Kenneth's speech Copeland on COVID-19 Heavy Metal: Arranged by André Antunes
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American televangelist Kenneth Copeland addressed COVID-19 with a fiery speech, demanding to stop destroying the world at the behest of Satan. The pastor's expression inspired the audience so much that soon the Internet was filled with creativity based on his speech. Guitarist Andre Antunes turned Kenneth Copeland's COVID-19 sermon into heavy metal, garnering hundreds of thousands of YouTube views in a matter of days. Now enthusiastic listeners want to see the musical group founded by Antunes and Copeland.
Copeland's speech
The sermon took place in early spring, and spread all over the Internet. This is not the first such performance of the pastor - he has repeatedly fought against world evil and became the hero of memes. Copeland has his own show called The Believer's Victorious Voice. As the covers created for his performances show, the pastor's voice is really outstanding. In addition, in 1957, his song "Pledge of Love" even entered the Top 40 of the Billboard magazine.
At the moment, Copeland is known primarily as one of the richest televangelists in the United States. The attitude towards him is ambiguous - many point out that his impressive income was obtained illegally. The pastor himself, in response to this, replies that his financial statements belong only to God.
According to Copeland, the main reason for the appearance of the coronavirus is the evil power of Lucifer, who decided to destroy humanity. To fight the darkness, he called on the “wind of god” and tried to “blow off” the coronavirus from the United States. Despite some of the pastor's ideas related to the need to abandon traditional medicine, in his emotional speech he still demanded immediate vaccination. Then he furiously denounced Satan and prophesied his loss of power. After the performance ended, Copeland announced that his audience was now healed and the virus had left the country forever. As statistics show, his struggle was not very effective.
Arranged by André Antunes
André Antunes is a musician and blogger from Portugal. He rose to fame in 2015 when he released a video with a cover of "Get Lucky by Daft Punk". He performed the song in the style of ten of the most famous guitarists, from Carlos Santana to Eddie Van Halen. By 2020, this video has over six million views on YouTube.
The guitarist is known for his arrangements and covers of pop and classical pieces. On his channel you can find videos dedicated to classical music. Antuanes even recorded a separate cover for Russian composers, where he turned to the work of ten of them at once, creating a bright potpourri.
You can also find more unusual arrangements on his channel - for example, once the musician recorded a track based on the sound of a washing machine.
At the end of November 2020, Andre Antunes paid attention to Copeland's performances and was amazed at how perfectly the pastor's speech fits the guitar riffs. Soon a new version of it was born - with musical accompaniment in the style of heavy metal.
Prior to this, Antunes had already written music, creating accompaniment for performances by Kenneth Copeland. The preacher's first speech, which became a heavy metal composition, dealt with the US elections and was addressed to Joe Biden. Copeland regularly criticized the activities of the Democratic Party, and refused to recognize the victory of its representative in the elections. At one of the performances, he behaved extremely expressively, and his laughter, which lasted almost a minute, quickly became the hero of memes and attracted the attention of the musicians. This is how Antunes' track "HA HA HA" was born.
Antunes called the resulting video this time "I demand" - "I demand." Copeland uses this phrase many times, and in terms of expression it fully captures the essence of his speech.
After some time, the guitarist again turned to Copeland's sermons, and wrote the no less expressive melody "Wind of God", dedicated to the divine wind that the evangelist invokes extremely emotionally to save the United States.
It is worth noting that the music turned out to be not only meme-like, but also of very high quality - Andre Antunes promises to record an entire album with similar tracks in the future. Jokingly or not, time will tell.
