Best language for singing?

sera catalan o vasco?

I like the songs in Spanish and Italian. They are more melodic and beautiful.

Some relatively old songs

Marisa (Brazil)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUCxUePcDQ0&feature=PlayList&p=29FABAA93EACA8B7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=37

Cesária Évora (Cape-Verde)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7BV-IuyKI

Nara Leão (Brazil)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH_DCT5DsdU&feature=related

Nara Leão
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReCCGLrkues&feature=related

Wanda Sá and Roberto Menescal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVyj61zl2k&feature=PlayList&p=59DA24ED218D11FC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=35

Paula Morelenbaum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eekn5xrOtO4&feature=related

Some more great classics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JALwwaASg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCcNXbJs1HY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ6h0kyqSRk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rdZxhxOiAg&feature=related

Some rad music in English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkIytHD5v9c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bsniYwSaWg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unBACOHFXes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFAjBN5zuF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR3Ny0tgHfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHR3ptykzTE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA (Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9GJ6mMxLw (Explode - Tay Zonday)

Oldies,but goldies.
English hardrock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lAXfjWIOBM
English artrock-ballad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoxHGxQw9ws
English bluesrock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYDvQ1HH-E
English rhythm'n'blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9b9RbE9urQ

Better times will come.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvuLXVP8Ca0

Classic Russian rock. Boris Grebenschikov.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxU2xmjaRqE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabYK0IllUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyQYdMLIRKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCNJp1X0N5Q

Enjoy!

I love music in all languages, but it sounds more beautiful in Spanish and Italian.

It's funny to see Lisa Ono singing with a "Carioca" accent when she's from São Paulo.

It might be funny for you. I am PT and I cannot notice the difference in accent betweet RJ accent and SP accent.

By the way, it was me who posted the brazilian songs.

@João:
Don't worry about not getting the RJ and SP differences. I wouldn't be able
to tell "Porto" and Lisboa" accent apart :)

Thanks for posting a lot of Brazilian songs and for not holding a grudge against Brazilians.

Bossa Nova is originally from Rio so a Carioca accent would be the
most appropriate way of singing.

Many bands in Brazil show their regional accents (Raimundos and Calipso show clearly that they are from Northeast Brazil) and the only group that shocked me was "Engenheiros do Havaí" since they are from southern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) but sound like people from Rio.

Cheers,

It might be funny for you. I am PT and I cannot notice the difference in accent betweet RJ accent and SP accent.

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SP city accent uses
1. [s] and [z]; festas [fEstas], respostas [hespOstas]
2. end-syllable r's are like in Portuguese/Italian [r]; cortar [kor'tar]
3. Italian intonation

RJ city uses
1. [S] and [Z] as in Portugal (chiado, x): festas [fEStaS], respostas [heSpOStaS]
2. end syllable r's are like in German [h]: cortar [koh'ta(h)]
3. Intonation is different

SP state has 2 more accents: caipira (with the American retroflex R), and caiçara (the coastal accent similar to South-Fulminense)

RJstate has 2 more accents, North-Fluminense which is close to RJ city accent, and Sul-Fulminense which is spoken in Paraty, Volta Redonda, Rezende, Barra Mansa (it uses [s], [z], and not chiado, but [h] syllable end r's and not [r]'s)...South-Fluminense accent is the most neutral accent in all Brazil, and it's used on Jornal da Globo.