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| Iwwersetzerin Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Luxembourg Joined 5669 days ago 259 posts - 513 votes  Speaks: French*, Luxembourgish*, GermanC2, EnglishC2, SpanishC2, DutchC1, ItalianC1 Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 9 02 February 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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I've been listening a lot to Joan Baez lately and one thing that I love about her, apart from her voice of course, is that she has sung and recorded songs in many different languages, including languages she doesn't speak! As far as I know, she speaks English and Spanish only.
So I thought it would be interesting to have a thread about singers who sing in 3 or more languages (I think 2 is quite common as many non-native English speakers sing in their native language + English, many Canadians sing in both English and French, many Italian singers record their albums in Spanish for Spain and Latin America, etc.). So I'll start with Joan Baez (with links to Youtube videos): English: Diamonds and rust (my favorite) Spanish: No nos moverán Italian: La canzone di Marinella French: Pauvre Rutebeuf (originally by Léo Ferré) German: Sag mir wo die Blumen sind (German version of Where have all the flowers gone) Portuguese: Te Ador & Te Manha Polish: Piosenka dla córki Basque: Txoria Txori I absolutely love this one. It sounds so beautiful, it makes me want to learn Basque! Others I can think of who have sung and recorded in many languages are Nana Mouskouri, Dalida (who also both spoke quite a few) and Sarah Brightman. Who else? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 2 of 9 02 February 2013 at 6:43pm | IP Logged |
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Laura Pausini (speaks Italian with a Romagnolo accent as her native language):
Italian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCUuZZ8eLoQ Portuguese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZZeTek5LI Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8_HKDzqu_A French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbnygEwRYfA English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1-h2y2WtA4 -- Shreya Ghoshal (native speaker of Bengali): Malayalam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uavZeEeMsSQ Tamil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoFMAP2OvY Kannada: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPe05gkfT2U Telugu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt6B4pkFBHU Bengali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6A98Dc-kI Hindi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUApaH2gDIo Marathi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIFtEdlh5DQ Assamese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Q9kus7494 Gujarati: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSGRRZydLQ Nepali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW9FI-NShIg Bhojpuri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KldU6FQtpH4 Punjabi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8eEJo-HUpk ''Ghoshal has been recognised with multiple awards and nominations for her work in music. She won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer four times, the second most by any singer. She has won five Filmfare Awards, from 15 nominations, and seven Filmfare Awards South from 20 nominations. She has received state film awards for best singer from Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments. In addition, she has received numerous best singer awards at IIFA Awards, Zee Cine Awards, Screen Awards, Apsara Awards and Mirchi Music Awards among others. In 2010, she was honoured with the prestigious Swaralaya Yesudas Award. Ghoshal was also honored from the U.S. state of Ohio, wherein governor Ted Strickland declared June 26 as "Shreya Ghoshal Day".'' (Wikipedia) Edited by Medulin on 02 February 2013 at 7:19pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4358 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 9 03 February 2013 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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Nana Mouskouri.
She has recorded songs in many languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese, Maori and Turkish. Edited by renaissancemedi on 03 February 2013 at 12:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tiger Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4315 days ago 15 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 9 08 February 2013 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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Bodo Wartke - Lovesong in 75 languages and dialects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsNmdByC35M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYItis9VFuQ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6069 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 5 of 9 25 March 2013 at 2:05am | IP Logged |
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Demis Roussos re-recorded his songs in a number of languages, including Japanese*
eng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nZKMm-nOsc spa http://youtu.be/ljiduLNEiqg fre http://youtu.be/IOlHPIC4opA ger http://youtu.be/TsZDOtN00S4 rus http://youtu.be/10NHhgJnMfU 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4622 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 6 of 9 15 April 2013 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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In the early 60's, it was fairly common for pop singers to record versions of their songs in other languages. Even The Beatles issued a couple of singles in German (Sie liebt dich, Komm geb mir deine Hand).
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 7 of 9 15 April 2013 at 2:33pm | IP Logged |
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I am assuming this is for pop singers. Classical musicians sing in multiple languages all the time as just a standard part of what they do. In my own recitals I've done English, French, German, Russian, Latin, Hebrew, Finnish, and possibly others.
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| lelisel Newbie United States Joined 4203 days ago 8 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Norwegian* | Message 8 of 9 04 June 2013 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
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Celine Dion - love her:)
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