{"id":5795,"date":"2014-12-21T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:58:00","slug":"untrained-9-yo-dutch-girl-sings-like-an-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/untrained-9-yo-dutch-girl-sings-like-an-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Untrained 9 yo Dutch girl sings like an angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/untrained-9-yo-dutch-girl-sings-like-an-angel\/screen-shot-2014-12-21-at-9-18-37-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-21-at-9.18.37-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Amira\" width=\"341\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-21-at-9.18.37-PM.jpg 341w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-21-at-9.18.37-PM-225x162.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-21-at-9.18.37-PM-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a>The mature, angelic voice and astonishing range of a young Dutch girl has captured hearts and souls, including my own. The purity of 9 year old Amira Willighagen&#8217;s untrained operatic voice has brought me to tears, twice now. When asked by one Holland&#8217;s Got Talent judge how she had been taught to sing, confusion appeared instantly on the little girl&#8217;s face. You can just see Amira asking herself, &#8220;How does a person get taught to sing?&#8221; \u2013 she learned by watching videos with her brother.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEMR3A4WLC8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nHer performance of Puccini&#8217;s O Mio Babbino Caro from the opera Gianni Schicchi won Amira a gold ticket and the accompanying boon of a guaranteed spot in the show&#8217;s finals .. and the next day, British music mogul <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2483493\/Simon-Cowell-gushes-Amira-Willighagen-9-wows-Hollands-Got-Talent-panel.html\">Simon Cowell sang her praises on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t help posting video of another singing phenomenon with a great, untrained voice: a young, homeless Korean who has been living on his own since age 5.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZ46Ot4_lLo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mature, angelic voice and astonishing range of a young Dutch girl has captured hearts and souls, including my own. The purity of 9 year old Amira Willighagen&#8217;s untrained operatic voice has brought me to tears, twice now. When asked by one Holland&#8217;s Got Talent judge how she had been taught to sing, confusion appeared &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/untrained-9-yo-dutch-girl-sings-like-an-angel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Untrained 9 yo Dutch girl sings like an angel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,31,664,1422],"tags":[1617,1621,1618,1619,1316,1615,1616,1620],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-best-stuff","category-happiness","category-youth","tag-1617","tag-amazing","tag-amira","tag-holland","tag-music","tag-opera","tag-talent","tag-voice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13349,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/13349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}