I’m staying here. Cynthia Harrell Tabs with free online tab player. She does not sing professionally anymore, but will still sing in her house or while driving. Cynthia Harrell is a singer who is best known for the song opening theme for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. They have two children. Such a shame she did sung so few songs in her career. The game is quiet save the soft ping of Snake’s feet on the ladder’s rungs. Not for honor, but for you (snake eater) In my time there'll be no one else. Harrell recorded the final cut of “Snake Eater” in two takes. Actions ↑ Top Close. Album METAL GEAR SOLID VOCAL TRACKS. Through thick and thin 2. I always win 3. This is amazing. Lyrics/Composition: A BONE Performed by: A BONE (feat. Cynthia Harrell, The Woman Who Sang 'Snake Eater,' Is Ready To Be Heard Again A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about “Snake Eater,” the titular song in the 2004 video game masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Metal Gear Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. “I think at that time I wanted to go to Saint Xavier [University] and I was working while my friends were in school and it was like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m 18. 1 Background 2 Gallery Harrell provided the lyrics for the ending theme on the original 1997 PlayStation release of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, "I am the Wind". Though on crutches from a knee surgery, Harrell took the invitation from King Records — the label that released the first few Metal Gear soundtracks — and travelled to Japan to attend the release party for Snake Eater. siteads.queue.push( {"site":"kotaku","pagetype":"article","ad_type":"article","sec":"in-real-life","amp":false,"ctype":"article","article":"cynthia harrell the woman who sang snake eater is ready to be heard again","article-tags":["castlevania symphony of the night","interview","metal gear solid","metal gear solid 3 snake eater","music","soundtrack"],"native":["null"],"aggregate":["castlevania symphony of the night","interview","metal gear solid","metal gear solid 3 snake eater","music","soundtrack"],"pageID":["null"],"sub-sec":"","cat":"in-real-life","cat1":"","item":{"objectid":1189251,"title":"Cynthia Harrell, The Woman Who Sang ‘Snake Eater,’ Is Ready To Be Heard Again","text":"A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog<\/a> about \u201cSnake Eater,\u201d the titular song in the 2004 video game masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater<\/em","url":"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2020\/10\/cynthia-harrell-the-woman-who-sang-snake-eater-is-ready-to-be-heard-again\/","img":"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/22\/cynthia-harrell.png","category":"In Real Life","published_at":1603357320,"updated_at":1603357364,"kind":"article"},"ad_location":"mrec-content-mobile","targeting":{"pos":"1"},"provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot_mrec-content-mobile_section-index-1_pos-1"} ); Jesus.”. In 2004, Harrell sang the opening theme for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater which won her the "Best Original Vocal Song - Pop" Award from the Game Audio Network Guild at the Game Developers Conference in August 2005. I found several hits for a Cynthia Harrell but only one with the picture of a Black woman who looked approximately like the woman on the cover of the Castlevania “I Am The Wind” single. 'Cause I would fight both life and death to save a friend 1. Listen to your favorite songs from Cynthia Harrell. “What have you done?” She asked me jovially. siteads.queue.push( {"site":"kotaku","pagetype":"article","ad_type":"article","sec":"in-real-life","amp":false,"ctype":"article","article":"cynthia harrell the woman who sang snake eater is ready to be heard again","article-tags":["castlevania symphony of the night","interview","metal gear solid","metal gear solid 3 snake eater","music","soundtrack"],"native":["null"],"aggregate":["castlevania symphony of the night","interview","metal gear solid","metal gear solid 3 snake eater","music","soundtrack"],"pageID":["null"],"sub-sec":"","cat":"in-real-life","cat1":"","item":{"objectid":1189251,"title":"Cynthia Harrell, The Woman Who Sang ‘Snake Eater,’ Is Ready To Be Heard Again","text":"A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog<\/a> about \u201cSnake Eater,\u201d the titular song in the 2004 video game masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater<\/em","url":"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2020\/10\/cynthia-harrell-the-woman-who-sang-snake-eater-is-ready-to-be-heard-again\/","img":"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/22\/cynthia-harrell.png","category":"In