Other Versions
Welsh singer Shirley Bassey recorded the song for her 1984 album I Am What I Am. That version was released as a single from the album, with "This Is My Life" as the B-side.
The song has been also covered by the likes of Marti Webb, Joannie Taylor, Carol Jiani, George Hearn, Hannah Jones, Soraya Arnelas, Ken Page, Gerard-Rene-Gordon, Doug Shneider, Teatro, Linda Eder, John Barrowman, Amateur Transplants, Karen Mulder, Anthony Warlow, and Dan Zanes.
In Argentina, the singer Sandra Mihanovich made a Spanish-cover of the song called "Soy lo que soy".
Páll Oskar and Hafsteinn Þórólfsson have both recorded Icelandic versions of the song as "Ég er Eins og ég Er".
The song features on Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show and previously featured on The Geoff Show, a late-night show on Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) as backing music to the staple feature "The Big I Am".
French singer Amanda Lear covered "I Am What I Am" for her 2009 album Brand New Love Affair. In 2010 it was remixed, labelled as TV Final Mix, and released as a digital download-only one-track single.
Swedish drag queen Babsan, who sang the song "Ge mig en spanjor" in the Melodifestivalen 2011, regularly performs a Swedish version of the song, "Jag är som jag är".
The song was used as the closing number of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London sung by Beverley Knight.
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