songs in a language other than English

[Ozimoto]

John and Mary with a traditional French Canadian song...

 

[JavaMan]

I think we forgot one.

 

[JavaMan]

And the best talent show version, also a 13 yr. old.

 

[MSGRET]

Celine Dion who has a beautiful voice in both languages.

 

[quavik]

I kinda cheated - did a query for "viking death metal" and this was one of the songs that popped up. I didn't like several of the others because they were too guttural and seemed grunted rather than sung. Shows my musical boundaries i guess. Anyway, i liked the video that went with this one as well as the woman singing. Also thanks to nwhoopfan for creating this environment that allows us all to expand our musical horizons!

 

[Bigboote]

Bruce Cockburn often has a song in French on each album. Yhis very atmospheric one is from his first live album.

 

[Rocket009]

I guess you could argue that it is English...

 

[Bigboote]

Here's a solo Irish song from Mairead ni Mhaonaigh from her first album with Frankie Kennedy (proto-Altan):

 

[Bigboote]

And one from Solas with Karan Casey singing:

 

[trb123]

I am an infrequent poster not particularly interested in songs. Here are Wacht am Rhein and La Marseillaise.

 

[Bigboote]

This is in Romanian. I love this band, but by the time I’d discovered them, they’d broken up after two albums. . Gotta love a metal band with violin and cello. Those were played by two,sisters who were also in a classical trio.

 

[Boreifs]

Not to be dismissive, but there is Italian, French, German, Russian and Czech opera just hanging around waiting to be discovered by new audiences. Mozart , Verdi, Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, Dvorak, Prokofiev might be good places to start enriching one’s life immensely.

 

[fireford]

 

[Kaizen]

Philippine bamboo dance.

 

[Kaizen]

Indonesian folk songs, Karedok Leunca

 

[Kaizen]

Folk music of Malaysia,

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Judy Collins I don't link well. Judy Collins singing the Jacques Brel song Marieke

 

[Kaizen]

Indonesian folk song but sang by a Chinese female singer, Teresa Teng

 

[trb123]

Meglio Stasera

 

[trb123]

And a second version partially in English

 

[nwhoopfan]

Meglio Stasera

For those like me who were unaware, this is singer/actress Fran Jeffries.

 

[trb123]

And finally, the Vilja aria by Kimmy Skota from Lehar's opera The Merry Widow. I wanted to post the Jane Sutherland version. Unfortunately, the youtube video is atrocious.

 

[trb123]

For those like me who were unaware, this is singer/actress Fran Jeffries.

The actress in Claudia Cardinale and the singer is Fran Jefferies

 

[trb123]

And a second version partially in English

Singer is Janet Roitz although she is often referred to as Fran Jefferies on the web.

 

[cullaville]

anything sung by Bob Dylan