Real Life","published_at":1603357320,"updated_at":1603357364,"kind":"article"},"ad_location":"mrec-content-mobile","targeting":{"pos":"2"},"provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot_mrec-content-mobile_section-index-1_pos-2"} ); They have two children. Nothing else happens for those three minutes. Its a powerful song with great intrumentals, and a superb vocalist. I'm searching and I'll melt into you. View wiki if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { A lot of that success has to do with the story Hideo Kojima wrote, and the way David Hayter and Lori Alan acted out their roles as Naked Snake and The Boss. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. In fact, one of the other top results from a “Cynthia Harrell” web search returns an r/videogamemysteries Reddit thread whose author posits she might be dead. When Harrell mentioned she did jingle work for McDonald’s, I idly wondered aloud if she could possibly know my cousin Jeff — who, in my family’s mythology — also sang jingles for McDonald’s. Harrell worked in the music industry up until her retirement last year. “I’d find myself on days that I wasn’t working [playing] Zelda. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about “Snake Eater,” the titular song in the 2004 video game masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Kotaku’s own Ian Walker counts November 2004 as one of the best months in video games ever in part because of Snake Eater’s release and Polygon counts the ladder sequence — the moment when you hear Snake Eater” for the first time during gameplay — as “the epitome of why Metal Gear Solid series is so much more engrossing than the other gun-toting spy games it may at first resemble.”. }. Occupation Harrell, by her own estimation, tended to play “kid” games. I enjoyed Ash Parrish’s article for Kotaku about tracking down Cynthia Harrell, who sang the song. IGN named it as one of the best video games of all time, the second best game for the PS2, and the best game in the Metal Gear franchise. She is an actress, known for Nothing in Common (1986), Falcon Crest (1981) and The Master (1984). "Snake Eater" (Song) refers to the main theme of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, composed by Norihiko Hibino and performed by Cynthia Harrell. Thanks for writing it, Ash and thanks for posting it, Kotaku. siteads.queue.push( {"site":"kotaku","pagetype":"article","ad_type":"article","sec":"in-real-life","amp":false,"ctype":"article","article":"cynthia harrell the woman who sang snake eater is ready to be heard again","article-tags":["castlevania symphony of the night","interview","metal gear solid","metal gear solid 3 snake eater","music","soundtrack"],"native":["null"],"aggregate":["castlevania symphony of the night","interview","metal gear solid","metal gear solid 3 snake eater","music","soundtrack"],"pageID":["null"],"sub-sec":"","cat":"in-real-life","cat1":"","item":{"objectid":1189251,"title":"Cynthia Harrell, The Woman Who Sang ‘Snake Eater,’ Is Ready To Be Heard Again","text":"A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog<\/a> about \u201cSnake Eater,\u201d the titular song in the 2004 video game masterpiece, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater<\/em","url":"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2020\/10\/cynthia-harrell-the-woman-who-sang-snake-eater-is-ready-to-be-heard-again\/","img":"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/22\/cynthia-harrell.png","category":"In Real Life","published_at":1603357320,"updated_at":1603357364,"kind":"article"},"ad_location":"out-of-page-mobile","provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot_out-of-page-mobile_section-index-1"} ); That friendship and casual working relationship led Muranaka to tap Harrell to sing “I Am The Wind” the end credits theme for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Find top songs and albums by Cynthia Harrell including Snake Eater, Snake Eater and more. She has been married to Alan Horn since 1983. After that, she went back to her job, Snake Eater continued development and a few months later, Harrell’s phone rang again. Find Cynthia Harrell song information on AllMusic. I face my destiny every day I live 2. She’s never appeared on the convention circuit, because “no one’s ever really asked.” She was dismayed to hear people thought she might be dead. Like most Black performers, Harrell grew up singing in church. Great story. She is an actress, known for Nothing in Common (1986), Falcon Crest (1981) and The Twilight Zone (1985). Her grandfather was a minister, she said, and most of her family in some form or another ended up in the entertainment industry. Posted by 20 days ago. “I think it was in the ‘90s when I met Rika,” Harell said. Cynthia Harrell – Snake Eater A comment was added to Snake Eater by prof.10239 . I’d play Mario.”