Your Favorite Non-English Songs

Miguel Bosé - Si Tu No Vuelves

Juan Gabriel, "No Tengo Dinero"

Pizzicato 5 Twiggy Twiggy

Jane Birkin et Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'aime,...Moi Non Plus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

Ne me quitte pas, tellement je t'aime, ya menfi (Faudel)

Hamilchama Ha'achrona (Yehoram Gaon)

Ruzica Sibila, Ederlezi, So Nevo Si (Goren Bregovic)

Aven Ivenda (Vaska Jankovska)

Presidente (Gypsy Kings)

Agladikca/Zeh Hazman Lisloach (Bridge Project)

Via con me (Paolo Conte)

Spanish goddess Monica Naranjo - Siempre Fuiste Mio, from her Adagio Tour (pardon the slight sync problem with the vid)

Shakira & Alejandro Sanz - La Tortura

Edith Piaf: Hymne à l'amour.

Shakira - Ojos Asi

Walk Like an Egyptian

Lucio Dalla's song, Caruso. Lucio was the Italian Elton John but with better songs. His companion was also much cuter than Elton's husband.

The soundtrack to "Starmania."

From Britain Has Talent, 2012, Boys Aloud sing the Welsh hymn Calon Lan. The song begins at 2:10.

Mina - Il cielo in una stanza

Mina & Alberto Lupo - Parole Parole

Emilio Pericoli - Al di la

The gorgeous Mario Frangoulis - Vincero, Perdero

Geschwister Hofmann - Immer auf die kleinen

Mario Frangoulis - Ton Eafto Tou Paidi

Ricky Martin. Muy caliente!

Desireless - Voyage Voyage

Jean-Louis Murat - Et Le Désert Avance

Emilie Simon - Fleur De Saison

Camille - Pour que l'amour me quitte

Interesting, R21. I didn't know a French version existed. Here's a Spanish version by Mexican boy band, Magneto.

Beto Cuevas: Un Minuto De Silencio.

Awesome voice. Hot dude. Freaky vid.

Maura O' Connell's hyper haunting and beautiful song Aisling Ghear, sung in Irish. I heard it by accident and fell for it straight away, weird because it's very different from music I normally listen to.

Here is the English version, titled Mystic Lipstick no less.

[25] the lead singer looks like a less attractive version of my schoolmate.

Olivija - Kadar sva sama

Himno Nacional Mexicano when I am performing a Mexican Panda.

Sogno & L'Attesa by Andrea Boccelli (but I'm still mad at him for performing at the Kuntrashian wedding)

Oops, I meant [R21]

Alabina- Salma Ya Salama (Ole Y Ola)

Carmen Consoli singing a Rosa Balistreri song in Sicilian

Forgot the song title for the Balistreri song: Cu Ti Lu Dissi" (Who Was it Who Told You?)

"Hoy No Voy a Trabajar" by Albita

"Agua de Beber" by Astrud Gilberto

"Lua e Estrela" by Caetano Veloso

"Quelqu'un M'a Dit" by Carla Bruni

"Sorte" by Cesaria Evora

"Jardinier Benevole" by Francoise Hardy

"Bamboleo" and "Volare" by Gipsy Kings

"La Rhuma de la Roquetta" by Gitano Family

"Cuba Libre" by Gloria Estefan

"Yo Solo Se Que Solo No Se Nada" by Jeremias

"Ay! Jalisco No Te Rajes" by Lola Beltran

"Estoy Aquí" by Shakira

Ishtar Alabina- Habibi ya nour el ain

Jürgen Paape "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" German Techno band

Yo no se mañana by Luis Enrique. Beautiful.

"Sacre Francais" - Dimitri From Paris

Hodet Over Vannet by Morten Abel

Dominique.

Nel Pinto Di Blu.

Sukiyaki.

La Vie en Rose.

O Solo Mio.

Muss I Denn.

