she can see it in the eyes of others, as the music kisses their soul, they smile and their hearts lift to the tunes she plays, the beauty will come full circle, without her hearing a sound
I get what you mean. Even though she lost her voice when 18, the feeling of not being sure of how it sounds in a composition/recording might be frightening. She knows she has good voice and she's a talented composer also. But music, even though she creates it with passion... it's kind of like a ghost. Anywho, she keeps it with her, and that's the magic. Kind of like Beethoven. Awe inspiring.
Nick Cross when you lose your hearing at an older age talking is like first nature. It's all she's known. Like when you're wearing head phones you can almost tell you're talking loudly. That's what it's like (ASL major student here lol)
she came to my classroom and explained her life to us. i heard her sing i our class and i had to hear more. she said that she didn't know she was going deaf and she thought it was an ear infection. then she had wear hearing aids and then she figured out she was going deaf. she's so shy though.
As a song writer myself I find this story so incredibly compelling. I often have a terrifying nightmare that I wake up with my fingers cut off and as a result I can't play my guitar anymore. I've never told this dream to anyone including my family, but after watching this I felt the need of sharing. Whenever I have this dream I wake up crying because I don't know what I would do if I couldn't make music anymore. I often ask myself what would I do if it came true? And the only answer I have is that I would fall in deep depression and probably never recover from it. After watching this video I realize how stupid my answer is. This girl lost the most important thing that connects us with music, yet she discover her own unique way to stay connected. She neglected the challenge and chase the dream. I am truly touched by this video and I couldn't have found it in a better time in my life. Thank you so much for sharing such a powerful story.
Lulu Sapphire Your life shouldn't be only about music. Yes, music is a very important, good thing, but I think your problem is that you don't have other interests that interest you as much as a passion. I'd try to broad myself and be more opened, brave for the new, because then it means you are a fuller person, more creative, and you will also be better and more opened as regards music. at least I guess so, but I don't know you, I may be wrong, you should know if I'm right or not, I just try to help if you already shared your nightmare with us.
i knew i recognized her from somewhere, and that somewhere is this video. so glad she's on america's got talent, because she certainly has talent. very excited to see where she goes.
Ms3200Runner It isn't fully though. Just as if you've never yelled in your life you can imagine how it'll sound but it probably won't be accurate. She can definitely get a good idea of the song but she can't hear it
Ms3200Runner the fact that she makes it for use is beautiful. so her sadness is helped by our joy although we would trade it all me then some for here to hear again
This is incredible! Thank you so much, Great Big Story, these videos are beautiful and inspire me everyday. Don't ever stop this. You all are doing something right!!
the sovjet union was NOT communism. They say it was and they tried to create communism and failed. Communism literally means that everyone gets the same amount of money no matter what you do. And that everything is owned by everyone, even your bed. And the sovjet still had a government which communism shouldn't have.
The Sugar Venom ever been in a setting where you literally can't hear your voice? You don't just forget how to speak. You know what the words feel like, and you can tell if you're making noise or not because of the vibration in your throat. It's just about muscle memory. I'm sure over the years her spoken language skills will gradually deteriorate, as memories do even if you often think about them.
Play an electric guitar in a noisy room with no amplifier. You'll feel the notes resonate. That's how I used to practice when I was young. Mowing my paren't yard every day for five hours, driving the mower with my knees and trying to build muscle memory on a guitar.
Its really dumbfounding to me that a person like her sounds totally normal. You dont realize that she's deaf. I find this more tragic than an a born-deaf person because at least then, they dont have any expectations/experiences of sound. But someone who was robbed away of it, is a different story.She talks clearly and sings beautifully but I find it incredibly difficult to imagine that she can't hear any of these. I dont know. Its just even if she lost her hearing at 18 and can still speak normally that way is just I dunno... a kind of miracle to me. I thought you'd start to forget. I dunno im being dumb. She just blows my mind.
Ok, she goes deaf, she needs to be bare foot on stage, etc. ...But in studio, why she needs a headphone monitors? How she manage to sing in time? There was no strobe metronome in studio. Why she wear these headphones like this? Like she needs track on her one ear (which she can't hear accoding to her condition) and herself on the other. I mean there is so many ambiguity in this clip that she lose credibility.
I dont know if this is like those people who go blind, they cannot really see, but the information is still there. They can ascertain peoples emotions and navigate through rooms by instinct. This is because vision comes from 2 different processing points in our brains, of the signal that comes from our eyes. The first one is a primitive one, a fight-or-flight type of processing, this one allows people to recognize danger quite immediately, while the other, in the back of the brain and is the one really processing the image, the content and colours, etc. People that only damage the back part, cannot see, the world is black, but they can do the above things if the thalamus (the part responsible for the more primitive processing) is undamaged. Maybe its the same, but with hearing...she still has a kind of instinct for what things are, but she hears nothing..
She would be extraordinary if she could hear as she makes this BEAUTIFUL music. She not extraordinary! What she is has no words. My hearing is fading, this will be music that I will hear long past that point. I've always had a depression knowing that I'll one day never hear my kids, friends, family, music, cars, thunder in the distance ever again. Keep up the good work. The world needs your music. I love your unparalleled talent Mandy Harvey.
Viniso, because she used to hear. If she was born deaf, she wouldn't be able to speak, she would sound weird, she wouldn't be able to pronounce the words correctly. But she learned how to speak like all of us, then lost her hearing when she was 18. Speaking is not something you forget... If you cover your ears and speak, you will feel your throat, your skull vibrate. This is how she feels her own voice. When you lose one of your senses, the others automatically amplify to compensate. Especially touch.
