Multilingual Artists

Created by Euterpa on 16 Feb 2018

This is a collection of songs of artists that speak more than two languages. This collection will be updated and suggestions are welcome.

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1. Shakira - Me enamoré 스페인어 

Except her native Spanish, Shakira speaks English, Italian, and Portuguese. According to some sources, she also speaks Catalan.

2. Betta Lemme - Bambola 영어, 프랑스어, 이탈리아어 

This Canadian singer is of Italian descent and speaks Italian, English and French. Her debut single "Bambola" combines all three languages.

5. Tony Cetinski - Opet si pobijedila 크로아티아어 

Tony Cetinski speaks his native Croatian, Italian and English.

6. Toše Proeski - Čija si 세르비아어 

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.

8. Rəşid Behbudov - Sənə də Qalmaz 아제르바이잔어 

Rashid Behbudov was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He spoke Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali

9. Manu Chao - Me gustas tú 프랑스어, 스페인어 

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.

11. Gloria Estefan - Hoy 스페인어 

Gloria Estefan speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French.

12. Laura Pausini - En cambio no 스페인어 

Laura Pausini besides her native Italian speaks English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Eros Ramazzotti speaks Italian, Spanish, and English.

14. Nelly Furtado - Manos al aire 스페인어 

Nelly Furtado speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

15. Mina - Se telefonando 이탈리아어 

Mina is an Italian singer that also speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.

16. L'Aura - Today 영어 

L'Aura speaks Italian, English and French.

Eldar speaks Azerbaijani, German, English, Turkish, and Russian.

Julio Iglesias speaks Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Filipino.

Enrique Iglesias speaks Spanish, English, and Italian.

번역:  한국어
+48 more
, 그리스어 #1, #2, 네덜란드어, 독일어, 러시아어, 루마니아어 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, 리투아니아어, 말레이어, 버마어 #1, #2, 베트남어, 벵골어, 불가리아어, 세르비아어 #1, #2, 스웨덴어 #1, #2, 스페인어 #1, #2, 슬로베니아어, 아랍어 #1, #2, 아제르바이잔어, 이탈리아어 #1, #2, 인도네시아어 #1, #2, 쿠르드어(Sorani), 크로아티아어, 터키어 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, 페르시아어 #1, #2, #3, 포르투갈어, 프랑스어, 핀란드어, 헝가리어 #1, #2, #3, 힌디어

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.

26. Caetano Veloso - O Leãozinho 포르투갈어 

Caetano Veloso speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

번역:  스페인어 #1
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, #2, 영어 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, 이탈리아어, 일본어, 프랑스어 #1, #2

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).

번역:  로마자 발음
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, 영어 #1, #2

Gitte Hænning (Denmark) has recorded songs in Danish, Swedish, German, Italian, English and French.

번역:  러시아어 #1

29. Tarja Turunen - Mystique Voyage 영어, 핀란드어, 스페인어 

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".

번역:  네덜란드어
+11 more
, 독일어, 러시아어, 영어 #1, #2, 우크라이나어, 이탈리아어 #1, #2, 프랑스어 #1, #2, #3, #4

Raffaella Carrà has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish and English.

32. Renato Russo - La forza della vita 이탈리아어 

Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter who sang in Portuguese, Italian, and English.

번역:  포르투갈어

33. Caterina Valente - Bambino 독일어 

Caterina Valente, Italian singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress born in France. She speaks 6 languages - Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, and Swedish; but also sings in Dutch, Por­tuguese, Hebrew, Greek and Japanese.

번역:  러시아어, 영어

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.

번역:  광둥어
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, 로마자 발음 #1, #2, 베트남어, 벨로루시어, 영어 #1, #2, #3, #4, 체코어, 크로아티아어, 터키어, 포르투갈어, 폴란드어, 프랑스어 #1, #2, 핀란드어 #1, #2

37. Tiziano Ferro - Demasiado bueno 스페인어 

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.

40. Thalía - Chika Lang 타갈로그어 

Thalía speaks English, Tagalog, French, and Portuguese language.

Eivør Pálsdóttir speaks native Faroese, English, Icelandic, Danish, and probably even Swedish.

