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Your Song (2026) - Season 1 Episode 4 -
Birmingham
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00:01We're travelling across the country to hear the people of Britain sing the songs that tell their incredible stories.
00:09Our mentors Sam Ryder and Paloma Faith will choose one singer from each city
00:15to perform at a once-in-a-lifetime concert at the legendary Hackney Empire.
00:21This week we've set up our Your Song stage right in the heart of the nation's second city.
00:27Over 40 million people visit the ball ring every year
00:30and today some of them are going to be lucky enough to perform on this very stage right here.
00:36Welcome to Your Song!
00:42Here we are in Birmingham, pal. Are you excited?
00:45I'm so excited. I'm actually kind of elated that we're in the ball ring
00:48which makes me think there's going to be a huge crowd.
00:51In the 16th century they used to use it for ball baiting.
00:54To touch it.
00:55But the name sort of stuck, called it the ball ring, and they've put a ball,
00:59they call it the Guardian, but a more loving name they gave it was Perry.
01:02Perry the ball is going to be watching over, everyone's singing.
01:05I've got some heavy metal facts for you.
01:07Go on.
01:07Right, so heavy metal birthplace is considered worldwide to be Birmingham.
01:12So you've got Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Napalm Death.
01:15I don't think anyone's said Napalm Death on Channel 4 before, but they came from here.
01:18Wow!
01:19It's like a real hub, isn't it?
01:21Yeah, yeah.
01:21Who else has come from here?
01:23UB40?
01:24Yep.
01:24Duran Duran, Joan Arbor Trading, and obviously our lovely Alison Hammond comes from here.
01:30I know.
01:31So she's like the jewel of Birmingham.
01:34Good morning, everyone.
01:35Good morning.
01:36You all right, everyone?
01:37Why go on?
01:38Welcome to Birmingham.
01:40I feel good about this city.
01:42Yeah.
01:42I feel like it's going to deliver.
01:43Let's go and have a look.
01:44Let's go.
01:46Paloma and Sam will be able to see and hear all of the singers who take to our stage.
01:51Close, close, close, close.
01:52Whilst hidden away beside the increasingly bustling ball ring.
01:56Wow.
01:57Birmingham has got the biggest crowd of any city we've been to.
02:01Give me a chair if you're a Brummie.
02:03Yay!
02:04We're a Brummie!
02:07Do you think it's because they know Alison's here and that she's the Queen of Birmingham?
02:12Maybe.
02:12We are so excited.
02:13That's a coming.
02:15The King's walking about here as well.
02:18Yeah.
02:18It's all happening.
02:19But for our first performer.
02:22I'll do a wheelie.
02:23An even more important guest is in attendance.
02:27I'm back.
02:29My name is Chantal.
02:30I am 34 and I am from Birmingham.
02:33We get on great, don't we?
02:34We do.
02:34We do.
02:35Just tell them I'm your favourite.
02:36I'm going to get in trouble if I say she's the song.
02:39You'll blur her out.
02:40Just say it quickly.
02:44Hi, Chantal.
02:45Hi, Barb.
02:46Oh, she's a local.
02:48You're a Brummie.
02:49I am.
02:49Through and through.
02:50I've finished straight away.
02:51Sit down, Barb.
02:51So tell me about singing then.
02:53How did you get into singing?
02:55You know, singing was never my first love.
02:57I played football for years.
02:58No way.
02:59I played for Birmingham City for nearly 10 years.
03:01Yeah.
03:02Yes.
03:03It's got Anne-Marie, you know, she was world champion karate.
03:06Really?
03:06Three times in a row.
03:08No way.
03:08And then just became a singer.
03:10That's so sick.
03:13My family are big Birmingham City supporters, so it was always a privilege to wear the shirt.
03:18But I had to stop due to injury, which was really hard.
03:22That is when I think I started to sing.
03:26I'm very, very close to my Nan and Grandad.
03:30Me singing, I think it all kind of stems from their love for music.
03:33And getting me singing absolutely anywhere that there was a microphone.
03:38Hello, Grandad.
03:39How are you doing?
03:41Hello.
03:42She's nerve-wracking.
03:44Oh, hello, Grandad.
03:46You shouldn't have stuck him there.
03:50I am singing Run by Leona Lewis.
03:53For my Grandad Roy.
03:55This has been our song for many, many years, and I want to sing it today in front of all
04:00of you, like, just to show you how much I love him.