Hearing is not essential to speaking once you've learned to speak. Once you've learned to speak, especially for 18 years like she did, you would still be able to speak without hearing because you're so used to speaking that it's not something that you have to learn. The reason Deaf people who were born Deaf or became Deaf early on in life cannot speak "well" (i.e. the way a hearing person speaks) is because they missed that first essential step of learning to speak which is learning that you can make sound and connecting those sounds to your voice. That's why oral education programs for Deaf kids move so much slower than hearing schools or ASL-based Deaf schools - they have to teach them how to speak and associate the vibrations in their throats with sound without using sound. Even after extensive oral educations, these kids' speech is usually muddled and hard to understand because they don't have a way to reproduce the exact motions that hearing people can do, just because they have no exposure to sound or the sound of speech, specifically. This girl's got eighteen years of speaking and singing under her belt - especially if she was formally trained in vocal performance, she should be able to use muscle memory to hit the right pitches. That's also why her speech is so well articulated - and why her ASL is so shaky. She hasn't had much _time_ being deaf to really assimilate into the Deaf community - I doubt she considers herself culturally Deaf (which is why I used the lowercase when referring to her), but it would be cool if she really tried to connect with the community later on.
Viniso probably because she lost her hearing so late that she has instinctively developed the ability to speak and she probably remembers how; think about it: when you're in a place where you can barley hear your own voice you speak and it comes out fine right? I'd say it's something like that with her
She's like the next generation of Beethoven. Beethoven loss his hearing at the age of 26, but he still a composer of piano while his deaf. Bless to this girl with such a talented and willing not to give up on music. 😊😁
Jesson Jessie IMO this is way more impressive than Beethoven. Because when he went deaf he was composing songs. But he was already a composer. He knew the rules of composition. He knew if he wrote some figures bass line what key it was in and what notes the violins could play in harmony with that. But this girl sings. That's WAY harder because very few people have perfect pitch and can sight sing.
Hayden Holman Beethoven couldn't even perform after he went deaf, this girl and the girl you grew up with are way more talented, performance wise, compared to Beethoven. If you're a master composer before you go deaf you can still compose because of music theory and experience.
MHRDigitalArt yes performance wise I suppose she is probably better haha, but you have to imagine the level of genius Beethoven possessed, and how unrivaled he was in composition during his time.
MHRDigitalArt beethoven has no network and tools for help, she is talented and fucking awesome and thumbs up but dont shit about beethoven 'cuz you dont listen to clasical music, hes parts are popular and one of the best peaces in the world today and for all fucking times
She came to perform and talk to my high school this 2017-2018 year and she was so honest about everything. I think she can really help people cope with their problems so matter what that might be. Such an inspiring person!!!
This is so beautiful. Her voice holds the passion she has for music and it's incredible what musicians will do to continue making music, regardless of what may come.
My first time commenting on any youtube post. This is beyond mind blowing. I have a sister who lost her sight at the age of 16, and because of this video my hope of her still having somewhat of a normal life is restored. Thank you :)
It's an inspiration to many people out there who has a disability to not ever give up. And by the way, I think she already knows the quality of her voice because she was able to hear herself until 18yrs old. As she said so herself, she had near perfect pitch before she became deaf. Kudos to her dad as well for motivating her and not giving up on her as well. Continue to inspire people Mandy with your beautiful music.
I was in choir class last year, and our teacher Mrs Hudson showed us this video. Honestly, this is just incredible. It’s so inspiring to hear her story, and I really want to sing as well as Mandy does someday. In the meantime, I’ll just have fun. But if she ever reads this comment, Mrs Hudson says hi (actually, I think she had a different last name back then, but I don’t remember what it was), and she’s really proud of her.
This clever singer/composer adopted techniques also used by the deaf composer Ludwig von Beethoven to compose his famous Ninith Symphony and his famous Fifth Emperor piano concerto. When will we hear her Ode to Joy?
I'm just blown away. I love a beautiful melody and a singing voice and this lady has it. Without being able to hear! I like singing too and I cannot imagine being able to do it without hearing. Just amazing.
this video has helped me a lot i am a music high school student and i want to be a composer, yesterday my friend and me went on a solfeggio competition and performed horrendously. it was a catastrophe, i can't remember when was the last time we sang this bad. i always got first prizes on harmony and music analysis competitions so this really got me, but this girl is truly inspiring. she brought a smile to my face and now i understand how trivial my problem is when i see in what circumstances she manages to still write and sing songs
Incredible. As a musician I can feel her. Music is one of the most important things in (my) life. I couldn't imagine losing my hearing ability. I'd rather lose my sight than never hearing anything ever again. Keep it up, you're an impressive woman! Much love
When i saw: "Singing without Sound" All i heard was: "We want your clicks and also the clicks of uneducated people by putting a ridiculously wrong but sounds good title" But in all seriousness, props to this woman for finding a way to use the world to her advantage to live normally again, to the people who think she's faking it, nah, and it's totally possible for you yourself to do what she does, you'll just have to spend time.
+noohlignuj I know, that's what I want to tell people about. My grandma is deaf person, my aunt is a deaf person, half of my family is filled with deaf people. People nowadays say bad things about them and I want to stand up for my family, and all the other people out there, waiting to express their feelings. Anyone or everyone wants to be treated like a person, a friend. Not like a person who needs help and siting all weak over there. Please, please, please treat them respectfully, they are just perfectly normal people with a little minor problems and that is it. TREAT THEM HOW YOU WANT TO BE TREATED!!!^ - ^
+Max Walczak Thank you!! I'm not trying to be mean here, I just want to tell people that everyone is perfectly and unique and gorgeous. People wanted to be treated like how you wanted them to treat you. Sorry for being the cause of the problem.（＾ω＾）
My biggest fear is to lose my hearing because I've had hearing problems my whole life and I absolutely love music. All of my favorite bands and artists inspire me so greatly and I feared one day I'd become deaf, but hearing this girls story made me fear less! Thank you!
WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY. IF HUMANS CAN DISCOVER, CREATE AND THEN UTILIZE TECHNOLOGY WHICH ENABLED THE SOVIETS DROP A 50 MT. NUKE THE SIZE OF A FRIDGE WE SHOULD BE ABLE HELP THE BLIND TO SEE..THE DEAF HEAR.
