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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 principessa
10:01Nella tua fredda stanza
10:07Guardi le stelle
10:10Che tremano d'odore
10:12He's got the gift!
10:13This is class.
10:20That's, I'm blown away
10:36He's smashing this
10:38Oh, it's perfect
10:40This is sick
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
11:05You can't help but get goosebumps
11:07You can't help but tear up
11:08Because 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, this is it
11:48He's got the stoicism
11:49Oh, 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, my grandad
11:57Sipping his whiskey, pretending to conduct
11:59Especially as the build-up comes for the big high beat 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 beat
12:10He might be able to hear it
12:11Even though he's not here anymore
12:21I'd love to hear it
12:32He might have to go out
12:38I don't know
12:39He might have to be able to vorifwend
12:43You've got to teach me.
12:44Oh, hey, we'll trade it.
12:46We'll trade it.
12:48You literally, you've moved us all.
12:50Thank you so much.
12:53Go and see your crowd, of course.
12:55Go and see your people.
12:59Grazie, grazie.
13:00I'm glad I was focusing just on the singing
13:02and not at all on the people in front,
13:05because...
13:05You was amazing!
13:09I did just get tackled by Alison Hammond.
13:12And Al, we call her in the biz.
13:20The Birmingham crowd is growing fast.
13:23This is crazy.
13:25Look how many people there are, man.
13:27So we're opening up the stage.
13:28For people like yourselves to just have a sing song.
13:32Giving members of the audience their chance.
13:34We could find our finalists now, Sam.
13:37Oh, that'd be amazing.
13:38To sing the songs that mean the most to them.
13:47It's a great one to sing.
13:49You just sing your heart out.
13:50Get out all the emotions.
13:52I know it means so much to so many people.
13:58Bring in the energy.
14:00Love it.
14:00Why, Sam?
14:01I love it, because she's got the most confidence on stage
14:04that anyone has had so far.
14:06It's so great asking the nicest man in the world
14:09to send anything negative at all.
14:14She's out of tune, isn't she, Sam?
14:16She's out of tune.
14:18She's out of tune.
14:24I'm here for my hand-do.
14:27My head's a bit sore, but going straight to bottomless brunch after this.
14:32Oh.
14:33You can get drunk.
14:34Yeah, you can go and enjoy your hand-do.
14:37Now go and get ratted.
14:39Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
14:43You saw a bathing on the roof
14:47Growing up, I started singing in church.
14:50Hallelujah has always been that song that connected for me.
14:56Oh, look, it's falsetto.
14:58Here he goes.
15:01Wow.
15:16That's amazing.
15:18That's standing ovation high notes.
15:21Woo!
15:28That was wicked jumping.
15:29Mad falsetto.
15:31Jonathan's missed his train to do this.
15:34I think you were meant to be here today.
15:36I think so, too.
15:37Go get your train.
15:37Come on, get your bag.
15:39Go out of here.
15:39Come on.
15:40You wouldn't miss your train if you thought
15:42maybe I'd be half good, would you?
15:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:46I'm just going to go and floor these people.
15:49While Jonathan runs to catch the next train to London.
15:53I'm Bob.
15:54I'm 72.
15:55I'm a retired building site manager.
15:57Our next performer's not had far to travel.
16:01I was born in Wolverhampton.
16:03So, technically, people in this area would call me a yam-yam.
16:08So, tell me what you're singing today, Bob.
16:11I'm singing Let's Face the Music and Dance.
16:13Oh, yeah.
16:14What a beautiful tune.
16:16Who are you singing it for today?
16:17My late partner, Lynn.
16:19Aw, Lynn.
16:20We met in a mixed voice choir and we used to perform concerts.
16:25But in 2013, she was diagnosed with stage four devarian cancer.
16:30Oh, my gosh.
16:31So, we agreed that whatever came along, we'd face it together.
16:34And we spent the last nine months together
16:36trying to live as normal a life as we could.
16:39And that's really why I picked Let's Face the Music and Dance.
16:43Have you got a picture?
16:43I have.
16:44Oh, I love that.
16:45Look at you with your coconut bra on.
16:48He's getting that out in a minute.
16:49I'm with a new lady now, Lillian.
16:52She lost her husband.
