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Singers do not sing the language they speak

Want to know if anyone knows such artists.
This post does not carry any educational meaning rather providing interesting statistics.

So here's my list:

1. Madeleine Peyroux -- born in Atlanta GA and sings songs in French
2. Gypsy Kings -- they're mostly from France and speak French while singing in Spanish.
3. Joe Dassin -- born and in USA and all of his songs are sang in French.

Now your turn...
czarivey
czarivey OP
5,946 posts
 
Tell me what language Paul Robeson did not sing?
He also sang his own language.
br3098
1,013 posts
 
Most opera singers are are proficient (if not fluent) in 3-4 languages; typically Italian, German, French and English.  Many European artists are fluent in more.  My younger daughter sings opera and took three weeks of diction lessons last year before performing  Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in Czech.

Most pop artists that sing in a non-native language simply learn (read) the words phonetically.
sevs
301 posts
 
Magma - sing in their own language.
what is the story with Joe Dassin: he does seem to sing in his native language, no accent I can pick up with French being my second foreign language (English being third)...
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