
The song "Strangers In The Night", which was originally offered to her but was first recorded by Frank Sinatra, was later recorded by her in Spanish. Other artists did covers of one of her songs in Finnish, Swedish, and Portuguese. Aside from English, she was fluent in Spanish and Italian (she is of Italian descent) the other languages she learned to sing phonetically. She has done covers of some of her songs in multiple languages such as Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Romanian. What Dion was to the 1990s, Connie Francis was to the 1960s.Marion Ravn has a Norwegian version of It's All Coming Back To Me Now, which she did an English cover of with Meatloaf.This is particularly evident on her first Christmas album, Celine Dion Chante Noel, which includes French versions of several songs which originated in English, including "Sleigh Ride," "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," and "White Christmas," plus "Glory Alleluia," which is sung to the same melody ("John Brown's Body") as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Some of her first French songs were actually translated from English songs, such as "A quatre pas d'ici" (Four steps from here) which was Buck Fizz's 1981 song "The Land of Make Believe" and "Ne me plaignez pas" (Don't pity me) from Sheena Easton's "Please don't sympathize".Céline Dion started her career with French-language music before adding English-language starting from 1990, and as a result, more than a few French songs would find themselves on her English albums and vice versa:.When a show uses a Translated Cover Version of a song the audience knows in the original language, that's Familiar Soundtrack, Foreign Lyrics.

She is popular in Japan and in surrounding countries, ranking number one in 2011 Count Down TV “Dearest Female Artist” and Music Station “Artist You Most Want to Marry” polls, as well as Radio Television Hong Kong’s “Most Popular Japanese Artist”.A subtrope of Cover Version, or occasionally Covered Up for songs which are translated into a different language.įor songs where only the melody survived the translation process, see What Song Was This Again?. Since Yui’s debut album, From Me to You, each of her soloist album releases has topped the charts, with at least one single reaching number one on the Oricon charts from 2007 until her second hiatus in 2012, including five straight from mid-2008 to late 2010. Her singles, however, were only met with moderate success until the breakout “Good-bye Days”, which charted for 44 weeks on Oricon and marked her as one of the Japanese music industry’s rising stars. Born and raised in Fukuoka prefecture, she played live at various locations in her hometown before being noticed by Sony Music Japan when she was 17 years old, and released her debut single months later. (Born March 26, 1987), YUI is a Japanese singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress.
