In 2024 Evie collaborated with The Church of Jesus Christs of Latter-day Saints through their youth program called Strive to Be on a new Christmas single and music video called Christ the Lord.
Category: Music Videos
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Hymn Mash Up
Later this week the beloved singer/songwriter, Evie Clair, will become Mrs. Evelyn Thomas. Her heart is definitely set on the tall and handsome Clancy Thomas but lately has also turned more to God. She has been working on reviving some of her favorite hymns and spiritual music. She revealed to her family recently that her favorite types of gigs are ones where she can share her spiritual journey and sacred music.
Fans weren’t expecting a new music video from Evie to drop on her YouTube channel just days before her wedding since she hasn’t released a professional video since “Talking” 10 months ago. She gave no hints about the this new video, but fans we’re thrilled with one commenting “Just what the world needs” and another “This was so beautiful. Got chills the second I hit play. God bless and Merry Christmas.” They also loved that she included her little sister Kirra Abplanalp and her Aunt Christy Mann’s beautiful accompanying cello.
With video direction and production by Tanner Blackburn and audio engineering by Stephen Moyer, this was most likely Evie’s last opportunity to work with Arizona friends as she will be staying in Idaho to continue her education and start her new married life.
She doesn’t have plans yet on how or if she will pursue her singing career moving forward but she will never stop singing praises to God.
A comment recently left on one of Evie’s videos reads: “There is a disarming gentleness and quiet strength to this child that is truly human. She is not your normal performer with goals, agendas and ambitions. She has so much past, so much insight into the sum total of human suffering, so much humanness to offer those who live in human frames but have either lost the knack or have never known what it is like to be both gently strong and strongly gentle.” -Arjuna Seneviratne
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Evie Clair – I Feel My Savior’s Love
Evie Clair is a follower of Jesus Christ. Being a part of this project was special to her because she was able to bask in the spirit of the Savior’s love and tenderness of these children who have such a bright faith and understanding of Him. She was able to sing a beautiful recreation of one of her favorite primary melodies by Newell Dayley arranged by her friend Shaun Barrowes – former American Idol contestant and film score composer. She also had the chance once again to work with the brilliant film director Dan LaPray. It was a thrilling experience for Evie to record at LDS Motion Picture Studios and film in Goshen at the Jerusalem replica where season 2 of her favorite TV Series – The Chosen was filmed.
Vocalist Evie Clair sings the well-known Primary song “I Feel My Savior’s Love,” while Primary-age children from around the world individually share how each feels the Savior’s love. The children share their love of the Savior and note how He sacrificed Himself, how He comforts them, how He loves everyone despite who they are. One calls Jesus Christ her friend. The music inspires introspection, prompting thoughts of how “His love is freely given.”
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Evie at age 10 Singing Mozart with Mom
Recently discovered video footage shows that Evie Clair was trained in Italian opera. Even at 10 years old, she had no problem keeping up on this difficult duet with soaring agility and beauty. Before Evie Clair took the stage on America’s Got Talent in 2017, her classically-trained mom was the music teacher at her elementary school. They sing together live for the school talent show an operatic duet called Sull’aria from Motzart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
“Sull’aria…che soave zeffiretto” (lit. “On the breeze…What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
In the film The Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) defies Warden Sam Norton (Bob Gunton) by playing the duettino over the prison’s loudspeakers. Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) remarks in his voice-over narration: “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. […] I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.” The song’s appearance in the Shawshank Redemption soundtrack earned it a nomination as one of 400 songs in consideration for American Film Institute’s list of 100 top movie songs.
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Even if the World Stops
Evie Clair’s 3rd song in her summer of collaborations is with some fantastic kids from One Voice Children’s Choir (Grant, Lulu, Eva and Kainoa) who have a new smaller group called Kids America. This collab also included her good friend Benson Baril! These are some of the talented people behind the scenes:
Lead Producer: Big Time Nate
Songwriters: Big Time Nate, Shaun Barrowes, Evie Clair and Benson Baril
Videography: Dan LaPrayThis project brings attention to the kids who are alone because of the global pandemic with the world still mostly closed. It shows that we need each other and we need to find a new sense of community that is supportive and uplifting. We need to help each other. We need to try harder to understand each other. We need to find peace. We need to find new ways to show people we love them. We need to get past our differences and help people feel hope and that life is worth living and fighting for.
Evie took on this project because she has felt that despair in the past and sees too many kids feeling it now. She has witnessed an epidemic of teens in her friend groups and community who have taken their own lives during this time of quarantine and she wants to help spread a message of hope and that we all have a purpose and a responsibility to help each other when we fall into dark places.
