There's a good reason McFerrin has won ten Grammy Awards: he's an amazing musician, song writer, and vocalist, one that comes along once in a lifetime.
Of course I thoroughly enjoyed watching his show, and, in a way, I felt honored to be there. Read more. Report as inappropriate. Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching the show one of the greatest contemporary musicians of the past century that keeps haunting the youth of this new era with amazing, innovative arrangements, mixing rhythms, sounds, syncopated melodies ballads with irresistible, inspiring, exciting to see the playfulness with Mc Ferrin that makes everything flow Too bad we did not have an encore - the audience stood for about 15 minutes cheering, hoping the whole band back, but had to console themselves with the ground Bobby.
We want more good music Until the next time! I've seen Bobby McFerrin twice before. On this particular night in Santa Monica, McFerrin gave us a 90 minutes solo performance. The first portion, he gave numerous a cappella melodies, all beautiful as only McFerrin can do. Later he brought audience members on stage to participate with him in Voicestra-style duets and more. McFerrin's performance throughout was engaging, fun, and beautiful. Don't miss a chance to catch him in concert. See all videos 4.
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Madeleine Peyroux. Canadian Brass. See more concerts near you. Tours most with Chick Corea. Gary Burton. Jack DeJohnette. Herbie Hancock. Anat Cohen. Surely a song that cheerful could only lead to a heavily ironic end, no? The No. It was used in the remake of Dawn of the Dead , and in Wall-E , where the title robot has a Big Mouth Billy Bass mounted fish that sings McFerrin's jolly tune amid the dystopian depression. There was only one explanation for this: The song made people so unbearably happy that the only antidote was to associate it with deep unhappiness, whether that involved suicide or the end of the world.
And his music was, if anything, born again as he balked at trying to make good on that fluke success with another hit—instead resolving to delve deeper into richer brands of outside-the-mainstream music, even if that meant most pop fans only knew him as a one-hit wonder.
So if you like truly happy endings as opposed to "Be Happy" endings , McFerrin's ability to thrive as a cultural explorer while going off the pop-culture radar makes for a fine cap to his story. This week, he returns with a new recording, spiritYOUall , which is—as the punny title suggests—a gospel album. But if you're thinking gospel means good news, and good news means fast-tempo fun, the collection has more grit and gravity than that.
He's joined by another big Grammy winner, Esperanza Spalding, for duet and harmony parts, as well as a full band.
The days of a cappella overdubbing and one-man-bandsmanship are behind him, for now. Though the stereotype created by his monster hit has McFerrin being Mr. A Cappella, it shouldn't come as such a shock that he records with instrumentalists if you know his background.
He started out as a pianist and didn't even think about becoming a singer until , when he was 27, though he "always had a nagging suspicion that I wasn't a pianist," he said. Thinking about recording without any accompaniment took another six years beyond that. In , he began performing full minute sets that consisted just of his voice, along with body language and body percussion. The weird thing was that, although I could visualize myself solo, on stage, I couldn't imagine what it might sound like.
A eureka moment arrived one day when he started singing a Joan Armatrading song to himself, jumping around in his four-octave range. It's a form of yodeling, I guess And then I started tapping the rhythm on my chest and it all came into place. In , "Don't Worry"—a mock-Jamaican melody inspired by a maxim attributed to Meher Baba—appeared on the soundtrack of the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail. Upon its first release, it peaked at No. Soon-to-be President George Bush adopted the song, briefly, as a campaign song.
McFerrin vocally protested that usage and loudly declared that he was voting for the other guy; some reports at the time even had McFerrin taking it out of his concert repertoire, just to make sure no one got the wrong message. Bush's campaign apparently got the right one and moved on to other musical choices.
As did McFerrin himself. In contrast to other performers with '80s-era MTV smashes who might be remembered as "one-hit wonders," the singer doesn't even usually perform "Don't Worry" in concert. His response to being a pop star as the '80s turned into the '90s? Learning how to conduct an orchestra. It's just work. But McFerrin's idea of work is awfully playful. Prior to recording the new album of spirituals, he was juggling several different equally ambitious conceits. Sometimes he would do entirely improvised shows with a piece a cappella vocal group.
Other times he would conduct a symphony, albeit including a segment where the musicians would put their instruments down and sing their parts. He's been most comfortable collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea, and other jazz and classical musicians The new album brings him back to his childhood, since three songs on it were also recorded by his father, Robert McFerrin Sr. The senior McFerrin was the first black man to join the Metropolitan Opera Company, so the junior McFerrin not realizing he was a singer until he was 27 may count as a "duh" moment.
It may sound odd to say this of an album rooted largely in the music of slavery, but spiritYOUall may be the closest thing to a pop album McFerrin's recorded in a long time.
People are more aware of my jazz and classical and world music roots, but the rock and blues and soul influences have always been there, too," he said recently.
McFerrin and his wife Debbie have three adult children—Taylor, Jevon, and Madison; the oldest and youngest of which are, not surprisingly, third-generation musicians. A long time ago I wrote the song 'Simple Pleasures' about my family, and my kids sang it for me last year at my birthday party.
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