Anything from Patti LuPone

I'm on a French-learning kick, so it has to be Ms Céline Dion's 'S'il suffisait d'aimer' (If Love were Enough):

"La Superbe" - Benjamin Biolay

Patrizio Buanne, "Un Angelo"

No Se Tu-Luis Miguel

Hepsi Senim Mi? --Tarkan

Etienne Daho - Saudade

So fucking sexy

Love this solo Swedish track from ABBA's Frida.

Any song from that fabulous Vangelis ft. Irene Papas album.

Ann Savoy's "C'est un Peche de Dire un Mentire" (It's a Sin to tell a Lie)...pretty much anything she does is awesome but that's one of my faves of all time. When I was a kid my dad would play it on his guitar and sing it.

Love is Blue - Claudine Longet

Amsterdam - Jacques Brel

Les Feuilles Mortes- Yves Montand

No, Je Ne Regrette Rien - Edith Piaf

The Flower Song by Delibes, song by anyone. It's amazing that the human voice can produce such beauty.

Unknown to Americans:

Laura Pausini – Se Fue

Juan Gabriel – Siempre En Mi Mente

Ednita Nazario – Me Está Gustando

Marc Anthony – Vivir Mi Vida

Juan Luis Guerra – La Bilirrubina

Pérez Prado – Que Rico El Mambo

Celia Cruz – Usted Abusó

Iris Chacón – Yo Te Amo A Muerte

Sonora Ponceña – Pío Pío

Lucecita – Todas Las Mañanas, Génesis, Mucho Corazón

Shakira – Dónde Estás Corazón

La Lupe – Se Acabó, Yo Soy La Mala, Puro Teatro

Sonora Carruseles – Micaela

Rocío Durcal – Amarga Navidad, Más Bonita Que Ninguna, Cartel de Publicidad, Amor En El Aire, Me Están Mirando

Marisol - Tómbola, Corazón Contento, Mi Pequeña Estrella

Enrique Guzmán – Acompáñame (with Rocío Durcal)

Estela Núñez (Lipsynched by Hilda Aguirre) – Andando De Tu Mano (with Enrique Guzmán), Ya Me Voy

Edye Gormet and Trio Los Panchos – Sabor A Mí

Fórmula V - Cuéntame

Bobby Capó - Piel Canela

Recognizable to Americans:

Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado (became What A Difference A Day Makes)

Cuando Calienta El Sol (became Love Me With All Your Heart)

El Manicero (became The Peanut Vendor)

No Me Quites Pas (became If You Go Away)

Io Che Non Vivo (became You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me)

Standards!:

Aquarela do Brasil (became Brazil)

Alouette

Mama Yo Quiero

El Cumbanchero

Dominique

Volare

The Girl From Ipanema

Sigur Rós, "Viðrar vel til loftárása".

And a beautiful gay-positive video.

Pino Donaggio

Tom & Jerry - Mama Yo Quiero

Iris Chacón!!

R62, is that the same guy who composed music for Carrie and Don't Look Now?

Yes r65. Though in his youth he was a very trained musician/singer (and quite a hottie), he eventually was picked up by the likes of Brian De Palma et al, and became a score composer and did a ton of Hollywood films.

I guess they were attracted to the dramatic, violin-swirling style of his music.

Coralie Clemet's Un beau jour pour morir

(she's Benjamin Biolay's sister)

Spain's answer to The Turtles/The Beach Boys/Lovin'Spoonful

Line Renaud. Mon Marie est Merveilleux.

Catchy song. She's everything. Plus it doesn't hurt that she was an advocate for gay rights LONG before it was "safe" and popular.

Well, I have to say, it's a tie between Line and Jacques Dutronc Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi. Plus Jacques if hot as fuck.

My Cheri Amour....for the win.

Voulez vous avec moi...runner up Lady Marmalade

and LOL Serge Gainsbourg New York USA.

Serge has so many great songs and was so ahead of his time it's to bad he let himself be defined by his dirty, drunk, old man schtick.

Line Renaud also does a kick ass version of Itsi Bitsi Petit Bikini

And....the World's best selling French single in history.. Jean Leloup's I Lost My Baby

I dare you to not get addicted to it.