I HAVE SOME HEARING LOSS FROM LISTENING TO LOUD MUSIC WHILE GROWING UP. PUTTING MY EAR RIGHT AGAINST THE SPEAKER HAS RESULTED IN MILD TINNITUS AND CERTAIN AREAS OF PITCH LOSS...SO I STAY AWAY FROM HEADPHONES.
No, Max. I am visually impaired.. I believe the terminology is PRESBYOPIA.. but the fact that you were able to read the text anyway should be a complement to your cognitive abilities above the 1st Grade level. And THANKYOU.
Well yeah. Ur true but almost every company or anything need money. They had most of their views from their 2-3 minutes video. Having to interview, good camera, studio etc cost moneys aswell. They can get higher quality vids.
Hayden Holman There are people who unlike you have hearts. and that why they would like to see 30 minutes video of her singing. But you dont understand, you dont have a heart
Yes, but then why did she only have them on one ear, much the same way that a hearing person would so that they can hear the track AND her voice? That would be totally unnecessary for a deaf person, she wouldn't gain anything by one-earing the headset.
imagine not being able to do on something you adore so much,oh god, she is so brave and strong i cant even. such an inspiration, wish you all the best dear💕
Jay BB I think she means that she has never heard their voices before, she just stated an example for people to know that she definitely can't hear shit, I guess?
brutalbutthole There's a deaf couple in my town, altough they are older they weren't born deaf and you can barely understand what they're saying.I based my comment on that.
But it's weird don't you agree? putting it on one ear i mean. People do that so they can hear themselves sing without the issue of the headfones completelly blocking their hearing of themselves. Pretty weird....
She should have won americas got talent. Her story is so amazing. She has so much talent. I really hope she never loses faith in herself again. She really is an amazing person and is an inspiration to anyone who lives with any type of disability. No matter what the world throws at you never lose hope of your dreams because there is always a way to make them true somehow.
Dean M No It's impossible to speak perfectly for a deaf person, let alone sing and control your tone and pitch like she does. She can definitely hear but might have some sort of hearing impairment, not 100% deaf though.
Pikachu I wouldn't say yes but no either. Maybe its true maybe its not. The point is she lost her ability to hear at the age of 18! By that time you should have said a word or two! :D
Pikachu, you clearly don't play musical instruments or sing often enough to understand that you FEEL the vibrations, physically feel them. Those vibrations have different frequencies, that's how we get different pitches. If you feel a fast frequency and then feel a slow frequency, you'll notice the difference. If you were a musician, professional or not, you'd understand that. Don't speak on things you don't know about. You made assumptions about music because to you deaf people don't speak "perfectly." That's ignorant as fuck. I've been playing music since I was 7, academically trained since I was 12, self taught 2 of my 5 instruments. You are objectively wrong.
@Dean M She lost 110db - so she is basically fully deaf. She wears the headphones for vibrations. When they are really loud, she can feel them with the ears.
Spodrmen That's probably the reason she sings well tbh, most modern singers tend to forget true singing due to the continuous shitposting the radios inflict on us
Spodrmen yo taylor swift is actually pretty good. she's lyrically talented. her songs (not her recent singles because i personally dont like them too) are actually really good and well written.
This truly hurts me. Slowly my hearing is deteriorating and I'm scared I won't be able to hear music. With this brave girls help I know that it won't be over if I lose my hearing.
This video gives me hope. I am a musician suffering from extremely sensitive ears due to heavy noise exposure for too much of my life (guitar amps, drums, listening to loud music, noisy work environments). My hearing has started to decrease noticeably along with developing tinnitus. I genuinely think people around me don't understand how bad it is getting for me because only I can hear what I hear. You can't see hearing loss. It is a very personal and tragic condition that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. But this girl makes smile because if some day I end up going completely deaf, I know there will still be a way for me to make my music. Much love
I understand that this video was made to inspire and motivate individuals to pursuit their dreams, regardless of handicaps/disabilities, but I'm thinking that the story is a bit fabricated for click bait. Withholding necessary facts like how deaf she is and how she lost her hearing was probably intended because if we knew she wasn't completely deaf, we'd take her feat less seriously. Regardless, she's still a very strong willed individual and deserves commemoration!
hyper nick look up the sickness she was struck. It completely takes away the hearing. See the strength and beauty in another human rather than looking for conspiracy. Be well and do well!
I just watched a really neat interview of her the other day where she tells her story, it's a bit long but worth listening too! Her story is amazing and she is very relatable. Look up Mandy Harvey Real Life.
Her condition is severe. I saw something that said she lost 110 decibels, which is full hearing loss. She was told at first that cochlear implants wouldn't be a possibility for her, so her story is still amazing
Ok, she goes deaf, she needs to be bare foot on stage, etc. ...But in studio, why she needs a headphone monitors? How she manage to sing in time? There was no strobe metronome in studio. Why she wear these headphones like this? Like she needs track on her one ear (which she can't hear accoding to her condition) and herself on the other. I understand that her inner ear hears vibrations and such. But if she sings, she can't hear any other vibrations on her skull other than herself so even lo freq metronome are going to fail. I dont want to make myself an asshole, but I mean there is so many ambiguity in this clip that she lose credibility.
Your right man i don't think she's deaf people come up with crazy ideas just to try to get in judges hearts and she did. And you make a verygood point. But we'll see if she is faking it very soon cause time is an invisible lie detector.
Kas Kas that’s really heartless for you to say, don’t you think they should’ve taken that in mind before her performance? Also she might use a visual metronome or with the help of her translator, she said she also feels the vibrations through her feet and the vibration on the headphones might help. There are many ways she can keep on track, they just do a poor job showing it here
Human beings are such powerful creatures, capable of so much more than science, the media, politicians, hell even school tells us. This made me cry my eyes out, thinking of all the people who gave up.
