I have to give some context for approaches to the song "Que Sera Sera." I grew up as a black girl in New Orleans hearing that song at the beginning of The Doris Day Show during the late 1960s, and she seemed to sing it on almost every variety show at some point. How can we stand in the face of tragedy or how do we stand day to day is indeed the question. That would be throwing up one's hands and giving up, right? If we say that, how shall we stand? Her husband, Jason Rae, died in 2008 of a suspected drug overdose.Ĭonsidering that this blog is the Urban Mother's Book of Prayers, a reader may ask, "How does Corinne Bailey Rae singing "Que Sera Sera" relate to crime or attempts at spiritual evolution in New Orleans? Surely the blogger can't be saying "Que sera sera: whatever will be will be" about chaos and tragedy. I found her rendition particularly moving (as I do the Family Stone's rendition), but I feel that Rae's soulfulness, her bluesy clutching of her guitar later in the song, may have resulted, sadly, from the young singer suffering loss. If you've heard Sly and the Family Stone's version of that Doris Day classic " Que Sera Sera," then you'll recognize that Corinne Bailey Rae is doing Sly's arrangement in the video above.
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