How many languages in your music collection?
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.
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Posted by: k-pax at June 15, 2005 01:27 PM... and he makes what i call a "globalized" music (also to fight "globalization). curieusement, il profite aussi du phénomène de mondialisation pour se vendre.
Posted by: k-pax at June 15, 2005 01:37 PMThe 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 :)
Posted by: MMM at June 16, 2005 11:13 PMI deleted all my collection so can't count anymore :)) but I suggest you to add Freddie Aguilar (tagalog)
Posted by: Hatem at June 18, 2005 07:08 AMManu 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 :)
Posted by: k-pax at June 21, 2005 03:00 PM