I knew I had seen her somewhere else before, I came across this many months ago closer to when it came out. I remembered her the moment I saw her on AGT. I remembered how good she was, and knew she was going to do well before she started her audition.
feeling music through the ground with her feet.... EARTHBENDER
Abohin Belo oml I just commented that
I was about to about to comment that
Abohin Belo I thought the same, lmaoo
+Maximus Z waaROM KOM IK JE ALTIJD BIJ DE MEEST RANDOM VIDEOS TEGEN
Rabondo Ja ik kijk echt teveel TH-cam en ook echt teveel aparte vids
That's really tragic that she can't hear how beautiful her voice is...
I agree
she can see it in the eyes of others, as the music kisses their soul, they smile and their hearts lift to the tunes she plays, the beauty will come full circle, without her hearing a sound
now that s called talent!!
very impressing!!!
She lost it when she was 18. I think she was singing till that age so she surely knows how beautiful her voice is.
I get what you mean. Even though she lost her voice when 18, the feeling of not being sure of how it sounds in a composition/recording might be frightening. She knows she has good voice and she's a talented composer also. But music, even though she creates it with passion... it's kind of like a ghost. Anywho, she keeps it with her, and that's the magic. Kind of like Beethoven. Awe inspiring.
OMG, I was watching her audition for AGT and I knew where I knew her from. This channel!
Yeah me too, she's going to blow up.
Menglin Guo omg samee i'm like i think i've seen her before
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yup, was thinking the same thing like whooooaaaaa
Menglin Guo yes! Same thing here!
I just heard that she just got the gold buzzer on America's Got Talent!!!! im so proud of her!!!!
Franchesca Ornelas I saw her in person at my church she's brilliant
Dageon Munshi i wish i could xd
She can speak incredibly well for a deaf person. I would think it would be harder to talk clearly without being able to hear yourself. Amazing.
Nick Cross when you lose your hearing at an older age talking is like first nature. It's all she's known. Like when you're wearing head phones you can almost tell you're talking loudly. That's what it's like (ASL major student here lol)
Nick Cross Well she hasn't been deaf forever, she lost her earing when she was younger, meaning she knows what souns are
Nick Cross She was not born deaf.She lost her hearing when she was 18 and she was in music school at that time.
yeah dats why it seems fake kkkk
Idiot
It's just sad she cant hear how amazing she is :(
Bam Whip well, she's went to American's got talent today and get the golden buzzer
she is kind of like toph from avatar the last airbender
well technically she started singing at four and lost her hearing at 18 so before that she could
She can trust me. 💟
she came to my classroom and explained her life to us. i heard her sing i our class and i had to hear more. she said that she didn't know she was going deaf and she thought it was an ear infection. then she had wear hearing aids and then she figured out she was going deaf. she's so shy though.
Virginia Bernal She's such a sweetheart with a sweet voice 💟
Virginia Bernal i'm you're 1000th like haha
Virginia Bernal :(
stellvia hoenheim shut up and go play your cowbells
Virginia Bernal some artists are really shy or introverted. Seems to be a rather common trait.
As a song writer myself I find this story so incredibly compelling. I often have a terrifying nightmare that I wake up with my fingers cut off and as a result I can't play my guitar anymore. I've never told this dream to anyone including my family, but after watching this I felt the need of sharing. Whenever I have this dream I wake up crying because I don't know what I would do if I couldn't make music anymore. I often ask myself what would I do if it came true? And the only answer I have is that I would fall in deep depression and probably never recover from it. After watching this video I realize how stupid my answer is. This girl lost the most important thing that connects us with music, yet she discover her own unique way to stay connected. She neglected the challenge and chase the dream. I am truly touched by this video and I couldn't have found it in a better time in my life. Thank you so much for sharing such a powerful story.
Cila Miculic we all dream about our fears he doesnt need to seek professional immediatly
So we bitched about his fans and should we crush his sweet hands?
Lulu Sapphire I love you human :) Godbless!
Lulu Sapphire Your life shouldn't be only about music. Yes, music is a very important, good thing, but I think your problem is that you don't have other interests that interest you as much as a passion. I'd try to broad myself and be more opened, brave for the new, because then it means you are a fuller person, more creative, and you will also be better and more opened as regards music.
at least I guess so, but I don't know you, I may be wrong, you should know if I'm right or not, I just try to help if you already shared your nightmare with us.
Lulu Sapphire this is amazing ❤ you struck a chord somewhere deep in me
i knew i recognized her from somewhere, and that somewhere is this video. so glad she's on america's got talent, because she certainly has talent. very excited to see where she goes.
bailey jordan I agree completely, and I like that you can tell she's a grounded, nice person. Makes it easier to be happy for her
AGT
I recognized her from AGT! Beautiful voice, beautiful spirit. Glad to see her succeeding!
Huge huge huge respect for Mandy :) I wish to see her in charts.
The fact that she'll never hear the songs that she sings is really sad...
Ms3200Runner She can still hear it in her head, so it's not...a complete loss?
Ms3200Runner It isn't fully though. Just as if you've never yelled in your life you can imagine how it'll sound but it probably won't be accurate. She can definitely get a good idea of the song but she can't hear it
Ms3200Runner she doesn't feel sad at all, so you really have no reason to feel sad for her.
Ms3200Runner the fact that she makes it for use is beautiful. so her sadness is helped by our joy although we would trade it all me then some for here to hear again
Ms3200Runner EXCUSE ME GUYS, WHAT ABOUT HEARING AIDS‽?
This is incredible! Thank you so much, Great Big Story, these videos are beautiful and inspire me everyday. Don't ever stop this. You all are doing something right!!
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your hero no it wont.. good people wont let it. that evil system is falling apart, someday we will see a free north korea.
blue-chaos96 striker what's so evil about comunism?