16:54How did you meet Lillian?
16:55We met on a New Year's Day walk and we just clicked.
16:59I think it was her back and my knees.
17:03He's had that in the pocket a while, hasn't he?
17:11There may be trouble ahead
17:16But while there's moonlight and music
17:19Let's face the music and love and romance
17:23Let's face the music and dance
17:28Before the fiddlers have fled
17:33Before they ask us to pay the bill
17:37And while we still have the chance
17:42I like the sentiment
17:44I feel like the band's on fire
17:46Yeah
17:47But I have heard Better Delivery
17:49Yeah, yeah, yeah
17:50I don't think this is about us analysing his vocal power
17:55I just see someone who stood by someone in the darkest time of their life
18:00And they got to live out those last nine months the best they could
18:04Let's face the music and dance
18:08Let's face the music and dance
18:21Let's face the music and dance
18:34Go on and dance
18:37Yes, Bob
18:41Isn't it amazing him sharing that story that could be so crushingly sad
18:46Has brought so much joy
18:48We were dancing, that was amazing
18:50We enjoyed that
18:51We loved that
18:52Did you enjoy it though?
18:53No
18:54Keep it
18:55It's the healing of music again
19:01Next to take the stage is someone also singing in memory of a loved one
19:05And this is mum
19:07And I know she's with you
19:08She is
19:09All of the way
19:10She loved this song
19:11She did
19:12So you're singing it for her
19:13I am
19:13Yeah, thank you
19:17My name's Kyron
19:18I'm 39 years of age
19:19And I'm singing the song that I wrote called Good Lord
19:21She was there every single
19:23Every show that I did
19:24On her feet
19:26She was singing
19:27Yes
19:28The song now holds a different meaning
19:30Because my mum passed away last year
19:32The last time she saw me perform
19:33She gave me a big hug
19:34And told me
19:35That is my favourite song from you
19:36And I just want you to
19:38Get the song out there to the world
19:40And you know
19:41Hopefully they can hear it
19:42Give it up
19:43For
19:44Marcus and Kyron
19:45Otherwise
19:46You're the house
19:47You're the giant
19:49I remember writing and performing my first song
19:52In my primary school assembly
19:54Then you watch your ears
19:56You'll look and fly
19:57You'll hear the sky
19:59You'll think
19:59You'll think
20:00You'll think
20:01From then on
20:02I knew it was something
20:03I always wanted to do
20:04My mum was a singer
20:06She was in a group called Royal Blood
20:09She had my hit single called Slipping Away with my auntie
20:13I was in my mum's womb while she was touring
20:17It's an inspiration to see him performing
20:19So to me it means
20:21Everything that his mother stood for
20:25Please welcome
20:26To this stage
20:27Kyron
20:31I'm going to be nervous
20:33I'm going to be
20:33You know
20:34Scared
20:35I do feel a little vulnerable
20:36A little bit naked
20:38But also
20:39I know my mum will be there with me
20:41To help guide me through that
20:43Thank you
20:44Oh, I see the light
20:48Shining down on me
20:53Oh, I feel the wind
20:56With so much heat
21:01Oh, drifting on by
21:05I don't know how I feel
21:09And I feel
21:15Ooh
21:20Good love
21:24Good love
21:27Good love
21:38Oh, my God
21:39He could just sing the fame book, couldn't he?
21:43I performed this song at my mum's funeral
21:45Since that moment
21:46Something clicked in me
21:47I feel like every time I sing
21:49I'm connecting to her spirit more
21:51Good love
21:56Deep in my soul
22:04My mum was known and revered for her singing
22:07I feel like my purpose is to now basically continue her legacy
22:12So that my children can continue mine
22:13And we can continue the family name and legacy for forever, amen
22:16But I'll keep standing
22:21Hey, love
22:22Living life behind the struggle
22:24But I try to preach
22:25Understand these people
22:26Change the game
22:27I flip the shape
22:28I'm gonna try to
22:28I see
22:29I be
22:30He's very versatile
22:31He's got everything in it, this song, hasn't he?
