You Are So Beautiful

(Video by ice3353)

                                    

If you are a Chaster, most probably you have already watched the video above. It’s Charice’s rendition of “You Are So Beautiful” which she dedicated to her late father, Mr. Ricky Pempengco. Charice couldn’t have chosen a better song. As David Foster said, “I think it is very, very fitting; a great tribute to your father.”

The word “beautiful” is a very beautiful word. Yes, right…it’s redundant. Please let that redundancy stay. And I’ll say it again. The word BEAUTIFUL is a very beautiful word!

Being a common word to describe a person, a thing, a place, an experience, a feeling and anything under the sun, and the moon if you wish, “beautiful” seems to be so overused that sometimes its meaning is taken for granted. In the video above, however, the meaning of “beautiful” cannot be that—taken for granted.

If you are a Chaster, most probably you cried while watching the video. I did…and not just once. Every tear that touched my cheek was beautiful. Yes, there’s beauty in crying because it reflects the human in us and our capacity to empathize with someone. Even if we have no way of knowing or feeling the exactness of Charice’s emotion, we cried because of the bond we have with her. Her triumph is our triumph, her happiness is our happiness, her sadness is our sadness.

David Foster is a beautiful person. He gave Charice time to compose herself after her voice cracked when she said, “…I lost my Dad…” His moving closer towards Charice when she started to utter her request showed his sensitivity to what was about to happen. And when he finally heard that she wanted to sing a song for her father (the song was unrehearsed), he politely talked to the audience to excuse the two of them while he had his arm around Charice (maybe it was his way of letting her know that he was supportive of her).  He granted the request which, to me, demonstrated not only his belief in the ability of Charice as a performer but also his willingness to give her the opportunity to pay tribute to her father by way of a beautiful song.

     David Foster and Charice

in a beautiful and heart-warming embrace

after the performace.

(Photo by Tome Donoghue, www.lasvegasweekly.com)

The musicians and the audience are beautiful people. They were one with Charice in her request. Their applause with standing ovation after the performance was, to me, an appreciation of the scenario of a beautiful person giving tribute to a loved one through something that she does best. This whole thing is destined to happen not in any other show but in this one—her comeback performance in a David Foster and Friends Concert in Mandalay Bay where she and David first showed their beautiful tandem to the concert-goers more than three years ago.

To Mr. Ricky Pempengco, I’d like to say that the entire video above is so beautiful and so touching because to your daughter, You Are So Beautiful.