Defying Gravity (Wicked) - Maya Hakvoort

[@iluvcheezitsheyhey]

I just love the tone of her voice. I'd love to see her live someday! Thanks SO much for uploading!!

[@Starrysong]

The singer has a divine voice. Thank you for sharing it.

[@TheGingabread]

she came to my school. it was so great.she's made a workshop with us. she is perfect. i really love her^^

[@Felizce]

This is why Maya is awesome.

[@SisiSilbertraene]

Wundervoll! Ich liebe es :) Das ist nun einmal Solokonzert von ihr und kein Musical best of. Sie bringt einige aus Musicals stammende Lieder, die man losgelöst von den jeweiligen Musicals und nur für sich betrachten muss, um sie richtig wirken zu lassen. Danke für das tolle Video, takowinner!

[@cutisunshine]

i love her voice :)

[@dudarfst]

This is Maya Hakvoort, a Dutch musical actor who has been very succesfull in Austria. She played Elisabeth in the Austrian musical "Elisabeth", for example. This video was recorded at one of her solo concerts, that's probably why she doesn't give enough.

[@SisiSilbertraene]

I LOVE IT... so beautiful. Seen & heard live for five times. It's always better live than on a small video window like we have here. The song was part of her awesome solo program "Maya goes Solo", so she doesn't sing it as Elphaba, she sings it as Maya, sie gives it a new interpretation fitting for herself.

[@MadameChristie]

She's not signing this as Elphaba, but as Maya. I think she gives it a personal touch. No it's not bombastic, but she sings it from the heart nonetheless.

[@MusicalLover6]

Her voice is so lovely in English! Wow.

[@Tigresscry]

Holla die Waldfee. Gänsehaut :) Wirklich toll gesungen.

[@kaiserin00]

I love this song, I've heard fev version and I must say... I like it! Maya sings different than other singers, but really beautifully!

[@david00karl]

Not only a great Talent but a lovely lady...I hope one day to have the pleasure of singing with her again..David Karl

[@cazzle80]

very nice

[@DieJulia79]

hab sie bisher immer nur als "elisabeth" gehört. tolle stimme - auch bei diesem lied! maya ist fantastisch!

[@SisiSilbertraene]

1. She is Mezzo! 2. She doesn't sing Elphaba, or is she looking green? She just performs the song on her concert.

[@Tricktrick92]

ich finde ja, dass sie eine super stimme hat. zwar find ich nicht, dass sie die rolle so super interpretiert, aber ihre stimme ist klasse, ein wunderschöner klang

[@incurablehumanist]

AGREED!

[@Lonlyboysh]

This is also the lyrics sung by Kerry Ellis in "Wicked in Rock"

[@Gerald77100]

She has a real voice not one sounding like a screaming cat with its tail trapped in a door...like Idina M !

[@smashbrosbrawler93]

that was a great improve from wicked, so many lines were changed but they worked well!

[@nebelzauber]

nice :)

[@MusicalSucht94]

Ich finde sie klasse Als ich mir damals die dvd vn Eli gekauft hab dachte ich sie kann Pia nicht schlagen und hat in dem Musical nichts zu suchen und dan hab ich sie mir angehört und fand sie super meine Lieblingsmusicaldarstellerin

[@M0ti]

ich würde sie niemals in der rolle der elphaba sehen, aber sie macht das trotzdem richtig gut =) sie hat ne tolle stimme, sie tut nicht so als hätte sie volumen..sie hat es einfach =)

[@nebelzauber]

wow, das singt sie ja echt schön :-)

[@traod8]

Beautiful voice, banal song.

[@musicalnici]

Maya ist Mezzo Sopran...Das hat sie selbst mal in einem Interview gesagt.Aber ich finds echt gut gesungen...Dieses Lied ist ja eigntlich auch sau schwer.

[@MegaThexmaster]

Schade, dass sie das F ausgelassen hat :/

[@elisabethchen]

do you have "farbenspiel des winds" and "i got the sun in the morning" also?

