I'll Fly Away │ Daves Highway

Daves Highway is a terrific gospel group from Mississippi.  The members of the group are Delaney, Zachary and Erika Daves, and yes, they are siblings.  My Dear Aunt Martha recommended that I listen to Daves Highway, and I'm glad that I did.  Their music is very uplifting to the spirit, and they have such a clean and wholesome sound.  By-the-way Daves Highway has a cool website that can found at this link:  Daves Highway - Official Website  Please give it a visit and help to support them by purchasing some of their music.  Safe journeys to all the fans of Angel Watchers, wherever you may be.

One Voice │ Jared Cardona

Jared Cardona, from South Africa, is a new singer with an amazing voice.  In this edition of Angel Watchers I am featuring Jared singing "One Voice" that was made popular some years ago by Billy Gilman.  Jared actually does a great cover of that classic song, and at times he sounds exactly like Gilman.  Jared has been singing and studying music for less than a year but he has come a long away.  Safe journeys to all the fans of Angel Watchers, wherever you may be.

Angelic Prayer

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Césaria Évora │ A Magnificent Singer

In this edition of Angel Watchers I am pleased to present the great singer Césaria Évora, from Cape Verde.  Césaria is well known internationally, but is largely unknown in America, which is a shame because she is such an awesome singer, and performer.  By-the-way, Césaria always performs with bare feet, that is why she is also known as the "barefoot diva".  The video below is an excerpt from a concert sponsored by Heineken, that she gave in the year 2000, at the Teatro Alfa in São Paulo, Brazil.  In it Césaria sings the hauntingly beautiful "Cabo Verde Manda Mantenha (Cape Verde Greets You)", that was composed by the late Manuel de Novas, the Poet Laureate of Cape Verde.  For those of you who are interested, the lyrics are a creole combination of Portuguese and Cape Verdian dialects.  Unfortunately, Césaria Évora passed away on December 17, 2011,  in São Vicente, located in her native Cape Verde.  Safe journeys to all the fans of Angel Watchers, wherever you may be.

Cabo Verde Manda Mantenha

Composed by Manuel de Novas

 Tcham canta, m'bem
Traze boses
Um aroma daquel pais
Cabo Verde terra querida
Qu'nos tu quere na coracon

Cabo Verde manda mantenha
Se benson nun bes d'sodade
Pa tud ses fidj' na terra longe
El d'zem pan fla boses
Ma se ragos tem quel calor
Pa tud ses fidje
Ku mesm' amor

 Cape Verde Greets You

(English Translation)

Let me sing

I have come to bring you

The aroma of this country

Of our precious Cape Verde

Loved by all

Cape Verde greets you

With a kiss of nostalgia

It sends its blessings

To all its children scattered

Throughout the world

It sends you word

That it's bosom

Offers the same warmth

And the same love

To all its children

Greyson Chance │ An American Original

In this edition of Angel Watchers we are featuring the incredible Greyson Chance.   He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas on August 16, 1997, but currently resides in Edmond, Oklahoma.  It is not very often that we get to write about American singers on Angel Watchers, but we do so whenever we get the opportunity.  Unfortunately, in the United States, no value is placed on music education in the elementary and secondary school systems.  In fact, now-a-days, with educational budgets being cut, music classes are the first to feel the axe when it falls, and the first to go.  That is not to say that America does not have a lot of talent.  What we are saying is that this talent does not get the proper nurturing, and training that it should.  If you go to YouTube you will find a lot of young singers from America, but alas, most of them are so untrained, and their potentials so truncated, that it makes us very sad.  But along comes Greyson Chance who has beaten all the odds and managed to become a fantastic musician, singer, and performer.  You can log on to Greyson's cool website by clicking on this link:  Greyson Chance - Official Website  Greyson does a magnificent job of singing "Waiting Outside The Lines".  His rendition is very moving and haunting.  Safe journeys to all the fans of Angel Watchers, wherever you may be.

Frankie Darro │ A Blast From The Past

Here is, a blast from the past, a golden oldie, if you will.  Frankie Darro was the greatest child actor of the 1930s, to the 1940s.  What made him so unique though, was that he did all of his own stunts.  He came from a circus family.  His parents did a "high flying" trapeze act, so Frankie learned to be rather adept from a very young age at performing aerial acrobatics.  Most of you would probably remember him as the voice of Lampwick in Walt Disney's "Pinocchio".  In 1931 he starred in a serial called "The Vanishing Legion".  This serial is three hours and fifty-two minutes long, and Frankie is in about 95% of all the scenes.  In other words he owns this serial.  In the first chapter, notice how he does a flying leap to get on his horse.  It is quite remarkable.  You can watch the complete movie from the You-Tube video widget posted below.  Safe journeys to all the fans of Angel Watchers, wherever you may be.

 

Horst Jankowski │ Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt

In this holiday edition of Angel Watchers we are featuring the late, great Horst Jankowski from Germany playing his mega-hit "Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt (A Walk In The Black Forest)".  Safe journeys to all the fans of Angel Watchers, wherever you may be.