And in french too ! :D ( L'arc-en-ciel say some words in french :mrgreen: )
Japanesne are very conservative, they like their language, only Japanese... and some words or songs in english...
That's good for them, we need it in France too cause we hear shit like willy densez, leslie, tragedie, magic systeme, lorie, priscilla...
And the other are only english, linkin park, muse, manson, eminem, 2 pac, destiny child, britney, christina...
And the good french, dead, or johnny , aznavour, sardou, mitchel, goldman, souchon...
Kuraki Mai released her album "Secret of my Heart" as a US version....and she does have some songs all in english, like "Tonight I feel close to You" (from If I Believe album) or "The Rose -melody in the sky-" (from Perfect Crime album)
Matsuda Seiko released a U.S. CD titled "Area 62". All the songs on it is sung in English. It has some really good dance tunes, but sales were really bad. It's just funny that a lady over 40 years old is still trying to put on an image of a 20-something year old.
Hmm..Even V6 sings a song in English, yeah I recall a song called "One" a duet with Shoo from S.E.S and then..Da Pump did a cover version of "Circle of Life" Elton John and..they did not sound Engrishy at all.
Ken Hirai release an album in which he sang mostly in English (with his perfect prononuciation) called "Ken's Bar"
Mika Nakashima sang "Amazing Grace" in her first Album. Oh yeah, try Toshinobu Kubota, he also released and English Album..I forgot the name. hmm..who else? Noriyuki Makihara, Miwa Yoshida. Oh yeah Southern All Stars..they also sing in English too.
Akakage wrote:Hmm..Even V6 sings a song in English, yeah I recall a song called "One" a duet with Shoo from S.E.S and then..Da Pump did a cover version of "Circle of Life" Elton John and..they did not sound Engrishy at all.
Ken Hirai release an album in which he sang mostly in English (with his perfect prononuciation) called "Ken's Bar"
Mika Nakashima sang "Amazing Grace" in her first Album. Oh yeah, try Toshinobu Kubota, he also released and English Album..I forgot the name. hmm..who else? Noriyuki Makihara, Miwa Yoshida. Oh yeah Southern All Stars..they also sing in English too.
there you go helene.. hehe.. you can always count on aka.. :woot: she has this vast amount of knowlege.. kekeke..
there you go helene.. hehe.. you can always count on aka.. :woot: she has this vast amount of knowlege.. kekeke..
DANG!!...hehee.. :beaten: I'm speechless here..
oh yeah..adding to the above..Shingo Katori did sing in English, the song was called It Can't Be and that can be found in DRINK SMAP album. Hmm..Oh yeah not to mention Chage and Aska, long time ago they sang "Something There" for the soundtrack of Hollywood movie "Street Fighter" ..Jeez I forgot, Love Psychedelico they also sing in English.
Thanx to all for your answers !
Aka seems to know everything I need to know :applaud: thank you Aka !
Yes, I have heard that mister Shingo can speak very good English . I've never heard him sing in English though ... oh yeah, that song "every you" by Smap ! I have it on a DVD ...
PS: super contente de constater que je ne suis pas la seule frenchie sur ce forum ! :woot:
She's a jazz-ish type artists, and apprently she grew up in England or somewhere, so I'd say about 50% of her songs are in English. "Bonnie's Kitchen #2" is a completely English album, but other English songs of hers worth your notice are "I Just Want you to Be Happy", "Daisy", "not ready", "Hang-glider", "Mint", and "Evil and Flowers". Also, in her Japanese songs, she interjects so many english words it's not even funny. :P
The Japanese singer that I always tout for people asking for English version of songs would be Melody. She's fluent in English and you can tell that her Japanese has an English accent to it as well. She's one great singer nonetheless.
I also believe that Dragon Ash sings in English sometimes and Bennie K has pretty good English as well. I think Liv was mentioned already.