22:34Yeah, sick, I love the tune
22:35I double-sit this song with me
22:38Go
22:45Love
22:45No, no, no, no, no, no
22:52Thank you, everyone, thank you
22:54Thank you so much
23:16Love what he's trying to say lyrically
23:19Really beautifully articulated by him
23:22She's like you
23:23She's like you
23:24Just made me sort of reflect on my own relationship with my mum
23:29Big guy
23:31Big guy
23:32I'm so floored by Birmingham as well
23:35Yeah
23:35It's really difficult not to just
23:37I know
23:37Want everyone to go through
23:41I love that the crowd are enjoying it so much
23:44Adopt us, Alison
23:46What's my daughter's name?
23:48I've got Holly
23:49And Kiva
23:49And Kiva, my two new daughters
23:52I've adopted them
23:54Get yourself home and go and do the washing up
23:56Go on
23:57Get yourself, go and do the washing up
24:03Next to perform on the Birmingham stage
24:05Is someone with a growing family of their own
24:08Feel the bum, man
24:10Looking like mad this morning
24:11Thinking tell I'm a little bit nervous, so
24:15She's pregnant
24:15Yeah, how do you think that's going to affect her?
24:17Well, at the end, you can't really breathe
24:19Because all your lungs are squashed
24:21You get more prone to getting out of breath
24:23Hi everybody, my name's Hannah
24:25I'm going to be singing Tennessee Whiskey for you today
24:28Before my lovely son was born
24:31I was struggling with alcohol addiction
24:33And he then became the only thing I ever needed ever again
24:37Sometimes people think that we raise our children
24:40But in some ways they raise our
24:42Hmm
24:52Ooh, she's got a lovely voice, hasn't she?
25:03When my dad passed away, I was really struggling
25:05And he was my best friend
25:07And it just was my mechanism for coping at the time
25:11I was drinking every day
25:12I was basically a functional alcoholic
25:14And I couldn't see an end
25:16But you rescued me from reaching for the bottle
25:20Ooh
25:21She's singing that to her song
25:22You rescued me from reaching for the bottle
25:24Because there's nothing like your love
25:28Say get me high
25:30Yeah, I hope it's good
25:34None of that breathlessness exists here
25:37Yeah
25:40Oh, nice
25:41And I fell pregnant
25:52Stopped everything there
25:53And then when I first heard the song
25:56It resonated so deeply with me
25:58Because this is how I feel about my son
26:00And honey, I stay so
26:03On your love all the time
26:10Because you're so sweet
26:13Most supportive mum of the season
26:16Award has been won
26:17Love the mum
26:19Yeah
26:19And honey, I stay so
26:22On your love all the time
26:40Sobriety is really difficult to achieve
26:42And it takes strength
26:43And I feel like that reflects in her voice
26:48That she's got strength in her voice
26:50Take that lovely bundle of fun
26:52I will
26:53And have a lovely life with me
26:55I'm so happy for you
26:57And this is one of those cases
26:59Where a song has like almost saved someone
27:02Yeah
27:02Cause now I'm free
27:10The Your Song stage is in Birmingham
27:12The birthplace of heavy metal
27:14I'm Dani, I'm 25
27:17And I'm from Manchester
27:18This is Dani
27:19Looking like a rock star
27:21If I ever saw one
27:22Hello
27:23Yes, how are you doing?
27:24Lovely to meet you
27:26Trying to guess what this could be
27:27It could be War Pigs
27:29Black Sabbath
27:30I hope it's congratulations by Cliff Richard
27:32It totally shocks us
27:33It's my party in Elk Rye if I want to
27:37So what are you singing today?
27:39I'm singing Bible Black by Heaven and Hell
27:41So a little bit of heavy metal
27:43Wow, that takes me by surprise
27:45So it's Black Sabbath instrumentally
27:47With Ronnie James Dio on vocals
27:49Wow
27:49He's regarded as probably like the godfather of heavy metal vocalists
27:54Big boots to fill
27:55Yeah, yeah, big time
27:56And what do you do?
27:57What's your job?
27:58I'm a music teacher
27:59Oh, amazing
28:00So who have you been teaching?