. ), is an American soul and funk vocalist. My son was the gamer, when he was growing up. Produced by Rika Muranaka, Kazuki Aoki & Yuichi Hashimoto. Harrell retired in 2019 after a career that spanned 50 years. Thanks for the article it was lovely. Muranaka, a Japanese native, studied music in Harrell’s native Chicago. I give my life. I remember him thanking me for doing the game, and it was just regular conversation. She’s very much alive and would be amenable to an encore performance of “Snake Eater,” if asked. Enter your email below. I did MTV Japan, the local news, local radio, and it’s like, ‘Wait a minute, what’s going on here?’ These people knew the game, and they knew me from the game and I didn’t realise that anyone knew me or anything about me through that game.”. Cynthia Harrell is known for the singer of "Snake Eater" for Metal Gear Solid 3 and for "I'm the Wind" in Castlevania Symphony of the Night, and apparently that is pretty much all the information about her. “When they sent the system to me and the game, I put it on and it’s like ‘ok, this doesn’t look like anything I’ll be able to do.’ [At first] It took me probably about six months to get through Metal Gear.”. In her vast body of work, she only has the two video game credits. https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Cynthia_Harrell?oldid=269808. I’m making my first $US100,000 ($140,450) at 18. 2. We’re good friends.”. Several years later, in 2004, Muranaka once again asked her friend to sing for her, this time on Konami’s newest entry in the Metal Gear Solid series, Snake Eater. So I was surprised and delighted to learn she frequently plays the game for which she is famous — played on a PlayStation 2 that Konami gifted to her specifically for that purpose. }. Literally on everything (including IMBd) it just mentions that she did those two songs. Y) 1. She has been married to Alan Horn since 1983. I wanted to hear from her, hear about her, and ask her if she knew what her song meant to people. I don’t feel nearly as strongly about the ladder boss as you do but I absolutely love the song. Now you can get the top stories from Kotaku delivered to your inbox. I spent the majority of my time speaking to her trying to keep my jaw off my desk, because I was in awe. Cindy Harrell was born on December 28, 1956 as Cynthia Helen Harrell. [...] I got a call from King Records in Japan asking me if I could come there for the launch of the game.”. With her though, that ladder scene becomes one of video games’ most memorable moments, all because of her voice. I’d love to see more articles like this, just recounting stories from the life of people that have worked on games – not even about games, but just their lives – ways to get to know the people behind the games and moments I / we love. “My feelings are still hurt to this day,” she mused. In it, I gush about the song and how it is as responsible for the prestige of the game as anything else. Hell, Snake Eater is a Bond movie and Cynthia Harrell ’s performance of it ranks her higher than even some of the divas singing actual Bond songs (sorry Billie Eilish). Like most Black performers, Harrell grew up singing in church. But I couldn’t find out anything about her. Its magnificent score sounds like the intro theme of a James Bond movie, and the succeeding soundtracks further enhance the sense of danger, and the corresponding stealth and cunning you need to complete your mission. “We were able to have dinner, which was awkward. The game starts with the eponymous Snake Eater theme song, written by Norihiko Hibino and performed by Cynthia Harrell. Then you hear Harrell’s unaccompanied voice slowly waft in as if blown on a breeze. Just like the wind 2. I show up to the studio — we were in Los Angeles — and I walk in and there’s this huge orchestra and that’s when I knew, this was a big deal.”. “She and I had worked together on some other things and we were friends.”, if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { [...] If I feel like it, I will always go back to Metal Gear.”