04:03Chantal first performed Run for her Grandad over a decade ago.
04:08I said to you, I says, could you sing that for me?
04:11OK, Grandad.
04:12And that was it.
04:13I know.
04:14Yeah, I'm filling up now, aren't I?
04:16My Grandad never really had asked me to sing a song specifically for him.
04:21I thought, well, this must mean something.
04:23I first heard it, and I thought, I like that.
04:27I like the lyrics when it comes to the part, light up.
04:29Yeah, that's the big thing. Light up my life.
04:31Yeah, I know, that's what you like to hear.
04:34That's what I like to hear.
04:36Chantal, she lights up my life.
04:40Oh, she's getting emotional looking.
04:42Take a breath, babes, take a breath.
04:44A big breath.
04:45Do you want me to cover him up?
04:46Just close his eyes.
04:49I try not to look at him because he just sends me off.
04:52Oh.
04:53If she looks at him in this song, she's done for.
05:17If she looks at him in this song, she's done for.
05:31Oh, look at him.
05:32Wow.
05:33How can you not be moved, man, just watching this?
05:38I nearly do.
05:40When I sang it the first time, and to see his reaction.
05:47Light up, light up.
05:50I'd never seen anything like that before.
05:52For him to be so emotional and so connected.
05:55That just gave us our own thing that I haven't got with anybody else.
06:01Oh, nice.
06:02Come on, Chantal.
06:09I've got goosebumps, man.
06:12She's amazing.
06:13Oh.
06:21I think she deserves a visit outside.
06:25You can't not.
06:26It's too good.
06:27Send her my love, please.
06:28I will.
06:29Why you can't raise your voice to say.
06:41As the years go on, the song means more, really.
06:46Because I'm getting older.
06:48He's getting older.
06:49I just love my granddad.
06:51You're right beside you, Dee.
07:03You're all right, granddad?
07:07Hello.
07:09You're amazing.
07:11We're all in tears, are you?
07:13Oh, that was so moving.
07:16It's really powerful.
07:18I think you don't credit yourself for your resilience.
07:21How you've achieved so much in one thing.
07:24Got injured.
07:25But you're sitting on that talent at home.
07:28It's a testament to the fact that we might not have met the best singer in the world.
07:33They're all hiding out there, aren't they?
07:35Yeah.
07:35In Birmingham.
07:36Yeah, Birmingham, yeah.
07:37That's what it is.
07:44Our next performer hoping to light up Birmingham.
07:46My name is Lee.
07:48I am 34 years old and from Cumberland, South Wales.
07:51Lee's about to bowl in here with the first moustache of the season as well.
07:55And that gives him points.
07:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:58We'll also be singing in dedication to their granddad.
08:01How you doing, Lee?
08:02What is your song today?
08:03My song is Nessun Dorma from the opera Turandot.
08:06Oh, I would never have said that you were going to do something like that.
08:09Oh, I'd love to be able to sing this.
08:10Why have you chosen that song?
08:12My grandfather was very important to me.
08:14He's no longer with us.
08:15Aw.
08:16He was such a warm and influential person in my life and still is today.
08:23Some of my fondest memories when I was young was being in the kitchen with him on a Friday.
08:27He would have a glass of whiskey and he would listen to his wireless and he loved the three tenors.
08:32And Nessun Dorma is one that he loves and I had no idea I could sing it until I was
08:3726 I started lessons.
08:40I was in the Royal Navy.
08:42I had no idea I could sing.
08:43I was based in pretty much the middle of nowhere.
08:46It was quite boring on a weekend and I found an adverse for singing lessons.
08:50And then the teacher was like, well, your voice sounds quite operatic.
08:54Why don't you try it?
08:54By the way, really hard to even practice this style of singing, like so loud.
08:59You're going to mess up a bunch and you've got to be happy that everyone's going to hear it.
09:02My favourite place to actually practice, at the very front lower part of the ship, it's called the Foxtel.
09:07It's basically like a metal cave.
09:10So the acoustics are like big and ringing.
09:11So I would go in there and people would walk in and they'd just be like, oh, there's Lee again
09:16doing his scales.
09:17I really like everything about this dude.
09:20He's so humble.
09:21Buzzing about this but quite nervous.
09:24Nessun Dorma, certainly one of the most difficult things to sing.
