Kelly Price, The Clark Sisters Tribute, Essence Festival 2016

[@voodoochile4147]

Back up sounding like an entire choir! Y'all better sang!

[@willh8682]

You can tell Kelly studied the Clark Sisters. She was hitting those Clark Sister notes with perfection. You did that Kelly.

[@toomuchfourU]

I think they are friends. She's done a few Clark Tributes and they've been on her album

[@bettymillz3178]

+toomuchfourU What album? Cause Kelly does her own background vocals most of the time

[@toomuchfourU]

Betty Millz They were on her priceless album

[@thisguy6945]

She grew up listening to the Clark sisters

[@AgingLikeWine]

@@thisguy6945she grew up in the COGIC Church. Their families know each other and have performed together doing the church circuit. She actually remembers their mother Dr Mattie Moss-Clark. She met Faith traveling with the church. Kelly is solidified

[@johnathandoe]

This woman's voice is as powerful as lightning. Most singers voices would be hoarse within a few minutes trying to sing in complete chest full out the way Kelly does.And she maintains all of her beauty and clarity. Incredible talent.

[@Pistolwhipperz]

No. Most singers voices would not be hoarse.

[@dapped9199]

just an opinion don't need to correct an opinion right?

[@donald627]

Nailed it!...Including all the original Karen licks!!

[@johnathandoe]

Kelly has the best chest range of all female singers I've ever heard. Her chest range loses none of it's beauty nor clarity even as she she belts in mid-upper range, which is rare to find.

[@BeNice92]

💯💯

[@DarellJHunt]

Yeah. I love her upper squall.

[@BMEZY]

well that's what you'll find with most lyric sopranos.. they bloom in color and resonance as the ascend the belting staff especially in the soprano tessitura between E5-G#5..she's a great belter with a good technique!

[@jessijackson6481]

Is she a alto or soprano? It sounds like she can sing both.

[@dapped9199]

she can

[@angelakey6446]

This gul done mimicked every run.. Kelly Price annointed

[@Ken-bw6fu]

She was raised in the church and I believe her father is a pastor. One thing for sure, if you were brought up in a C.O.G.I.C church 98% of the time you can sing! Job well done! Organist should've followed her lead!

[@ellbdotmusic3521]

They did! Kelly messed up and so did the backup singers at 4:30. They should have sung the bridge but instead too busy bouncing up and down turning around to realize it. Kelly should have done a better job at directing and actually remember how the song goes. LOL

[@rodwillis4080]

She got the band back together and still did her thing!

[@AllIAm1]

Between this and the Toni tribute kelly did Not come to New Orleans to play with y'all ok!

[@CHEETAH69]

I didn't know she was in the Toni tribute too. Gotta check that out.

[@KevinETaylor]

SAY THAT!!!!!

[@blind_t2]

she slays, not plays y'all, get it right!

[@ellbdotmusic3521]

Nor did she come to rehearse the song. LOL This was a mess.

[@pianoman2892]

@@ellbdotmusic3521 Actually, she sang it according to the KCS version, which does in fact drop and start modulating all over again. It was the band that wasn't prepared.

[@jhontuesalter926]

I don't care what you rehearsed if she switch follow the lead.

[@fashamoore9322]

I agree and disagree with your comment. Yes, always follow the lead, but if she completely changes the song, from what is rehearsed with the band and the singers, that is on the lead, not anyone else. 😖

[@JucalDyer]

I loooove the background singers so much

[@tw4943]

Right, I know Kelly told them beforehand , and YALL BETTA SQUAL!

[@DonDon-up8wf]

And they're all babies sangin' like that!! Lol...

[@erict7093]

She sounded just like Karen!!!! Go KELLY!!

[@YasmineBianca]

I know the Clark Sisters were pleased.

[@kennardbadger2943]

Kelly is such a phenomenal singer. She is absolutely one of my favorites. We just gotta work on that attitude of hers !!! 😂❤

[@YasmineBianca]

She hit them same EXACCCTTTT runs!! I love her

[@tdugg86]

SANG KELLY background you kilt it, I know keeping up with that vocal best was a task but they KILT IT

[@CINEMATIQmagTV]

Finally Karen was the best Album ever!

