I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
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German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
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.
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
I'm rarely singing in English.
My friends often tell me how very German I still am.
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
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