Broadway 2007.....Watch Fantasia in another number from this "Color Purple" performance at • FANTASIA in THE COLOR ... and the finale at • FANTASIA The Color Pur...
Doesn't matter if you prefer Fantasia, Cynthia or any of the other incredible women that have sung this song... If they connected and gave with their entire heart every single lyric written in this piece, then they deserve all of the recognition they receive for being strong enough to go through that 8 times a week.
Just for the 8 times a week alone... that is a lot. Emotionally it takes something out of you to play that type of roll and deliver with emotion like that. They both have amazing voices, and sang it well.
Mark my words right now..Once the color purple movie releases, Fantasia is going to sweep all the acting awards. Fantasia deserves her resurgence into the industry and this will be the moment she needs to remind us why she’s a legend. Too many folks don’t put her in the conversation of greats, well this movie will do just that. Hold me to it…
omg I had no idea this was coming to theaters!!!!!!!! So glad they cast Fantasia! She’s amazing even if others have done this role well. She did it best!!!!
I will be shocked if there isn't bigtime cheering & applause after this song plays in the movie theaters. Sure it won't be like seeing it performed live but this song is just so great & Fantasia's performance of it in the movie is sure to be just as awesome as it is here!
No one can act real suffering. Only life can give you that. The way Fantasia sings this song, really makes me want to live. I can't watch this without crying my heart out. Thank you for this huge inspiration!
Andrea Miranda Fantasia's version brings more emotion, she focus more on the acting what makes her singing come out as real suffering. But I think her life experiences help too.
LaChanze is vocal perfection. I loved her as Celie and she created the character...but Fantasia LIVES this song. I have a very poor quality mp3 of Fantasia's final Broadway performance of 'I'm Here' and it makes me cry every time I hear it.
I actually went to see it on Broadway while she was still starring in it. Plus she's is from my home state and still resides in NC. Also, she dont live far from me. When I first heard this song live, I was in tears... I'm still like that now when she sings it
When Tasia sings "tawlest tree" and not "tallest tree" shows you that this song is meant to be sung from deepest of your soul!! Fave version of this song..
Let's Hope And Pray So! Because if she wins a Oscar for Best Actress she will be making History!! Of The Decade Because no black woman has Won for Best Leading Actress Since HALLE BERRY BACK IN 2002! So let's pray we can witness More Greatness to come! 🙏🙏
Kevin E. Taylor , you speak of your Momma as if she's no longer with us. Lawd...I miss mine so very much! I lost her to cancer 11 years ago but it feels just like yesterday she was here. Glad your Momma enjoyed Fantasia, and that it got her out her seat.
@@beenhim9229I’m not sure I’d say that. I think they both could’ve killed. I’d say I was expecting Cynthia based on more film experience and she recently did the show, but since she was already casted for wicked I assumed it would be Fantasia!
I love how Fantasia really embodied an older woman that’s worked her ass to bone for many years. She walks around as if her body is just exhausted and broken. She really nailed the acting of this character.
Seriously! I’ve seen seasoned actors in the best aging makeup you’ve ever seen and they don’t have the correct walk or anything , totally throws it off
This is a great comment. I saw somebody said they preferred Cynthia because Cynthia’s version sounds and looks like someone triumph. You can’t just erase what the body has gone through out life, by the end of this story she is exhausted and broken and comes to a realization and Fantasia nailed it.
Remember Fantasia said in this time of her life. She was in a sad era ..she was going through a tough time personally... She took that and embodied the role so well. Props to her resilence
I knew Fantasia when she was little. She came to a small town named Anniston, Alabama where she fell in love with my mother. Years after my mother passed, I found a tape that she did for my mother. Knowing that a Star, could cherish an old grandmother make me proud to say “ I knew her when she was a little girl running around outside of the church that her grandparents had came to perform. “ Fantasia , I bow to you to say thank you for the happiness you gave Mrs. Watts. She watched your career and talked proudly about you all the time. Fantasia is truly a child of God. We love you.
fantasia carries the sufferings of centuries in her voice, her willingness to bring forth those feelings for the rest of the world is truly remarkable. most of us choose to keep them deeply buried
Never forget when she won American Idol, after she was announced the winner and she sang, she broke down and SOBBED. They actually cut the mike after a while.
