Who Sang It Best? Lost In The Wilderness riff - Children of Eden

[@JoelDeRouffignac]

Rob houchen all the way ❤ 🙌 💯 He is the only one that makes it flow in my opinion 🥰😍

[@Brian-dg7qc]

1 - Rob. My favorite riff and the D5 is fantastic! 2 - Darius. The OG, hard to do it better and up a whole step in A, getting all the way up to the crystal clear C#5. 3 - Jonathan. Darius's run, but in G. Really fluid and great breath control. 4 - Ryan. Solid Darius riff in G. Singing and seeing his movement on stage, even more impressive. I haven't looked him up, but I imagine Ryan has a ballet background too. 5 - Blake. Another Darius riff in G that is done pretty well. 6 - Jeremy. I like his idea of sitting on the G with a bit of a turn around the F# and up to the A. I also like his intensity. 7 - Brian. Interesting variation and also props since it's in A, but really sloppy. I'm not sure if this was just an off performance or what. 8 - Matthew. He's the first one I'm not sure if he's a trained singer or just an actor who is pretty darn good at singing. ------------------ From here on down I'm going to assume these folks haven't had formal / classical voice training based on what I'm hearing. This isn't really a dig at them because not all actors (stage or film) who sing are professional-level singers, but they can get the job done and really flex in other ways (ex: acting, dancing, etc.) So are in the "actor who can sing" category rather than "singer who can act" ------------------ 9 - Joel. Solid stuff from him. Sounds like an actor who can carry a tune pretty well. 10 - Joe. Sounds like he's going to hurt his voice. Very little control going on there with breathing, resonance, articulators, etc. 11 - Mack. Worst of the 'actors who can sing' category ... but abs!

[@Gee-xb7rt]

Rob is such an educated tenor, I hear a lot of education, i really don't want to make it sound like a bad thing, this just might not be the right place. I get more soul from Darius, and its all downhill from there. I love Brian but this is melodrama turned up to 11. I get it fills seats, but so does whatever Ben Platt is doing in his Vegas show daddy bought him.

[@rosies14]

Rob Houchen, hands down.

[@dolphmanity]

Houchen 100%

[@Leftbarrelfirst]

I'm obsessed with Rob Houchen

[@mikesteele05]

Darius De Haas will always own this song and that riff.

[@Gee-xb7rt]

fully agree, i don't know what people hear when tenors go beyond their range, but so much of this is nails on chalkboard.

[@CindyMichelle77]

Darius forever. But I do love that Jeremy Jordan.

[@jona1575]

Darius is the original so I guess he should get credit for that. For me, Rob Houchen really added something special to the riff and it sounds even better than the original. I see a lot of Jeremy Jordan love here - he does have a lovely voice (and I think generally his voice is better than Rob) but his riff on this is only so-so and rather "safe". I wouldn't even call it much of a riff.

[@laurenolshan4565]

Tough between Jeremy and Darius, but I would choose Darius on this one.

[@colintwist2686]

Rob H ❤

[@CatfaceMeowmers]

Darius. King.

[@matthewcreasey5541]

Ron H- no one else came close

[@aionlover3981]

Darius, Rob, Brian and Jeremy

[@tevisbryant4840]

Darius and after Matthew Harris chewed everyone else up

[@lindseydavis4221]

Joe all the way!! 😍😍

[@JoshBed7]

Pretty sure Darius invented this riff and everyone else is riffing on his riff. Let’s be honest.

[@flan.flan1]

Yea, I’m fairly certain that Stephen Schwarz just wrote a long sustain of D in the sheet music

[@elenacosby1577]

Lovely video

[@daveyvanpas5710]

Love the version of Rob Houchen but I’ll go for Jeremy Jordan. Singing is art which is meant to be unique. He is the only one who has made a complete own version of it.

[@DilutedH2SO4]

Harris or Houchen :)

[@singcook1]

Hands down... Rob Houchen (Off-West End 2021). Besides Jeremy Jordan, he's the only one who wasn't screamingn the notes. And his riff was clean and musically sound.

[@moose3347]

Luke Kennedy should've been included. Love his version

[@marspowr]

Rob and it’s not even close

[@anbaaronnewland-bentley5730]

Jonathan Shew always …

[@athepaki7706]

I'm sorry but you're all deaf. Joe Serafini hits thats riff so easily it's crazy

[@jona1575]

I disagree. If you hear towards the end of the riff he's struggling. His voice got thinner/more nasal (pushing too hard) and then at the end his voice completely cracked (when he sings "wilderness").

[@jackdalton5870]

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[@marspowr]

Sounds like his voice broke because he was pushing his range too far. Not a healthy sound to me.

[@mattscott2868]

Has to be Darius, Robs riff but I don’t like his complete version. Wish Jeremy wouldn’t have been so unique with his take because he could hit this

[@marspowr]

Ew what was that Jeremy version 😅