09:29You feel at once really powerful, but the most vulnerable you could ever feel as well.
09:47Nessun Dorma
09:51Nessun Dorma
09:56Tu pureo principesa
10:01Nella tua freda stanza
10:06Guardi le stelle
10:10Che tremando d'ore
10:12He's got the gift. This is class.
10:15Nessun Dorma
10:18Nessun Dorma
10:20Nessun Dorma
10:21That's... I'm blown away.
10:25Nessun Dorma
10:32Nessun Dorma
10:33Nessun Dorma
10:34Nessun Dorma
10:35Nessun Dorma
10:35Nessun Dorma
10:36Nessun Dorma
10:36Nessun Dorma
10:36He's smashing this.
10:38Oh!
10:39It's perfect!
10:40This is... sick!
10:45Nessun Dorma
10:56I think about my grandad whenever I sing opera.
10:59It's a way I connect to him.
11:01So it does demand 100% emotional commitment.
11:04When you hear it done well, you can't help but get goosebumps,
11:07you can't help but tear up because you can feel what they're saying
11:09without knowing what they're saying.
11:27Do you think, for me, this is our best this season classical vocal?
11:32100%, 100%.
11:33And this is it.
11:40Look at the joy in the audience.
11:42They're clapping, they're clapping.
11:44That is so brilliant.
11:48He's got the stoicism.
11:50Oh, I'd love to be able to do that.
11:51We have to go out.
11:52We have to go out.
11:55I would remember my grandad sipping his whiskey,
11:58pretending to conduct,
11:59especially as the build-up comes for the big high B at the end.
12:03And when I sing it, I do think of that.
12:06This piece of music is so magical.
12:08When I hit that high B,
12:10he might be able to hear it even though he's not here anymore.
12:17I do think of it as the whole world.
12:38I do think of it as the end of that day.
12:38I'm not here so much for me.
12:40I'm not here, I can hear it even though I'm not.
12:41I'm not here to ask myself.
12:43you've got to teach me we'll trade it you literally you've moved us all thank you so much
13:00i'm glad i was focusing just on the singing and not at all on the on the people in front
13:05because thank you thank you i did just get tackled by alison hammond
13:11al we call her in the biz
13:20the birmingham crowd is growing fast this is crazy look how many people there are man so we're
13:27opening up the stage for people like yourselves to just have a sing song giving members of the
13:33audience their chance we could find our finalists now sam oh that'd be amazing to sing the songs
13:39that mean the most to them
13:47it's a great one to sing you just sing your heart out get out all the emotions um i know
13:52it means so
13:53much to so many people bring in the energy love it why sam i love it because she's got the
14:03most
14:03confidence on stage that anyone has had so far someone it's so great asking the nicest man in the
14:09world to send anything negative at all she's out of tune isn't she sam she's out of tune
14:24i'm here for my hen do my head's a bit sore but going straight to bottomless brunch after this
14:33oh yeah you can go and enjoy your hen do now go and get rutted
14:38your faith was strong but you needed proof you saw a bathing on the roof growing up i started
14:49singing in church hallelujah has always been that song that connected for me
14:56oh look it's falsetto here he goes wow
15:15wow that's amazing that's standing ovation high note
15:27thank you yeah that was wicked jumping mad falsetto jonathan's missed his train to do this
15:34i think you were meant to be here today i think so go get your train come on get your
15:38bag
15:38go out of here go on you wouldn't miss your train if you thought maybe i'll be half good would
15:45you
15:45yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm just gonna go and floor these people while jonathan runs to catch the next
15:51train to london i'm bob i'm 72 i'm a retired building site manager our next performer's not
15:59had far to travel i was born in wolverhampton so technically people in this area would call me a yam
16:08young so tell me what you're singing today bob i'm singing let's face the music and dance
16:14what a beautiful tune who are you singing it for today my late partner lynn
16:19oh lynn we met in a mixed voice choir and we used to perform concerts but in 2013 she was
16:26diagnosed with
16:27stage four ovarian cancer oh my gosh so we agreed that whatever came along we'd face it together
16:33and we spent the last nine months together trying to live as normal a life as we could
16:38and that's really why i picked let's face a music and dance have you got a picture i have oh
16:44i love
16:45that look at you with your coconut bra on he's getting that out in a minute i'm with a new
16:50lady
16:51now lillian she lost her husband how did you meet lillian we met on a new year's day yeah walk
16:58and we just clicked i think it was her back and my knees he's had that in the pocket a
17:05while
17:09there may be trouble ahead but while there's moonlight and music and love and romance
