"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free" ~ Kristen Martin, soloist ~ IBC Gospel Choir Video

Recorded in 1967 by legendary pianist and singer, Nina Simone, Billy Taylor's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" served as an anthem for equality and justice during the Civil Rights Movement. Performed here, live in service, at Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland, Maine in 2006 with the IBC Gospel Choir and Kristen Martin, soloist, conductor Aaron Robinson adapts Marc Shaiman's brilliant version from the film "Ghosts of Mississippi" ~ accompanied by hauntingly beautiful images bridging the struggle begun by Harriet Tubman, WEB DuBois, through Mother Willie May Ford Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, to the Sisters of Selma, and the March on Washington, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Rosa Parks ~ with an opening homage to Nina Simone. Billy Taylor once said, "I wrote this song for my daughter. This is one of the best I've done, because it is very spiritual." Share this video ~ it has a very moving Universal Message for the whole round world to hear ~ watch it over and over again.