Voice Teacher Reaction to Sissel - O Holy Night - 2009 | O Helga Natt

[@mariannejorgensen712]

You know it will never be bettered. Not by anyone

[@Danish_girl]

Sissels voice is so crystal clear and she does it so effortless. The notes just hits you and gives you goosebumps and teary eyes. For me she is the absolute best❤Her voice is so heavenly❤

[@mariannejorgensen712]

She has a voice that will do whatever she wants it to do...

[@aliciahager2961]

Bravo! Shivers!

[@johnkammerud9404]

Whenever I hear her voice, I am transported back to the land of my heritage.

[@christopherstead4466]

Just the Best

[@sooh6299]

Sissel has been a national treasure since the 1980s :) Glad you got to hear her.

[@daleennis3140]

The first time I heard Sissel voice ,was in the movie the Titanic.She was offered a lot of money,but she stayed in her home land.She is a beautiful person who loves the Lord.May God always bless her,she is a treasure!

[@alaindiagre3270]

Even not being a believer , I'm deeply troubled by the sublime performance of Sissel

[@VocalSplendorStudios]

I know. She is stunning!

[@deannastands5141]

a heavenly voice, powered by the spirit, a gift to us

[@ErgoDog]

Thank you. Crying. Everytime. I adore Sissel.

[@boskoglund]

She was brilliant in this song.🥰😍😘

[@halvard3755]

I grew up with her voice in the house. My mother played her often, and she is one of the artists who are played every year on TV and radio for her christmas hymns. There is no jul without Sissel singing.

[@williammcenaney1331]

I enjoy the hymn most when it's sung in French, but Sissal's rendition sounds superb.

[@rtblade4]

I love That she sings all the words correctly with all the consonants

[@jetteart]

She is so incredible. Always down to earth- even as a star. Her voice is wonderful to drown in. Now at 50 she gave us 50 covers - with some words why she chose the song. Lovely

[@LeNaInLoVe]

This song's one of my favorite xmas songs. Not too fond of female versions, but Sissel's version rends me to tears. Such an amazing singer, there are few words to describe her talent, her voice's just sublime. Have a wondrous happy Holiday, everyone❣ All the best from Arctic Norway❄🌟❄✨✨✨

[@annehyden1088]

thank you for this reaction. Sissel is our national treasure

[@sunnysidesofblue]

I love what you said about the storytelling aspect of this song. So many artists just powerhouse their way through it; she sounds like every word comes from her heart.

[@IvarChoiEspedalen]

Thank you for reacting to Sissel Kyrkjebø again 😇

[@rickysikes1631]

Love her singing this and Santa Maria.

[@joshnelson9764]

Such an amazing voice, OMG, sorry for so many comments, but OMG, beautiful!

[@ronjones1077]

Thank you Valerie for this beautiful performance from yet another unbelievable Norwegian singer. Sissel was another young girl who knew What she wanted to do at a very young age much like Angelina Jordan. I have watched many of her performances and two of them were with our American Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Sissel has a very wide range of song from classical to country and popular. Pick any song to react to, you can't go wrong. I am also sad for your loss and know from experience how hard it is to "get back to a normal routine". Take your time. Your You Tube subscribers will be here when you choose to visit. Keep Christ in Christmas and we wish you a happy New Year.

[@noriemeha]

Spot on, Valery, your comment on the spirituality of the singer being an extra in the singing of a song such as this. I think honesty in voice is a beautiful quality to have in a situation like this. It raises the conviction principle above that of good to special. I think that's why the Mormon Tabernacle have invited her back. Sincerity is hard to fake in music. It's worth remembering too, that the singer here who sang this in the middle of a concert of varied genre requiring different singing styles. Keeping up the quality must be a challenge in that context.

[@annminnema6351]

Lovely Sissel!!!

[@Pasovineyard]

Bravo

[@jetteart]

Try her Pie Jesu - just unbelievable. That one I don’t think anyone can do better. You also has the beginning of Titanic. The Titanic song was written special for her. But they needed a more well known star from US. And this is not the Scandinavian version- this is the original! It is not the English version 😉

[@ritatheresevaslag3198]

Great reaction. You should also check out Sissel's takes on Pie Jesu and O mio babbino caro, they are splendid

[@exentr]

Sissel sings Part of Your World live from Disney's The Little Mermaid. It's a footage from a TV show about 1990. She was 20 y/o. It's on KZbin. Look it up.

[@Chris1969o]

Merry Christmas Valerie. Hope all is well.

[@joshnelson9764]

Also, I love your Reactions, I learn more from you than any of the other vocal coaches.

