Inspired by Kottke, I’ve counted how many languages are used in my music collection and found the following.
– English: Most of the songs.
– Arabic: A lot of artists.
– French: A lot of artists.
– Italian: Eros Ramazotti, Zucherro, Laura Pausini…
– Spanish: Manu Chao, Shakira, Il Divo, Enrique Iglesias…
– Turkish: Tarkan and others.
– Urdu (Pakistani): Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan
– Hindu: Punjabi MC, and others…
– German: Mo-Do, Die Toten Hosen…
– Thai: I can’t remember the name of the guy. (I got his album when I was visiting Thailand.)
– Latin: Enigma, Era…
– Russian: Tatu
– Gaelic: Enya
– Portuguese: Nelly Furtado
– Chinese: Don’t really know the names.
I’m sure there are a lot more languages here and there in my music collection, but well these are the ones I found now.
How many languages can you find in your music collection?
Post your list or a link to your blog post in the comments.
Manu Chao is not spanish. He’s a french man with spanish parents.
… and he makes what i call a “globalized” music (also to fight “globalization). curieusement, il profite aussi du ph
The post is about what languages are used in the songs in my collection not about where the artists are from, and Manu Chao does use Spanish in some of his songs 😉
And yeah, interesting remark about him and globalization 🙂
I deleted all my collection so can’t count anymore :)) but I suggest you to add Freddie Aguilar (tagalog)
Manu Chao sings in spanish, french, english… and even arabic (Sidi H’bibi).
Musically speaking, Manu Chao has no languages and all the languages of the world, plus the most spoken language, which is music…
(sorry, my english is really bad 🙂