Had to revisit this video after seeing the movie casting. God, she’s giving everything. I’m gonna weep in the theater when this movie comes out, I just know it.
I had the priviledge and pleasure to see Fantasia perform this on Broadway. The raw emotion. The love. The pain. I cried my eyes out. Best performance I have ever seen. Hands down.
Cynthia's was incredibly impressive and more technically sound. Fantasias performance is literally gut-wrentching and makes you just want to break down and sob for hours.
honestly, Fanatsia is always going to be my Celie. Cynthia Erivo is amazingly talented and has a stunning voice. But there is something about the way Fantasia sings this that it just does something to your soul. She embodies the years of pain and heartbreak but still choosing life, that is this song, all in her raw real and unbelievably powerful vocals. So much respect for her as an artist.
Fantasia: From the very moment she sang "Summertime," I became a dyed-in-the-wool believer!!! She is simply a talent, whose time has FINALLY come. Go forth my sister and reap the fruit. You deserve it!!!
I can’t get over how beautiful her “take a deep breath is”! You can truly feel the overwhelming emotion and struggle to confront the trauma in that one line!
I get it Fantasia is a monster! You honestly can’t compare any of them, but for me, Cynthia still has my favorite rendition! Her voice just kills me. Also, the opt up on “sing” makes me scream out loud because it feels so raw and emotional. They both bring their entire selves to the role! It’s apples and oranges really tho!
I saw color purple in New York with Fantasia. I can tell you there was not a dry eye in the theater when she sang this. It hit deep. I love the movie and the Broadway play was so wonderful. Fantasia is an angel!
I was fortunate enough to see the Color Purple with Fantasia. The ONLY time I've cried at a show. Fantasia is INCREDIBLE! It's a disgrace that she didn't win a Tony for her performance.
I alway felt Fantasia is an old soul. Someone who has lived many lives and all that DNA has brought her to interpret a song like this. This isn't singing; this a beautiful, gut-wrenching experience.
BREAKING NEWS: Fantasia is going to reprise the role of "Celie" in the upcoming film version of THE COLOR PURPLE musical!!! WOW!!! I smell an Oscar coming.
Now that they’re doing a live adaptation of this I’m predicting that Fantasia is going to make history and win an Oscar for best actress in a LEADING role.
BEST CELIE. Hands down!!!! The emotion she packed into the role brought an authenticity that no other actress has brought to the part. She MUST be Celie should they ever do a film version of the musical.
Fantasia is only 32 years old, which is about the same age Whoopi was when she did the film. LaChanze originated the role on Broadway in her mid 40s. Cynthis Erivo is playing the role now at age 27. Celie ages from 14 years old to 50-something throughout the story.
I remember saving up my money in college to see this play. It was my first Broadway show and it didn't disappoint. I still get chills each time I watch this performance.
Fantasia's success here isn't that she has necessarily the biggest voice, nor is she known as an actor, but her commitment to this role and the emotion she portrays. One could try to pass this off as stunt casting, but when she is on that stage, she is Celie 100%. Fantasia does something I don't know if Cynthia Erivo pulls off. Fantasia allows herself to be ugly. I am by no means saying Fantasia herself is ugly, in fact, she is stunning when she dresses up. Celie isn't the most physically attractive person and I would find it hard to believe that someone would call someone that looks like Cynthia Erivo ugly and beat her for it. But Fantasia brings it down and isn't worried about being the face on the poster to sell tickets.
+Zach T Except that she missed most of the shows she was supposed to do and never explained why and had to go on Oprah and apologize and explain her self... not very committed if you ask me. Lol.
Luigi Kwok EXACTLY !!! People were being so cruel and people don't realize... THEY PAID TO SEE THE SHOW ! There's no guarantee a certain performer will be there & she had tumor for Christ sakes !
kyle nicholson No need to lie on Fantasia to make a better case for why you prefer Cynthia. Fantasia was singing her heart out with tumors in her throat for who knows how long. It's amazing she made any of the shows to begin with and even more so how she still slayed every tough New York critic often while singing with blood in her mouth.