17:23let's face the music and dance before the fiddlers have fled before they ask us to pay the bill
17:37and while we still have the chance i like the sentiment yeah i feel like the band's on fire yeah
17:47but i have
17:48heard better delivery yeah yeah i don't think this is about us analyzing his vocal power i just see
17:56someone who stood by someone in the darkest time of their life and they got to live out those last
18:03nine months the best they could let's face the music and dance dance let's face the music and dance
18:16wow the crowd are loving it he's a proper entertainer he is yeah
18:22let's face the music
18:37yes bob
18:41isn't it amazing him sharing that story that could be so crushingly sad has brought so much joy
18:48we were dancing that was amazing we enjoyed that did you enjoy it though no it's the healing of music
19:01again next to take the stage is someone also singing in memory of a loved one and this is mom
19:07and i know she's with you she is all of the way she loved this song she did so you're
19:12singing for her
19:13i am yeah thank you unforgettable my name's kyron i'm 39 years of age and i'm singing the song that
19:20i
19:20wrote called good lord she was there every single every show that i did on her feet singing the song
19:29now holds a different meaning because my mom passed away last year the last time she saw me perform
19:33she gave me a big hug and told me that's my favorite song from you and i i just want
19:37you to
19:38get the whole song out there to the world and you know hopefully they can hear it
19:42give it up i remember writing and performing my first song in my primary school assembly
20:01from then on i knew it was something i always wanted to do my mom was a singer she was
20:07in a group called
20:08royal blood she had my hit single call slipping away with my auntie i was in my mom's womb while
20:15she
20:15was touring it's an inspiration to see him performing it's hard to me it means everything that his mother stood
20:23for please welcome to this stage kyron i'm gonna be nervous i'm gonna be you know scared i do feel
20:36a little
20:36vulnerable a little bit naked but also i know my mom will be there with me to help guide me
20:42through
20:42that thank you oh i see the light shining down on me oh i feel the wind whistle on my
21:00cheek oh
21:02i don't know how i feel and i feel
21:20good lord
21:25good lord good lord good lord good lord good lord good lord oh my god he could just sing the
21:40fame book
21:40couldn't he i performed the song at my mom's funeral since that moment something clicked in me i feel like
21:48every time i think every time i sing i'm you know connecting to her spirit more
22:04my mom was known and revered for her singing i feel like my purpose is to now basically continue
22:11her legacy so that my children can continue mine and we can continue the family name and legacy for
22:16whatever i'm not forever i'm here he's very versatile it's got everything in it this song hasn't it
22:33yes sick i love the tune
22:52thank you everyone thank you thank you so much thank you
23:15love what he's trying to say lyrically really beautifully articulated by him
23:22she's like you just made me sort of reflect on my own relationship with my mom
23:32i'm so floored by birmingham as well because it's really difficult not to just
23:37want everyone to go through i love that the crowd are enjoying it so much adopt us allison what's my
23:47daughter's name i've got holly and keeva and keeva my two new daughters i've adopted them
23:54but get yourself home and go and do the washing up go on get yourself go and do the washing
23:58up
24:03next to perform on the birmingham stage is someone with a growing family of their own
24:08feel the bummer looking like mad this morning you can tell i'm a little bit nervous so
24:14oh she's pregnant yeah how do you think that's going to affect her well at the end you can't
24:19really breathe because all your lungs are squashed you get more prone to getting out of breath hi
24:24everybody my name's hannah i'm going to be singing tennessee whiskey for you today before my lovely son
24:30was born i was struggling with alcohol addiction and he then became the only thing i ever needed ever
24:36again sometimes people think that we raise our children but in some ways they raise our
24:42i used to spend my night time
24:52oh she's got a lovely voice hasn't she
25:02when my dad passed away i was really struggling he was my best friend and it just was my mechanism
25:10for coping at the time i was drinking every day i was basically a functional alcoholic and i couldn't
25:15see an end but you rescued me from reaching for the bottom oh she's singing that to her son you
25:23rescued me
25:23from reaching for the bottom because there's nothing like your love say get me high
25:35none of that breathlessness exists here
