Norman, Jessye Filmography

• Karsh Is History
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Absolute Wilson
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Im Herzen des Lichts - Die Nacht der Primadonnen
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Nobel Peace Prize Concert
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Vangelis: Mythodea - Music for the NASA Mission, 2001 Mars Odyssey
  2001, role: actress , character name: Lead Singer
• Christmas Glory from New York
  2001, role: actress , character name: Soprano
• The People's Passion
  1999, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• To Life! America Celebrates Israel's 50th
  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself - Honoree
• The 39th Annual Grammy Awards
  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Margie Gillis: Wild Hearts in Strange Times
  1996, role: actress
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Symphony for the Spire
  1992, role: actress , character name: Soprano
• Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Jessye Norman at Notre Dame
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Marian Anderson
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Tchaikovsky: 150th Birthday Gala from Leningrad
  1990, role: actress , character name: Soprano
• Die Walküre
  1990, role: actress , character name: Sieglinde
• Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
  1989, role: actress , character name: Carmen
• Karajan in Salzburg
  1988, role: actress , character name: Wagner Concert
• Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Jessye Norman's Christmas Symphony
  1987, role: actress , character name: Soloist
• Carnegie Hall: The Grand Reopening
  1987, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Jessye Norman Recital
  1986, role: actress , character name: Herself - Soprano
• Ozawa
  1985, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 5th Annual Black Achievement Awards
  1984, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Metropolitan Opera: Centennial Gala
  1983, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Jessye Norman:

"If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live."

"I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset."

"The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing . . ."

"I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell."

"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself"

"Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself."

"I'm dying always."

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Behold That Star - Jessye Norman
• Between Yesterday And Tomorrow - Jessye Norman
• Give Me Jesus - Jessye Norman
• Great Day - Jessye Norman
• Greensleeves - Jessye Norman
• Mary Had A Baby - Jessye Norman
• O Poor Little Jesus - Jessye Norman
• The Moon And I - Jessye Norman
• Were You There - Jessye Norman
• Amazing Grace - Jessye Norman
• There's A Man Going Round - Jessye Norman
• The Summer Knows - Jessye Norman
• I Was Born In Love With You - Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand - Jessye Norman
• Jessye Norman - Spirituals - Jessye Norman
• Sacred Songs & Spirituals - Jessye Norman

Behold That Star (air traditionnel)
Melodie et texte: Thomas W. Tally
Behold that star!
Behold that star up yonder!
Behold that star!
It is the star of Bethlehem.
There was no room found in the inn
For Him who was born free from sin.
The Wise Men travelled from the east
To worship Him, the Prince of peace.
A song broke forth upon the night

Between yesterday and tomorrow
There is more, there is more than a day
Between day and night, between black and white
There is more, there is more than gray
Between the question and the answer
There's the silence of the sea
Between the cradle and the grave
There is the someone that is me
Between yesterday and tomorrow
There is more, there is more than a day
There's every dawn you've ever seen
And everything you've ever known
There's every hand you've ever touched or that ever was
Or that could have been, or that should have been

Oh when I come to die
Oh when I come to die
Oh when I come to die
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You may have the world
Give me Jesus
I heard my mother say
I heard my mother say
I heard my mother say
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You may have the world
Give me Jesus
Dark midnight was my cry
Dark midnight was my cry
Dark midnight was my cry
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You may have the world
Give me Jesus
In the morning when I rise
In the morning when I rise
In the morning when I rise
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You may have the world
Give me Jesus
I heard the mourner say
I heard the mourner say
I heard the mourner say
Give me Jesus
Give me Jesus
You may have the world

Great day !
Great day, the righteous marching
Great day
God's going to build up Zion's walls
Chariot rode on the mountain top
God's going to build up Zion's walls
My God spoke and the chariot stop
God's going to build up Zion's walls
This is the day of jubilee
God's going to build up Zion's walls
The Lord has set His people free
God's going to build up Zion's walls
We want no cowards in our band
God's going to build up Zion's walls
We call for valiant hearted men
God's going to build up Zion's walls
Going to take my breast-plate, sword and shield
God's going to build up Zion's walls
And march boldly in the field

What child is this,
Who, laid to rest,
On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthem sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing:
This, this is Christ the King,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
Why lies He in such mean estate
Where ox and lamb are feeding?
Good Christian, fear: for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
This, this is Christ the King, etc.
So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh,
Come, peasant, kin to own Him;
The King of kings salvation brings
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.

