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Part of my joy as a singer is to give gifts to people, and one way I try to connect to them is to add something in French or German or whatever.

— Kurt Elling

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

— Paul Oakenfold

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

— Maureen Forrester

Singing is a gift.

— Tony Bennett

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

— Thalia

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

— Bridgit Mendler

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

— Jon Secada

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

— David Johansen

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

— Dan Fogelberg

Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

— Juanes

✗Opposing Perspectives

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.

— Victoria de los Angeles