America’s next bambino caro?
mainHer name’s Arielle Baril, and she’s 11.
She starting singing at 2:05.
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Heidi Klum, the classical voice expert, or the other one?
Just listened. Utterly hideous. A travesty like the other excrescences we’d endured with this aria.
With a decent voice teacher and a lot of time, she could be great. But if she’s on that stage, she will never get that luxury…
Afraid you’re right. This is high-end karaoke.
We see from this video that opera could be for everybody, but when I listen to this dear little girl the issue isn’t that she has a great instrument or that she lacks training and maturity. It’s the extraordinary loss of human potential created by America’s ghettos. This girl is lucky that she goes to a fairly decent middle school in Upper Darbry – which borders on the horrific ghettos of West Philadelphia. Her fate could be vastly worse in a city where 60,000 children live in deep poverty and face unspeakable living conditions including daily problems with hunger.
When I lived in West Philadelphia in the mid 70s I would sometimes listen to the choirs in black churches or hear kids singing at events in a ghetto park near where I lived. The talent and musicality were often breath-taking. There is so much musical genius being lost by these kids not having reasonable opportunities to grow.
I substitute taught in Philly’s ghetto schools. The conditions were so bad they changed my life forever. Here is a 6 minute video from ABC News, almost 40 years later, that shows what life is like in one of these Philadelphia schools, and that little has changed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9gT_Nc41s4
Here is a compilation of photos of America’s ghettos taken from Google Maps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool0dVCK4YY
Astute as usual. No negativity, no scorn, cutting to the chase with what’s really important. Thank you.
Just disgusting and abusive, and no idea of what it requires. Does she even understand the words? It’ll all fall apart in a few years’ time – but then I suppose she’ll have made her money by then and it won’t matter.