is 30 minutes of vocal glamour from start to finish, you'd find a track list with timestamps in the comments... Would love to watch your reaction to the whole thing, but most of all "How It All Works Out", I love that song of hers... Peace and love from Bavaria! Faouzia - Abu Dhabi Stripped Live Concert - Full || HD kzhead.info/sun/e9edesyBo3mhq68/bejne.html
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Yess that was 100% live while playing the piano as well!
An absolute gem of a concert from start to finish.
Faouzias voice sounds autoturned naturally shes just as good live!!
There is a live version of this in her stripped live concert, it is amazing. You could also check her live version of Sting's "Desert Rose" in Abu Dhabi, it is one of my favorites!
I'm quite new to Faouzia as well, but I've seen some really amazing recordings from her which were definitely live, I can highly recommend the set she played and sung at Abu Dhabi 3 years ago, 30 minutes of pure excellence. Also the live performance video of her newest song "Fur Elise" is really incredible, and you as a guy with some bonds with classical music will definitely enjoy what she did with Beethoven's Bagatelle... amazing song, musically, lyrically, vocally. Great artist! Peace and love from Bavaria!
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Her voice is just gorgeous!
I’m happy you finally discovered Faouzia!
There is a concert that is live where she sings all her popular songs!
My first Faouzia song was This Mountain, which is also amazing and worth a listen!
She has such a strong, yet agile voice! Wow! Thanks for the analysis. I always learn something!👏
Oh and yeah Peter she was 19yrs old at this performance I don't remember if in this MV faouzia had a pianist or if it was a recording of herself playing but she's not only a singer she's also the songwriter and composer of almost all her originals which this was 😂
I use this as a warm up song all the time because it is crazy hard to sing! There are so many octave jumps and variations in register. The lowest note in the original is maybe one or two notes higher than the one in this version, but it’s still at the very bottom of my range as a soprano so this whole song is a vocal workout for me. Her control is actually insane.
Ha ha, there couldn’t be a better warm-up. All the skills you need to sing are in this one song, lol.
Such a gorgeous voice! Definitely have to go check some more of her stuff🎶
OMG so excited for this reaction!
Check out Fur elise by Faouzia
So worth waiting for. Thanks PB! If you feel like another I nominate Fur Elise but the live version.
I'm blue is better, everyone's obssesed with fur Elise and it's amazing but she has other ones. Most reactors resct to that one too. I'm trying to look of faouzia reactions and all I'm getting is fur elise😂 like bruh reslly. This was the first one
I have waited close to 2 years for you to react to Faouzia!! Yay!!! Finally!!! She is SOOOO good! Thank you for your analysis of her song Tears of Gold (stripped), there is so much more that you can react to. That was her at age 18, maybe 19, her song Fur Elise (live) is from about a month or so ago, so age (almost) 24. She's gotten a few more colours and tones to her voice and then go to all the others in between!! Great reaction, can't wait to hear more of your analyses of her songs and voice! ❤❤❤ (if you do go for the in between songs look for the stripped ones, she also has the live Amazon sessions as well).
You got to listen to her “Fur Elise (Live Performance)”... you have to Peter!!
Agreed.
lol literally what I came here to say.
Absolutely stunning voice. Let's get her and Tomi P singing together!!! ❤❤ Her range is beautiful.
Her voice is just another level ❤
Thanks for reacting to Faouzia! Was quite a while ago I listened to her 👍🏻
You need to listen to her latest Song “fur elise” It’s her best in years. She also has another song coming out on Friday, called “woman“. If I like that one, I’ll let you know if I recommended to you. So far, it sounds like another incredible one.