25:45and i felt pregnant stopped everything there and then when i first heard the song it resonated so
25:57deeply with me because this is how i feel about my son
26:13the most supportive mom of the season is award has been won love the mom yeah
26:34and i feel like that reflects in her voice that she's got
26:49strength in her voice take that lovely bundle of fun and have a lovely life with this other one as
26:55well i'm so happy for you and this is one of those cases where a song has like almost saved
27:01someone yeah
27:10the your song stage is in birmingham the birthplace of heavy metal
27:15i'm done here i'm 25 and i'm from manchester this is danny looking like a rock star if i ever
27:21saw one
27:22hello how you doing lovely to meet you trying to guess what this could be it could be war pigs
27:29black sabbath i hope it's congratulations by cliff richard it totally shocks us it's my party and i'll try if
27:35i want to
27:37so what are you singing today i'm singing bible black by heaven and hell so a little bit of
27:42heavy metal wow that takes me by surprise so it's black sabbath instrumentally with ronnie james
27:48dio on vocals wow he's regarded as probably like the godfather of heavy metal vocalists big boots to
27:55feel yeah yeah big time and what do you do what's your job i'm a music teacher oh amazing so
28:00who have you been teaching
28:01i've just started primary school teaching lovely that's so cute oh my god okay we're gonna start with a warm
28:08-up
28:12i always wanted to do music i couldn't imagine
28:16doing anything else with my life
28:19when i'm teaching there's very much a filter over everything i have to be professional and
28:25family friendly and polite all the time but i'm very different on stage a switch just flips
28:40and suddenly i am who i need to be in that moment i shout and scream pretty much everything i
28:47can just
28:47let loose and be myself completely if i get on stage and can absolutely just scream into the
28:54void for an hour it just it's like therapy i feel so cleansed afterwards
29:01i got a bit dizzy then
29:06you dad partner
29:10so i'm normally up here with my band and they're like my best friends so i'm feeling a bit naked
29:14and
29:14bad without them ali is down there he's in the band as well so he's gonna be feeling really awkward
29:19watching me not being able to join in you are dependent on your band around you to play in this
29:24genre
29:27that's a test of your comfort zone for sure
29:32so
29:43my partner ali introduced me to the song it's about reaching out for something that you think is going
29:48to be your salvation but it actually turns out to be your doom before i was with ali i was
29:53in quite a
29:54difficult relationship and it just resonated with me so deeply
30:04fans are loving it i love she's got them with her got her back look at this so cool
30:10what's this world
30:40The growliness, the love.
31:03Wow, that was so good.
31:06And to get on stage with a band that you've never really met, I'm buzzing for her.
31:11I was a bit worried about going on with a new band,
31:13but they made me feel so comfortable and, like, they were just in it.
31:18Million dollar question, did they rock out with you?
31:20They did rock out with me, yeah.
31:24I really don't know who's going to win today.
31:26They got right up front, they were headbanging,
31:28they gathered at one edge doing the Judas Priest thing all together.
31:32It was so cool.
31:32Breaking the law, breaking the law
31:35Breaking the law, breaking the law
31:37Can you see, come over here, come over here.
31:40There's Alison, how can you see her?
31:43Nice to meet you. Thank you.
31:44You'll see her better in a little bit.
31:46My name is Jen, I'm from Coventry.
31:48I'm 40 years old and I'm singing Teardrop by Massive Attack.
31:51A few years ago now, when my nephew was five years old,
31:55he was diagnosed with cancer.
31:56Gideon, excited to watch.
31:58Yeah.
31:59When my nephew was going through his treatment,
32:01when I sung Teardrop,
32:03it felt like a combination of anger and sadness.
32:07And I was just so fortunate that I had access to music,
32:11to other people's poetry.
32:13I could never come up with those kind of words,
32:15but, you know, people better than me have,
32:17and I can just use them.
32:18I think it's one of the strongest things about music.
32:20Good luck.
32:26People really just are so enduring, so resilient.
32:31You wouldn't have a clue, would you?
32:32No.
32:36I think she's going to be very good by that little warm-up
32:38she's just done there.
32:39Checking their voices.
32:40Please welcome to the stage, it's Jen.
32:47I was in a rock band years and years ago.
32:49I was actually where I met my husband,
32:50and it was a Birmingham-based thing,
32:52so I already have this real connection with music in Birmingham.