"Sleep Tired Toys" - gorgeous song with claymation that puts millions of Russian kids to sleep every night at bedtime.

Jorge Moreno - Despertaré

Very romantical.

Gianluca Grignani - La mia storia tra le dita

Italian version

Gianluca Grignani - Mi Historia Entre Tus Dedos

Spanish version

Does the OP consider arie "songs"?

One must ask, as one does wonder.

Grazie.

Yes, R79. Most definitely the OP does! :-)

And more links, please! Love watching your vids. Thanks!

Te Voy a Perder by Alejandro Fernandez with all of his muscles and other bulging body parts. Woof!

R5, it's Goran, not Goren and Ruzica si bila.

Line Renaud was a gar rights activist starting in the late '50s. When AIDS hit she was France's Liz Taylor when it came to the issue.

Madonna - Verás

Good job singing in Spanish, Madge!

Sukiyaki

Francoise Hardy Le Temps de l'Amour.

Mina - E poi www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZP3A9q8hI

rosenstolz- ich bin ich

Les Negresses Vertes - "Les Yeux De Ton Pere"

Lucienne Boyer - "Parlez-Moi D'Amour"

Los Panchos * Lo Dudo

Thanks to a young & hunky Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas sings! (and well!)

No Se Por Que Te Quiero with Ana Belen

Another version: Antonio Banderas (actually singing in this one), and this time with the amazing Pasion Vega

Loutima- Ievan Polkka

La grande chanteuse Patricia Kaas chante Mon Mec A Moi

Aguas de Março - Elis Regina

Natasha St-Pier - Tu trouveras

Une belle chanson et une magnifique vidéo. L'acteur est très beau!

BECASSINE CHANTAL GOYA

R95, I like that song too, so I fixed your link.

Sylvie Vartan Quand Tu Est La

See if you recognize its English equivalent

Lucecita - The Latina KD Lang - before KD Lang was even born

The first song won the first Song Festival in the Americas in the late 60's

Yes, this really happened.

Also playing at Hell's disco

From Swedish to English to Spanish, you really can jive in any language.

Why was this a trend?

The Song of the Golden Dragon by Estas Tonne. It's instrumental, nevertheless hauntingly beautiful. And so is he.

Automatic - Hikaru Utada

A Cause Des Garçons by Yelle -- discovered it on one of those SNL sketches where they are dancing in a cafe in Paris.

Habibi by Milk and Honey

Serge and Brigette Bardot, Bonnie and Clyde

Anything by Mecano. I doubt that there is a better lesbian song than "mujer contra mujer."

And my Mecano favorite "Me cuesta tanto olvidarte."

Of course, my childhood crush....Eros Ramazzotti.

"Dejala Correr," Rocio Jurado

"Sodade," Cesaria Evora

"Roda," Elis Regina

"Galbi," Ofra Haza

"Cancã do Mar," Amalia Rodrigues's and Dulce Pontes's versions

"Dejala Correr," Rocio Jurado

"Sodade," Cesaria Evora

"Roda," Elis Regina

"Galbi," Ofra Haza

"Cancã do Mar," Amalia Rodrigues's and Dulce Pontes's versions

Tu madre chupa verga en el infierno

by Menudo

R100 Sylvie Vartan, aunt of Mochael Vartan

WHET Michael Vartan?

"Jamais assez loin" - Isabelle Boulay

"Entre l'hombre et et la lumière" - Marie Carmen

Celia Cruz singing "Cuando Salí De Cuba"

Incredible performer, phenomenal life story, song about "leaving your heart buried", enormously poignant to all exiles, made moreso by the fact that she died in exile, ignored by the Castro monarchy.

More talent, more entertainment, more sheer, exhuberant fun in her little finger than Beyonce, Janet Jackson or Madonna combined, but ignored in the US.

A lovely, down-to-Earth, gregarious woman. Sorely missed. But this song and perfomance will live forever.

I'm loving this one right now. Why can't something like it get popular in the US?

Mecano - Hijo de la Luna Barbara - L'aigle noir

"Håll om mig" - Nanne Grovall

"L'aigle noir" is a beautiful song if you can ignore that the lyrics tell the story of child molestation.