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MarkkuMarkku    金, 16/02/2018 - 11:08

I think Laura Pausini could be included in this collection too. *smile*

Don JuanDon Juan
   金, 16/02/2018 - 11:31

You may want to add Melody Gardot, Elisa (Italy), Mina, L'Aura, Anitta...

EuterpaEuterpa
   金, 16/02/2018 - 12:03

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! :)

RadixIceRadixIce
   金, 16/02/2018 - 12:43

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.

EuterpaEuterpa
   金, 16/02/2018 - 13:13

Thank you! :) I have added both of them. :)

malucamaluca
   金, 16/02/2018 - 17:47

Dalida (French, Italian, Arabic, German, English...)
Gitte Hænning (German, English, Italian, Danish, Swedish...)

malucamaluca
   金, 16/02/2018 - 17:50

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...

EuterpaEuterpa
   金, 16/02/2018 - 21:36

Thank you! Wikipedia says 11 so I'll go with that. :) Impressive, in any case...

malucamaluca
   金, 16/02/2018 - 23:10

There's a song in Neapolitan sung by her on our list here at lyricstranslate, so that makes it at least 12...

JosemarJosemar    金, 16/02/2018 - 18:59

Tarja Turunen: she speaks Finnish, Spanish and English. She has recorded/sung songs in English, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Swedish and Latin.

This is one of her songs, it is sung in Spanish, English and Finnish.

Diazepan MedinaDiazepan Medina
   金, 16/02/2018 - 19:37

Roberto Carlos. Most of his songs in portuguese were recorded in spanish. He also recorded in english and italian.

Don JuanDon Juan
   金, 16/02/2018 - 20:55

If I'm not mistaken, he has performed at least one song in Hebrew as well.

EuterpaEuterpa
   金, 16/02/2018 - 21:58

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! :)

Diazepan MedinaDiazepan Medina
   金, 16/02/2018 - 20:40

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

EuterpaEuterpa
   木, 22/02/2018 - 19:57

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! :)

Don JuanDon Juan
   金, 16/02/2018 - 21:24

Renato Russo has songs in Portuguese, English and Italian.

EuterpaEuterpa
   土, 17/02/2018 - 19:51

Seems like I forgot to reply to this, I added him :)

EnjovherEnjovher
   金, 16/02/2018 - 22:49

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.

EuterpaEuterpa
   火, 20/02/2018 - 21:19

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... :/

mk87mk87    金, 16/02/2018 - 23:00

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.

3oudicca3oudicca    金, 16/02/2018 - 23:20

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.

EuterpaEuterpa
   水, 21/02/2018 - 20:39

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. :(

3oudicca3oudicca    水, 21/02/2018 - 23:00

Boh, probably just English, sadly. But a fabulous group and worth a listen...

EuterpaEuterpa
   木, 22/02/2018 - 20:01

I'm just listening to "Remember Me", sounds beautiful *_* I even understand some things, thanks to the great similarity of Slavic languages... :D 

dhani.ramirezdhani.ramirez    土, 17/02/2018 - 09:59

What about Fey?, she recorded in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

EuterpaEuterpa
   木, 22/02/2018 - 20:17

Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere which languages she actually speaks. :(

EuterpaEuterpa
   木, 22/02/2018 - 21:26

I checked the other members, too and can't find anything about which languages they speak. :(

Don JuanDon Juan
   土, 17/02/2018 - 20:24

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

jsanders14jsanders14    月, 19/02/2018 - 16:29

Aris San sang at least in Greek, Hebrew, and Spanish

Geek49 .Geek49 .    火, 20/02/2018 - 00:24

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.

KaraulaKaraula    火, 20/02/2018 - 17:51

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.

EuterpaEuterpa
   火, 20/02/2018 - 21:37

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. :)

EuterpaEuterpa
   火, 27/02/2018 - 22:34

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. :)

makis17makis17    木, 22/02/2018 - 21:56

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.

KaraulaKaraula    木, 22/02/2018 - 23:56

Muharem Serbezovski and Esma Redžepova both speak and have songs in Romani, Macedonian and Serbian. Muharem also allegedly speaks 5 other languages aswell.

P-CodeP-Code    土, 03/03/2018 - 04:41

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.

Туна ЧеневскаяТуна Ченевская    土, 03/03/2018 - 07:57

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?

malucamaluca
   日, 04/03/2018 - 00:33

Ishtar - She speaks and sings in Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and English