32:55And for my nephew,
32:56he actually had most of his treatment done
32:57at the Birmingham Children's Hospital.
32:59So getting to sing this song,
33:00and to my family as well,
33:02I think it's going to be incredibly special.
33:21Love is a verb-
33:23Love is a doing word.
33:27Love is a doing word.
33:28Feel less on my breath-
33:31it's really a theory, isn't it?
33:34I think it's just the beginning.
33:34Gentle impulsion
33:37Shakes me, makes me lighter
33:40Fearless on my breath
33:47Teardrop on the fire
33:51Fearless on my breath
33:55Earlier this year, he had his last MRI.
34:00He was given, not just information, but the all clear
34:06Fearless on my breath
34:12Black flowers
34:13You've got to ring the bell
34:17Come on Indian, have a good ring
34:20That's her finger back
34:24Teardrop on the fire
34:25Now singing Teardrop fuels
34:28Triumph
34:29And I can't swear, but it feels a bit like a
34:33Gideon won, he won
34:46She's amazing
34:48She really is
34:50She knows her voice, she knows the pocket that that vocal sits in
34:55Yeah
34:55And where it really reaches people the most
34:57And that's a skill in itself as a singer
35:07Wow
35:07Oh, I've got goosebumps
35:10Yeah
35:10It's something but all
35:27I've got goosebumps
35:27That was stunning
35:29Are you alright, are you getting emotional? Are you getting emotional...
35:35It's been a long couple years hasn't it, hasn't it?
35:38i could see this voice at the final because it's a really moving and intimate vocal performance
35:48oh my gosh i'm gonna i'm gonna lose it here
35:58paloma big deal here this is our very last singer of the series i know of the series what an
36:06amazing
36:06experience and i just feel like so privileged to have met all these amazing people who've shared
36:12their stories with us it's like a career highlight for me actually and i'm not just saying that
36:16because channel 4 are paying me okay our next singer singing in her mother language farsi please welcome
36:26mina my name is mina i'm 43 years old and i've been living in the uk for 14 years now
36:39we want to make touching today very popular persian dish i was born after the islamic revolution in
36:48iran in iran women marched in support of a modern identity the right to do any job to dress in
36:54modern
36:55clothes there was a lot of oppression and women are banned from singing in public i had to fillet
37:03the country i had to become refugee in the uk because my voice was taken away from me you can
37:10see that devastation in my look that's sadness singing has always been therapeutic she uses singing
37:19as a medium to just reach out with her emotions reflects her experience in the past and everything
37:27else i'm going to sing a song named hobam yobidaram which means am i awake or am i dreaming by
37:37gugus who's
37:38an iranian singer gugus was in exile in her own country at the time so she wasn't allowed to sing
37:47her voice
37:48was taken away from her this is one of the first songs that i learned this brings so many memories
37:54i
37:55used to play this when i was in the bar i listened to this song secretly listening to a female
38:02singer
38:03was considered haram or seen or forbidden legally how could something this beautiful so rich and
38:10meaningful be forbidden in any part of this world i've never performed this for a big audience it was
38:19always my family and friends and classmates so this is first time when i sing this song i always get
38:28emotional i feel that this is not just my voice i feel that pressure that weight on my shoulders that
38:39responsibility singing was always throughout my life was more than music it was an act of rebellion wow wow hope
38:54this is for women and to the life and freedom that music gives us
39:04and put those words to melody that's the song isn't it mate she hasn't even sung a note yet
39:09i'm just like absolutely absorbed i know
39:21my
39:26my
39:27my
39:29my
39:29my
39:30my
39:31my
39:31my
39:37my
39:38my
39:41my
39:41my
39:41my
39:42my
39:43my
39:43my
39:44my
39:44my
39:44my
39:45my
39:47This is insanely good. It's so beautiful, isn't it?
40:11This is incredible. There's no point in even talking about...
40:17Just belittling. She's flawless, man. Stories, incredible, filth, everything.
40:29See all her hand gestures? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:32It's so captivating.
40:33She is using her body, her voice to channel that message.
40:37People in the audience are feeling that's how we're being told and connecting with it.
40:42Without a mutual language? Yeah.
40:46I think we need to go out.
40:47Come on.
41:02Come on.
41:05Come on.
41:05Come on.
41:06Come on.
41:20Thank you so much. I'm absolutely impeachable.