Aren't hidden facts, you could read and research all about it online for yourself. Basically murders, forced dissaparitions, poverty, tortures.
the sovjet union was NOT communism. They say it was and they tried to create communism and failed. Communism literally means that everyone gets the same amount of money no matter what you do. And that everything is owned by everyone, even your bed. And the sovjet still had a government which communism shouldn't have.
very great
very inspiring
thanks a million
CONGRATS! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU! I watched this a month ago then I prayed that I hopes she will be famous. And it happened.
Saw her America's Got Talent performance and started to cry when she got the Golden Buzzer. She is amazing, inspiring, and just incredible.
How on earth can she speak and sing so fluently and on pitch when she can't hear? I understand she's very talented but this is insane. Mind blowing.
The Sugar Venom ever been in a setting where you literally can't hear your voice? You don't just forget how to speak. You know what the words feel like, and you can tell if you're making noise or not because of the vibration in your throat. It's just about muscle memory. I'm sure over the years her spoken language skills will gradually deteriorate, as memories do even if you often think about them.
She lost her hearing at eighteen so she still had all the time she needed to learn
Play an electric guitar in a noisy room with no amplifier. You'll feel the notes resonate. That's how I used to practice when I was young. Mowing my paren't yard every day for five hours, driving the mower with my knees and trying to build muscle memory on a guitar.
Sometimes when I'm singing in choir, I'm relying on how the vibrations feel in my head to hit the right note because I can't hear myself.
The Sugar Venom By any chance, do you work for SEMC?
this is so cool!!!!! you go girl!!!!!
Its really dumbfounding to me that a person like her sounds totally normal. You dont realize that she's deaf. I find this more tragic than an a born-deaf person because at least then, they dont have any expectations/experiences of sound. But someone who was robbed away of it, is a different story.She talks clearly and sings beautifully but I find it incredibly difficult to imagine that she can't hear any of these. I dont know. Its just even if she lost her hearing at 18 and can still speak normally that way is just I dunno... a kind of miracle to me. I thought you'd start to forget. I dunno im being dumb.
She just blows my mind.
She blows my mind as well, its incredible.
Ok, she goes deaf, she needs to be bare foot on stage, etc.
...But in studio, why she needs a headphone monitors? How she manage to sing in time? There was no strobe metronome in studio. Why she wear these headphones like this? Like she needs track on her one ear (which she can't hear accoding to her condition) and herself on the other. I mean there is so many ambiguity in this clip that she lose credibility.
micanikko so true i don't even notice these things but now that you mentioned it it makes me wonder
I dont know if this is like those people who go blind, they cannot really see, but the information is still there. They can ascertain peoples emotions and navigate through rooms by instinct. This is because vision comes from 2 different processing points in our brains, of the signal that comes from our eyes. The first one is a primitive one, a fight-or-flight type of processing, this one allows people to recognize danger quite immediately, while the other, in the back of the brain and is the one really processing the image, the content and colours, etc. People that only damage the back part, cannot see, the world is black, but they can do the above things if the thalamus (the part responsible for the more primitive processing) is undamaged.
Maybe its the same, but with hearing...she still has a kind of instinct for what things are, but she hears nothing..
thank you. Your explanation is cool.
She would be extraordinary if she could hear as she makes this BEAUTIFUL music. She not extraordinary! What she is has no words. My hearing is fading, this will be music that I will hear long past that point. I've always had a depression knowing that I'll one day never hear my kids, friends, family, music, cars, thunder in the distance ever again. Keep up the good work. The world needs your music. I love your unparalleled talent Mandy Harvey.
How can she speak and sing so well without hearing? That's just beyond me.
Viniso me too
Viniso, because she used to hear. If she was born deaf, she wouldn't be able to speak, she would sound weird, she wouldn't be able to pronounce the words correctly. But she learned how to speak like all of us, then lost her hearing when she was 18. Speaking is not something you forget... If you cover your ears and speak, you will feel your throat, your skull vibrate. This is how she feels her own voice. When you lose one of your senses, the others automatically amplify to compensate. Especially touch.
Hearing is not essential to speaking once you've learned to speak. Once you've learned to speak, especially for 18 years like she did, you would still be able to speak without hearing because you're so used to speaking that it's not something that you have to learn. The reason Deaf people who were born Deaf or became Deaf early on in life cannot speak "well" (i.e. the way a hearing person speaks) is because they missed that first essential step of learning to speak which is learning that you can make sound and connecting those sounds to your voice. That's why oral education programs for Deaf kids move so much slower than hearing schools or ASL-based Deaf schools - they have to teach them how to speak and associate the vibrations in their throats with sound without using sound. Even after extensive oral educations, these kids' speech is usually muddled and hard to understand because they don't have a way to reproduce the exact motions that hearing people can do, just because they have no exposure to sound or the sound of speech, specifically.
This girl's got eighteen years of speaking and singing under her belt - especially if she was formally trained in vocal performance, she should be able to use muscle memory to hit the right pitches. That's also why her speech is so well articulated - and why her ASL is so shaky. She hasn't had much _time_ being deaf to really assimilate into the Deaf community - I doubt she considers herself culturally Deaf (which is why I used the lowercase when referring to her), but it would be cool if she really tried to connect with the community later on.
She wasn't born deaf, so she was able to speak fluently before she lost her hearing
Viniso probably because she lost her hearing so late that she has instinctively developed the ability to speak and she probably remembers how; think about it: when you're in a place where you can barley hear your own voice you speak and it comes out fine right? I'd say it's something like that with her
I have always been so afraid to live the life i wanted. This inspired me to show the world my songs
John Paul de Luna do it!!!