Great vocal analysis and wonderful commentary Peter ! Faouzia is. Moroccan Canadian singer songwriter residing in Canada. She's an absolute dynamic and powerful singer. She can sing through all her registers seamlessly and display her amazing vocal agility throughout the entire song. As you will find, Faouzia writes most of her own music and is an extremely talented young singer-songwriter. Faouzia speaks three languages, plays three instruments and is currently finishing up her degree in engineering. This girl is the real deal. She is a true artist in the sense that her vocal artistry is as good as it gets and if you follow some of her music you will see how good she really is. Her live performances are so masterful and she does everything as well as she does in the studio. . Faouzia is not that well known in Canada yet unfortunately, but is slowly gaining global recognition as she starts to tour the world. She is just beginning her real journey into mainstream pop music . I think you'll enjoy many many videos to come. Her latest video." Fur Elise "is an absolute masterful performance on a Beethoven masterpiece.I encourage to react to the live version ( piano and cello) it's totally amazing ! I want to thank you for reacting to this wonderful artist and I hope you continue your journey with her. Sending much thanks and love from Canada 👍🇨🇦❤️
This is at the Adele level of singing... Beautiful...
I love all your explanations, very interesting. Even if I am not a musical person, I can appreciate your information.
Nice reaction if you know or if you don't know Faouzia is morroccan canadien songwriter singer piano player she use quarter tone that only in oriental music exist. She has an insane vibrato and vocal range. Stay safe
If you want to appreciate her real voice hability just react to her live in concert
Great reaction. The video you reacted to She was only 19 when that was done. I think that it is incredible for any one to be that good at that age. She is also very good on the piano and also plays several other instruments and is just 23. She has a video "Bad Dreams" she did when she was just 18. It is just her playing the piano and singing her heart out.
Amazing reaction and analysis. You can hear the real live version of Tears of Gold in the Burton Cummings Theatre live performance. Since you are at it feel free to check the whole concert. Will be 27 minutes well spent with (one of) the most talented singer of her generation. Thank me later x
Please Listen to faouzia singing Fur Elise live version it's amazing
Great R&A, as always! Love all the technical info on how these videos are produced!!
Hi, Peter. This is my first time listening to this singer, and I love her voice. Thank you. But your commentary reminded me of something. I recently saw a vid where a very famous singer’s song video was played using a pitch evaluator. The perfection of pitch, and impossible constancy of that perfection displayed on the evaluator made it obvious that the performance had been pitch-tuned. I was quite disappointed. I don’t mind heavy production, but just like what makes us all perfectly imperfect, I want to know that I’m hearing a beautiful voice in all the imperfect perfection that is its soul, like Barbra Streisand at her strongest, or Judy Garland. I will never be able to listen to that artist again without wondering if I’m hearing her real voice or not. I can understand some tuning if they’re not feeling up to it at certain times, but not as a rule, and not when untuned, the difference is undetectable to the human ear. For me, singing voices communicate soul-to-soul. We already have enough fakery in the world.
Please react to her "You don't even know me- stripped", it really showcases so much of her lower end, agility and that edgy belt. Her vibrato is also incredibly fast if you notice, which has an effect on her agility. It's quite a middle-eastern and south asian thing to have really agile voices and throw in imperceptible riffs. I love her voice because usually when I hear agile voices, they're light and higher- placed but hers is darker and situated lower.
I agree with you I would be interested in listening to this young lady live. I enjoyed the tamber of her voice also.
Fur Elise is going to blow your mind!
amazing vid! been a fan os faouzia for a couple of years now, so what actually baffled me as a video editor was trying to think of the logistics of this recording as a lip syncing, because damn, that must be a lot of takes and a lot of training and constance in the singer to be able to perform similarly enough every time cause damn cant imagine the editing was any easier tho, especially for the close ups cause i imagine people with a better trained eye like singers would catch if the mouth and tongue positions were kinda weird that all being said, really hope you get to see more of our girl! always a pleasure getting a new knowledge bomb dropped unsuspectingly too lmao
there's actually a live video of her singing this song so you should check it out!
React to fur elise (live performance) please!
I think she is one of the best vocalist in her generation. She is special vocalist and overall artist. Faouzia, Raye and Yebba the best out there 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Congratulations to you and the Bass Gang. Just listened to Skull & Bones. Loved it!
Listen to Burton Cummings concert, entire video. The song titled Elon after the credits is unreal!!!!
