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June 28, 2016

You Might Cry When You Watch Seal Sing ‘Stand By Me’ With A Busker In Montreal [Video]

It's not easy to gather a crowd when you're a busker, but if you have Seal singing alongside you people tend to sit up and take notice.

Spoiler alert – I didn’t cry, but I’ve been told on numerous occasions that I have a heart of Stone.

Crooner Seal was in Canada over the weekend, wandering the streets on Saturday looking for his hotel. He happened to hear Jason Deeh Pitre busting out a few tunes, and reckoned he would join in for the Ben E. King classic ‘Stand By Me’.

Here’s Pitre’s account of the jam, according to TIME:

“So when I meet a high caliber artist like Seal (with a world [renowned] voice) I feel very vulnerable and small. So when I sang my first sentence, I felt very scared because I didn’t wanna be a step down from Seal (there was a judging audience there after all). But after my second sentence, I realized ‘hey, my voice is actually pretty good’. Of course, I know I can sing, but what I mean is ‘wow, my voice is actually good next to Seal’s’.”

Who knows, maybe this one will tug on your heartstrings.

[source:time]