The world needs artists to remind us all who we are and what we are where for
She's like the next generation of Beethoven. Beethoven loss his hearing at the age of 26, but he still a composer of piano while his deaf. Bless to this girl with such a talented and willing not to give up on music. 😊😁
Jesson Jessie IMO this is way more impressive than Beethoven. Because when he went deaf he was composing songs. But he was already a composer. He knew the rules of composition. He knew if he wrote some figures bass line what key it was in and what notes the violins could play in harmony with that. But this girl sings. That's WAY harder because very few people have perfect pitch and can sight sing.
Hayden Holman Beethoven couldn't even perform after he went deaf, this girl and the girl you grew up with are way more talented, performance wise, compared to Beethoven. If you're a master composer before you go deaf you can still compose because of music theory and experience.
MHRDigitalArt yes performance wise I suppose she is probably better haha, but you have to imagine the level of genius Beethoven possessed, and how unrivaled he was in composition during his time.
MHRDigitalArt beethoven has no network and tools for help, she is talented and fucking awesome and thumbs up but dont shit about beethoven 'cuz you dont listen to clasical music, hes parts are popular and one of the best peaces in the world today and for all fucking times
Jesson Jessie Beethoven took the legs of his piano off, then laid his piano on the floor in order to keep composing. Isn't that awesome?
All I could think of was Toph.
Faye Skelly same
Faye Skelly same , especially with the shoes off part lmao
Indonesian, i presume?
Faye Skelly exactly what I was thinking!!
She came to perform and talk to my high school this 2017-2018 year and she was so honest about everything. I think she can really help people cope with their problems so matter what that might be. Such an inspiring person!!!
Im in love with her voice! The best I've heard in a while.
Remember that Beethoven become a legend when he was deaf
he wasnt fully deaf to be fair...
he was fully deaf
he also cut the legs off his piano so he could feel the vibrations through the fooor
DOnker he was deaf later in life
DOnker Yes!
She's on America Got talent and she got the golden buzzer ❤️ I'm so proud of her keep on trying with out giving up😭
She was on AGT and got the golden buzzer, I loved her performance.
This is so beautiful. Her voice holds the passion she has for music and it's incredible what musicians will do to continue making music, regardless of what may come.
Ms. Harvey... you have blown me away today. There are no words in my lexicon to tell you how inspiring you are. I wish you only good things in life.
She reminds me of Toph Beifong the way she uses vibrations to enhance her sensual feedback despite her loss of faculty. She's smart.
DJ Jaytoven saw this in class and told my friend thus exact thing
i cant even imagine not being able to hear music
Emma Thatcat that's cute baby on your profile picture |-/
hi maria
hearing music is only a fraction of experiencing it
And now she's on American Got Talent and got the golden buzzer!
My first time commenting on any youtube post. This is beyond mind blowing. I have a sister who lost her sight at the age of 16, and because of this video my hope of her still having somewhat of a normal life is restored. Thank you :)
I'm in tears. What a wonderful, inspiring story. And she creates such beautiful music
Can I listen to any of her music? Would love to know?
www.MandyHarveyMusic.com
I saw this two days ago and just saw her get the golden buzzer on AGT!
painfully beautiful
It's an inspiration to many people out there who has a disability to not ever give up. And by the way, I think she already knows the quality of her voice because she was able to hear herself until 18yrs old. As she said so herself, she had near perfect pitch before she became deaf. Kudos to her dad as well for motivating her and not giving up on her as well. Continue to inspire people Mandy with your beautiful music.
I was in choir class last year, and our teacher Mrs Hudson showed us this video. Honestly, this is just incredible. It’s so inspiring to hear her story, and I really want to sing as well as Mandy does someday. In the meantime, I’ll just have fun. But if she ever reads this comment, Mrs Hudson says hi (actually, I think she had a different last name back then, but I don’t remember what it was), and she’s really proud of her.
My new favorite artist. Truly.
This clever singer/composer adopted techniques also used by the deaf composer Ludwig von Beethoven to compose his famous Ninith Symphony and his famous Fifth Emperor piano concerto. When will we hear her Ode to Joy?
omg i watched this video a week ago and now im seeing her on americas got talent! i had to go back to the video to see if its the same woman!
She was on AGT and did really well. Hearing or not she is a true inspiration ❤️🤩
I'm just blown away. I love a beautiful melody and a singing voice and this lady has it. Without being able to hear! I like singing too and I cannot imagine being able to do it without hearing. Just amazing.
So this was where I saw her first! Incredible
dang i thought she was gonna be producing the noise from the ground lol
same haha
same.XD
abhiofficial
lmaooo
She just won the golden buzzer on americas got talent!
hi its melissa just saw that and came here
this video has helped me a lot
i am a music high school student and i want to be a composer, yesterday my friend and me went on a solfeggio competition and performed horrendously. it was a catastrophe, i can't remember when was the last time we sang this bad. i always got first prizes on harmony and music analysis competitions so this really got me, but this girl is truly inspiring. she brought a smile to my face and now i understand how trivial my problem is when i see in what circumstances she manages to still write and sing songs
This almost made me cry. I love music and I love singing, and she sings so beautifully that it breaks my heart she'll never hear it.
She can basically make an Adventure Time soundtrack
This honestly made me tear up
RESPECT !
I saw this video back in the end of february and now she got the golden buzzer and I'm still crying.
You truly deserved the golden buzzer!!! 🎉
And now she got golden buzzer at AGT !!! #NEVERGIVEUP 😶😶😶
She reminds me of Toph from the Avatar the last airbender cartoon but Toph is blind.
Who came from America's got talent? She is so inspirational!
I'm like: hey, she looked familiar..OMG IS HERRRRR!!!!!!!
Incredible. As a musician I can feel her. Music is one of the most important things in (my) life. I couldn't imagine losing my hearing ability. I'd rather lose my sight than never hearing anything ever again.
Keep it up, you're an impressive woman!
Much love
Wow! She is amazing! Her voice is incredible too! Please keep singing and never give it up!