[@xxgenisxx]

youre completly right xD

[@littlemissmusic13]

i think your right megaman

[@alexandrakl]

Erm...it's Maya Hakvoort's concert, not Wicked. Duh.

[@SisiSilbertraene]

I think she understands very well, but she DOESN'T sing it as Elphaba, she sings it fitting for herself.

[@lavieboheme255]

ich finde, sie singt das wunderschön...*träum

[@Haruco44]

she sings it without playing with her voice like she is still reading the notes, but well done

[@Sabsemade]

I really really really do like this version, I even think it´s better than Idina Menzel´s

[@Dreamer00]

She doesn't get the song...

[@LordoftheTrapdoors]

I love Idina and I think she is perfect in this role, but as a singer Maya is much better!

[@pachisrox]

I just really wish she'd do the original lyrics, it may have sounded better with her voice. But other than that, she's great.

[@troi92]

Stimm ich dir zu Idina 4ever!!

[@Morikumo]

I agree. It lacks the energy and spirit that is supposed to surround the song.

[@SisiSilbertraene]

Mayas Interpretation ist unabhängig von der Rolle der Elphaba, das Lied war Teil ihres ersten Soloprogramms. Sie singt es als Maya und nicht als Elphaba, sie interpretiert es für sich neu.

[@alberodeisogni]

I think Maya is far better singing Wicked than Elisabeth. But I love her in any case! :-)

[@michelleneinstein]

She can go pretty high.

[@alexandrakl]

I mean I like Teal Wicks, the L.A. standby who I saw as Elphaba, over Idina. In order it goes: Teal, Maya, Idina.

[@alexandrakl]

I just saw Wicked and I much prefer the girl I saw over Idina. I like Idina, but whoever I saw had a much fuller voice and didn't strain on the high notes.

[@GeaAy]

also, ich find es gut :) ist zwar ne andere interpretation aber egal. und BTW da war nicht viel Kopfstimme...

[@dagikarge1476]

wow total verblüffend wie anders sie klingt wenn sie nicht auf deutsch singt. aber echt schön

[@bcuzikan]

not bad but doesn't give the character a face or the emotions that usually go with the song but she is performing a concert not a play so...

[@Seastorm13]

Klingt als ob die Streisnd es gröhlen würden, sorry, aber da hat Maya trotz aller Verehrung in der Interpretation ins Klo gegriffen! :-(

[@CaptainNemo92]

Also erstens: Sie interpretiert das Stück ganz anders, es ist außerdem KEINE Musicalfassung, es ist jediglich ein Auszug! Zweitens: Raussschmettern mit der Bruststimme *kopf schüttel* oder auch "belting" genannt. Nein, das muss man so nich machen. Es ist keine Orginaltonart und etwas höher von der transposition. Also...machs halt fei besser und halt mal schön die klappe!

[@SisiSilbertraene]

Sie war so gut als Elisabeth...

[@LanBao]

I don't very much like her voice, it seems like she's speaking the lyrics not really singing it. She looks passionate though, but her voice doesn't seem to convey it.

[@jealousmaenad]

i don't think most of this was belted in her chest voice; it's mostly mixed or head voice. Entirely appropriate for the piano, I think, but this'll never pass for the actual musical on broadway.

[@wickedlolx]

she hasnt got the power like idina menzel but she has a gd voice menzels better at it x

[@anxiouslittlegirl]

Ich fand es nicht mitreißend aber schlecht war es auch nicht!

[@FuuChuu]

she mispronounced loads of words... and her voice isn't that good... i don't like that version...

[@elisabetta611]

Das passt so GAR NICHT zu ihr, sie ist nun mal kein Belt Sopran!

[@TimKoopman10]

if i'm very honest, i think this is horrible. No emotions, to low, no vibrato, less legato. It's not a bad voice, but it has no spirit!

[@histrio12]

uhhh, des isch aber umsynchron. ab ende markt mans voll!