► Listen to Kids America’s new album now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3SlZWv… Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/kids…
► Subscribe to Kids America on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLww…
► Follow Kids America: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wearekidsamerica Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearekidsame… Twitter: https://twitter.com/kidsameric… Instagram: https://instagram.com/wearekidsamerica/
► “Even If The World Stops” Lyrics:
Cause we all need someone who understands us
To hold you closer when darkness pulls us
So even if the world stops well have someone around
Holding the rope its begun to fray
I’m Falling now
Calling for help I’m a mile away there’s no way out
All I need is someone to hear me It’s a game I don’t wanna play
Cause we all need someone to understand us
To hold you closer when darkness pulls us
So even if the world stops we’ll have someone around
Can you help me Can you help me out (x3)
Even if the world stops Looking for signs it will be okay
I’m screaming out
The light at the end of the road won’t stay.
In darkness now
Cause all I need is someone to find me
To hold my hand when I’m feeling lost
Cause we all need someone to understand us
To hold you closer when darkness pulls us
So even if the world stops we’ll have someone around
Can you help me
Can you help me out (x3)
Can you help me
Can you help me out (x3)
Even if the world stops
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No Wasted Days
No Wasted Days – original single with a calm and reflective mood remembering her father and reminding us to make the most of each day. In the video, you’ll see a few scenes with a beautiful lady at the piano and Evie and her brother and sisters all around. You then get a peek of Evie’s late father through the dancing children. This was a video from a visit with good friends, The Warrens. Julia Warren wrote the music and lyrics for No Wasted Days with Evie in mind to record it. On Evie’s parents’ 20th anniversary it was the night of the quarter-finals for America’s Got Talent. Evie’s dad was in the hospital in Arizona and Evie and her mom were in California. Evie’s dad called Julia’s husband, Chris Warren, to bring Evie’s mom an anniversary gift since they lived in California. It was the last gift she would get from her sweet husband in this life. Evie and her mom made it home before he passed away but by that time he was already unresponsive. The Warrens have supported and loved Evie and her family through good times and heartbreaking times. Evie loved recording this song from Julia’s heart and hopes you will let it fill you with love and gratitude for the good people in your lives.
No Wasted Days
Throwing rocks in the ocean
Stepping on foam
It’s getting cold now
Almost time to go home
The sun’s dipping lower
In the violet sky
Your head on my shoulder
Now baby, don’t cry
‘Cause I will walk by your side for as long as you’ll let me
Just swear when it’s all said and done
That you won’t forget me
No wasted days
Waves drifting away
Tides up and down
Winds blowing ’round
No wasted days
There are so many ways
We lose them, it’s true,
Like sand slipping through
No day is wasted
When I’m with you
Some salty expression
Slips right off the tongue
You know what they say now
Youth is wasted on the young
With each day that passes
We’re a little bit changed
Some will grow up and some will grow old
Now isn’t that strange
And I will walk by your side for as long as you’ll let me
Just swear when it’s all said and done
That you won’t forget me
No wasted days
Waves drifting away
Tides up and down
Wind blowing ’round
No wasted days
There are so many ways
We lose them, it’s true,
Like sand slipping through
No day is wasted
When I’m with you
Caught up in twilight
The darkness is calling
But something tells me,
Don’t wait ’till morning
No wasted days
Waves drifting away
Tides up and down
Wind blowing ’round
No wasted days
There are so many ways
We lose them, it’s true,
Like sand slipping through
No day is wasted
When I’m with you
Throwing rocks in the ocean
Stepping on foam
It’s getting cold now
Almost time to go home
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65 Years
“Light, breezy and sweet” as one fan recently called it, this original song performed by Maren and Evie is a tribute to Maren’s grandparents for their 65th wedding anniversary.
Director: Maxwell Mawji
Producer: Craig Carswell – Redblack Recording
Band: Craig Carswell, Joshua Neumann, Mike Sands, Taylor McPhailFilmed on location at: Kayben Farms (Canada)
65 Years by Maren Ord
(C) Old Sky, (G) new sky
(Am) You are (G) my guy
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you (G)
(C) Grey sky, (G) blue sky
(Am) Sunny days and (G) rainy nights
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you
Chorus:
(Am) If I had a (Em) wishing well
(F) I’d ask just one little thing (C,G)
You’d (Am) take my hand (Em) forever, Dear
And I’ll (D7) wear your wedding (G) ring
(C) Wild flow’rs, (G) birds sing
(Am) You are my (G) everything
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you (G)
(C) Hard days, (G) warm nights
(Am) Summer breeze, you (G) hold me tight
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you
(Intermission: C, G, Am, G, F, G, C)
(C) Old sky, (G) new sky
(Am) You are (G) my guy
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you (G)
(C) Grey sky, (G) blue sky
(Am) Sunny days and (Am) rainy nights
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you
Chorus:
If (Am) I was your (Em) wishing well
What (F) would you ask of (C) me? (G)
(Am) Take my hand (Em) forever, Darlin’
Now (D7) wear that wedding (G) ring
Doo Doo doo, etc.
