Jennifer Paskow - cool singer
January 26th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchHer is a singer with a great voice - Jennifer Paskow.
Here’s a review.
download Come Hell or Highwater
Tags: Jennifer Paskow, music, singer
Mika - So sexy
January 17th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchI have just discovered Mika, Israeli/English singer who is very cute. His music is great - a cross between Queen and…a lot of other stuff.
To see more go to the YouTube member appropriately called “MikaObsessed”
Tags: Israeli/English, Mika, singer, YouTube
Yael Naim - I'm a new soul
January 14th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchI just discovered Yael Naim. She is French-Israeli and she sings in French, English, and Hebrew. When she sings in English she has this great accent.
But in Hebrew, it doesn’t do it for me. Her voice is great and the song is beautiful but singing in Hebrew sounds like your throat is full of phlegm and you’re trying to clear it. Sorry!
The duo between Yael Naim and Lucie Star is also great:
Tags: French-Israeli, singer, Yael Naim
Beatles Tune
January 11th, 2008 Gennaro Brooks-ChurchHere is a great rendition of the Beatles song “Hey Jude” by a little boy still in his diapers. Great talent!
I personally think child prodigies are risky business. People called me a genius when I was a kid and all it did was make me do grown up things when I was a kid. Big deal.
The presumption was that when I grew up I would advance even more into some mega genius. But that didn’t happen. And to make things worse, now that I’m grown up I spend a lot of time doing kids things. And that is not considered cute at all, especially when it is your girlfriend asking you to “grow up!”.
The moral of the story is that there is a time for everything. Let a kid be a kid and they will learn this. When they grow up they will be very good grown ups, not confused people trying to be something they are not.
That is why I clap with joy when my four year old brushes her hair. That for me is the height of my expectations from her.
This is not to say I treat her like a dumb version of a grown up. She is amazingly intelligent. I treat her like I treat my web designers who don’t speak English very well.
They are very educated, smart people who know more about certain things than I do, including their own language(s). I tone my English down with them, not in a condescending way but so communication is maximized.
Anyway, that said, this video is cute.
Tags: baby, Beatles song, Hey Jude