28:01I've just started primary school teaching
28:03Lovely
28:03That's so cute
28:04Oh my God
28:07Okay, we're going to start with a warm-up
28:12I always wanted to do music
28:14I couldn't imagine doing anything else with my life
28:19When I'm teaching, there's very much a filter over everything
28:23I have to be professional and family-friendly and polite all the time
28:29But I'm very different on stage
28:31A switch just flips
28:40And suddenly I am who I need to be in that moment
28:43I shout and scream pretty much everything
28:46I can just let loose and be myself completely
28:50If I get on stage and can absolutely just scream into the void for an hour
28:55It just, it's like therapy
28:57I feel so cleansed afterwards
29:01I got a bit dizzy then
29:10So I'm normally up here with my band
29:12And they're like my best friends
29:13So I'm feeling a bit naked and bare without them
29:15Ali is down there
29:16He's in the band as well
29:17So he's going to be feeling really awkward watching me
29:19Not being able to join in
29:21You are dependent on your band around you
29:23To play in this genre
29:27That's a test of your comfort zone for sure
29:43My partner Ali introduced me to the song
29:45It's about reaching out for something that you think is going to be your salvation
29:49But it actually turns out to be your doom
29:51Before I was with Ali
29:53I was in quite a difficult relationship
29:55And it just resonated with me so deeply
29:57Jump for one
29:59Put it back
30:00You're reading from the Bible
30:04Fans are loving it
30:06I love she's got them with her
30:07She's got her back
30:08Look at this
30:09So cool
30:20Sit
30:21Let me know
30:24Let me know
30:24I'll see it really dead
30:26But the light is left
30:28Funny
30:30Take me back
30:33I must have the Bible flag
30:38Whoa
30:39The growliness
30:41The love
30:41Yeah
30:42Yeah
30:43Hiding is amazing
30:45But you may not come back
30:48You're reading from the Bible
30:52Blame
31:03Wow
31:04That was so good
31:06And to get on stage with a band that you've never really met
31:10I'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
31:16And like they were just in it
31:17A million dollar question
31:19Did they rock out with you?
31:20They did rock out with me
31:22Yeah
31:24I really don't know who's going to win today
31:26They got right up front
31:27They were headbanging
31:28They gathered at one edge
31:30Doing the Judas Priest thing all together
31:31It was so cool
31:33Breaking the Lord
31:34Breaking the Lord
31:35Breaking the Lord
31:36Breaking the Lord
31:37Can you see
31:38Come over here
31:39Come over here
31:40There's Alison
31:41How can you see her?
31:43Nice to meet you
31:44Thank you
31:44You'll see her better in a little bit
31:46My name is Jen
31:47I'm from Coventry
31:48I'm 40 years old
31:49And I'm singing Teardrop by Massive Attack
31:51A few years ago now
31:52When my nephew was five years old
31:54He was diagnosed with cancer
31:56Gideon
31:57Excited to watch
31:58Yeah
31:59When my nephew was going through his treatment
32:01When I sung Teardrop
32:02It 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
32:12I could never come up with those kind of words
32:15But 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
32:29So resilient
32:30Yeah
32:31You wouldn't have a clue would you?
32:32No
32:35I think she's going to be very good
32:37By that little warm up she's just done there
32:39Checking their voices
32:40Please welcome to the stage
32:42It's Jen
32:47I was in a rock band years and years ago
32:49It's 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 at the Birmingham Children's Hospital
32:58So getting to sing this song
33:00And to my family as well
33:02I think it's going to be incredibly special
33:31It's really ethereal isn't it?
33:34Gentle impulsion
33:37Shakes me, makes me lighter
33:42Fearless on my breath
33:48Teardrop on the fire
33:52Fearless on my breath
33:55Earlier this year
33:58He had his last MRI
33:59He was given
34:01Not just information
34:03But the all clear
34:06Fearless on my breath
34:13You've got to ring the bell
34:15Come on Indian
34:18Have a good ring
34:20That's how it's in the back
34:25Now singing teardrop feels
34:27Triumph
34:28And I can't swear
34:30But it feels a bit like
34:33Gideon won
34:34He won
34:47She's amazing
34:48She really is
34:50She knows her voice
34:51She knows the pocket
34:53That that vocal sits in
34:55And where it really reaches people the most
34:57And that's a skill in itself
34:58As a singer
35:07Wow
35:08Oh I've got goosebumps
35:26Yeah
35:27That was stunning
35:29Are you all right?
35:30Are you getting emotional?
