Multilingual Artists
Except her native Spanish, Shakira speaks English, Italian, and Portuguese. According to some sources, she also speaks Catalan.
This Canadian singer is of Italian descent and speaks Italian, English and French. Her debut single "Bambola" combines all three languages.
Charles Aznavour speaks French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, and Armenian.
Joan Baez speaks English, French, and Portuguese.
Tony Cetinski speaks his native Croatian, Italian and English.
Toše Proeski was a singer from FYR Macedonia, died at age 26 in a car accident. He spoke Aromanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Italian and English.
Andrea Bocelli speaks Italian, English, Latin, German, and Spanish.
Manu Chao speaks Spanish, French, and English. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and occasionally in other languages.
Celine has recorded songs in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Japanese, Mandarin, and German.
Gloria Estefan speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French.
Laura Pausini besides her native Italian speaks English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Eros Ramazzotti speaks Italian, Spanish, and English.
Nelly Furtado speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
Mina is an Italian singer that also speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
L'Aura speaks Italian, English and French.
Anitta (Brazil) speaks Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Dihaj speaks Azerbaijani, Russian, Ukranian, English, and Turkish.
Eldar speaks Azerbaijani, German, English, Turkish, and Russian.
Julio Iglesias speaks Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Filipino.
Enrique Iglesias speaks Spanish, English, and Italian.
Luciano Pavarotti spoke Italian, English, Spanish, and French.
Besides "the language of love", Cliff Richard speaks English, Italian, and Spanish. His discography also includes songs in German.
Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam speaks English, Greek, and Arabic.
Marija Šerifović speaks Serbian, English and Russian.
Dalida was born in Egypt, but spent most of her career in France. She spoke French, Italian, Spanish, German, Arabic. She performed and recorded in 11 languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish, English, Egyptian and Levantine Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew, Dutch and Greek).
Tarja Turunen: she speaks Finnish, Spanish and English. She has recorded/sung songs in English, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Swedish and Latin. The song "Mystique Voyage" is sung in Spanish, English and Finnish.
Roberto Carlos (Brazil) has recorded songs in Portuguese, Italian, English, and Spanish. In 1968, he became the first and only Brazilian to win the Festival of Sanremo, with the song "Canzone Per Te".
Raffaella Carrà has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish and English.
Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter who sang in Portuguese, Italian, and English.
Anna German sang in Polish, Russian, English, Italian, Neapolitan, Spanish, Latin, Polish (Silesian dialect), Portuguese, German and Mongolian.
Sergey Lazarev (Russia) has recorded songs in Russian, English and Ukrainian.
Alexander Rybak (Norway) speaks Norwegian, Russian and English fluently. He has performed songs in all three languages, plus in Belarusian, Spanish and Swedish.
Tiziano Ferro speaks Italian, English, and Spanish. He has also recorded songs in French and Portuguese.
Lara Fabian (born in Belgium, lives in Canada) speaks Italian, French, Flemish, Spanish and English. She has recorded songs in Italian, French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Greek and German.
Françoise Hardy speaks her native French, German, and English. She has also recorded songs in Italian, although there's no written source (online) that would confirm she also speaks it.
Thalía speaks English, Tagalog, French, and Portuguese language.
Eivør Pálsdóttir speaks native Faroese, English, Icelandic, Danish, and probably even Swedish.
Thank you! I added it :)
You may want to add Melody Gardot, Elisa (Italy), Mina, L'Aura, Anitta...
I found that Melody speaks English and French, and Elisa Italian and English... I believe if I include artists that speak two languages, that the list will be too long. :D So for now I'm adding only artists that speak more than two. I added Mina, L'Aura and Anita. Thank you! :)
Hey, interesting collection. You may want to add Dihaj (Diana Hajiyeva), Ell (Eldar Gasimov) to the list.
Dihaj speaks Azerbaijani, Russian, Ukranian, English, Turkish.
Eldar speaks Azerbaijani, German, English, Turkish, Russian.
Thank you! :) I have added both of them. :)
Dalida (French, Italian, Arabic, German, English...)
Gitte Hænning (German, English, Italian, Danish, Swedish...)