. Beginning of dialog window. Should I walk the path if my world's so dead ahe… She sang background vocals with Kitty and The Haywoods (sometimes known as the Kitty Haywood Singers), sang background vocals under her own name, managed music studios, and was even a background singer on the famous “Be Like Mike” Gatorade commercial. Cynthia Harrell discography and songs: Music profile for Cynthia Harrell. What a fear in my heart. I hope you (and KittyPaw) enjoy them. One for Castlevania’s “I Am The Wind,” and the other, of course, is “Snake Eater.” Harrell got involved with those projects through her friendship with Konami’s longtime music producer Rika Muranaka. In 2004, Harrell sang the opening theme for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater which won her the "Best Original Vocal Song - Pop" Award from the Game Audio Network Guild at the Game Developers Conference in August 2005. [...] When [my son] would go to school, I played Zelda. I've always been 3. Still got my copy of MGS3: Subsistence aka the definitive edition of MGS3. Occasionally though, she’ll receive a reminder. Her star treatment in Japan carried over briefly back in the United states, but it seems sometimes that Harrell forgets how important her work on Snake Eater was to the gaming community at large. Cynthia Harrell. Concerned that this woman might be lost to me beyond the veil of death, I did my own research. What a great story, I loved it! Privacy Policy. Cynthia Harrell, The Woman Who Sang 'Snake Eater,' Is Ready To Be Heard Again. She had college aspirations and desired studying law, but the success of her singing career — and its time demands — diminished college’s appeal. Though she plays other games — she also has a fondness for the Batman Arkham series — Snake Eater is like her fall comfort game. Listen to music by Cynthia Harrell on Apple Music. Despite her connection to gaming history, Harrell demurred when I asked if she was a gamer. Until now, outside of Harrell’s background vocals, commercial jingles, and her performance in “I Am The Wind” and “Snake Eater,” we have not had the chance to hear her voice — to hear this hidden figure of video game history tell her story. Like Harrell’s, my family is also from Chicago, and I too have family in the entertainment business, specifically jingle singing. National Cynthia Harrell, The Woman Who Sang ‘Snake Eater,’ Is Ready To Be Heard Again – Kotaku Australia. Drifting high up in the sky that never ends 1. She likes Sonic the Hedgehog, The Cat in the Hat, and Mario Kart — games vastly different from the tactical espionage action the Metal Gear franchise is known for. Yes, I wish to receive exclusive discounts, special offers and competitions from our partners. Her powerful vocals suffuse “Snake Eater with such gravitas, elevating it from a simple song on a video game soundtrack to something that sees regular rotation in travelling video game orchestra performances and in people’s weddings. It took a week or so of stops and starts, buried under work and life, but I finally managed to speak to her. And y’all…Cynthia Harrell is awesome. “She asked me to sing. Huge selection of 500,000 tabs. Though she missed out on sangin’ with Miss ‘Retha, Harrell would get the chance to sing with another R&B legend. Shop Snake Eater: Song from Metal Gear Solid V.3 by Cynthia Harrell (2004-11-17). Cindy Harrell was born on December 28, 1956 as Cynthia Helen Harrell. I'm searching and I'll melt into you What a fear in my heart But you're so supreme I'd give my life Not for honour, but for you! It’s great when piece of video game history like this are captured before they’re irrevocably lost. Tucked into the final paragraph, I made an entreaty to the song’s performer, Cynthia Harrell, to get in contact with me. Nervous that she would find my sudden air-drop into her life intrusive. Cynthia Harrell With darkness and silence through the night. Frustrated by the dead ends, I made one last attempt that I realise now I should have started with: I searched Twitter. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. “Sort of. Sometimes I don't like the person I've become 1. The singer has such a powerful voice and has the most impressive vibratos I have heard of from female singers. I searched Facebook for surviving relatives mentioned in obituaries for Cynthias Harrell, cross referencing the locations of the many matching names I found against the location mentioned in the obits. I was nervous before speaking to her. And [I] just kept going and going and going and working and working and working with my aunts and my mother.”, A bout of the German measles during Harell’s senior year in high school prevented her from joining her mother and aunts in California, where they were doing background vocals for Aretha Franklin’s hit “Giving Him Something He Can Feel.”