When i saw: "Singing without Sound"
All i heard was: "We want your clicks and also the clicks of uneducated people by putting a ridiculously wrong but sounds good title"
But in all seriousness, props to this woman for finding a way to use the world to her advantage to live normally again, to the people who think she's faking it, nah, and it's totally possible for you yourself to do what she does, you'll just have to spend time.
She just got a golden buzzer by Simon
If you don't know she lost her hearing, you'll think she's a normal person.
+Linna Zhu Deaf people are perfectly normal...
+noohlignuj I know, that's what I want to tell people about. My grandma is deaf person, my aunt is a deaf person, half of my family is filled with deaf people. People nowadays say bad things about them and I want to stand up for my family, and all the other people out there, waiting to express their feelings. Anyone or everyone wants to be treated like a person, a friend. Not like a person who needs help and siting all weak over there. Please, please, please treat them respectfully, they are just perfectly normal people with a little minor problems and that is it. TREAT THEM HOW YOU WANT TO BE TREATED!!!^ - ^
+Max Walczak Thank you!! I'm not trying to be mean here, I just want to tell people that everyone is perfectly and unique and gorgeous. People wanted to be treated like how you wanted them to treat you. Sorry for being the cause of the problem.（＾ω＾）
+Linna Zhu het
Linna Zhu "normal"
My biggest fear is to lose my hearing because I've had hearing problems my whole life and I absolutely love music. All of my favorite bands and artists inspire me so greatly and I feared one day I'd become deaf, but hearing this girls story made me fear less! Thank you!
This is amazing that she can't hear but can talk and sing like an angel. What a gift, all I can hope is that one day she can hear her own music.
SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE AN IMPLANT OR SOMETHING THAT COULD IMPROVE SOUNDS THAT BE ADAPTED TO THE AUDITORY NERVE. OR IS THAT STILL SCIENCE FICTION??
Those will not work in her case.
WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY. IF HUMANS CAN DISCOVER, CREATE AND THEN UTILIZE TECHNOLOGY WHICH ENABLED THE SOVIETS DROP A 50 MT. NUKE THE SIZE OF A FRIDGE WE SHOULD BE ABLE HELP THE BLIND TO SEE..THE DEAF HEAR.
I HAVE SOME HEARING LOSS FROM LISTENING TO LOUD MUSIC WHILE GROWING UP. PUTTING MY EAR RIGHT AGAINST THE SPEAKER HAS RESULTED IN MILD TINNITUS AND CERTAIN AREAS OF PITCH LOSS...SO I STAY AWAY FROM HEADPHONES.
No, Max. I am visually impaired.. I believe the terminology is PRESBYOPIA.. but the fact that you were able to read the text anyway should be a complement to your cognitive abilities above the 1st Grade level. And THANKYOU.
It depends on what caused her deafness
I think you guys should make 10 mins video instead of 2-3 minute for monitazion
Well yeah. Ur true but almost every company or anything need money. They had most of their views from their 2-3 minutes video. Having to interview, good camera, studio etc cost moneys aswell. They can get higher quality vids.
Hayden Holman There are people who unlike you have hearts. and that why they would like to see 30 minutes video of her singing. But you dont understand, you dont have a heart
Mistakia Music everyone has a heart
-Wikipedia
+Kronos If so, he has a stonecold heart ...
Why was she waering headphones while recording
Dushyant Dahiya you can feel the rhytm with headphones.we just usually don't realise it when it's too loud
Yes, but then why did she only have them on one ear, much the same way that a hearing person would so that they can hear the track AND her voice?
That would be totally unnecessary for a deaf person, she wouldn't gain anything by one-earing the headset.
Maybe she has partial deafness in one ear.
force of habit from before she lost her hearing I guess.
Literally everyone does that fyi
may the resilience, will and inspiration of this woman inspire the future generations. An absolutely beautiful story.
imagine not being able to do on something you adore so much,oh god, she is so brave and strong i cant even. such an inspiration, wish you all the best dear💕
Yeah, not hearing Adele or Taylor Swift sing isn't the worst thing in the world.
You get to say that because you can hear them.
Correct. fairysims
LoL! You made my day sir. :D
Jay BB I think she means that she has never heard their voices before, she just stated an example for people to know that she definitely can't hear shit, I guess?
I can't imagine it though. It probably sucks a lot more than you think.
How does she talk and respond to what they are saying in the studio then???
shumbalum there's an interpreter in the studio you can see him off to the side
shumbalum he was signing behind her
shumbalum she not blind
If she's deaf, how come she can speak perfectly?
She learnt english before she went deaf?
Caitlynn Henson Well I guess you've heard deaf people speak, and they don't usually speak like that.
Heinz Guderian um. all she did was learn and remember english before 18. deaf people dont have speech impediments.
brutalbutthole There's a deaf couple in my town, altough they are older they weren't born deaf and you can barely understand what they're saying.I based my comment on that.
Heinz Guderian "old couple". not to be mean, but its probably been a while since theyve heard english.
when a deaf musician is better than a lot of mainstream musicians..... that was beautiful
I remember watching this last year and now she's on American's got talent. She's so inspiring
The real question is why was she wearing headphones? :| 1:25
She feels by vibrations at which part of song she may be
WizRadic to feel the rhythm or beats I think..
if she's deaf, then why does she have headphones on at 1:41 ?
Jochem Scharenborg oooooooo
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because they still vibrate. She didnt lose the ability to feel, just hear.
I really don't think a gamer would agree with you.
But it's weird don't you agree? putting it on one ear i mean. People do that so they can hear themselves sing without the issue of the headfones completelly blocking their hearing of themselves. Pretty weird....
She lost her hearing at the age of 15 so she probably kept this habit
AGT?
She should have won americas got talent. Her story is so amazing. She has so much talent. I really hope she never loses faith in herself again. She really is an amazing person and is an inspiration to anyone who lives with any type of disability. No matter what the world throws at you never lose hope of your dreams because there is always a way to make them true somehow.
awww, I'm so inspired by how far she has come. I hope she progresses through AGT. I'm so happy that she is finally getting recognized.
what is that tuning app she uses?