Mary had a baby
Yes Lord
Mary had a baby
Yes Lord
The people keep-a coming and the train done gone
What did she name him
Yes Lord
What did she
The people keep-a coming and the train done gone
She name him King Jesus
Yes Lord
Name him King Jesus
Yes my Lord
Name him King Jesus
Yes Lord
The people keep-a coming and the train done gone
She name him Mighty Couns'lor
Yes Lord
Name him Mighty Couns'lor
Yes my Lord
Name him Mighty Couns'lor
Yes Lord
The people keep-a coming and the train done gone
Oh, where was he born?
Yes Lord
Where was he born
Yes my Lord
Where was he born
The people keep-a coming and the train done gone
Oh born in a manger
Yes Lord
Born in a manger
Yes my Lord
Born in a manger

O Poor Little Jesus (Spiritual)
O poor little Jesus
This world gonna break Your heart.
There be no place to lay Your head, my Lord.
O poor little Jesus.
O Mary she the mother.
O Mary she bow down and cry.
For there's no place to lay Your head, my Lord.
O poor little Jesus.
Come down all you holy angels,
Sing 'round Him with your golden harps,
For someday He'11 die to save this world.

The moon and I, we know each other well
I'm safe beneath its light
It passes by, and sees but doesn't tell
The secrets of the night
Like the sweet forbidden feelings deep inside me
The longing for the lover, who's denied me
To feel him, beside me
The moon and I, pretend he's in my arms
Each night it hears me cry
And when I sleep, I dream that soon
I'll tell my love, some sunlit afternoon
What no one knows, but the moon and I
[Interlude]
And just as the sea, with its tides
I'm tied to the moon, when its full
So am I
The moon and I, pretend he's in my arms
Each night it hears us cry
And when I sleep, I dream that soon
I'll tell my love, some sunlit afternoon

Were You There
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me -
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
T'was Grace that taught -
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear -
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares -
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far -
and Grace will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me -
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be -
as long as life endures.
When we've been here ten thousand years -
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise -
then when we've first begun.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me -
I once was lost but now am found,

There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
He's been taking my fathers name,
an' he left my heart in vain,
there's a man going 'round taking names
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
He's been taking my mothers name,
an' he left my heart in vain,
there's a man going 'round taking names
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
He's been taking my sisters name,
an' he left my heart in vain,
there's a man going 'round taking names
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names),
He's been taking my brothers name,
an' he left my heart in vain,

The summer smiles the summer knows
And un-ashamed, she sheds her clothes
The summer smoothes the restless sky
And lovingly she warms the sand on which you lie
The summer knows the summer's wise
She sees the doubts within your eyes
And so she takes here summer time
Tell the moon to wait and the sun to linger
Twists the world round her summet finger
Let you see the wonder of it all
And if you've learned your lesson well
There's little more for her to tell

The moon and I, we know each other well
I'm safe beneath its light
It passes by, and sees but doesn't tell
The secrets of the night
Like the sweet forbidden feelings deep inside me
The longing for the lover, who's denied me
To feel him, beside me
The moon and I, pretend he's in my arms
Each night it hears me cry
And when I sleep, I dream that soon
I'll tell my love, some sunlit afternoon
What no one knows, but the moon and I
[Interlude]
And just as the sea, with its tides
I'm tied to the moon, when its full
So am I
The moon and I, pretend he's in my arms
Each night it hears us cry
And when I sleep, I dream that soon
I'll tell my love, some sunlit afternoon
What no ones knows, but the moon and I

Great day !
Great day, the righteous marching
Great day
God's going to build up Zion's walls
Chariot rode on the mountain top
God's going to build up Zion's walls
My God spoke and the chariot stop
God's going to build up Zion's walls
This is the day of jubilee
God's going to build up Zion's walls
The Lord has set His people free
God's going to build up Zion's walls
We want no cowards in our band
God's going to build up Zion's walls
We call for valiant hearted men
God's going to build up Zion's walls
Going to take my breast-plate, sword and shield
God's going to build up Zion's walls
And march boldly in the field
God's going to build up Zion's walls

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me -
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
T'was Grace that taught -
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear -
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares -
we have already come.
T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far -
and Grace will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me -
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be -
as long as life endures.
When we've been here ten thousand years -
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise -
then when we've first begun.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me -
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.