A Powerful Voice for Gospel, Jazz & R&B

Youth Choir & Cultural Arts Organization
A Powerful Voice for Gospel, Jazz & R&B
More than a performance, this is an experience. Sing Harlem brings energy, joy, and inspiration through music that uplifts and connects.

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It is the Breakout Musical Group from the Mama Foundation for the Arts, a tuitionfree music education program in Harlem. Their programs have enriched the lives of more than 10,000 youth since the foundation began, along with 500,000 community members in all. Sing Harlem has entertained and inspired audiences totaling more than a million people worldwide. They've accompanied artists including Siza, Sting, Ariana Grande, Fel Williams, Chance the Rapper, and Madonna. And they also appeared on America's Got Talent. And boy, do they got talent. One of the things that really distinguishes uh Imagine Solutions from other conferences is that Randy brings in accomplished artists, musical acts, performers, and this is no exception. And please welcome sing Harlem.

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Hello Imagine Solutions. Come on. Love keeps lifting me. Keeps on lifting me. Higher and higher. Your love keeps lifting me. Keeps on lifting me. Lifting me higher and higher. Higher. higher. Your love lifting me higher than I've ever been lifted before. So keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up. My desire. And I'll be at your side forever more. You know your love, your love keeps lifting me. Keep on lifting me. Keep on lifting me. Keep on lifting me higher and higher. Higher love. Keep on lifting me higher and higher.

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Now once I was downarted disappointment was my closest friend but me you and he soon departed. And you know he never show his face again. And that's why your love keeps lifting me. Keep on lifting me. Keep on lifting me higher and higher. Keep on lifting me. Your love. Your love. You want your love. Your love keeps me going on. Say you're left your love. It take me higher.

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Higher. Going higher. Take me higher. Let's go higher. Let's go higher. Let's go higher. Your love lifting me. Keep on lifting me. Keep on lifting me higher. Imagine solutions. Wa. Hey y'all. Some of y'all say imagine solutions 2026. Oh yeah, we made it. We made it into a new year. Wow. What a blessing it is is to see so many beautiful faces coming right here to sit on the cutting edge of information. And as we know, we all need to balance our

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equilibriums with music. Yeah. So we going to take you to a little place now. The name of our group is called Sing Harlem. And one day we were singing in Harlem and somebody took off their shoe and they threw it at the stage and they said, "Sing Harlem out." And what we realized was that was a sign of endearment. That was a special acknowledgement to let us know that the music was doing something good. They couldn't do anything else but to jump up, take off their shoe, and say, "Sing Harlem." Sing Harlem. Can I hear you all say, "Sing Harlem. Sing Harlem." Can I get a little more permission? Let me hear you say, "Sing Harlem. Sing Harlem." I know a place. Ain't nobody crying.

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Ain't nobody crying. Ain't nobody worried. Ain't nobody wor. Ain't no smiling faces noodle. Oh yeah. Help me. I'll take you there. Come on. Come on. I need some worship. I'll take you there. Come on. Come on. I need you to help me. I'll take you there. I know a place. Ain't nobody crying. Ain't nobody crying. Ain't nobody worried. Ain't nobody wor. Ain't no smiling faces. Oh no. Oh yeah. Help me. I'll take you there. Come on. Come on. I need some mercy.

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I'll take you there. Come on. Come on. I need a solution. Hey, I'll take you there. Help me. Help me. I'll take you there. Come on. Come on. I need you to help me. Hey, I'll take you there. I see some of y'all doing the work. I need you to help me. I'll take you there. I'm going to need y'all to sing with me. Sing help me. I'll take you there. Come on. Come on. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Take me there. Come on. Come on. I need some mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Come on. Come on. I need you to help me. Help me. Come on. Come on. I need some mercy.

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I thank you. sing Harley. Okay, now I'm going to need a little bit of participation from all of my imagined solutions 2026 attendees. Now, we are in a place where love means so much more now more than ever, right? And so we going to take you on a little bit of a love train. So I I love how rhythm can move through our body. So I want everybody to take your two hands and put them up in the air. Two hands, everybody. Two hands up really quickly. Two hands up. Yeah. Now we're going to clap to the beat just like this. Clap to the beat just like Woo! I clap to the beat just like this. Clap to the beat. Hop. I love it. Clap to the beat just like this. Clap to the beat just like this. Clap to the beat. Turn. Now I want you to copy me. Got you.

