Clay Aiken “My Grownup Christmas List” – Cyndi Lauper and Friends Benefit

By On 12/05/2011 · 22 Comments · In American Idol, Clay Aiken

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Clay Aiken performed at Cyndi Lauper & Friends: Home for the Holidays, at the Beacon Theatre last night (Dec.4).

The show raised awareness and funds for homeless LGBT youth. Also appearing were Cyndi, Norah Jones, Lou Reed, Harvey Fierstein, Debbie Harry, Alan Cumming, Cassandra Wilson and more.

Watch Clay perform “My Grownup Christmas List”.

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  • Anonymous

    Beautiful

  • Anonymous

    oops! sorry about that (although it is beautiful)

  • tomr

    WOW!

  • KatieB

    What a great cause and cudos to Cyndi Lauper.  Glad Clay took part and he sang beautifully, nothing better than just Clays voice and a piano.  He’s looking very handsome.

  • n3mover

    Thank God for youtube. I’m too far away to get to NYC, but the performance was beautiful. What a gem Cyndi is and so happy Clay took part in the concert.

  • jeff2683

    Clay, as usual,  did a very good job.  
    Thanks for the video.

    BTW – I bet he would do a good job with OMFG, too! LOL

  • http://twitter.com/covingmae SpatiaSpatia

    Love this song and Clay sounds great.  Perfect for his voice.  Very nice.

  • Mandee

    Clay’s voice still melts me after all these years. The tone, the range and the beauty remain incredible. Great job, Clay!

  • Anonymous

    Kudo`s to Clay Aiken on all the performers who performed for free. It is a great cause helping our children. Many awesome performances but I love how Clay sings Christmas music.

  • http://twitter.com/AaronRison Aaron Rison

    Nice performance.  Is there any other video of the other performances?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7YF5DWCRCJC6D7OPEVRZCIYPAY Giggles

    Very worthwhile benefit concert for the LGBT youth. Clay’s voice is gorgeous and enjoyed Alan Cummings and Cyndi, of course.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    This is Cyndi singing “True Colors”:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap2FEoD01es

    Alan Cummings:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga9cW-3yiAk

    Also, this is a single that Cyndi has released to iTunes featuring Norah Jones (who also performed at the benefit, but no videos are up on youtube yet):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jthCtvHh5Tg

  • Anonymous

    I love Alan Cummings in “The Good Wife” and he’s not a bad singer, Cyndi Lauper is a doll baby, but Clay Aiken is in a whole different league. Wow.

  • Trina

    Wow clay sounds amazing. I gave up my Claymate card a long time ago but his voice on Xmas songs still make me melt.  I have another version of him singing this song from GMA a few years ago, stripped down, just gorgeous.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    I wouldn’t consider Clay in a “different league” than Cyndi Lauper or Alan Cummings.  His performance was nice and pleasant, but not particularly impressive IMO.

  • http://twitter.com/MyEyesBabyEyes Judy Purcell

    This song always makes me cry, the lyrics are beautiful  and  it’s so beautifully sung by Clay 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Layla-Hooman/100002284363450 Layla Hooman

     Clay has such a beautiful voice!

  • http://twitter.com/monidol Jackie

    For some reason you always seem know everything about Clay and yet, you never seem to have anything positive to say about him.  IMO ;)

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    It never ceases to amaze me what a gorgeous voice Clay has.  One of the best to grace the American Idol stage.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1594197376 Mercedes Ayon

    There is nothing like Clay and a piano, that’s all he needs, this is so beautiful!!! This song matched perfectly the theme of the concert. I couldn’t expect less from Clay, his performance was impressive.

  • http://twitter.com/Miztig Miz

    Kudos to Clay for doing this and major props to Cyndi for her True Colors foundation.

  • http://twitter.com/starfishy2000 starfishy2000

    Wow, this was a very beautiful performance! I have always enjoyed Clay at Christmas time! This song has a lot of deep meaning, and I fell it fit the event perfectly! Kudos to everyone involved for donating their time/talents to a good cause.