. When my day's done 3. Escape will cancel and close the window. Online, it is widely celebrated and referenced in parodies. Finding her was a coincidence reinforced by a touch of shared family history. Found a hit that way. Just like the sun (just like the sun) 2. Previously, Harrell had sung "I am the Wind" for the 1997 Konami video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. A few months later, she called me and she said ‘King Records wants you to do the final version for the game.’ And I said ok, not even really thinking about it and went to do the final version. Snake Eater Lyrics … Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. But then I realised this couldn’t be who I was looking for. “You have brought back all kinds of memories. And she would call me to do the demos. She was like, ‘Cyn, can you come sing this demo for me?’ And I’m like, ‘OK, it’s fine.’ I think I went and sang it, and I knew it was something special about it. I hope we get to hear more from her. Since this profile did not allow direct messages, I took a very public shot in the dark and @-ed her. But she dismissed my worries with the soft, warm tenor of an older (but not old) Black auntie that instantly put me at ease. The group she was in with her mother and aunts, Kitty and the Haywoods, sang background vocals with Curtis Mayfield on his 1977 album Never Say You Can’t Survive. It echoes faintly in the cavernous concrete shaft, slowly building in volume the higher Snake climbs before tapering off into quiet again when he reaches the top. Zelda was one of my favourite games. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use and And admittedly, I still chuckle every time I think of the line “Someday, you feed on a tree frog.”. “The way they were treating me, you would have thought I was Barbra Streisand. Overview Norihiko Hibino wrote the game's opening theme, "Snake Eater", a distinctly James Bond-like vocal track, as performed by Cynthia Harrell. Harrell remembered performing her favourite song and the time she spent with Metal Gear’s creator Hideo Kojima. The track has been described as dramatic, campy and reminiscent of a James Bond theme. 4.9k. What a thrill. When she told me that she did indeed play video games, my face exploded in joy because it meant that I had found my own personal unicorn; a Black woman older than me who plays video games. “I know him very, very well. In later ports the song would even be removed, in the PSP port it was replaced by Serenade of Sympathy and in Xbox 360 port it was replaced by Admiration of a Clan. Cynthia Harrell started her professional career singing jingles for McDonald’s commercials at 10 years old. Cynthia Harrell-Snake Eater. Without Harrell, that scene is just Snake climbing a ladder in silence, which wouldn’t be too out of place because Metal Gear games get weird like that. }, “My goddaughter, told her boyfriend at the time when she was at Spelman and he was at Morehouse — that’s my godmother. But you're so supreme! The next thing I knew, we were doing it as a final project.”. I couldn’t find any interviews. In Metal Gear Solid 3, Harrell's vocals from the song will play during the lengthy ladder-climbing sequence, in which Naked Snake makes his way up … This woman was white, and what little I did know about Cynthia Harrell is that she is a Black woman. In a game that’s part spy-thriller, part-gut wrenching family drama, it is a moment curiously devoid of any action or dialogue. And the next thing I knew I had fans on Morehouse’s campus and it’s like, ‘What in the world?’ not knowing that the game was as big as it was.”, Snake Eater won GameSpot’s “Best Story” award for 2004. Cynthia Harrell is a singer who is best known for the song " I am the Wind " for the 1997 Konami video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { What a thrill. It just exploded. “She would tell me ‘I’m doing this game or whatever, and I would brush her off because I really wasn’t into hearing any of the gaming songs. This is a genuinely important piece of historical archiving. Cynthia Elaine Harrell-Vaughn, commonly known simply as Cynthia Harrell (シンシア・ハレル, Cynthia Harrell? One accurate tab per song. But Cynthia Harrell’s performance of “Snake Eater” during the infamous long ladder climb is also part of the reason why we hold that game in such high regard. Harell’s own memories of her career and video games go much further back than that. This song is used as the opening theme for the PS2 game
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