Adele & Sara

I was not that much into the Adele thing, or at least not until I watched her singing Someone like you on TV. She was singing live at the BRIT awards and looked so lonely in the middle of a huge audience… and that is, at the end, I think, at the very essence of arts and artists: that capability of sharing and contaminating you with their feelings, beliefs, and positions, even when one doesn’t share them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY

Adele singing Someone like you–BRIT awards, 2011

I guess that the story in that song is something very personal for most of us, and that makes it easier to identify oneself with the lyrics, and that is nice, but it is not what I liked there. More than that, it was the passion that reminded me of big names among soul singers like Gladys Knight or Aretha Franklin, or among more recent discoveries (at least for me), Sara Bareilles, the eclectic singer with tones of that blue-eyes soul, pop-rock and alternative genders and a wide spectrum of influences that includes Nelly Furtado and Sarah McLachlan. Haven’t heard Sara Bareilles yet? Here is a sample of her art:

I love to listen to this piece without visual keys. However, if you prefer them, here is her in a special arrangement to sing with Ben Folds, Caroline Shaw, and the National Symphonic Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oZ9u6_Okk8