And Ladies and Gentleman THIS is our Celie coming to the big screen!! Get that Oscar ready now!!! We're about to have 2 Oscar winners from American Idol. So glad they chose Fantasia to revive this for the the big screen adaptation.
Something about her...makes me prefer her, in some things, to Jennifer Hudson. She is also Simon Cowell's favorite according to an interview I watched. That was wonderful. Not overdone, no histrionics, just gut emotion.
Fantasia sang that song like she know what she was singing about. It was a lot of truth in that song for her. God bless you Fantasia God bless you to God be all the glory.❤🎉
Fantasia is one of those singers/performers who sing from DEEP DEEP inside the soul. I cry about 75 percent of the time when I hear her sing. And have since American Idol, especially “Summertime”. Geez, what a gift. No wonder she was completely drained. After performing this over and over again.
How many of us are here again (or for the first time) after hearing the news that Fantasia will be playing Celie in The Color Purple movie musical! So happy for her!
I love Cynthia, her voice is the truth… but fantasia , Fantasia … this is the difference in casting an African American over a Afro British person. Our experience here in America is unique. Our experience with colorism is unique…. and a lot of it parallels with fantasias real life. I can not wait to see her win her this Oscar!
I disagree Tasia is from the church she got that old soul in her voice I bet she can throw down in the kitchen too. but on the other hand Cyn might be British but SHE'S STILL BLACK we have no idea what she went through over there what folks go through over there
colorism? they have the most cases in Africa/Nigeria you don't see all those ppl lightning their skin cause of their own self hate girl get outta here with that foolishness
If I'm 100% honest, I think this film is going to do well due to the fact the cast has not one single Brit in there. The entire cast is African-American
@@sarahb-rh9dd you have no reading comprehension. Like I said our experience here in the states is unique. And Fantasia translated that very well in her singing . If you need proif , just watch Cynthia’s Harriet Tubman. Quite laughable, surface level, and just not GOOD.
I don’t want to compare between Fantasia and Cynthia Erivo, because they both play and sing as Cely with their hearts and souls of Cely. The difference between Fantasia & Cynthia is the way they sing this song as far as runs, will they do low notes or high notes. Congratulations to Fantasia who will reprise her role as Cely in the film version of The Color Purple stage musical. However, for Cynthia, congratulations on her nabbing the role of Elphaba in the movie version of Wicked.
The difference between Fantasia and Cynthia is that Fantasia is black church bred. It is what makes her performance hit harder for me. Her gospel style singing fits the character and setting way better. Cynthia has a clearer voice with obviously better technique, but it sounds too pretty for the character and it just doesn't emotionally stir me.
Doesn't matter if you prefer Fantasia, Cynthia or any of the other incredible women that have sung this song... If they connected and gave with their entire heart every single lyric written in this piece, then they deserve all of the recognition they receive for being strong enough to go through that 8 times a week.
Well said!
Yess! Preach!
Fellow theatre person!! Yes! 😌
That part!
Just for the 8 times a week alone... that is a lot. Emotionally it takes something out of you to play that type of roll and deliver with emotion like that. They both have amazing voices, and sang it well.
Mark my words right now..Once the color purple movie releases, Fantasia is going to sweep all the acting awards. Fantasia deserves her resurgence into the industry and this will be the moment she needs to remind us why she’s a legend. Too many folks don’t put her in the conversation of greats, well this movie will do just that. Hold me to it…
omg I had no idea this was coming to theaters!!!!!!!! So glad they cast Fantasia! She’s amazing even if others have done this role well. She did it best!!!!
I will be shocked if there isn't bigtime cheering & applause after this song plays in the movie theaters. Sure it won't be like seeing it performed live but this song is just so great & Fantasia's performance of it in the movie is sure to be just as awesome as it is here!
Absolutely and we'll Spoken...
I love Fantasia & was blessed to see her in The Color Purple and she brought the house down!
I already know...💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽
SHE TOOK ME TO CHURCH, THEN DOWN THE STREET FOR WINGS, THEN TO THE COURTHOUSE, THEN BACK TO THE DAMN CHURCH AGAIN!!!! YOU BETTER SAAAAAANG MAMA ❤️
Sophie hahaha this comment gives me life. Too funny!
