You don't need to speak English to sing the blues

Apr 3, 2026 5:30 PM

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Brazillian artist Eduardo Motta

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Holy cow! I have goosebumps listening to this.

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Que bacana

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Fuuuuuck yeah!!

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Fuck Yeah!

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I said this couple of days ago about some Japanese folks singing Bluegrass:

Music isn't a nationality, it's a feeling.

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As a half Brazilian, this makes me very happy. I approve!

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Those ladies look entranced by him.

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What a voice!

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Well, he lived for some time in New York, so I think he might have learned a thing or two of English by now. Amazing singer.

More recent live... https://youtu.be/MVg-zPYZ224?si=iJbu_6hYRpziZHnW&t=80

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Now do Ken Lee.

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Impressive 🎵😃

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God...and I cannot stress this enough...DAMN!

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I sing Georgian music without knowing a word of Georgian, Svan or any of the dialects that the song is in ...

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I can sing along with most Rammstein songs. While I took a couple years of German back in high school I can't say I speak it at all.

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I hope he was a good dude and good things happened for him.

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he was kind of a jerk a few times but thats humans for ya. he doesn't seem awful overall.

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Selena didn't speak spanish at first either.

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Mea culpa! I absolutely misread what you wrote!
As compensation I will share a tale.

I was in college in TX at the time of her death, and I went to my friend’s dorm room whereupon she asked if I’d heard that Selena was shot. Now, we had another friend on campus named Selena and there was a good minute where I was shocked and afraid and couldn’t figure out why she wasn’t more upset.
So when I understood who’d been shot, as shocking as that was it actually came as a bit of a relief to me.

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no problem, it happens

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I don’t think that’s right. She just didn’t sing in English until later on.

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I think you got that backwards. She sang in Spanish but couldn't speak it. This is coming from my very limited knowledge of Selena from watching the movie Selena.

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Did Selena note the OBGYN for her birth was future politician Ron Paul?

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you are correct, like many Mexican-Americans of her generation english was her first language (our parents generation discouraged us of learning Spanish since they received corporal punishment for speaking it here in Texas public schools)

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I try to explain this to more recent migrant generations and they look at me in disbelief, I tell them its minor compared to the stories from grandparents and great grandparents generation, they'd lynch or assault you just for being present and brown.

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I am not surprised. Everywhere I look in history it is the ruling group trying to make a pure, offten white, culture by any means necessary.

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My grandparents got punished for speaking Cajun French in school. So my mom, aunts, and uncles never got to learn it.

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