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Clap your hands like this. Now I'm going to count to four. Okay, now we're all going to clapping on the two and the four. Right, I want us to count it. One, two, three, four. Say it. One, two, three. Everybody say one, two, three, four. Good. Keep it up now. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 the world. Join hands. Show a love train. People all over the world. Oh,

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people all over the world. People all over join hands. People all over the world. hands. All right. All right. I need you to get up. Clap your hands like this. Now, I'm going to need this side some volunteers to get on up. Come on, Mr. Turner. Wave, Mr. Turner. All right. Grab some folks from this side. Miss Sydney, come on. Grab some. Stand on up really quickly. Stand on up. I'm going to come down into the audience. I would grab Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Follow me. Come on. Come on, people. Yeah. Come on. Stop me. Come here. My hand start a love chase a love a love train people all over the world love

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people the world start people the Join him. Join him. Love train world. Join him. Love train. The next stop when we make will be in England. Tell the folks in Russia and China, too. Oh, we got to get on the love train. Let the train keeping riding riding on through.

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Oh, people all over the world. People all over the love the world. Join him. Join hand. Let it ride. Wow. Thank you so much everybody. Come on. Love Train. Imagine Solutions 2026. All right. Before we let you go to lunch, we want to let you know that we are singing Harlem. And I just a little birdie told me that Mr. Randy said it's

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okay for you to take out your cell phones on some of these songs and amplify the voices of the next generation. So if you take a picture or video, we highly appreciate that. That means you're supporting our mission going forward of the absolute power of music, how it can transform lives just by the vibrations of beautiful frequencies. God bless you for that. We are singing Harlem. I want to clap a little louder than before. I want to sing higher than before. I want to worship deeper than before. Oh, I want to sing louder. Everybody say freedom. Freedom. We need freedom. Freedom. Freedom.

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Freedom. Everybody sing. Freedom. Everybody say no more shackles, no more chains, no more bondage. We will be free. Yeah. This is a prayer. This is a prayer. This is a prayer. We need to project it. No more shackles. No more change. No more bondage. I am free. Oh. Lift your hands and say hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I am free. Yeah. All right, y'all. Please make sure to support Sing Harlem on all platforms. S I N G H A R L E M. Listen, you know it. This little light of mine. Sing it with me. I'm going to let it shine. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. This little Let me hear the next slide. Let it shine. That's it. Let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine. Yeah. Clap your hands like this.

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Clap your hands like that. Clap your hands like that. Clap your hands like that. Clap your hands like this. Clap your hands like this. Clap your hands like that. Clap your hands like that. This little lie. Don't mind your turn. I hear you. This little This side. This side. You got it. This little light of mine. You got it. Let it shine. Let it shine. Let it shine. I'm going to let it shine. Sh.

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Let it shine. Yeah. Yeah. With every step that you take and every move that you make, make us a promise. You want to shine your biggest light wherever you go. Can I get a confirmation? So I'm going to let it. I'm going to let it. Make me a promise that you're going to let it. You got to let it. We we going to careful. Careful. Careful.

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More more please. One more. One more. Come on. Shine. Yeah. Yeah.

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And one more thing. I have one piece of advice. If you guys work on energy a little bit, you'll be something. All right. Thank you so much. Love that. God bless you. What's your name? Noel Higginson. Noel, that was really fun. How long have y'all been doing this? Well, I put my shoe back on. The program is over 18 years old. We serve young people in Harlem who don't have access to music. And the program was designed to save the music, especially when it was taken out of the public school system and to celebrate the African-American art forms. How many performances a year, for example, do you do? So many. Um, we the the foundation was to design to provide opportunities for their talent. So, um, outside people, we sing it in our community at the Apollo Theater, in our school, at any chance

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that we can get and it's by donation basis. Well, go have a nice cold drink, will you? Thank you so much. Good. God bless you. That was really wonderful.