[@blueskyes9380]

You better sang kelly🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 lawd the background singers 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@MsDorisann]

What can you say about Kelly Price? A prolific singer, a voice that mesmerizes everyone!!!!!!!!

[@ethanjones467]

Get it together musicians! This is a Clark Sisters tribute. Did Dr. Mattie Moss Clark rise out of Kelly? I was just waiting for her to throw that shoe LOL

[@tw4943]

Right! Only an ARIES can command that typa energy and be RIGHT, Gag is Mattie was also an ARIES, Like Kelly, and Kelly learned FROM Mariah who is ALSO an ARIES🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jaymcd5677]

They sound like a choir in the background yassssssssssssss background

[@ladyjbadgurlzceo2021]

Karen Clark is not a easy woman to follow and Kelly did dat

[@tarajonsimons9902]

that's why i love kelly she studies these ppl n doesn't stray away from the song we all know n love also I like she mixed the original in with Karen version

[@darkchoklit6399]

Kelly no matter how much secular music you sing.. the beauty of your voice is maximized when you sing gospel! Your whole being transforms when you praise! You ever asked yourself why you keep ending up in the whales’ bellies of life? I have followed you for years… still praying that you reach Nineveh 🙏🏾💕

[@johnathandoe]

This Woman is one of the greatest of all time. No need for extra runs to make up for what the voice lacks. Just kill them with that voice and tone.

[@god1st438]

Kelly you're awesome! Thanks for being a classy woman of God! Proud of you Kelly, may God always keep and bless you!

[@lexgraham2118]

PEOPLE YOU SHOULDN'T BE SUPRISED. SHE'S A TRUE FAN AND GREW UP COGIC IN QUEENS NYC SINGING THESE SONGS MOST OF HER LIFE!

[@malikakeim7429]

Kelly give us what we need yaassss!! #Beast! ❤️

[@reginathomas7586]

kelly, girl! smh! you DID THAT and your background singers....🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ebenet01]

Kelly Price "Clark".......she is one of the ONLY ones outside of the actual family to do a Clark Sisters song and truly do it justice!!! SAAAANG Kelly!

[@shamiracleross4415]

Kelly was it😩👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 The background was it👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 but that band Baby they couldn’t get it together. Kelly and KeKe had to get them together lowkey🙄

[@lissa2046]

Kelly did great...she held it down!

[@citygirl8181]

Goosebumps! My LAAAWWDDD!!!

[@passinowt6068]

THAT BACKGROUND!!!!! KELLY SLAYED!!!! One thing about black gospel... you can’t fake sing... if you ain’t got it the saints just look at you

[@anthonymack2319]

Kelly Price killed it

[@vanessawatts630]

SANNG BACKGROUND SINGER! I WANT THEM TO SING WITH ME1

[@johnathandoe]

Weren't they killing it?

[@MrJorgyP]

Thank you! :-)

[@MrJorgyP]

Thank you!

[@johnathandoe]

+George Potts Young If you're one of the background singers, You all were some of the best I've heard. Extremely well balanced and complemented Kelly and the rest of the soloists very well. I can tell that each of you can sing very well individually because that's the only way for you all to sound as good as you all did. Great Job!!

[@MrJorgyP]

Yes...each one of them are amazing singers. All from New Orleans. Thank you for the compliment.

[@cilviashort1043]

soul of a women . Kelly 😍😍😍

[@alonzalbrown1883]

Oh they TORE IT UP!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@Mr4everzay]

Kelly is one of those artist that no matter what she sings gospel or rnb she moves me where she is going

[@darrienanderson9986]

Nailed it!!! Kelly price!! Love her!!💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

[@toomuchfourU]

Kelly just clowned them musicians. lol

[@jeslynfair-parker4137]

She sure did lol

[@MrJorgyP]

The musicians didn't mess up though. We, the band and singers, did what was practiced. :-)

[@toomuchfourU]

George Potts Young So then she clowned ya'll for not practicing enough because if you know that she's singing Karen Clark's version of the song you know it goes up then goes back down to go back up again.