[@stigfalck8179]

Thanks for this reaction. I suggested this song when you in the first reaction video of Sissel 9 months ago asked for inputs of other songs from her to react to. Especially since you had done a reaction of Jussie earlier. Because she has such a controlled power range (dynamic) together with the ability to hit the tones so perfectly, many people that just wanted to listen to "O'helga natt" performed by Jussie Björling now includes her in their play list. :-) Here is a quote from Pavarotti when compared to Jussie: Pavarotti replied: "Please, I'm only human" a statement demonstrating that even the great modern tenor had enormous respect for Björling. What you said about Sissel not moving when she performs is so accurate. It looks like she breaths while smiling. Sometimes I am comparing her with an athlete that jumps, the only difference being that while the athlete is trying to gain a lot of speed that can be converted to a long jump, Sissel is standing still and just jumping (but longer :-) ).

[@DoggieFosters]

Absolutely beautiful. And very interesting: I'm not familiar with her, but from her first note I could tell she was highly classically trained and I was terrified she was going to make my most beloved Christmas hymn into a mess of an operatic showcase. But she didn't! She presented the song and not her (lovely) instrument as the focus. Gorgeous. I will check out more of her. Thanks for bringing her to my attention. Will seek out your previous reactions to her. (And will beg you for more Lara Fabian analysis. 😉) Merry Christmas

[@torfinnjensen5052]

She has no classical training or education.

[@majbrittkristiansen1318]

@@torfinnjensen5052 No only pure talent ☺️

[@mikedickison5003]

Sissel has some classical training, perhaps very early on, but since then, I think, she has become the teacher. Few reach her level. For someone to learn how she does it must be very intimidating. And in different languages.

[@cstroppa20]

Is wonderful hear she sing. Merry Christmas for you and your family.

[@jesperepe]

Sissel is a treasure. She sings so calm and so effortless with that cute smile on her face and still performing the highest, clearest and most beautiful tones ever. Sissel is Norwegian but this version is in Swedish, I believe it is the same version that Jussi Björling sang.

[@rocky2karma]

Stunningly beautiful! thanks for your reaction Valerie.

[@monastbypettersen5620]

God jul 🎄🇧🇻

[@daghugowilhelmsen5660]

Sissel duets: Sissel & Espen Lind - Where The Lost One Goes - 2001 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJXOXoCVrNmhn7M Sissel & Russell Watson - Bridge Over Troubled Water - 2002 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6rWm62blql1Y6M Sissel Kyrkjebø & Jose Carreras - Quando Sento che Mi Ami kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGK8lXewq5p7jZo Sissel & Neil Sedaka - Solitaire - 1991 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqWufqd9nqZ3q6M Sissel Kyrkjebø & Josh Groban - The prayer.VOB kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXungmmZoL-Snc0 Sissel: Sissel Kyrkjebø - Adagio by Tomaso Albinoni - 2006 - The Most Beautiful Voice In The World The Most Beautiful Voice = = Sissel - Pie Jesu Sissel Kyrkjebø with Paddy Moloney & Kalle Moraeus - Shenandoah - 2001 Sissel Kyrkjebø - Better Off Alone - 2001

[@tuttasb5338]

IMO she shines pretty bright in Warren G's Prince Igor too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oH2Yoo2JnLR0Z5I

[@kenchristie9214]

Some years back, here in Australia, there was a show to find the choir. Most of them were terrible, couldn't sing in tune (or key), except for one. When this one choir sang they stood still and they they were faultless. The judges complained because there was no movement. Sissel attributes her success to her choir teacher at school who was from New Zealand. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is my favourite female opera singer.

[@deadbishop9317]

What a lovely song and a great reaction to a splendid singer. More Sissel! I suggest this latin one, Pie Jesu; kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HRYXZrrs-EndU. I always have to listen to Pie Jesu with Sissel and O Holy Night with Jussi Bjørling to get in the Christmas mood. Now I'll have to listen to O Holy Night with Sissel too, and I couldn't be happier! Also; really hope you'll feel better soon; with loss it takes time and a quiet patience to get back to "normal". But a new normal it will always be. Much love. ❤️

[@wasslic]

Hi, I suggested this to you after watching your reaction to Jussi Bjorling performing the same song. Very glad you enjoyed it and hope it helps you. I have listened to Sissel for some years now and you really cannot go wrong with her music. Whether it be in her native language or in english.

[@esoxenvy3112]

Such a beautiful version of this classic, universal Christmas hymn. I can't get enough of Sissel's amazing voice, thanks for giving your expert reaction to her singing on several pieces. The following is my all time favorite Christmas song by Sissel, although again not in English. Who cares? Magical. Maria Wiegenlied with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYuoZHuhntCNoZY

[@chopperchopper1418]

Waiting for Betty Wright " No Pain No gain" Laundress 1992 concert,. You seem to be feeling better, stay strong.