No "Cruz De Navajas", also Mecano?

"Mijn leven is van mi" - Pia Douwes

This woman - Beatrice Egli - won the 10th season of DSDS. Amateurish video but I can't stop listening to this ultra-happy song.

"C'est ma chanson" - Petula Clark

Céline Dion singing about being in love with a gay guy. "Ziggy (Un Garçon Pas Comme les Autres)"

"Masa Que Nada"--Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66.

I have no idea what the fuck they're singing about, but I always think of soccer, hotties ( of both sexes ) on the beach, tropical drinks and parrots.

Anything by Eros, the sexiest Italian alive.

Here is a duet with Anastasia. She sings in English, he sings in Italian.

One of my favorite songs.

Se parece mas a ti by Jambao.

Also really like Retiens mon desir by Clea Vincent.

Lots of Hindi film songs, especially the Sufi-influenced ones as in the "My Name is Khan" soundtrack.

"Mas Que Nada" is an iconic song world wide.

Snaps to R125 for "Cruz De Navajas"

Mecano had a song about a guy that has a meltdown when he thinks he slept with another guy. Almost 20 years later and that video would still be controversial, so politically incorrect. lol

Latin Americans would be more familiar with Henry Stephen's "Mi Limon."

[quote]Mecano had a song about a guy that has a meltdown when he thinks he slept with another guy. Almost 20 years later and that video would still be controversial, so politically incorrect. lol

What's the name of the song, R135?

R135. Henry Stephen, Venezuelan singer, of Trinidadian origin.

Are you a Creole Oil Brat from Cabimas, R135??

'99 Luftballons' - Nena

'Eres Tu' - Mocedades

'Hey' - Julio Iglesias

Les Rita Mitsouko - "C'est Comme Ca"

This song rocks

Does Falco count? His songs were a blend of English and German. This song has haunted me for 30 years.

R137, what are you babbling about? I'm Mexican.

R136 Estereosexual

Maná & Shakira - Mi Verdad. Love this ballad.

Any one of those European songs Branigan covered in the 80s.

Zoé

It's too bad Mexico's pop/alternative bands don't get the respect as more traditional or regional genres get.

Groups like Zoé offer good quality music.

"Labios Rotos"

Awesome, R144. Love them! And here with the equally amazing Enrique Bunbury no less.

That's a great song R145. I'm not very familiar with Bunburry, but Zoe is one of my favorite bands.

I do like his duet with that Spanish singer (can't remember her name).

"Solo Queda"

r127, that song is infectious. And she's a perky full-figure gal.

R146, that's Miren Iza of the band Tulsa singing with Bunbury. And Zoé is one of my very favorites too.

A friend drags to me a local karaoke bar occasionally. Every time I've been to it there is a woman (apparently a bar fly) that does this song.

I've come to enjoy her karaoke performance of it more than the actual record.

Alizee, "Moi Lolita"

Savour Aimer - Florent Pagny Tabu - Omara Portoundo

"Lo Siento Mi Vida," by Linda Ronstadt.

For me, this changes often.

At the moment, though, it's "Fais-moi la tendresse," composed by Didier Barbelivien and performed by Ginette Reno.

Los Amigos Invisibles - "Las Lycras de Avila"

...jazzy bossa soul from Venezuela

Nos Hizo Falta Tiempo - Luis Miguel

Chanson d'Amour, by either Art & Dotty Todd, or The Manhatten Transfer.

Tahiti Tahiti:-)

A Felicidade, Tom Jobim

I vous tiré par le coeur

Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) It's not totally non-English, but it's one of the few Santana songs I like. My favorite by them, actually.

Still loving Camille's "Ta douleur."

Wow! I love the Zoe song featuring Enrique Bunbury at R145 so much! Here's the MTV Unplugged version.

I'm loving K-Pop

Is there anything more tacky than a Serbian Diva's road show? Gentleman I give you Lepa Brena the Serbian Madonna.

"Courir, partir, venir et mourir... écoute, chérie."

La Isla Bonita