35:31Are you getting emotional?
35:34It's been a long couple of years
35:37I could see this voice at the final
35:40Because it's a really moving and intimate vocal performance
35:48Oh my gosh
35:49I'm going to lose it here
35:51That's a lot
35:52Oh so much
35:58Paloma
35:58Big deal here
35:59This is our very last singer
36:02Of the series
36:04I know
36:04Of the series
36:05What an amazing experience
36:07And I just feel like
36:08So privileged
36:09To have met all these amazing people
36:11Who've shared their stories with us
36:13It's like a career highlight for me actually
36:15And I'm not just saying that
36:16Because Channel 4 are paying me
36:20Okay our next singer
36:22Singing in her mother language
36:24Farsi
36:25Please welcome
36:26Mina
36:31My name is Mina
36:32I'm 43 years old
36:35And I've been living in the UK
36:36For 14 years now
36:38We want to make tachin today
36:41Very popular Persian dish
36:44I was born after the Islamic revolution
36:47In Iran
36:48In Iran
36:49Women marched in support of a modern identity
36:52The right to do any job
36:53To dress in modern clothes
36:56There was a lot of oppression
36:58And women are banned from singing in public
37:02I had to fillet the country
37:04I had to become refugee in the UK
37:07Because my voice was taken away from me
37:10You can see that devastation in my look
37:12That's sadness
37:14Singing has always been therapeutic
37:18She uses singing as a medium
37:20To just reach out with her emotions
37:24Reflects her experience in the past
37:26And everything else
37:27I'm going to sing a song
37:30Named
37:33Which means
37:34Am I awake
37:35Or am I dreaming
37:37By Gugush
37:37Who's an Iranian singer
37:39Gugush was
37:41In exile
37:43In her own country
37:44At the time
37:45So she wasn't allowed
37:46To sing
37:47Her voice was taken away
37:49From her
37:49This is one of the first
37:51Songs that I learned
37:52These bring so many memories
37:54I used to play this
37:55When I was in Levi
37:56I listened to this song
37:59Secretly
38:00Listening to a female singer
38:02Was considered haram
38:04Or seen
38:05Or forbidden legally
38:06How could something
38:08This beautiful
38:08So rich and meaningful
38:11Be forbidden
38:13In any part of this world
38:16I've never performed this
38:18For a big audience
38:19It was always my family
38:21And friends
38:21And classmates
38:22So this is first time
38:24When I sing this song
38:27I always get emotional
38:29I feel that
38:31This is not just my voice
38:33I feel that
38:36Pressure
38:37That weight on my shoulders
38:38That responsibility
38:40Singing
38:41Was always
38:43Throughout my life
38:45Was more than music
38:47It was
38:49An act of rebellion
38:51Wow
38:52Wow
38:52Hope
38:54This is for women
38:56And to the life
38:58And freedom
38:59That music
39:00Gives us
39:04In front of those words
39:05To Melody
39:06That's the song
39:06Isn't it?
39:07May, she hasn't even sung
39:08A note yet
39:09I'm just absolutely absorbed
39:11I'm just that in bits
39:12I know
39:47This is insanely good
39:50It's so beautiful
39:52Isn't it?
40:10This is incredible
40:14This is incredible
40:22It will fill everything
40:23It will fill everything
40:28See all her hand gestures
40:30Yeah
40:31It's so captivating
40:33She is using
40:34Her body
40:35Her voice
40:36To channel that message
40:37People in the audience
40:38Are feeling
40:39That's how
40:40Still being told
40:40And connecting with it
40:42Without
40:43A mutual
40:44Language
40:45Yeah
40:45I think we need to go out
40:47That's how
40:51You'recharger
40:58Take
40:59how I am
40:59An outfit
41:01No My
41:05The
41:06The
41:07The
41:08The
41:08The
41:10The
41:11The
41:20Thank you so much.
41:23I'm absolutely in peace.
41:27We're really privileged to hear your words
41:29and see the way you perform.
41:32Sorry.
41:33I'm so proud to be a woman
41:39standing next to you.
41:40You make me feel so like
41:42it's the best thing to be in the world.
41:45I feel like I'm going to fame.
41:47It felt so surreal.