[@mikedickison5003]

She's the first 3 of the top 5 female singers in the professional singing world. Give a few minutes to her US country music ballads. Then find her singing Josh Brogan 'bridge over troubled waters". So many to recommend, so little time to write.

[@patriot52realfinn22]

Sissel sings perfectly, better than men.

[@TLChrist]

You DEFINATELY need to do a reaction to Sissel's - "O Mio Babbino Caro" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJe7gZ6FpZKrmZI I have listened to this selection by various sopranos here on KZbin, and to my mind, Sissel's is BY FAR the most beautiful and heart-rending of them ALL. As someone commented here on KZbin, she is THE female singer of the century!!! As SO MANY have proclaimed, if God has clothed an angel in flesh and blood and sent her to live among us, then SURELY Sissel qualifies. Such an unearthly, angelic voice and personage - such beauty, grace, charm and charisma are not to be found in many here among us !! Each time that I see and hear her perform this aria, my heart aches within me over the tenderness and emotion that comes forth from her voice -- and the overwhelming beauty of her, her voice and her rendition. Truly, she puts ALL of herself into her singing and becomes the song !!

[@jordannash1998]

I hear a definite lower register strength that peeks out as she ends a note occasionally. Would like to hear her sing with that deep resonance more pronounced. Just as she is, though, a wonder of the world.

I mean you really don't know who she is? She is one of the biggest in our time, she is the one in titanic!. She sang with Domingo. She is have been one of the best singers for 35 y

[@torfinnjensen5052]

You should try her version of «Pie Jesu» and young Sissel singing «Solitaire» with the composer Neil Sedaka at the piano

[@tylovset]

My Sissel favs: Pie Jesu kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2LKmZ6Ge8dsZqc O Mio Babbino Caro kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWenoYCfiZyoeac Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIDboHVjr7WAq5I

[@nachoag8678]

PLEASE PLEASE Valerie, react to Amira Willighagen singing "O Holy Night" (St Jacobs Curch 2015). It's a beautiful piece! Thank you!

[@60plus01]

Beautiful. But I wonder, is there not a norwegian translation of it? A little bit curious of why she sings in Swedish on Norwegian national Broadcasting. But anyway why swedes and norsemens understand each other quite well.

[@busylivingnotdying]

With a traditional song, when you come at it from «a different angle”, it may make the message clearer. Also, Swedish can be so poetic (to us Norwegians)

[@Crowly0]

There is a Norwegian version, but the Swedish one sounds better (imo, and im Norwegian). Could also be that we are used to hearing the Swedish version so thats what we want to hear. Jussi Björling is probably a big reason for the Swedish versions popularity.

[@nachoag8678]

Could you please react to "O HOLY NIGHT - Amira (St Jacobs Church) 2015" ? I would love to see you review! It's such a beautiful video!

[@lilianaruthabinal4627]

🍀🍀🍀🍀🕊

[@terjeilseng6411]

React to Jan Werner Danilsen

[@ANightworkerslife]

The scandinavian languages- norwegan and Swedish- has an advantage when it comes to singing techniques. We have "open vowels" already in our language. British english does more or less the same. Which is to say we open up our jaws in most of our vowels so when it comes to singing and you need to open up we are already doing it. Listen to Sissel again and concentrate on the vowels, not on the words.. If you have the time then look at the links when 3 different people read the same poem. Tennysons Ring out wild bells and only listen to vowels, Swedish. : kzbin.info/www/bejne/inqnaqKpo9Gmn7s british: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHLaeomLZ7l5oZo american: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rX-ml6ZtgpiLjNE

[@kenchristie9214]

So do the Gaelic languages (especially Wales and Ireland), Spanish and Italian.

[@nachoag8678]

I think you will find Amira's 2015 version of this song really interesting. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3ycYp5slsmfoqc I would love to see your reaction!

[@TipTWhip]

Is there a way to block "reaction" videos from search results?!????

[@AAngerJ]

No. Don’t click on them

[@joshnelson9764]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZuqoGaeaZxprsk Ingrid Michaelson and Grace Vanderwaal "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree" or kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHysmYGrd8mpptE Frosty the Snowman Grace Vanderwaal AGT Christmas Special 2016

[@drzarkov39]

The camera work was appalling. Sissel's face and expression add so much to the performance that at no time should the camera leave her face. I'm sure that no one went to buy a ticket for the permanence, and ask to get a seat 30 rows back, and as far to the side as possible.