Don’t sleep on Faouzia. Girl is 🔥🔥
I have always loved hearing your analysis about songs and artists especially the ones I like. This one is no exception. Thanks to you I learned a lot. I just wish the video was longer because I feel that the time spent informing us about the music industry took away from the time you could have spent digging deep into analysing the vocals and the techniques. I love this song and I love this artist and I also love you so, thank you for all you’re doing in this channel
Thanks so much! I appreciate that :]
React to her full concert 27 min live
Great analysis and reaction
Another live performance just out. She has just begun competition in the Singer 2024 competition from China. Her first song was Crazy (Gnarls Barkley). Second song was Set Fire to the Rain (Adele). Both great live performances.
Please react to her recent song called 'Fur Elise' as well. The live performance is just..... There are not enough nice words to describe it.
"Not enough nice words" is a good way to describe it. The Fur Elise lyrics are about an absolutely toxic situation. That is my only complaint. But I know she likes writing sad and dramatic songs. And it illustrates what a good storyteller she is.
She sounds this good live. I have seen her live. Superhuman
You need to hear Fur Elise live!!
You need to see born without aa heart and fur Elise (both stripped versions) !❤
I appreciate technical expertise, but I think sometimes education can stand in the way as there are many years of Instagram posts that she has made on a cell phone that are pretty close to the same quality. I never comment on this stuff, but it got a little annoying. It might not be the most favorable thing to Western people to hear this but speaking Arabic requires so much of the vocal tract that is unused in European languages that it produces many other sounds that are relatively unknown to Western speakers. I am not personally Arab, but I have spent a lot of time in the culture as I married into the an arab family and quite familiar with the language. The fact that all her breath spikes and clicks in her voice and tongue sounds are projected so clearly through the microphone makes me think it's live with perhaps a tiny bit of post production.
For an example of a band using a Studio Track with Live Video (and they are very clear about this right in the video) The Warning with the song "Automatic Sun." There is also a bit of the live audio at the start where the singer is introducing the song to the crowd, the difference between the Live audio and the Studio Audio is like night and day. The editing on that video is fantastic the video and the audio match perfectly if they didn't have the intro audio and they didn't say "Studio Version" right on the video it would be hard to tell. As a side note there are fan cam videos of that same song and show with the authentic live audio (standard festival audio recorded on smartphone, so not great) and you can see the drones used to film the video flying over the crowd.
I think she mentioned that she just sing live for like 3 times back to back and just use the best vocals out of the 3 and lip synch to it even still you can check her online live concert its on her channel it was few years back so
Thank you for this introduction to an amazing artist. I appreciate your explanation on post production processes. This explains my aversion to what I call over-processed performances. Personally, I prefer to hear the human fingerprint in vocals - that unique quality within each voice.
So... Peter... That correlation you made about Faouzia and Dua Lipa. Rather spot on actually as Faouzia and Dua are ethnically rather similar. Faouzia was born in Casablanca, Morocco and moved to Canada very young while Dua Lipa was born in London to Albian parents 😊
I like ur analysis U should watch her live performance it called ( live in concert from the Burton Cummings Theater ) ❤😊
Hi Peter! This was such a great reaction. I would love to watch you react to more Faouzia content so I have a bunch of suggestions! If you want to hear this song live, check out the versions in "Live for Arab Heritage" or "Stripped Live". The former is my pick but the latter is great too - and you should definitely check out the encore performance of "Elon" after the credits of the "Stripped Live" concert. She has two other live concerts in high quality that I recommend (but don't include this song): "Live for Amazon Music" and "Live at Abu Dhabi". The Amazon one is my favorite of the four and is the most recent. She also has a new song called "Fur Elise" and there's a "Live" performance that's probably similar to this one from a production perspective. She has several of these "Stripped" videos that are great but have post-production for sure. Looking forward to more as this was just the tip of the iceberg and her talent is off the charts.
Yep. I experienced that "disappointment "/confusion with expectation and live.
😍Hello, for those who do not know FAOUZIA has just entered the competition of China I am a Singer 2024, so you guys can go and see her performance with the song CRAZY, it was spectacular that was on May 10 2024.
Please react to one of her songs live. She has a whole comcert on youtube.
