'I Know Where I've Been' Jennifer Hudson | HAIRSPRAY Live!

She is phenomenal....

Jennifer Hudson just killed it, Mailed to Guam and Killed it when it got home. I love3 how she brought the cast to tears!!

Tears are running down my face, I gut absolute chills

Amazing

If this was really live how do they recorded the sound? I mean there is no visible mic and the sound is very consistent and stable. If anyone knows.

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Jennifer Hudson reminds me of Whitey Huston. Just an unreal voice.

💋😘YOLI

one big sheesh

So powerful!!

“Just to sit still would be a sin”

--Le quedó grande la canción. And I love her, but..... It just didn't hit the mark.

Too big of a song that she just couldn't handle it. We can hear she tried, but it just not her time.
She did AMAZING and it'll forever be an ICONIC performance in 'Dreamgirls' ...... Give her a few more years to get more life experience and gather the strength to portray the power and pain this song exudes. Maybe take some notes from Queen Latifah.

I love Jennifer Hudson on the American Idol

And this is a testimony as to why she is an EGOT. PERIOD.

i come back to this every so often... i don't think i breathe for the last minute or so, it's just so powerful.

Wow una voz maravillosa admiro a esta gran artista

“This is Idol and Jennifer I want that wig please and thank you!”

My favorite song from this musical, no matter the rendition. Equally as tragic as it is beautiful. It reminds us of this country's problems without even needing to mention anything in specific. So many lives, so many families altered, destroyed, ended because of slavery and its legacy. So much hate levied against a group of people who never deserved it, and systemic bias against them at every level. It's insidious and awful, and although Hairspray takes place in 1962, this song is from much later. It was and is still relevant though, and this song is a reminder of that and the resilience of people in the face of adversity, the people and systems that fail them. It brings me to tears. I hope ome day that Black lives will stop being taken by supposed "law-enforcement", that people stop being blinded by privilege and wake up to help their fellow humans.

Between this version of the song and the one from the 2005 movie I still can’t say that one is better than the other

This special just launched on NBC only a DECADE after Jennifer stole our hearts in DREAMGIRLS the movie

Wow just got chills ! Amazing singing Jennifer Hudson!

She sang the HELL out of that

Every time I hear Jennifer Hudson sing the song, it still brings a tears to my eyes with her amazing voice, and I noticed even the cast behind her was crying. There is no way anyone could not be move with this song. I fell in love with this song from the movie hairspray when queen Latifah sang it, and it only strengthened my love for this song, when I heard the live version from Jennifer Hudson. All I can say is bravo.!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Now she's Grizabella.

SING IT JHUD!!!! What an icon!!! You can’t see it but I’m throwin my shoe!!!!

no matter what Jennifer sings she sings with so much passion you can’t help but be mesmerized

What a FABULOUS voice!!!! Sends shivers down my back bone! brrrrrrrrrrrrr

Context to the story:They have a music studio or something like that but it got shut down due to white people and during this they are packing up

Just remembered this performance 3 years on, came back to watch it. Sublime.

The voice… she had some of the cast mates crying! Beautiful ❤

This was live. Wow. One of the best and most moving performances I have seen in my life. I keep coming back to watch this, and I still get goosebumps every time.

bro even Link was crying!

Truly a once in a generation voice on this woman.

Should be titled Emmy winning performance

Great performance

amehlo ahelngezela izinyembezi what is the queen doing to us 😭😭😭

She sang that like her life depended on it....spectacular...this was live???

Queen Latifah did this song justice as well

I'm crying to this

There's a light in the darkness
Though the night is black as my skin
There's a light burning bright
Showing me the way
But I know where I've been

There's a cry in the distance
It's a voice that comes from deep within (yeah, yeah)
There's a cry asking why
I pray the answer's up ahead yeah
'Cause I know where I've been

There's a road we've been travelin'
Lost so many on the way
But the riches will be plenty
Worth the price, the price we had to pay

There's a dream in the future (dream)
There's a struggle that we have yet to win
And there's pride in my heart
'Cause I know where I'm going, yes I do
And I know where I've been

There's a road (there's a road)
We must travel (we must travel)
There's a promise (there is a promise)
We must make (that we must make)
But the riches (oh, but the riches)
Will be plenty (riches will be plenty)
Worth the risk (worth the risk)
And the chances that we take (and the chances that we take)
There's a dream in the future
There's a struggle (struggle)

That we have yet to win (we have yet to win)
Use that pride (pride)
In our hearts (in our hearts)
To lift us up (lift us up)
To tomorrow

'Cause just to sit still
Would be a sin

I know it, I know it
I know where I'm going

And lord knows I know
Where I've been

Oh! When we win
I'll give thanks to my god
'Cause I know where I've been

There's a light in the darkness
Though the night is black as my skin
There's a light burning bright
Showing me the way
But I know where I've been

There's a cry in the distance
It's a voice that comes from deep within (yeah, yeah)
There's a cry asking why
I pray the answer's up ahead yeah
'Cause I know where I've been

There's a road we've been travelin'
Lost so many on the way
But the riches will be plenty
Worth the price, the price we had to pay

There's a dream in the future (dream)
There's a struggle that we have yet to win
And there's pride in my heart
'Cause I know where I'm going, yes I do
And I know where I've been

There's a road (there's a road)
We must travel (we must travel)
There's a promise (there is a promise)
We must make (that we must make)
But the riches (oh, but the riches)
Will be plenty (riches will be plenty)
Worth the risk (worth the risk)
And the chances that we take (and the chances that we take)
There's a dream in the future
There's a struggle (struggle)

That we have yet to win (we have yet to win)
Use that pride (pride)
In our hearts (in our hearts)
To lift us up (lift us up)
To tomorrow

'Cause just to sit still
Would be a sin

I know it, I know it
I know where I'm going

And lord knows I know
Where I've been

Oh! When we win
I'll give thanks to my god
'Cause I know where I've been

My favorite version of this song

Queen Latifah's Version is beautiful..but Jennifer Hudson's rendition hits me in the feels every time! So powerful! 💜💜

Full body chills and tears everytime I listen😭😭

Jhud is literally the best person for this role omg

That was epic 💪🏾

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