{"id":11833,"date":"2015-11-07T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T12:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11833"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T12:07:04","slug":"multilingual-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11833","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sardinian friend of mine, <a href=\"http:\/\/elenapiras.com\/\">Elena Piras<\/a>, knows six languages (Sardinian, Italian, English, Scottish Gaelic, French and Spanish) and sings in most of them, plus a few others, including Scots, Bulgarian and Georgian.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recording of a performance from earlier this year in which she sings in Sardinian, Scots, English, Scottish Gaelic and Bulgarian.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_aV7M1oVDk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elena aims to sing each language in as close to a native accent as possible, and I think she does this very well.<\/p>\n<p>Another multilingual singer is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Marc_Leclercq\">Jean-Marc Leclercq<\/a> or JoMo, who holds the world record for singing in the most languages in one performance: 22. I heard him doing this at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin in May this year. His pronunciation in the languages I know didn&#8217;t sound entirely native-like, and it sounded like he had a strong French accent in the other languages.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know other singers who sing in multiple languages?<\/p>\n<p>How well do they pronounce them?<\/p>\n<p>I myself sing in various languages, and try to pronounce as well as I can, but know I could do better. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recording of a song I wrote earlier this year in the five languages I know best (English, French, Welsh, Mandarin and Irish):<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/204200300&#8243; params=&#8221;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;visual=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;300&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sardinian friend of mine, Elena Piras, knows six languages (Sardinian, Italian, English, Scottish Gaelic, French and Spanish) and sings in most of them, plus a few others, including Scots, Bulgarian and Georgian. Here&#8217;s a recording of a performance from earlier this year in which she sings in Sardinian, Scots, English, Scottish Gaelic and Bulgarian. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,104,111,115,128,10,29,42,54,55,56,62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgarian","category-english","category-french","category-georgian","category-italian","category-language","category-music","category-pronunciation","category-sardinian","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","category-songs","category-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}