ILOSM fam’ we’re taking you to church this Sunday! This video of gospel singer, Smokie Norful, is very touching. Kim Fields a.k.a. “Tootie” couldn’t compose herself once Smokie started singing. The video featured Smokie and Kim sitting at a grand piano. And magic began.

You know how a great song can move you, especially when you’ve just gone through some things. When we think about how special life is, then simply take a breath and realize that it can be snatched up in a heartbeat, it makes us hurry and thank the the higher creator for just allowing us to be here. That’s what Smokie did for Kim. Her reaction was PRICELESS. Too bad it’s not that easy finding R&B music today that can still move a person like this Gospel song did.

I would imagine if Luther Vandross was still around, he could just sit at a piano and sing tears to our eyes.

Watch the video below and let chills race up and down your spine because you can just feel the words. Those words were “I thank you for my life. And it was only you who kept me.” He goes on to say he thanks his family and others. “If I never live to see another day, you have done enough. Some people didn’t make it this year.” That’s when Kim started to lose it.

Soul music, R&B or whatever you choose to refer to it as, was born out of spirituals, gospel music, so there has always been a connection between the soul and Gospel genres. Both art forms speak directly to the heart and soul of a person. For example, Al Green has proven that he can take us to church, but he has also proven that his soul music can connect with us when we are connecting with our significant others at night- in other words, speaking to the soul through music comes from the same place- the soul, but can be expressed in several different ways and evoke an array of emotions in its listeners. Others have that same gift such as Patti LaBelle, Aretha Frankin, to name a few. Fantasia or Mary J. Blige may be two of the closest we have to this with today’s soul R&B singers.

This video of Smokie Norful singing a gospel tune while Kim Fields listened and cried, is a great example of gospel music being a true art expression of “soul” music. Because it reaches down to your bare soul.

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