Lol
Yessss she did!!!
😂💀😭😂
Lmaoo a journey
Fantasia was going through A LOT during this time. So happy that she is still here with us. Amen.
Yea she had to leave the show because at the time she had vocal chord surgery if I remember correctly. She didn’t finish out her run on broadway 🎭
Still with us? People don't generally die from nodes caused from vocal fatigue/abuse.
@@TruthSerum101 she also was going through a lot of depression and family drama during this time and often spoke of suicidal thoughts.
I attempted 3 times to see her and kept missing her at the play due to her matters. I so love her
@@TruthSerum101 She had two tumors in her vocal cords
No one can act real suffering. Only life can give you that. The way Fantasia sings this song, really makes me want to live. I can't watch this without crying my heart out. Thank you for this huge inspiration!
So nice to hear that this really means something to you---thank you.
Andrea Miranda Fantasia's version brings more emotion, she focus more on the acting what makes her singing come out as real suffering. But I think her life experiences help too.
I was there on her opening night and I literally cried one of my contact lenses out! She was phenomenal!
So true!
I cry every time
LaChance, Fantasia Barrino and Cynthia Erivo. What on earth did we do to deserve THREE Celies of this magnitude?
Dana Fripp AMEN , the good lord works in Mysterious Ways
Dana Fripp amen
You better preach that gospel!
we are SOOOOO not deserving of their glory. we're just lucky hahaha
I voted for Hillary 🤷🏾♂️
This passion is what happens when Black Americans tell Black American stories.😩🙌🏾
Yes 🙌🏾
Bless
YESSSSSS
I maybe half Latino but i was raised by an interracial family to respect other cultures.
I mean vocally fantasia is good but i think her intrepertation and attitude is what brings magic to the performance
LaChanze is vocal perfection. I loved her as Celie and she created the character...but Fantasia LIVES this song. I have a very poor quality mp3 of Fantasia's final Broadway performance of 'I'm Here' and it makes me cry every time I hear it.
Fantazia reminds me of my tante-my mum’s nanny, who was born a sharecropper in the southern US. There’s just something really true in there.
Every singer should carry you on their journey with their voice and emotions
She always sings this like it was written just for her. Brilliant.
because she became the character
I actually went to see it on Broadway while she was still starring in it. Plus she's is from my home state and still resides in NC. Also, she dont live far from me. When I first heard this song live, I was in tears... I'm still like that now when she sings it
True
Fantasia's soon to be Oscar worthy performance of a lifetime
Golden globe nom so far!
AMEN. saw a screening and she is just beyond epic
...and a Tony
LAWD SHE AINT START SINGING AND IM ALREADY BAWLING 😭
Careem Smith
Okkkk! Crying in 2018..sheesh
Crying with you!
lmfao same...my goodness
i agree Fantasia is a natural
When Tasia sings "tawlest tree" and not "tallest tree" shows you that this song is meant to be sung from deepest of your soul!! Fave version of this song..
MsTip73 thank you for this comment 🤣❤️
Exactly, you gotta dig deep when you perform this song, it’s not something you can teach either. Fantasia got IT!
She is southern as well.
Absolutely the best version
The way she finna be an Oscar winner this year 🙌🏾🔥
That would be so dope ❤❤❤❤wish her and all the cast the best bring that award home y'all.
She deserves it,
Amazing performance🙌🏽
"I'm Beautiful".....and there go the tears
lol...i have to agree..lol
Geoff pawerful
Every time!!!
Geoff feeling Celie"s pain.....and I am weeping for all of us that are still struggling.
Every goddamn time
And the Oscar goes to... Fantasia❤
Let's Hope And Pray So! Because if she wins a Oscar for Best Actress she will be making History!! Of The Decade Because no black woman has Won for Best Leading Actress Since HALLE BERRY BACK IN 2002! So let's pray we can witness More Greatness to come! 🙏🙏
That would be absolutely incredible. There would not be a dry eye anywhere.
@@jctell1014 AMEN to That for sure! 💯💯💯 But We'll See ☺️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fantasia and Cynthia did a GREAT job.2019 anyone?
