Brilliant Bobby! The Kennedy Center and Georgetown University host a musical celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The concert features Grammy Award–winning vocalist Bobby McFerrin with the Let Freedom Ring Choir with Music Director, Rev. Nolan Williams Jr. Performed on the Millennium Stage on January 16, 2012. View the full concert at: https://youtu.be/ZI37h0JS2_I Thanks to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | History of Music

Full Version: https://www.facebook.com/danielhansonmusic/videos/825973249157050/ Bobby McFerrin - Sing! Day of Song Improvisation Bobby McFerrin, as many of you know, has been a tremendous inspiration to me and my style of singing. I'd organically developed a natural vocal style somewhat related to his in my teens, but upon my introduction to a wider range of his work it gave me a sense of permission to delve deeper into that and express it more fully. When I was around the age of 16, I went to

Despite not recording any music until he was in his 30s, Bobby McFerrin had already spent half a decade honing a quite striking craft. He wanted a sound unlike anybody else’s, refraining from listening to any other singers for two whole years. For this concert, at the Munich Summer Piano Festival in 1988, we see Bobby at a very special moment in his career, just before everything changed. Indeed, a few months after this performance, he would release "Don’t Worry, Be Happy," a track that got to N