It's hard to find out, what languages the singers speak or spoke and what languages they recorded songs. Dalida, according to some sources, recorded songs in 15 languages...
Added. Thank you! :)
Roberto Carlos. Most of his songs in portuguese were recorded in spanish. He also recorded in english and italian.
If I'm not mistaken, he has performed at least one song in Hebrew as well.
And I just found he's the only Brazilian who won Sanremo! I made this list for fun, didn't expect to learn some new stuff like this! :D Thank you! :)
Another two: Raffaella Carra. Many of her hits in Italian were recorded in Spanish with great success
And Enya: She sang lyrics in english, in latin, Irish gaelic (her native language) and a made up language called Loxian creater by her lyricist Roma Ryan
I added Raffaella, however, I found that Enya speaks (only) two of those languages fluently, English and Irish Gaelic. I believe if I include artists that speak two languages, the list will be too long... So for now I'm adding only artists that speak more than two. :) Thank you! :)
Renato Russo has songs in Portuguese, English and Italian.
Seems like I forgot to reply to this, I added him :)
EDIT:
1. Anna German: Polish, Russian, English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Neapolitan, Polish (Silesian dialect), Portuguese German and Mongolian.
2. Sergey Lazarev: English, Russian and Ukrainian
3. Alexander Rybak: Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Belarusian, Spanish (1 song) and English.
4. Tiziano Ferro: Italian, Spanish, French, English and Portuguese.
5. Yasmin Levy: Spanish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Hebrew and Catalan.
6. Mor Karbasi: Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Spanish and Hebrew.
I had been busy so it took me a while to add these...sorry for that. Thank you! :) I'll have to ask though...
Can you tell me does Tiziano speak French and Portuguese or has just recorded songs in those languages?
And does Yasmin speak Catalan? I found that she only sings in Ladino, but doesn't speak it, for example. I can't seem to find that info... :/
Caterina Valente has sung in ‘about 12’ different languages, including numerous successful albums in different languages.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/caterina-valente-lyrics.html
Added! Thank you :)
As far as I know, Cliff Richard doesn't actually speak German, even though he recorded some hit songs in German. I vaguely remember an interview on German television during which he said that all the lyrics were spelled out phonetically for him during recording sessions and that he didn't actually understand a word of what he was singing.
Thank you! It's been corrected. :)
According to their website, the wonderful Mediæval Bæbes sing in "in an impressive array of obscure and ancient languages".
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/mediaeval-baebes-lyrics.html
I'm not sure how many different languages exactly but am sure Wikipedia can answer that question. However, I very much doubt that they actually speak these languages, so if this is a condition, they are disqualified.
According to Wiki: They sing in a variety of languages, including Latin, Middle English, French, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Scottish English, German, Manx Gaelic, Spanish, Welsh, Bavarian, Provençal, Irish, modern English and Cornish. Impressive, indeed. I'm not finding though how many languages they, or at least one of them, actually speaks. :(
What about Fey?, she recorded in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere which languages she actually speaks. :(
Pink Martini are a successful band who jump between many languages on their albums.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/pink-martini-lyrics.html
China Forbes (their main vocalist) sings in 15 languages, but she is monolingual and learns the songs phonetically, so I guess she doesn't qualify.
I checked the other members, too and can't find anything about which languages they speak. :(
Mia Martini: Italian, Neapolitan, French, English
Lodovica Comello: Spanish, Italian, English
Lara Fabian: French, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish
Josh Groban: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Adriano Celentano: Cape Verdean, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Gigliola Cinquetti: Italian, Spanish, English, German, French
Aris San sang at least in Greek, Hebrew, and Spanish
You should remove Croatian or Serbian from the lists and include just one (the main one fot the person) because they are like 90% same and if you speak one you can speak the other, or add both to all singers that speaks one of them. Serbo-Croatian is a good compromise.
I agree, the best would be to keep only the main language. E. g. Toše Proeski should be Serbian, especially since he spoke only the "ekavica" which is not proper for Croatian and Bosnian.
