Kirk Franklin listens to the Oakwood University Aeolians

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] when I was 20 years old I was homeless well I was 18 years old and I met a guy by the name of Gerald right and and he was seven that dentist I've never heard of but descended in his faith was but I was homeless in girl and his wife let me come live with them cuz I had nope like I was broke homeless I had like a one-year-old son and I just had a dream that's all I had I had no money I had nothing I had no hope I had no possibilities but listening to that sound all that made me do was think of him because it's so heavily and I know that it is his shoulders that I'm here on and probably every other man and woman that is let us walk through this state that your shoulders that you're standing on to be able to get a sound that all you need grows unlike you harder to do they not sound auto-tune the soprano sound like a total it's like you're singing like you frickin auto-tune I have never like like like like like you hear no rod there's no rub and and and it was so otherworldly it just made me deeply miss him because if it wasn't for him letting me sleep on that couch I would never be able to be here to enjoy the beauty this moment and to be able to experience the beauty that has come from this fate that s come from this denomination that then that this is my this is my this time coming home club work is that many a minute many temple way before anybody even knew I was I was here with the church sits in the back waiting to have a chance to play and never had never what I've ever thought I'd be here embracing this depth of beauty like that moment right there was work that's like that trip in that hotel that moment right there that moment right there may mean means more to me that you would ever know but can I respect so deeply I come from and you just reminded me where I came from [Applause]

Channel: Breath of Life TV

Views: 652,799

Rating: 4.9422288 out of 5

Keywords: music, gospel, choral, Kirk Franklin, gospel music, Oakwood, OUC, Byrd, IBC, Breath of Life, choir, christmas

Id: PR-F6wB6Uh0

Length: 6min 58sec (418 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 15 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/BKSledge]

Yikes, He hears a choir signing with good technique for the 1st? time and promptly makes it about himself. Cool.

[u/KingSlanger]

Do you know what this piece is?

[u/brokenoreo]

there is some fantastic gospel music out there. would be cool to hear a corps play something like this.