Peter, you are absolutely adorable
Thanks for this! Loved your speaking voice - it hints at your singing voice. Baritone/bass? Anyway. I never comment; I always just lurk. I'm going to throw a few Faouzia suggestions out there that you may not get from other people. I'm not a solo artist; nor am I a professional singer, but I've been fortunate enough to sing in a semi-pro chamber choir for more than 20 years. My two suggestions are 1. Don't tell me I'm pretty 2. Ne me quitte pas I love most of Faouzia's songs but some resonate stronger than others. My two suggestions aren't the top show pieces for her vocal abilities - I'm sure there'll be plenty of other suggestions for that and you've already shown you need no convincing. My two suggestions rather show a different side to Faouzia. I'll subscribe - and keep my fingers crossed to have you react to my suggestions but *also* to hear you sing!
Peter is a professional opera singer - bass. He also sings in The Bass Gang.
You should react to her song called ,,elon'' - I think its fully live, the whole concert has her songs as a version with only her voice and the piano (elon is the closing song) Have fun!
Thank you for this reaction 😊🙏🏼, could you please react to Fur Elise live performance by Faouzia, by the way you can watch her singing the same song live at Cummings theatre during covid
Keep thinking it's lip sync until you watch her "Elon" live performance
Your late to this parrty... react next to her latest live performance of Fur Elise
😂 I’ve been asking for a Faouzia reaction for almost two years. At last, he did it.
@@itzel1735 thank you so much itzel🥲👍👌
This amazing girl is originally from Morocco, hence, the fast vibrato and the subtle middle eastern touch that you can feel in most of her stripped version songs. And by the way I had the pleasure of listening to her live in Jeddah like 3 months ago. Her singing is immaculate! And every sound that came out of her mouth was out of this world ! Like..! Magic! Try listening to her live performance of “desert rose” in Abhu Dabi in the emirates. That’ll be your proof 😅
Recommend listening to her cover of Middle Child by J. Cole.
Great analysis from a professional ,and good editing video i enjoyed 👌👏👏 Please do more reactions for Faouzia she's amazing Moroccan 🇲🇦🇲🇦 talented singer, songwriter, musician and a great person , react to these songs: - Faouzia - You Don't Even Know Me (Stripped) - Faouzia - Fur Elise ( Live Performance ) - Faouzia - Anybody Else (Stripped) 😢 - Live Show - Faouzia - Bad dreams (stripped) - Faouzia - secrets ( home performance ) Open Mic - Faouzia - This mountain (stripped) - faouzia - elon lyrics ( live concert ) - Faouzia - Exothermic (Piano Version) - Faouzia - Born Without a Heart (Stripped) - Faouzia - don't tell me i'm pretty - Faouzia - how it all works out (stripped) - Faouzia - 100 band aids (stripped) - Faouzia - Hero ( LIVE ONE TAKE ) THE EYE Sessions - Faouzia - Wake Me When It's Over ( LIVE ONE TAKE ) THE EYE Sessions - faouzia & john legend - minefields (live on the today show) ** React to covers from other artist*** - Faouzia best covers ( 2M views) - Faouzia singing arabic| Desert Rose| Live in concert at Abu Dhabi cultural foundation - Faouzia - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) Cover || Abu Dhabi Stripped Live Concert - blue (da ba dee) (eiffel 65 remake) - middle child ( J .cole ) - hello adele - lady gaga paparazzi - Faouzia - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room (John Mayer) Thank you
I wonder if speaking Morrocan Arabic and French from a young age naturallly had an impact on her vocal fold closure.
Pls react to "fur Elise" by her live version it is something else ,i want to hear your analyse about this song🎉🎉🎉🎉
she sounds the same live. she doesn't need autotune.
The live is exactly the same and maybe even better.
faouzia singing arabic live in dub hai
I feel like you’d really love dreamcatcher or even kiss of life, they both have amazing vocals
Do her Fur Elise live performance video it’s crazy good , promise multiple goosebumps 😂🔥
React to minefields with John legend!! She hits even lower and higher notes
you should definitely listen to Elon , the video: Faouzia - Stripped: Live In Concert from the Burton Cummings Theatre - the song is after the credits 22:44
insane !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To everyone here, you should listen to Faouzia’s fur elise live song… you WILL thank me for suggesting this
You should react to Fur Elise by her!!