Yes ma'am, right here and crying my eyes out...the pain in Celie's life is so palpable.
Yep
2020 ❤️
2020
2020 ( less than 2 weeks before 2021)
And YES LORD, Fantasia sang my mother out of her seat and my Momma was 79 I believe. WE WENT UP AND IN!
I love it!!!
Kevin E. Taylor glad your mum enjoyed herself. Fantasia is amazing gives me chills every time I hear her voice
Kevin E. Taylor , you speak of your Momma as if she's no longer with us. Lawd...I miss mine so very much! I lost her to cancer 11 years ago but it feels just like yesterday she was here. Glad your Momma enjoyed Fantasia, and that it got her out her seat.
Cynthia Erivo hits me in the gut when she sings. Fantasia though, hits me square in the heart.
edward jones have you filed a police report? 👮♀️
This is why Fantasia’s Celie will portray better on film than Cynthia’s Celie
@@beenhim9229 I think Cynthia will be a great Elphaba though
@@austinpearce5442 Perhaps,the cards aligned how they were suppose to.
@@beenhim9229I’m not sure I’d say that. I think they both could’ve killed. I’d say I was expecting Cynthia based on more film experience and she recently did the show, but since she was already casted for wicked I assumed it would be Fantasia!
Anybody here after watching Cynthia on Terrell?? 🙋🏾♀️
Yes! I was all tears when she sang this. I had never heard of Cynthia before Terrell.
Me too!!!
Yaaass! This song has so much more meaning now
Lyrically CHI lmao yes
😂🙋🏾♀️
I love how Fantasia really embodied an older woman that’s worked her ass to bone for many years. She walks around as if her body is just exhausted and broken. She really nailed the acting of this character.
Seriously! I’ve seen seasoned actors in the best aging makeup you’ve ever seen and they don’t have the correct walk or anything , totally throws it off
This is a great comment. I saw somebody said they preferred Cynthia because Cynthia’s version sounds and looks like someone triumph. You can’t just erase what the body has gone through out life, by the end of this story she is exhausted and broken and comes to a realization and Fantasia nailed it.
Remember Fantasia said in this time of her life. She was in a sad era
..she was going through a tough time personally... She took that and embodied the role so well. Props to her resilence
I knew Fantasia when she was little. She came to a small town named Anniston, Alabama where she fell in love with my mother. Years after my mother passed, I found a tape that she did for my mother. Knowing that a Star, could cherish an old grandmother make me proud to say “ I knew her when she was a little girl running around outside of the church that her grandparents had came to perform. “ Fantasia , I bow to you to say thank you for the happiness you gave Mrs. Watts. She watched your career and talked proudly about you all the time. Fantasia is truly a child of God. We love you.
She's gonna kill this role again this Christmas
fantasia carries the sufferings of centuries in her voice, her willingness to bring forth those feelings for the rest of the world is truly remarkable. most of us choose to keep them deeply buried
Always stood in the shadows cheering for everyone else now the spotlight is on me 😄😄😄hallelujah all is well ⚘⚘⚘
She’s lets herself be so vulnerable, so raw, so exposed. Only a few vocal artists of our time as authentic..
Never forget when she won American Idol, after she was announced the winner and she sang, she broke down and SOBBED. They actually cut the mike after a while.
❤
The mic was never cut. U need to go back and watch.
I think I remember her breaking the heel to her shoes lol I was so happy for her my family screamed
Fantasia channeled every woman on the block I grew up on. I'm in a flashback tears mode right now.
Such a nice comment--thanks.
Fantasia evokes so much emotion when she performs this song. You can feel all the pain the character has endured. Love this!
“Stand as tall as the tallest tree” the way she sings it.... LITERAL chills. 🥺
That was no longer Fantasia, that was Celie. She’s gonna give a beautiful performance in the movie version coming out next year.
Yes indeed Amen
Had to revisit this video after seeing the movie casting. God, she’s giving everything. I’m gonna weep in the theater when this movie comes out, I just know it.
me too she is so perfect for this role she is Celie in so many ways
Someone’s going to have to carry me out of the theater, I’m going to be a mess!!!