(C, G, Am, G, F, G)
(C, G, Am, G, F, G, C)
Chorus:
(Am) Don’t need no (Em) wishing well
But if (F) I were to ask for (C) fun (G)
(Am) I’d want sixty-five (Em) years with you
And (D7) sixty-five more to (G) come
(C) Old sky, (G) new sky
(Am) You are (G) my guy
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for (C) you (G)
(C) Wishing wells, (G) diamond rings
(Am) You are my (G) everything
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do
(F) Oh what I (G) wouldn’t do for you
(C, G, Am, G, F, G, C)
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YouTube Covers Playlist
Since most of us are stuck at home for a while until the COVID-19 pandemic clears, let’s make the best of it. Enjoy a few live, acoustic cover songs arranged by Evie Clair with just her and the piano including Break My Heart Again (FINNEAS) I’m a Believer (The Monkees) Hello (Lionel Richie) Don’t Give Up On Me (Andy Grammar) I’m Still Standing (Elton John) Rainbow (Kacey Musgraves) Memories/Here Comes the Sun mash up (Maroon 5 and The Beatles) and Lost in the Woods (Frozen) and more…
YouTube Covers Playlist
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Cry
Cry by Evie Clair – official music video
Producers: Joseph McNichols, Katie Hopp
Director: Lisette Perez
Cinematographer : Lisette Perez
1st assistant camera: Alexis Lopez
2nd assistant camera: Stephen P. Davis
Gaffer: Chloe Caufield
Grips: Cheyanne Glazier, Dabney Jackson, Kenny Gondales, Pepe Sifuentes, Tommy Pascale
Special thanks to Huntington University – The best film crew around!!
Art by Dave XP Cry is a powerful original single by Evie Clair and part of the Results Take Time Album that will be released Feb 14th 2020! Her soulful voice, unique instrumentation and indie feel bring out her brilliant emotions in Cry. For Evie, music is where she can express her feelings best. This song is a reminder to herself that she doesn’t want to let other people control how she feels. She wants to experience emotion independent of the choices of those around her. “I’m not gonna cry anymore” is a self motivation to stand on her own two feet and face the world and those who would want to bring her down and remind them and herself that happiness is a choice.
CRY LYRICS by Evie Clair
do you know i still cry over you
lose my sleep ’til me eyes turn dark blue
i’m over you
not over youivory keys and theses gold piano strings
hear my heart
ice the pain from your sting
wash over me
i’m in too deepand i’m not gonna cry anymore
only making my heartache more sore
no i’m not gonna cry anymore
go on hun, it’s your move; take the floor
cuz for you i won’t cry anymorethey say what’s the real use for those tears
just a spilled glass of milk
tame your fears
it’s over dear
your makeup’s smearedand i’m not gonna cry anymore
only making my heartache more sore
no i’m not gonna cry anymore
go on hun, it’s your move; take the floor
cuz for you i won’t cry anymoreahh ahh ahh
ah ah ahh ahh ah ah ah
ahh ahh ahh
ah ah ahh ahh ah ah ahand i’m not gonna cry anymore
only making my heartache more sore
and i’m not gonna cry anymore
go on hun, it’s your move; take the floor
cuz for you i won’t cry anymoremusic and lyrics by Evie Clair
performed by Evie Clair
audio engineering by Stephen Moyer
digital art by Dakota Sheperd and Dave XP
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Maybe Not
Evie Clair has been busy writing music. This new song is the first of 5 new songs written by Evie Clair and produced by Stephen Moyer with animated music videos created by Dakota Sheperd. Maybe Not is now available for download and streaming everywhere. Thank you for taking this new adventure with Evie and her animated music video series.
MAYBE NOT
my heart breaks a little when i see your face
and i hurt a little but it’s not my place
cuz every time i close my eyes i just see what i left behind
and realize that love had me blindmy world shakes more and more every time you go
tried to replace the love we had ever since you moved on
and i know it’ll never be my place to wonder who’s filling my space
but either way
i’ll love you the samemaybe we were meant to fall apart
maybe that’s just because life is hard
and maybe you were only meant to break my heart
but what if i just messed up and maybe notbeen a while since i last tried to make things right
that doesn’t mean i still don’t dream of you every night
misplaced my mind thought i was right to hold so tightly onto my pride
i let you go too far out of reach this timebut maybe we were meant to fall apart
and maybe that’s just because life is hard
and maybe you were only meant to break my heart
but what if i just messed up
and maybe not, maybe notbut maybe we were never meant to fall apart
and maybe we were meant to last even tho it’s hard
and maybe you were never meant to break my heart
but i messed this up and i’m sorry for this partmaybe we were never meant to fall apart
and maybe we were meant to last even tho it’s hard
and maybe you were never meant to break my heart
cause what if i just messed up and maybe not