41:51When you grow up in Iran
41:53in that very oppressive era
41:55and then you come to freedom,
41:57to free worlds
41:57and you can do whatever you want,
41:59you can become yourself
42:00which is the most beautiful gift
42:02that this country has given me.
42:12I don't know about you,
42:13but Birmingham delivered today, didn't it?
42:15I'm blown away.
42:17I love how eclectic Birmingham's musical history is
42:21was reflected in people jumping up on that stage today.
42:24You had heavy metal.
42:25Let me go.
42:28I've seen early days
42:29and you've got opera.
42:37Mina singing in Farsi.
42:43We were all unanimously moved.
42:47Her voice was breathtaking.
42:49Her message was breathtaking.
42:50It was amazing.
42:51We felt it, didn't we?
42:53But there was one person in particular
42:55that moved me more than anyone
42:56and that was Jenny Young.
42:59Teardrop on the fire
43:01Fear
43:02It was just something about her voice.
43:06Everything was just right, wasn't it?
43:08And then a special mention to Chantel.
43:11Oh, my Brummie queen.
43:14Light up, light up
43:16Her voice.
43:18Beautiful.
43:19Everything she does
43:19seems to be kind of pretty up their level.
43:22God was just like,
43:23there you are, football.
43:24You got it, no way singing.
43:25Give her all the cards.
43:27I want to see if it's right, guys.
43:28Look across this way.
43:30The standard was so high.
43:32You want to put pretty much everyone
43:34that sang in Birmingham
43:35through to the final.
43:37I know.
43:37This is 100% the hardest choice
43:39of all the cities we've been to.
43:40What are you going to do?
43:41We need to choose one person.
43:42What are you going to do?
43:43Are you going to choose?
43:44This might be the night
43:45we don't sleep afterwards.
43:47So tough.
43:53Oh, so good to see you.
43:57Birmingham, what can I say?
43:59You did the city proud.
44:01Thank you so much
44:02for having the courage
44:03to share your stories.
44:05As you know,
44:06you haven't just been performing
44:07for the wonderful crowds
44:08of Birmingham,
44:09you've also been performing
44:11for two superstars,
44:13Paloma Faith and Sam Ryder.
44:18How'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,
44:34it's just been amazing
44:35to bear witness to.
44:37Such an amazing group of souls.
44:39And we feel all incredibly lucky
44:41that we get to share this moment with you.
44:44Only one of you, though,
44:46can perform at the final.
44:47That person is going to be...
44:56...Mina.
44:59Come on.
45:00Come to the middle.
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.
45:14The moment she stood on that stage
45:17and opened her vocal cords,
45:18which were exceptional,
45:20and delivered that song to us,
45:22it was beyond singing.
45:23It was beyond the story.
45:24It was about protest
45:26and women's rights to have their voice.
45:29And she certainly had her voice today.
45:31What you brought to that stage
45:33was more than just your voice,
45:34but it was everything else.
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
45:43a 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
45:56to share my message
45:57about women empowerment,
46:00the power of music,
46:02the magic that can happen
46:04when human beings connect.
46:05I didn't expect that.
46:06That's amazing.
46:08Oh, my God.
46:09Oh, my God.
46:13Yes, Birmingham!
46:17Chantel.
46:18Next time...
46:20No, you're joking.
46:21...Mina is joined by the other finalists.
46:23Finley.
46:26I can fuck off you.
46:28Getting down to business in the studio.
46:30At the end of that song,
46:31I 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
46:39without crying.
46:41...and 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.
46:51My voice is going.
46:52...of a lifetime.
46:53She absolutely needs to be quiet
46:55or she's not going to have any voice tomorrow.
46:56Bye-bye.
46:57Bye-bye.
46:59Bye-bye.
47:00Bye-bye.
47:01Bye-bye.
47:05Bye-bye.
47:07Bye-bye.
47:08Bye-bye.
47:10Bye-bye.
47:11Bye-bye.
47:12Bye-bye.
47:13Bye-bye.
47:13Bye-bye.
47:13Bye-bye.
47:13Bye-bye.
47:14Bye-bye.
47:15Bye-bye.
47:15Bye-bye.
47:16Bye-bye.
47:17Bye-bye.
47:22Bye-bye.
47:24Bye-bye.
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