Luc Arbogast
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I’ll share two of my favorite Ukrainian songs.
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I love nearly everything Icelandic. I think I was a Viking in another life. 
Love the song. Thanks for sharing this!
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Wait… That’s not French is that Occitan? 
@metramaks Artem, thanks 
I will check both artists.
What a great thread this has become 
Hmm…, how have I forgotten this song?
Edit… This is a better version of the song…
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Bjork singing in Icelandic, it comes over just the same to me, she’s just so cute!
I never could make out all of her lyrics in English anyway 
. https://youtu.be/K2vnQzCGqz0?si=ngy5iVt9x-1aRpfQ
It’s a beautiful language, definitely on my bucket list’s language learning section 
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I’ll ceetainly try to find more of these Japanese chaps on Spotify! Nice find Ian @theoldman66!
Kudos on your knowledge of Greek history too!
The Rebetiko genre was mostly developed by the Greek population of Asia minor, today’s Turkey’s coastline of the Aegean, and was brought to mainland Greece by the refugees fleeing the area in 1922.
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Nicole that was pretty much very faithfully reproduced! So weird for my ears to listen to it in another language!
That’s something that was quite popular over here to, to cover good songs from other languages. This one is one I’m very fond of…
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Yes, that was a big thing in the 70s and 80s at least in many European countries I think… And for whatever reason Finns liked to cover Italian hits, maybe because there are certain similarities in the pronunciation of those two languages…
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I always loved the Austrian singer-songwriter scene, first one from the great Georg Danzer, who sadly passed away in 2007.
Love the mix with Spanish guitar and language in this one. Great guitar playing btw:
And a second one also from Danzer, but performed by 3 of the probably best known Austrian songwriters:
Austrians are able to express things through their language so precisely and emotionally, it’s so nuanced, as written German never could be.
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I had to do some research to answer
Looks like it is an invented language made from Old French, Occitan and high German
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Excellent guitar playing indeed
Hmm…how about something Spanish for a change?
Looking at the written lyrics, there seems to be a strong Latin influence (Latin as in ‘the language spoken by the Romans at the time of the Roman empire’, not as in ‘South-American’ 
). Could come from the Old French, probably.
I am no specialist so I can t answer 
But I can maybe ask some people who may know
Dont’ worry, it’s just an observation. I studied Latin (and French), and it’s easy to see the similarities. And since French is derived from Latin or at least has the same roots, Old French was probably closer to Latin than modern French.
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well almost everything is linked to latin in french
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My favorite female singer… so versatile… such a powerful voice… great backup players/singers…
Here’s Linda Ronstadt en Español:
Tod
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Here’s Kanda Bongo Man, a band that, unlike the others I’ve posted in this thread, I’ve actually had the pleasure of seeing live, at the Alfold Rock & Blues festival a few weeks ago. They’re an african outfit, I’ve seen them described as Congolese, but I’m not sure if that’s the whole band or just the lead singer who I understand to be the eponymous Kanda Bongo Man. There are several clips available on YT dating back to the 90s, this is the most recent one I could find, it’s their entire set from a festival last year. I was struck at the time by the similarities between this style and the blues, notably the call-and -response singing, and the riff being constantly repeated rather than changing chords - think “Boom Boom” or “Smokestack Lightning”. I’d say that this music and the Blues may not be directly related, but I think there’s a degree of common ancestry!
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