Listen to Eric Grönwall singing I Will always love you
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She has best vocal control in western and Arabic area
100% keep it real Peter, not here for fake reactors, there are plenty of those. Perhaps as a contrast check out the live version (kzhead.info/sun/paltf6t6aJOFl3k/bejne.html), always hard to say about live and post processing but for the vocalists I'm interested I feel its a subtlety rather than a reworking of their voice or ability. Cheers
She is amazing !! You should also react Tori Kelly 🌺
The thing you must know about Fouzia is that she is a trained traditional Moroccan singer, so she incorporated a lot of Arabic middle eastern Moroccan-Berber vocal style in her singing. The voice flipping and melodic riff is something that goes natural in many North African traditional folk singers. Its sounded autotune, you can go listen to many Moroccan traditional folks singers who sing live like that, plenty of videos you can search. This is what i like about non western oriented new singer which came from a different ethnic background. Dont get me wrong i like western music , but western music and singing style is not the only style of music in the world. Most Music critics used western standard of classical western music to judged others singer that made their own music and mixed their own musical heritage and singing in their songs. Its like asking a Raag musician from India to judged a classical opera singer using raag singing technique...which is bonkers. For example a broken pitch or weird sounding vocalization and riff maybe weird from western classical music views and hard to listen too, but in other part of the world that is the sound that they love and want to hear from a singer. You get my jiff? I'm rambling now xD. Like have you ever hear Arabic classical violin music?...if you ask a classical western violinist they will say that all of those Arabs play off pitch and out of tune. But to Middle easterners it is very lovely to listen to.
Faouzia is a Moroccan-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Her music style is general pop. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at the age of one and grew up there. She's never received any singing training and is self-taught. As you know, it's a remarkable talent, ranging from Western music to Moroccan-Arabic music.
Since “RIP love,” Faouzia has been actively incorporating some elements of Arabic music into her work. She is a Canadian pop artist looking to establish her style and identity through her Moroccan background. But just so you know, she grew up with Western classical piano and violin training, but never vocal training. However, she even won a Canadian singing competition when she was a teenager, and at age 16 or 17, she won the international songwriting competition with another songwriter that had 16,000 entrants. She worked her way up to mastering the Western belting and Arabic vocal techniques. Arabic music may sound out of tune to ears accustomed to modern Western music. because Arabic music uses 3/4 tones. Also, Arabic music usually uses the Hejaz scale, whereas Western music, like Faouzia does, composes in octaves. Actually, (in theory) both Western and Arab Classical Music were based on the work of ancient Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras, therefore there are many similarities. In this sense they share the same "cultural" heritage. When you look at a lot of baroque music the technique, aesthetic, and even instrumentation are very close to the old Arabic chamber music style.
Listen to her song Elon live, you'll understand how good she is!
react to her preformance in a competition show called i am the singer 2024 she sang 2 sonds now there i hope she win 8 song incoming too the show is happenning noow its 1000 percantent live
This artist doesn’t lip sing unless its a video clip
please react to her "Fur Elise" song
That F5 was probably a very good mixed belt, not pure chest. And if it was chest, she's risking her voice. Don't get me wrong - she's fantastic!
Iisten " elon"
I’m pretty sure this is a clip of her singing live: kzhead.info/sun/o7GkoNN7eqKdha8/bejne.htmlsi=ySavHgzx5AA72mRT
I‘d love for you to check out her stripped live concert here on KZhead, it should be everything you‘ve asked for
you really should listen to shreya ghoshal, one of the most talented singers out there
Is gratifying to hear you say that she has a strong head voice because there’s people on KZhead who consider themselves to be “vocal experts“ even though they’re not even voice coaches or even voice coaches, but they pretend they know about the voice. They say that she’s a great singer in every aspect, but her head voice cause it’s not as strong and full as the rest of her voice or whatever they’re saying. And that’s not true at all. She uses her head voice in different ways, sometimes then, sometimes very full and operatic like in “blue“, but it always has full cord closure like you say. It’s always bright, it always stands out.