COVER Request Contest Week 28! - Winner (50% of the Post Rewards in HP): @merit.ahama!

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa!

I am into the 28th week of this challenging series of posts I have set myself for Thursdays! Wow! BUT I desperately need your help to keep going please!

This is the challenge I'm setting myself every Thursday: I ask for cover song requests on the MUSIC community (make a comment on this post to take part by suggesting a song for me to try), and then I pick a favourite song to learn and post a live video of me attempting to cover it. The person who asked for the winning song then gets 50% of the post rewards in HP! It's as simple as that! (Well for everyone but me - who then has to learn to sing and play a new song every week! Haha!)

Well, this week was a little busier than last week with requests from Bon Jovi to Adele. However, there was one request from a person who has been very supportive of my posts, but has never won before…

The winner this week is @merit.ahama! She is from Nigeria and has a lot in common with me:

• We are from Africa!
• We are both members of @zakludick’s #busybees initiative, where Zak tracks our progress in accumulating more HP and encourages as to keep posting and become stronger on Hive.
• We are two of Zak’s busiest members: Since the beginning of the year, we have both gained an average of over 100HP per week, and both look set to reach dolphin status (Roughly 5600HP) before the year is over!

She requested “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction. Now that’s not too hard to get the basic structure on guitar… What is more challenging is that this is a boy-band made up of boys with a range of voices (some quite low on the verse, and then much higher in the chorus), whereas I am a MAN with a lower voice than any of them… Hahaha!

So basically I had to choose a key where I could be very low on the verses and then rise up high and energetic in the chorus… my answer was half an octave lower, but I think it sounds okay!

Here is the original:

Congratulations @merit.ahama! You win 50% of this post's rewards in HP!

So, that’s Week 28 of my own Initiative on Thursdays done and dusted!

So now, for everybody else reading this, please take part! All you have to do is make a comment on this post with a suggestion for a cover song that you would like me to attempt next week. Give it a shot!!

Lyrics for "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction

You're insecure, don't know what for
You're turning heads when you walk through the door
Don't need makeup to cover up
Being the way that you are is enough
Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else, but you, ooh
Baby, you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm lookin' at you, and I can't believe
You don't know, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful, oh, oh-oh
That's what makes you beautiful
So c-come on, you got it wrong
To prove I'm right, I put it in a song
I don't know why you're being shy
And turn away when I look into your eyes
Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else, but you, ooh
Baby, you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm lookin' at you, and I can't believe
You don't know, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful, oh, oh-oh
That's what makes you beautiful
Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na, na
Na-na-na, na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na-na, na, na, na
Na-na-na, na-na-na
Baby, you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
(You don't know, oh-oh)
You don't know you're beautiful
Baby, you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperately
Right now I'm lookin' at you, and I can't believe
You don't know, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful, oh, oh-oh
You don't know you're beautiful, oh, oh-oh
That's what makes you beautiful

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Rami Yacoub / Savan Kotecha / Carl Falk
What Makes You Beautiful lyrics © Emi April Music Inc.

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