I was also rewatching this performance and saw your comment. Went to imdb to confirm. I am so happy for her. She IS Celie!
I saw a private screening of this yesterday and when this song came on, i was teary eyed
I am weeping now, Jesus that send chills down my spine. Love it.
Nobody sings this like Fantasia...........not even Jennifer Hudson..sorry......Fantasia makes GROWN ass men shed tears out here.......damn
Who else is here after seeing fantasia in the movie?
She ateeee. What a star!
I had the priviledge and pleasure to see Fantasia perform this on Broadway. The raw emotion. The love. The pain. I cried my eyes out. Best performance I have ever seen. Hands down.
She bout to win that Oscar
Congrats to her on getting the role again in the movie version!
Cynthia's was incredibly impressive and more technically sound. Fantasias performance is literally gut-wrentching and makes you just want to break down and sob for hours.
was the only one who cried after watching this?
hell no... I've been crying for a day now.
No. Brings me to tears every time. Sang Tasia
No...Bawling my eyes out now!!!..😇
NO!!
Hell to tha no! Fantasia could sing "Row Row your Boat"....tears!
ITS FANTASIA'S TIME TO RECEIVE AAAAAALLLLLL HER FLOWERS !!!!!!!!!!
I was already crying, but when she walks up to those flowers I was a mess. Such emotion. What a powerful performance.
There's a stark difference when someone has lived something for real. Fantasia bodied this.
honestly, Fanatsia is always going to be my Celie. Cynthia Erivo is amazingly talented and has a stunning voice. But there is something about the way Fantasia sings this that it just does something to your soul. She embodies the years of pain and heartbreak but still choosing life, that is this song, all in her raw real and unbelievably powerful vocals. So much respect for her as an artist.
She went somewhere deep and sacred. And we all went with her. This was stellar.
Fantasia: From the very moment she sang "Summertime," I became a dyed-in-the-wool believer!!! She is simply a talent, whose time has FINALLY come. Go forth my sister and reap the fruit. You deserve it!!!
ME too❤
Amen!!! Summertime performance was excellent and so is this one!
fantasia will be reprising her role as celie in the color purple movie musical adaptation 🙌🏾
It was just confirmed last night!
I can’t get over how beautiful her “take a deep breath is”!
You can truly feel the overwhelming emotion and struggle to confront the trauma in that one line!
I’ve never seen Fantasia perform I’m here only Cynthia. While i love Cynthia’s version, Fantasia left me with chills. Two great women!
I get it Fantasia is a monster! You honestly can’t compare any of them, but for me, Cynthia still has my favorite rendition! Her voice just kills me. Also, the opt up on “sing” makes me scream out loud because it feels so raw and emotional. They both bring their entire selves to the role! It’s apples and oranges really tho!
I saw color purple in New York with Fantasia. I can tell you there was not a dry eye in the theater when she sang this. It hit deep. I love the movie and the Broadway play was so wonderful. Fantasia is an angel!
She’s gonna win an Oscar for playing Celie in the new movie
Wheewwwww she's winning an Oscar in 2024
They will give the Oscar to Bailey. They would give Fantasia a cast award, with the other actors. Maybe, a supporting award.
2023 and TH-cam - thank you for preserving this amazing performance by Fantasia.
FINALLY We're getting Fantasia as Celie in great quality in the official movie musical!!!
I'm officially hyped for it now!
yes its gonna be amazing i can not wait she is unbelievable in this role
I was fortunate enough to see the Color Purple with Fantasia. The ONLY time I've cried at a show. Fantasia is INCREDIBLE! It's a disgrace that she didn't win a Tony for her performance.
It's because she was there as a replacement u have revive the play to be eligible for a tony
I think this is one of if not the best performances ever captured on film that I have ever seen in my lifetime. And I mean that wholeheartedly
Yes, very glad it was preserved.
yes sir it is
She is gonna KILL IT in the movie!!!
I alway felt Fantasia is an old soul. Someone who has lived many lives and all that DNA has brought her to interpret a song like this. This isn't singing; this a beautiful, gut-wrenching experience.
Fantasia’s voice seriously is anointed! It makes me cry every time!!!!