Melati Mudjiono bakchod hai qa re
lmao copper cu usko samajh ni ayega
Is she fully 100% deaf.
Dean M
No
It's impossible to speak perfectly for a deaf person, let alone sing and control your tone and pitch like she does. She can definitely hear but might have some sort of hearing impairment, not 100% deaf though.
Pikachu
I wouldn't say yes but no either. Maybe its true maybe its not. The point is she lost her ability to hear at the age of 18! By that time you should have said a word or two! :D
Absolute rubbish. Your speech is well and truly perfected by 18.
Pikachu, you clearly don't play musical instruments or sing often enough to understand that you FEEL the vibrations, physically feel them. Those vibrations have different frequencies, that's how we get different pitches. If you feel a fast frequency and then feel a slow frequency, you'll notice the difference. If you were a musician, professional or not, you'd understand that. Don't speak on things you don't know about. You made assumptions about music because to you deaf people don't speak "perfectly." That's ignorant as fuck.
I've been playing music since I was 7, academically trained since I was 12, self taught 2 of my 5 instruments. You are objectively wrong.
@Dean M She lost 110db - so she is basically fully deaf. She wears the headphones for vibrations. When they are really loud, she can feel them with the ears.
well thank god shes never heard taylor swift sing
Spodrmen That's probably the reason she sings well tbh, most modern singers tend to forget true singing due to the continuous shitposting the radios inflict on us
Thingaloo absolutely love this reply
Spodrmen yo taylor swift is actually pretty good. she's lyrically talented. her songs (not her recent singles because i personally dont like them too) are actually really good and well written.
BaxterSam sorry not interested in songs as a result to her break ups and songs about the things related about her life that i really don't care about
schamire fuck off with your normie taste
This truly hurts me. Slowly my hearing is deteriorating and I'm scared I won't be able to hear music. With this brave girls help I know that it won't be over if I lose my hearing.
Months after watching this, i saw her on america's got talent! She was amazing! She got Simon's golden buzzer. It was a great performance.
"I never heard Taylor swift sing, I've never heard Adele sing" you're luckier than the rest of us
alldud13 adele actually had a nice voice though.
alldud13 adele has genuine talent, the former doesn't.
Miki Fukada too bad she makes trash music
And her i am singing songs terribly
When a deaf person can sing better than you...
She has such an amazing passion and sound and skill
She has our hearts
This video gives me hope. I am a musician suffering from extremely sensitive ears due to heavy noise exposure for too much of my life (guitar amps, drums, listening to loud music, noisy work environments). My hearing has started to decrease noticeably along with developing tinnitus. I genuinely think people around me don't understand how bad it is getting for me because only I can hear what I hear. You can't see hearing loss. It is a very personal and tragic condition that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. But this girl makes smile because if some day I end up going completely deaf, I know there will still be a way for me to make my music. Much love
SOUND IS VIBRATIONS... TF
sounds are formed from vibrations .-.
I understand that this video was made to inspire and motivate individuals to pursuit their dreams, regardless of handicaps/disabilities, but I'm thinking that the story is a bit fabricated for click bait. Withholding necessary facts like how deaf she is and how she lost her hearing was probably intended because if we knew she wasn't completely deaf, we'd take her feat less seriously. Regardless, she's still a very strong willed individual and deserves commemoration!
hyper nick look up the sickness she was struck. It completely takes away the hearing. See the strength and beauty in another human rather than looking for conspiracy.
Be well and do well!
I just watched a really neat interview of her the other day where she tells her story, it's a bit long but worth listening too! Her story is amazing and she is very relatable. Look up Mandy Harvey Real Life.
hyper nick Okay then explain Beethoven. Wasn't he Deafened later in life just like this young woman?
Her condition is severe. I saw something that said she lost 110 decibels, which is full hearing loss. She was told at first that cochlear implants wouldn't be a possibility for her, so her story is still amazing
Ok, she goes deaf, she needs to be bare foot on stage, etc.
...But in studio, why she needs a headphone monitors? How she manage to sing in time? There was no strobe metronome in studio. Why she wear these headphones like this? Like she needs track on her one ear (which she can't hear accoding to her condition) and herself on the other.
I understand that her inner ear hears vibrations and such. But if she sings, she can't hear any other vibrations on her skull other than herself so even lo freq metronome are going to fail.
I dont want to make myself an asshole, but I mean there is so many ambiguity in this clip that she lose credibility.
KnightWalker49 English is not my first language.
Your right man i don't think she's deaf people come up with crazy ideas just to try to get in judges hearts and she did. And you make a verygood point. But we'll see if she is faking it very soon cause time is an invisible lie detector.
You can feel the rythm thru the headphones...
Kas Kas that’s really heartless for you to say, don’t you think they should’ve taken that in mind before her performance?
Also she might use a visual metronome or with the help of her translator, she said she also feels the vibrations through her feet and the vibration on the headphones might help. There are many ways she can keep on track, they just do a poor job showing it here
The ignorance of this comment is astounding
Human beings are such powerful creatures, capable of so much more than science, the media, politicians, hell even school tells us. This made me cry my eyes out, thinking of all the people who gave up.
She got a golden buzzer on America's got talent!!
Amazing Talent, Amazing Personality. ..... Blessed by God. I'm happy for you Mandy Keep shining like the star that you are.
Dude her singing is making me cry! Absolutely incredible!! ❤️❤️
I'm actually blown away from such talent and ability to be able to do this. She is definitely a new breed of gifted
Incredible :)
Made me cry
So so beautiful
The fact that i can hear her song and she cannot, makes me incredibly weak.
I knew I had seen her somewhere else before, I came across this many months ago closer to when it came out. I remembered her the moment I saw her on AGT. I remembered how good she was, and knew she was going to do well before she started her audition.