A singer named Jared Halley posted a video of himself singing “Somebody To Love” by Queen, a capella style. He multitracked himself several times (and apparently shot 20 videos of himself). He has the vocal range of Freddie Mercury. He covers all of the backup vocals and even does a passable imitation of Brian May on guitar. This performance just blew me away. It’s technically perfect.
That was fun. I love the internet.
That was great, had never heard of this guy but he is amazingly talented.
Man, also check out his Bohemian Rhapsody.
Amazing!! I loved watching the screens where he was dancing.
Thank you for this - that made my night.
The autotuning when he voices an electric-guitar riff kind of stretches the concept of a capella, but still pretty cool.
That was great! Thanks for posting it. I’ll have to check out his other songs.
Talented guy.
Am I the only one who thinks of this song when they hear the name “Somebody to Love”?
No, you are not…while I love the Queen song, the Jefferson Airplane is the one that ‘Somebody to Love’ immediately brings to mind.
I’m still trying to figure out how he did the drums.
Daughter’s a capella group has an awesome beat-boxer. Multi-track “mouth percussion” could be cool. I hope it’s that, or him hitting stuff. Real or synth drums would feel like cheating.
Yes. Got to wonder why they thought it would be a cool idea to nick the name of an already-famous song.
The Replacements DID cut an album called Let It Be, but that was, y’know, “irony.”
There’s a music program on my local public radio station and the host has (more than once) played a track of Grace Slick singing that song but it’s the isolated vocal track so no music at all just her voice with a touch of backing vocal at some points. Pretty amazing, that girl could sing. I’m guessing she was listening to the music through headphones so I’m not sure that qualifies as a capella.
That’s not unique. Titles aren’t copyrighted. Here are 11 song titles shared between two or more different songs:
Jump. …
Best of My Love. …
Superstar. …
One. …
Money. …
Surrender. …
Shout. …
Feel Like Makin’ Love. …
Dancing in the Dark.
Adding to the list…
I Love You
I Need You
Because
Rain (shit ton of songs with that title)
And Without You.
Wikipedia shows 92 songs with that title.