Music and Videos

Music and Videos

Music is an international language that knows no boundaries!  Any boundaries that are formed are within one’s own mind. On May 17, 2013, the BBC reported something that I have always known, namely that music has the power to heal the body and the mind. In fact,...

Music from Scandinavia

The term Scandinavia is used to refer to the countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and the countries of Finland and Iceland are often included. Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are distinct yet similar, however Finnish is completely different and has Hungarian...

Music in Assyrian

Assyrian also known as Neo-Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language spoken by roughly 3 million people in the world, some scattered throughout the Middle East (namely in Iran and Iraq), but most in diaspora the world over. The Aramaic language was that spoken in...

Music in Armenian

Here are some of my favorite Armenian language music videos. It is one of the oldest languages in the world, and lies in the Indo-European family of languages. It is the language of the country of Armenia and is also spoken by Armenians in diaspora. The Armenian...

Music in Italian

Italian is descended from Latin and is the official language to several countries in Europe such as Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Croatia, and Slovenia. Italian is also a recognized minority language in 27 countries worldwide and is one of the five Romance languages...

Music in Arabic

Here are some of my favorite Arabic language music videos. Arabic is the fifth most spoken language in the world.  It is one of the primary languages spoken in the Middle East (Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq to name but a few countries) as well as in North Africa...

Music in Turkish

Here are some of my favorite Turkish language music videos.  Feel free to send me links of your favorite Turkish songs as well.  They just might make their way onto my playlist.

Music in Greek

The Greek language is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages and boasts 34 centuries of written records. In fact, it was the lingua franca in the Mediterranean world during antiquity ad well as the official language of the Byzantine empire....

Celtic Music

Here are some of my favorite Celtic music videos, a few are in Gaelic, some are in English, some hail from Ireland, others from the French coast of Brittany, but all share that inimitable ethereal quality of Celtic music. Don’t hesitate to send me links of your...

Music in Spanish

Here are some of my favorite Spanish language music videos.  Feel free to send me links of your favorite Spanish songs as well.  They just might make their way onto my playlist.

Music in French

French is often called the “language of love”. It boasts 110 million native speakers and over 190 million second-language speakers. French is at home in 29 countries in the world. In fact, the singers in my playlist hail from many different French-speaking...

Music in English

Here are some of my favorite English language music videos. English is the third most spoken language on earth, following Mandarin and Spanish. A large number of the artists that I’ve chosen to place here are not even native English speakers. Kudos to them! Feel...