41:26We're really privileged to hear your words and see the way you perform.
41:36And I'm so proud to be a woman standing next to you. You make me feel so like it's the
41:43best thing to be in the world.
41:45I feel like I'm going to fame. It felt so surreal.
41:50When you grow up in Iran in that very oppressive era and then you come to freedom, to free worlds
41:57and you can do whatever you want.
41:59You can become yourself, which is the most beautiful gift that this country has given me.
42:11I don't know about you, but Birmingham delivered today, didn't it?
42:15I'm blown away.
42:17I love how eclectic Birmingham's musical history is, was reflected in people jumping up on that stage today.
42:24Yeah. You had heavy metal.
42:25Let me go, I've seen early days.
42:29You've got opera.
42:32Opera.
42:37Mina singing in Farsi.
42:43We were all unanimously moved. Her voice was breathtaking. Her message was breathtaking.
42:50It was amazing.
42:51We felt it, didn't we?
42:53But there was one person in particular that moved me more than anyone and that was Jenny.
42:58It was just something about her voice.
43:06Everything was just right, wasn't it?
43:08Yeah.
43:08And then a special mention to Chantel.
43:11Oh, my Brummie queen.
43:16Her voice.
43:18Beautiful. Everything she does seems to be kind of pretty up there level.
43:22God was just like, there you are, football.
43:24You got it. No rose singing.
43:25Everything.
43:25Here you are.
43:26Give her all the cards.
43:28Right, guys, look across this way.
43:30The standard was so high.
43:32You want to put pretty much everyone that sang in Birmingham through to the final.
43:37I know.
43:37This is 100% the hardest choice of all the cities we've been to.
43:40What are you going to do? We need to choose one person.
43:42What are you going to do? Are you going to choose?
43:44This might be the night we don't sleep afterwards.
43:47So tough.
43:54So good to see you.
43:57Birmingham, what can I say?
43:59You did the city proud.
44:01Thank you so much for having the courage to share your stories.
44:05As you know, you haven't just been performing for the wonderful crowds of Birmingham.
44:09You've also been performing for two superstars, Paloma Faith and Sunrider.
44:15Yay!
44:16Go!
44:17How's it going?
44:18How's it going?
44:22You all did so amazingly.
44:24Birmingham has been a standout city.
44:27Every one of you could be in the final.
44:30The standard was so high.
44:33First of all, it's just been amazing to bear witness to.
44:37Such an amazing group of souls.
44:39And we feel all incredibly lucky that we get to share this moment with you.
44:44Only one of you, though, can perform at the final.
44:48That person is going to be...
44:56Mina.
44:59Come on!
45:00Come to me, darling.
45:02Come here, darling.
45:03Come on.
45:04You're amazing.
45:05I didn't expect that at all.
45:07We'll have a big room for you.
45:09Oh, my God.
45:10She'll love you, Mina.
45:12Mina had what we were looking for.
45:15The moment she stood on that stage and opened her vocal chords,
45:18which were exceptional, and delivered that song to us,
45:21it was beyond singing, it was beyond the story.
45:24It was about protest and women's right to have their voice,
45:29and she certainly had her voice today.
45:31What you brought to that stage was more than just your voice,
45:34but it was everything else.
45:35Oh, thank you so much.
45:36You should be really proud.
45:38I root for Mina.
45:40I feel every word she says,
45:42even though I don't understand a single one of them.
45:44How amazing is that?
45:51Singing today.
45:52Probably the biggest moment of my life,
45:54where I'm given this platform to share my message
45:57about women empowerment, the power of music,
46:02the magic that can happen when human beings connect.
46:05I didn't expect that. That's amazing.
46:07Thank you so much.
46:09Thank you so much.
46:14Thank you so much.
46:17Chantal.
46:18Next time...
46:20No, you're joking.
46:21Mina is joined by the other finalists...
46:23Finlay.
46:28Getting down to business in the studio...
46:30At the end of that song, I want to hear you tear that knot apart.
46:35Guided by Sam and Paloma.
46:37I haven't actually seen her get through a song yet without crying.
46:41And joined by a last-minute addition.
46:44OK, I'm about to phone the wild card.
46:47Oh, wow.
46:47In preparation for the performance...
46:50It's going, my voice is going.
46:52...of a lifetime.
46:53She absolutely needs to be quiet or she's not going to have any voice tomorrow.
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