[@MrJorgyP]

I'd be a fool to go back and forth about what I KNOW to be correct. If you noticed, including the opening...the arrangement consists of the ORIGINAL version and Karen Clark's version. If you notice, I gave her cues throughout... Due to programming and scheduling, we practiced WITH her a very specific pattern and ending, UNLIKE the Karen Clark version. Furthermore...what you're referring to is not the ending...you're referring to the reprise...which we previously said we wouldn't do, because of timing. Once you add in nerves and excitement...it was small, and she still did a great job. At the end of the day, the musicians and singers did what we practiced WITH Ms. Price. :-)

[@corrylorenzo]

+George Potts Young You Guys Did an Amazing job and everyone know Kelly Price is a Vocal Beast!!!

[@SheedMack88]

Kelly Gave what needed to be GIVEN for Mrs Karen!

[@teannamoore4436]

To give some of y'all some in sight on Kelly being their the clarks be gettin Kelly in their tributes at church so when essence went to them in said who u want they problaby said see if you can book Kelly price and my mom use to listen to the Clark sisters when she was pregnant with me and as i was growing up so I know all their song and Kelly price is my favorite singer of all times so I absolutely enjoyed this 😄😂😭😍✌🏽️

[@katyarnold6757]

Just amazing!!!! Mrs Kelly Price.

[@darrylgallagher2102]

Indeed 🎶🎶🎶👍🏾Kelly price

[@MarioSellars]

Kelly Price shut the house down with "Bomb in Galad"

[@eny4life718]

Sherrod Sellars balm in Gilead lol

[@princehallel1320]

This nigga said a "bomb" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 💣 vs💊

[@CocoChanelle-1]

She sounds awesome!

[@beewit2es1]

Background 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@mardriquezmiller]

Love me some Kelly Price!

[@candancefoster4082]

Kelly done sang the whole song yess lawd.

[@debracox8233]

That dress💗

[@tashajones3135]

Ke ke and Kelly omg!!

[@tw4943]

BaaaaaaaaBY Mariah taught her WELL! This was a warm UP for this Cow! Love KELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They should've LET HER wear this mic out another 15 minutes

[@theronclark6037]

Vocal Beast! And pretty!

[@aminsmith9657]

they got me rockin

[@jamalcarter7513]

Kelly Price is killing it

[@gbrow3191]

Kelly!!!!! Lord have mercy!

[@toddsimmons4531]

She sounded just like Karen! She might be the only one that can sound just like Karen! Kelly's voice is a gift from God!

[@reggietjevans]

I disagree actually, i didn't think she sounded like Karen but she did do Karen justice. The singer that does sound like Karen from time to time is Faith Evans. she can't keep up though lol

[@toddsimmons4531]

At certain times in the song Kelly sounded like Karen if you give a little credit to Kelly. Faith and Karen made a song together for Karen's first album and Faith sounded pretty but Karen blew her out the water other than that on that song.

[@corrylorenzo]

+RyTy Jay_ z Faith Sounds Nothing Like Karen LMFAO!!!!!!!Maybe in her dreams...

[@thegospeloutlet2000]

Corry Lorenzo Stewat Listen To Karens “Just For Me”. Her And Faith Sound Very Much Alike.

[@delaney554]

Faith Evans be sounding just like Karen !!

[@lisaholmes6408]

this is history never seen them on stage together before. So nice to this. SkyDream Lyrics ProDuction.Llc

[@reginaa5732]

Sang Kelly! Loved it!

[@ColeWorld75]

KELLY!!

[@humbled92_Mister]

oh look. he's here too

[@ColeWorld75]

+ImperfectbutRedeemed and so are you...

[@humbled92_Mister]

Army Strong lol I'm just gonna start commenting on all your comments

[@devingibson1447]

SHE DID THAT!

[@ZsaZsaRodeo]

THIS MY FAVORITE SONG

[@phatboysbakery]

Sang Kelly!!

[@isaacraymuzic]

She killllllllllllled! Background murdered!

[@LodoGrdzak]

This show was sick!!!!

[@patdc39]

Kelly snapped and sang it just like Karen 💣💣💣💣

[@reggietjevans]

Lol they were trying to modulate her from the third modulation haha she said "take me back to the original key" haha. But after she said that, the music was like whatever, the musicians clearly weren't feeling it. She killed it though. The background singers were REALLY GOOD this year, only two tenors and they sounded like a full blown choir! And i guess nobody is gonna give Kelly any grief for that split up the dress lol

[@johnathandoe]

After the third modulation, the performance was complete. After that they were supposed to be in the vamp which means they should have automatically reverted to the key in which the performance began.If you notice they did a break at 3:53 which means it was supposed to be vamp mode. That's kinda 101 for gospel music.lol. So Kelly was right, but they honestly still killed. Her voice is not to be played with. It also appears that Kelly's ear and stage monitors were turned off because she started pointing to her ear @ 4:09.

