Your favourite songs not in English

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I went down a youtube rabbit hole last night and ended up listening to loads of 80s Europop. Rock me Amadeus, Voyage Voyage etc. Good times 😁 it got me wondering about other non-English songs that have hit the charts. The Macarena and Gangnam Style I guess? Any other favourites?

I know its shite but I do like Despacito

I came on to say, Zobi La Mouche by Les Negresses Vertes!

Love Alegría !
@Brefugee - recall DD being a fan of Héroes del Silencio in her Uni days.

But for me ( old gimmer ! ) it’s :

Non ho l’eta - Gigliola Cinquetti
Vado Via - Drupi
Il est trop tard - Georges Moustaki

Mia Foni - Eleftheria Arvanataki ❤️
To tango tis Nefelis - Haris Alexiou ❤️

it was a worldwide hit @HoraceCope the Jerusalema challenge, police, nuns, nurses, they were all doing it ! look on youtube, have some fun !

Yes Suo Gan is lovely. Ar Lan Y Mor is sweet and makes me happy and relaxed too.

Cad é sin don té sin (Irish song with a nice rhythm and lyrics that mean the singer should be allowed to quietly and happily get on with living their own life and it's nobody else's business to judge how they should be).

I can only speak a few words of Welsh and Irish but like the sound of these.

maria Callas

i did!
i was really hoping it would catch on here, I showed it to my colleagues in the office, briefly

Tarkan. When you listen you'll know Simarik straight away, but that's actually my least favourite. I sing along with badly made-up words to most of his somgs!

Baba Inouba by Idir/Mila, this is in Kabyle language, can’t understand a word of it but love the song.

Russian folk song

Just came here to post a Russian one

O what a shame lol, not quite the same without your ensemble ha ha

in this house we were obsessed for weeks, it blocked out all other sounds,
like a waterfall…

Watching al the Jérusalem a dances from Those Times makes me a bit teary

'La Mer' by Charles Trenet. When the choir comes in halfway through the song, it's just so uplifting.

The English version 'Beyond the Sea' is a pale imitation.

I replied to the wrong poster, sorry, read my reply to @HoraceCope
who has also just posted another spine tingler favourite in this house,
music unites us for sure !

gorky's zygotic mynci - patio song
it’s English and Welsh

Eso lo que tu me das by Jarabe de Palo. Written when Pau Dones knew he was dying of cancer. Makes me cry every time I hear it, even now.

I went to Carnival in Brazil with some friends in the 90s and heard a band called Karnak who sing in Spanish, Portuguese etc etc. I love them but nobody else has heard of them.

Slightly more well known - I love Manu Chao. He sings in French, Spanish and English.

I hope you'll let me off because she does sing some lines in English but also includes lyrics in Portuguese by Vinicius de Moraes and is a beautiful song,

Shakira & Alejandro Sanz - La Tortura

You can never go wrong with a bit of Alejandro Sanz

Mustafa Ceceli - ES (Turkish)

I remember this song being played in a hotel lobby in Istanbul around 15 years ago and it has stuck since, I don't understand a word of it, and like the instrumentals too

Best sung at the top of your lungs in the car

Se bastasse una canzone by Eros Ramazzotti, singing here with the great Luciano Pavarotti.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZO_CShWr2o