This performance just shows that you don't need to belt a super high not to show strength! Fantasia is a true star! 😍😍😍
BREAKING NEWS: Fantasia is going to reprise the role of "Celie" in the upcoming film version of THE COLOR PURPLE musical!!! WOW!!! I smell an Oscar coming.
who’s watching in 2020?😍
Now that they’re doing a live adaptation of this I’m predicting that Fantasia is going to make history and win an Oscar for best actress in a LEADING role.
What’s sad is that Whoopi should have won an Oscar back when the original came out. She was superb and they snubbed her. 😒
NOBODY does it with feeling, heart and whole being like Fantasia. Flawless.
That sob right before the last noted ENDED me! 😭
BEST CELIE. Hands down!!!! The emotion she packed into the role brought an authenticity that no other actress has brought to the part. She MUST be Celie should they ever do a film version of the musical.
this was so many years ago. while she may be the best she may now have gotten too old for the part.
The character ages 40 years.
I think Cynthia Erivo is the best celie
okay.
Fantasia is only 32 years old, which is about the same age Whoopi was when she did the film. LaChanze originated the role on Broadway in her mid 40s. Cynthis Erivo is playing the role now at age 27. Celie ages from 14 years old to 50-something throughout the story.
I witnessed it in person and she was amazing!!!
I did too,it was beautiful!!!
I did as well I was crying my mother looked at me and was like why are u crying,I told her this song touched something inside of me
I wish i did! But i never been to NYC and i was young
It’s so crazy how full circle it’s come for Fantasia
So happy for her 🥺 she deserved this role more than anybody
She IS Celie, through and through
After this movie is released this will forever be Fantasia’s song.
It is already her song!
I remember saving up my money in college to see this play. It was my first Broadway show and it didn't disappoint. I still get chills each time I watch this performance.
Fantasia's success here isn't that she has necessarily the biggest voice, nor is she known as an actor, but her commitment to this role and the emotion she portrays. One could try to pass this off as stunt casting, but when she is on that stage, she is Celie 100%. Fantasia does something I don't know if Cynthia Erivo pulls off. Fantasia allows herself to be ugly. I am by no means saying Fantasia herself is ugly, in fact, she is stunning when she dresses up. Celie isn't the most physically attractive person and I would find it hard to believe that someone would call someone that looks like Cynthia Erivo ugly and beat her for it. But Fantasia brings it down and isn't worried about being the face on the poster to sell tickets.
+Zach T Except that she missed most of the shows she was supposed to do and never explained why and had to go on Oprah and apologize and explain her self... not very committed if you ask me. Lol.
It was actually explained SEVERAL times...She had two tumors on her vocal cords...obviously not being able to sing under that condition.
+kyle nicholson OH PLEASE. It was the media who didn't report that she had to undergo surgery for tumors in her freakin' throat.
Luigi Kwok EXACTLY !!! People were being so cruel and people don't realize... THEY PAID TO SEE THE SHOW ! There's no guarantee a certain performer will be there & she had tumor for Christ sakes !
kyle nicholson No need to lie on Fantasia to make a better case for why you prefer Cynthia. Fantasia was singing her heart out with tumors in her throat for who knows how long. It's amazing she made any of the shows to begin with and even more so how she still slayed every tough New York critic often while singing with blood in her mouth.
This is her song…this the version…period! Sang Fantasia!!
Here after the amazing trailer
I just left the theater and she did just as amazing in the movie!
here because of the color purple remake trailer. glad they casted fantasia. she's always perfect for this role.
saw the new trailer of "The Color Purple" movie. That's why I am here. 🥺
Keep going “Fantasia” so happy for you God Is sure blessing you.
Mannnn the moment she started singing I started crying 🫶🏽
Imagine Cynthia and Her singing this together
I would explode
And Ladies and Gentleman THIS is our Celie coming to the big screen!! Get that Oscar ready now!!! We're about to have 2 Oscar winners from American Idol. So glad they chose Fantasia to revive this for the the big screen adaptation.
I'm hoping to be amazed as i was with Jennifer Hudson
AINT nobody singing this song better than, Tasia!
