High School Janitor Sings Sam Cooke, Blows Audience Away

Short clip of a janitor performing Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”
3/10/2016
Updated:
3/10/2016

Roy Smith, a janitor at Burke High School in Omaha, Nebraska, gave a remarkable rendition of Sam Cooke’s 1964 hit “A Change Is Gonna Come” during the school’s orchestra recital.

A video of Smith performance–wearing a bright pink suit–went viral after one student posted a short clip to Twitter.

“They had asked me to sing to [sic] with them,” Smith told ABC News.

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