[@MrJorgyP]

Hello! Thanks for your insight. However, we practiced it a specific way, and that's what we stayed true to...not to the recording. That's why I was sure to bridge the ORIGINAL Clark Sisters version and Karen Clark's version. Gospel 101 is knowing what you're talking about first before commenting. All love though. We love Ms. Kelly Price, and she did an amazing job.

[@TheSanctifiedMusic]

+George Potts Young You all did a great job.

[@MrJorgyP]

Thank you so much! We enjoyed ourselves!

[@aliboo2]

+George Potts Young #read

[@BashfulB]

Sang Kelly!!!!!!

[@krystalnmitchell]

Omg yess Mrs. Kelly!!!

[@lebaronpacker8974]

great performance

[@bettymillz3178]

Queen!

[@Chillboul]

You better sing kelly 👍🏽

[@puccipalace]

I wish I was there..

[@robertwebb9057]

Yasssss gawdddd

[@vshaver11]

Kelly can SANG

[@bb2ko]

What's the name of the song kelly slayed ???

[@jessiebrown5628]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kmaur21]

2:48 I love that part.

[@LilJohn2k11]

Kelly Price!!!!!!

[@user-td6fq7or8d]

@steddyt18 Who are the background singers?

[@bowiehs]

SING KELLY!

[@gcurry846]

my god!!!

[@jacqueline2027]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@anthill927]

kelly fucking price better sing. lol

[@darvarusguess3145]

NO MAM THAT SONG WAS TO POWERFUL FOR HER SHE TRIED TO PLAY IT OFF KAREN SONGS ARE EXTREMELY HARD TO SING.

[@gloriadeveraux5566]

The first person to read through the malarkey of this video! Thank you! Kelly is a great singer, but got lost in the song, the key was too high for her, and then blamed the musicians for it by asking for the original key to only then modulate again! smh!

[@robcaper]

@@gloriadeveraux5566 But Karen also did the same thing while performing this song. Karen also went back down to the original key and went up again.

[@scorpioking6126]

You bettah saaaaang Kelly!!!!

[@lightguy45]

She did an amazing job, but I️ expected her to make the song her own. I️ want to see LeLe or Fantasia rendition.

[@theLUXURY_tax]

SAAAAAANG KELLY !!!!

[@moneymaker0525]

Kelly took the musicians there. She couldn't reach the notes as Karen does. She got lost in the moment they didn't know that she wasn't comfortable taking it up.

[@jessijackson6481]

she definitely has the range to hit Karen's note.

[@jmorg044]

She couldn’t do the modulations … yes she has range but she is an alto with sopranos tendencies

[@keilajohnson8317]

Yes Lord

[@robertwebb9057]

yassssssssssssss

[@RoseStarr]

When she said go to the original key! Y'all better stop playing lol

[@tdobson01902]

what is the name of this song? I love it

[@BeNice92]

Kelly sang it dammit!

[@DonDon-up8wf]

4:57-5:00>> SICK...

[@saywhatondat]

Slay slay slay!!!!!

[@missterlarryblack]

Great performance. There was clearly a problem with her ear monitor.

[@toomuchfourU]

Finally found some decent background singers. What is BMI's excuse?

[@DarellJHunt]

They were aight. They didn't fair so well on Endow Me.

[@isaiahwalker4892]

They were pretty good, just the guy in the gray suit who was doing way too much. He thought he was personally doing the tribute himself.

[@reggietjevans]

I definitely liked em. But they had good ones last year as well. BMI has had good ones too, at least for the Donald Lawrence, Hezekiah Walker and Clark Sisters tribute I thought they were good. Ive noticed that essence gets young background singers

[@KydWyz]

+Isaiah Walker i think he's the director

[@toomuchfourU]

Darell J. Hunt I think because the version of endow me was from Twinkie's album not the original one

[@jmorg044]

Who are the background singers