Something about her...makes me prefer her, in some things, to Jennifer Hudson. She is also Simon Cowell's favorite according to an interview I watched. That was wonderful. Not overdone, no histrionics, just gut emotion.
Here after she was announced for the movie. The best choice.
Fantasia sang that song like she know what she was singing about. It was a lot of truth in that song for her. God bless you Fantasia God bless you to God be all the glory.❤🎉
OMG. Nobody does it like Fantasia. She brings tears to your eyes 😢❤❤❤
i've been looking for this specific video for quite awhile. good thing it showed up in my recommended lol
Providence
Brings tears to my eyes every time! Fantasia was so connected, and she was well directed! Exceptional 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Fantasia is one of those singers/performers who sing from DEEP DEEP inside the soul. I cry about 75 percent of the time when I hear her sing. And have since American Idol, especially “Summertime”. Geez, what a gift. No wonder she was completely drained. After performing this over and over again.
When Fantasia sang this song!!! It made me cry in the movie theater. 😢
This one right here is gonna win the Oscar!
SAANGGG, Sis!
Who's on here listening to every version of this song available on repeat after watching the new movie. Fantasia is on another level.
Man! The woman can really act! (I'm not especially surprised by that, just really impressed at what she achieves here.) Truly a gorgeous performance.
AvalonMorley Act and Sing, it's hard to do just one. Imagine to do both greatly.
Fantasia has just gotten better since this. She's always been my Celie.
She and Celie have struggled so much. I can tell this was a place for her to channel the rough spot into beautiful music.
How many of us are here again (or for the first time) after hearing the news that Fantasia will be playing Celie in The Color Purple movie musical! So happy for her!
*waving that church handkerchief!* Yes!!
I love Cynthia, her voice is the truth… but fantasia , Fantasia … this is the difference in casting an African American over a Afro British person. Our experience here in America is unique. Our experience with colorism is unique…. and a lot of it parallels with fantasias real life. I can not wait to see her win her this Oscar!
I disagree Tasia is from the church she got that old soul in her voice I bet she can throw down in the kitchen too. but on the other hand Cyn might be British but SHE'S STILL BLACK we have no idea what she went through over there what folks go through over there
colorism? they have the most cases in Africa/Nigeria you don't see all those ppl lightning their skin cause of their own self hate girl get outta here with that foolishness
If I'm 100% honest, I think this film is going to do well due to the fact the cast has not one single Brit in there. The entire cast is African-American
@@sarahb-rh9dd you sat there and read none of my comment. I don’t have to know what she went though. You can hear it in the renditions of the songs .
@@sarahb-rh9dd you have no reading comprehension. Like I said our experience here in the states is unique. And Fantasia translated that very well in her singing . If you need proif , just watch Cynthia’s Harriet Tubman. Quite laughable, surface level, and just not GOOD.
Fantasia will be reprising this role in the colour purple movie in December..
This performance by Fantasia captured Celie’s essence to me.
Fantasía sings with the emotions the movie needs.
"I'm beautiful" brought me to tears
Here after watching the movie cuz I needed a good cry one more time
Oh MY GOD! What was that! The most perfect rendition of this song EVER!
David Berto check out Cynthia Erivo's version
Took my Grandchildren to see Fantasia on Broadway ... They still talk about her incredible performance! She was Amazing!
Fantasia is the best because she has soul, she has the accent,passion and she has lived Celie life before
Now she's having her full moment in the new adaption that'll be out Dec. 25 this year
I don’t want to compare between Fantasia and Cynthia Erivo, because they both play and sing as Cely with their hearts and souls of Cely. The difference between Fantasia & Cynthia is the way they sing this song as far as runs, will they do low notes or high notes. Congratulations to Fantasia who will reprise her role as Cely in the film version of The Color Purple stage musical. However, for Cynthia, congratulations on her nabbing the role of Elphaba in the movie version of Wicked.
I plan to see both movies
The difference between Fantasia and Cynthia is that Fantasia is black church bred. It is what makes her performance hit harder for me. Her gospel style singing fits the character and setting way better. Cynthia has a clearer voice with obviously better technique, but it sounds too pretty for the character and it just doesn't emotionally stir me.