Every now and then, you hear a voice that seems like it was sent directly from heaven to our waiting ears. Some believe that the people who possess this talent are anointed.
I’m not sure exactly what I believe, but I do know that voices like this one have something celestial about them. There must be a higher power at work, helping to bring this girl’s talent to life. Like this 11-year-old girl with a golden voice, she’s been touched by something holy.
Her name is Tierinii Jackson, and she’s a jazz and R&B singer from Memphis, currently living and working in Buffalo, NY. She’s singing a spiritual passed down from her grandmother, one that she’s adapted, much like Tasha Cobbs, for her own incredible voice.
This song is one of many vernacular praise songs that have been recorded in thousands of different variations over the years, evolving and growing with the performer. You can hear traces of of Tierinii’s song in Karen Clark Sheard’s "Couldn’t Tell If I Tried," and in Dietrick Haddon’s "Sinner’s Prayer."
It’s hard to know the exact origins of a song with so much history, but it probably started as a blues hymn, and grew into a powerful gospel exaltation along the way. Whatever its provenance, it’s undoubtedly an incredible call to praise.
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