I had added Croatian by mistake, somehow I was sure that he had some songs in Croatian standard. :D I disagree that if you can speak one you can speak the other... you can mainly understand the other, but I consider it an urban myth that you can speak the other automatically. There are many differences that even the natives aren't fully aware of. But I wouldn't want to turn this into that kind of discussion... :D Thank you, I corrected it. :)
Francoise Hardy: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/francoise-hardy-lyrics.html
She has released albums in French, English, German and Italian. I think she speaks at least the first three of these.
It's been added, thank you! :)
Hi! Very fitting collection for this page ;)
Perhaps Eivør (Pálsdóttir) would be a good artist to add as she has sung in Faroese (Native), English, Danish, Icelandic and Swedish. Of which it is likely that she speaks all of these languages. :D
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/eivor-palsdottir-lyrics.html
Wow! I haven't heard of her and now I'm asking myself...why o.O Such a beautiful and powerful voice! Thank you for your suggestion, I've added her. :)
Cécile Corbel : https://lyricstranslate.com/en/cecile-corbel-lyrics.html
She wrote songs in French, English, Spanish, Brezhoneg.
The greek singer Νάνα Μούσχουρη (Nana Mouskouri).
During the span of her music
career she has released over 200 albums and singles in 10 different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish,
Hebrew, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican.
Muharem Serbezovski and Esma Redžepova both speak and have songs in Romani, Macedonian and Serbian. Muharem also allegedly speaks 5 other languages aswell.
Marlene Dietrich spoke and sang in German, French and English.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/marlene-dietrich-lyrics.html-1
Potap & Nastya speak Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Nastya can speak Italian, as well. This song has Russian, and a verse in English and another in Italian: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/potap-and-nastia-kamenskih-ne-hvatilo-voz... Also, this song is in Ukrainian and Russian (the song is about the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia): https://lyricstranslate.com/en/potap-and-nastya-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA... They even have a song in Armenian: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/potap-and-nastia-kamenskih-sirelis-lyrics... (The lyrics are in Cyrillic and not the Armenian script, though)
The two members of the duo Vremya i Steklo speak Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Almost all of their songs are in Russian, but they have one (very recent) song in Ukrainian: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/vremya-steklo-do-zirok-%D0%B4%D0%BE-%D0%B... They also have one song in English: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/vremya-i-steklo-harmonica-lyrics.html It's admittedly not very good, so don't judge them just on this song. The rest of their songs are far better.
Naviband speak Belarusian, Russian and English, and have songs in Belarusian and Russian.
Irina Bilyk speaks Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian (I'm not sure if she speaks English) and has songs in all the three languages above.
Tina Karol speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and English, and has songs in all of them too.
O. Torvald speak Ukrainian, Russian, and English, though the frontman admits he is reluctant to speak Russian, according to Wikipedia.
There are many artists from Ukraine who can speak Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Are you going to list all of them?
Ishtar - She speaks and sings in Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and English
Luna Abu Nassar sings in Hebrew and Arabic: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/luna-abu-nassar-lyrics.html
Gela Guralia sings in English, Georgian, Russian, French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Mingrelian
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/gela-guralia-lyrics.html
Saara Aalto sings in English, Finnish and Chinese, one of her video contains 34 languages
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/saara-aalto-lyrics.html
Nana Mouskouri, of course !
Freezepop: Sings in English, French and German
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Shaka Ponk: Sings in English, French and Spanish
1- Helene Fischer:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/helene-fischer-%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D...
German singer. Russian native speaker. Has songs in German, English, Russian, Italian and Ukrainian
2- Hamza Namira:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/hamza-namira-%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%A1%D5%...
an Egyptian singer. Along with his songs in Egyptian dialect, he has songs in Arabic, various dialects of Arabic, Armenian, Kurdish and Berber
3- Maher Zain:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/al-hubbo-yasood-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A8-...
From Sweden. Sings in English, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu and Indonesian
4- Jamala
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/jamala-1944-lyrics.html
A Ukrainian Eurovision winner. Sings in Ukrainian, Russian, English and Crimean-Tatar
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tosca-lyrics.html
I don't know how many languages she speaks, but she sings in around 10 of them, from Italian to Arabic.
I think Laura Pausini could be included in this collection too. *smile*