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 Spanish 

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

Translations:  English #1

2. Betta Lemme - Bambola English, French, Italian 

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.

Translations:  English #1

Andrea Bocelli speaks Italian, English, Latin, German, and Spanish.

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

Translations:  English

9. Manu Chao - Me gustas tú French, 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.

11. Gloria Estefan - Hoy Spanish 

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.

Translations:  English #1

Nelly Furtado speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Translations:  English #1

15. Mina - Se telefonando Italian 

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

16. L'Aura - Today English 

L'Aura speaks Italian, English and French.

Translations:  Italian, Portuguese

17. Anitta - Paradinha Spanish 

Anitta (Brazil) speaks Portuguese, English and Spanish.

18. Dihaj - Skeletons English 

Dihaj speaks Azerbaijani, Russian, Ukranian, English, and Turkish.

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

Translations:  Azerbaijani #1

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

21. Enrique Iglesias - Hero English 

Enrique Iglesias speaks Spanish, English, and Italian.

Translations:  Arabic #1
+48 more
, #2, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese #1, #2, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek #1, #2, Hindi, Hungarian #1, #2, #3, Indonesian #1, #2, Italian #1, #2, Korean, Kurdish (Sorani), Lithuanian, Malay, Persian #1, #2, #3, Portuguese, Romanian #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Russian, Serbian #1, #2, Slovenian, Spanish #1, #2, Swedish #1, #2, Turkish #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Vietnamese

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.

24. Cat Stevens - Wild World English 

Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam speaks English, Greek, and Arabic.

Marija Šerifović speaks Serbian, English and Russian.

Caetano Veloso speaks Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Translations:  English #1
+12 more
, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, French #1, #2, Italian, Japanese, Spanish #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).

Translations:  English #1

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

Translations:  English
+2 more
, Russian #1, #2

29. Tarja Turunen - Mystique Voyage English, Finnish, Spanish 

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".

Translations:  English #1
+11 more
, #2, Dutch, French #1, #2, #3, #4, German, Italian #1, #2, Russian, Ukrainian

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.

Translations:  Portuguese

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.

Translations:  English, Russian

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.

Translations:  English #1

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 Filipino/Tagalog 

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

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

Translations:  English #1

Comments
MarkkuMarkku    Fri, 16/02/2018 - 11:08

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

EuterpaEuterpa
   Fri, 16/02/2018 - 11:28

Thank you! I added it :)

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

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

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

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

malucamaluca
   Fri, 16/02/2018 - 17:47

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

malucamaluca
   Fri, 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
   Fri, 16/02/2018 - 21:36

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

malucamaluca
   Fri, 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    Fri, 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.

EuterpaEuterpa
   Fri, 16/02/2018 - 22:08

Added. Thank you! :)

Diazepan MedinaDiazepan Medina
   Fri, 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
   Fri, 16/02/2018 - 20:55

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

EuterpaEuterpa
   Fri, 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
   Fri, 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
   Thu, 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
   Fri, 16/02/2018 - 21:24

Renato Russo has songs in Portuguese, English and Italian.

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

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

EnjovherEnjovher
   Fri, 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
   Tue, 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... :/

EuterpaEuterpa
   Sat, 17/02/2018 - 19:41

Added! Thank you :)

mk87mk87    Fri, 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.

EuterpaEuterpa
   Sat, 17/02/2018 - 19:47

Thank you! It's been corrected. :)

3oudicca3oudicca    Fri, 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
   Wed, 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    Wed, 21/02/2018 - 23:00

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

EuterpaEuterpa
   Thu, 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    Sat, 17/02/2018 - 09:59

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

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

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

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

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

Don JuanDon Juan
   Sat, 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    Mon, 19/02/2018 - 16:29

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

Geek49 .Geek49 .    Tue, 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    Tue, 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
   Tue, 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
   Sun, 25/02/2018 - 12:58

It's been added, thank you! :)

EuterpaEuterpa
   Tue, 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    Thu, 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    Thu, 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    Sat, 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    Sat, 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
   Sun, 04/03/2018 - 00:33

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