Do any of you listen to foreign music?

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Hi everyone,

I'm wondering, do you listen to foreign music? Who do you listen to and do any of your family/friends find it weird?

I listen to Tiziano Ferro, I have all his albums and the last thing I bought was his Fan Edition of The Best of TZN which was £68 I think I have spent £203.35 over the last year on all his albums, 3 compilations, phone case and 2016 calendar.

I'm always down for some Peruvian Pan Pipes.

I quite often listen to Latin American radio stations.

Mostly not as I do not speak any other languages, some times a foreign song here and there are catchy tho.

Does Mexican rock count? I was listening to Chingon just a few minutes ago.

What about metal being sung in Norwegian?

Any type of music sung in a language other than English counts, I got into Italian music starting with Nina Zilli when she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku with her song L'amore è femmina (Out of Love), I got into Tiziano via a music forum (ATRL), and I have been listening to him for 1 year, 1 month and 29 days. He has 1,912 plays on my Last.fm putting him as my top artist that I listen to.

I often listen to foreign music when I get the opportunity. One of my favorite tracks is Guren no Yumiya (or as many know of it as the opening theme to Attack On Titan) by Linked Horizon but I also like the first opening theme and second closing theme for Future Diary, the opening theme to Spice And Wolf, Lillium from Elfen Lied, and both opening and closing themes to Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia.

I like to listen to Japanese Vocaloid music, but most music I listen to is in English.

Oh, and Sigur Rós are amazing, but definitely don't sing in English

I grew up with my dad listening to Ibrahim Ferrer/ Beunavista Social Club and other Afro-Cuban Jazz, or music in whichever language he was learning at he time (languages are one of his special interests). Right now it's Gujarati music because my brother married a woman whose parents are from India and he wants to be able to speak with them (a language barrier always helps him in social situations, oddly enough, because people understand and appreciate that kind of effort haha).

When I was a child, I listen to Persian music & watch Persian tv shows, my dad is Persian so I'm half Persian, I never learn the language, I was having a hard time learning Spanish.

If you listen to metal music, most likely you are listening to some artists/groups who aren't located in your area. Same with electronic music.

Most of the music I listen to was written in the US, naturally. Does that count as foreign? Or am I the one who is foreign?

Growing up with several cultures being raised around me I started out listening to "foreign music".

My Uncles on my maternal grandmother's side were gifted mariachis that sung to the female matriarches of the family the morning of their birthday in proper Spanish; also many songs were Portuguese, French, Basque and Bohemian if elder Delfina sung them. The next generation was mostly Mexican-Spanish,and their kids only speak Californian Spanglish. My dad sung many Celtic, Scottish tunes, Bohemian and German folk music (where I learned to play accordion & guitar was both mom and dad) and music at powwows was not only in the kin language of Cherokee, but often in Pawnee, Shawnee, Kikapoo.
My dad had a Kenyan business contact that often gifted us interesting things including a tape of music. My Japanese babysitter would sing interesting things.


In 90's in Kuwait our Kurdish guide intro'ed us to some hip dance music in local languages Some Bollywood singers I like a lot too. I liked Ofra Haza in the 80s and 90s.

Short answer is "Yes, often" I especially will start with listening to music if I intend to learn a language.

I listen to some foreign artist who done afew CDs in English & other CDs in their native language. I also listen to some English artists who done afew songs in a foreign language like bonus songs on the CD that are in French or Spanish.

Don't know if it counts as "foreign," considering I'm not Tibetan but do consider myself a Buddhist student. Ani Choying Drolma has such a beautiful, powerful voice. I also listen to (and chant) chants in Pali, so maybe that's foreign since its rarely spoken anywhere.

Japanese and Korean pop music, as well as Spanish (especially reggaeton) and French music.

Also dancehall and soca, in the "foreign but still English speaking" category.
And folk music from different countries.