Originally Posted by Tervuren (Post 12325027)

I wonder if it is Laure Le Prunenec?
She might be a bit wilder than what you describe though.

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Originally Posted by L8Brakr (Post 12325777)

Here's another example Vinman...... Perhaps the best voice/performance I have ever heard:

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 12324723)

Many/most of us, I'm sure have heard the odd hit song that's in a foreign language, 99 luftballons by Nena from the 80s comes to mind. There are a couple of brain cells that say there are a couple/few more, but those cells don't also include the details of the song/artist.

In the last 10 years or so, I discovered and listened to a bunch of Melody Gardot. Pandora tossed a bunch of some French female vocalist in with that. I don't understand French, but the songs were good and fit well with the rest of the music in that "channel".
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I recently seeded a new channel with "AnnenMayKantereit" which is a German group. About half of what Pandora adds is also in German and half is in English. I'm digging it, and the more that I listen, the better it gets, despite me not understanding more than the occasional word. But it's going to be educational, because I do occasionally look up a word or title so I'll probably start learning more words.
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Anyone else listen to music for the musicality rather than understanding the lyrics?

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins (Post 12324779)

Does Rap count?

Originally Posted by Dixie (Post 12324792)

For years I thought Manfred Man Earth Band was singing, "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night."

Originally Posted by Deschodt (Post 12326201)

Most of the world does that... They listen to english language music and most people don't speak a lick of it. Also in other countries there is more exposure to foreign music due to proximity - for instance it's not uncommon for an italian or spanish hit to be #1 in France or whatever.. All I can say is in the USA, people sure missed out on a lot of good music over the decades, simply because it's in other languages and not quite "accepted" for prime time on radios etc... The reverse is not true.. That is changing with streaming.

Over the years many non-english hits were redone in english and nobody is the wiser... A non fashionable but maybe one of the most recoognized songs out there would be Sinatra's "my way". Not a Sinatra song - it's french, LOL.

If you don't know of him, try Zucchero (italian), one of my fav foreign language singers. Mana (band) also has had some really good rock hits (in spanish)... Telephone (in french) also.. A song caught my ear on FLying wild alaska (TV show), I thin it 's in icelandic or something... sounds like the guy it cleaning his thoat at times, and yet it's lovely (Sinnattut by Peand L) - I guess it's a matter of exposure.

Originally Posted by Dixie (Post 12324792)

I have enough trouble with the languages I do speak. For years I thought Manfred Man Earth Band was singing, "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night." Decades later I learned the lyrics were actually, "Revved up like a deuce in the middle of the night." Ugh!