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Check out this killer German House Group: Houserockerz. This is an old song but I still love it. House Rockerz feat. Tiemo Hauer – Schläfst du schon
17 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted house music, Music
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Check out this killer German House Group: Houserockerz. This is an old song but I still love it. House Rockerz feat. Tiemo Hauer – Schläfst du schon
16 Saturday Aug 2014
Posted Around the World, Classical music, Culture, Music, Uncategorized
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African Music, Arabic Music, Classical Music, German Music, Heavy Metal, House Music, Pop Music, Rap Music, Reggaeton, Rock Music, Russian Music, Techno
Okay, I’m in love with music. I will listen to anything, and I mean ANYTHING, provided that the song has: a good beat or rhythm, the lyrics speak to me, or it’s soothing. I know people who listen to just rap, pop music, or rock. I honestly find those people annoying. Why don’t you want to give other types of music a shot? I don’t just listen to Western music, I listen to music from all over the world.
You SERIOUSLY limit yourself when you only listen to music produced in North America or Western Europe. There are so many good artists out there! On my iPod, I’ve roughly 550 songs. Out of all those songs, I’d say only about 15% would fit into the category of Western Music. My iPod is filled with songs in languages from every continent (except Antarctica), including but not limited to: English, French (I have a lot of French songs), German (I have a lot of German too), Russian, Turkish, Arabic (I have a lot of Arabic), Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Vietnamese, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Yoruba, Igbo, Hindi, Punjabi, Lingala, Romanian, Hungarian, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish…etc. If you can think of any language, I probably have a song on my iPod in that language.
My iPod is also filled with almost every genre of music including: Rock, Punk Rock, Rap, R & B, Pop Music, Screamo, Techno, House Music, Classical music, Oprah, Dance music, Heavy metal, Old School, Uncategorized, Makossa, Coupé Decalé…and much more!
Today, I’m going to share some songs with you from some of the groups I’ve mentioned. You should definitely check these out! Honestly, you’ll find something your like.
<u>FRENCH MUSIC</ u>
I’m really into Sexion D’Assuat and Maître Gims. I’ve yet to find a song by either artist that I don’t like. Sexion D’Assuat is a rap group and Maître Gims belongs to this group, but he’s branched out to also become a solo artist in addition to being in the group. Gims has an AMAZING voice in addition to his fast witted rapping style. He’s the only rapper in the world, that I’ve come across, that can sing so powerfully and rap with a killer style.
Maître Gims Songs that I like
<u>ITALIAN/CLASSICAL Music</u>
I’m only going to include 2 artists in this category. They’re both Italian and Classical artists. One is dead, one is alive. My favorite composer, dead or alive, would have to be Ludovicio Einaudi. He’s still alive and my dream would be to meet him one day. I was first introduced to his work after watching the French Film (it has subtitles, don’t worry) The Intouchables. This film is absolutely hilarious (not in a stupid Hollywood hilarious kind of way) and so touching. It’s won many awards both internationally and in France. I fell in love with the scores in that film, and immediately went to Google the soundtrack. I found that a lot of the songs were composed by Einaudi. Although I’ve listened to many composers before, and I truly do enjoy classical music, Einaudi was far different than any other composers I’d listened to. His music is was haunting and left an impression on you. After doing more research on him, I realized that he’s composed dozens of scores for films and he’s world renowned. This old guy even has a Facebook page with over 600k likes. The other composer is Antonio Vivaldi. If you haven’t heard of him, you don’t know music. He was basically like the rockstar in his time.
Check out some songs by:
Ludovicio Einaudi:
Antoino Vivaldi
<u>ROCK</u>
Arguably, my favorite rock band is the funk rock band, Red Hot Chili Peppers. There’s literally not one song by them that I haven’t liked. Other rock bands that I like include, Finger 11, Green Day, Linkin Park, and Nickelback.
RHCP
Linkin Park
Finger 11
Nickelback
<u>GERMAN</u>
Die Toten Hosen is one of my favorite German bands! Here is a song by them called Nur Zu Besuch. One of my German guilty pleasures is Kay One. He’s a German Rapper. He recently made a song called I Need a Girl Part 3 with Mario Winas. Here is a song by him called Ich Liebe Dich. Lastly, I really like the German rapper Bushido, song Alles Verloren
<u>ARABIC MUSIC</u>
My favorite Arabic Singer is Shereen (Cherine). She has an amazing voice. Check out some of her songs
Shereen
<u>HINDI/PUNJABI</u>
I have a lot of artists from India that I love, it’s so hard to pick, but here are some songs that I like
<u>TURKISH</u>
I am in love with Tarkan when it comes to Turkish music. He’s yet to have made a song that I don’t like. I swear this guy is gay, I wish he would just come out already!
Tarkan
<u>TOGOLESE (Togo)</u>
My favorite Togolese group so far has to be Toofan. There’s not one of their songs where I don’t feel like getting up and dancing. In Togo, their national language is French but they also speak their native languages as well. Most Togolese music is a mix of French and native Togolese languages
Toofan
<u>GABON</u>
My favorite Gabonese artist is Patience Dabany. The funny thing about Dabany is that she the First Lady of Gabon from 1967-1988 and she was married to former Gabonese president Omar Ondimba who was president from 1967-2009. She’s the mother of the current president of Gabon! This woman just can’t get enough of politics! It wasn’t until after she divorced her husband that she started pursuing music. Gabon was also colonized by the French
On Vous Connait by Patience Dabany. This song has a lot of good advice
<u>NIGERIAN</u>
Because I’m Nigerian, I listen to a lot of Nigerian music. I can make a whole post about Nigerian music. There are just too many Nigerian artists and Nigerian songs that I love. Nigerian music is now very popular, not just in Nigeria, but in Africa and around the world. Nigerian music is the most popular music all across Africa, and now, with Nigerian artists in Nigeria continually collaborating with artists overseas, Nigerian music has become International. Many Nigerian artists living in Nigeria have been signed by famous artists like: Kanye West, Jay Z, Akon, Rick Ross and many Nigerian artists living in Nigeria have collaborated with: Drake, Rihanna, Kanye West, Akon, Matt Houston, Sean Paul and many more. It’s so hard to recommend songs, but here are a few artists who you should definitely check out. The shitty thing about many Nigerian artists now is that they’re relying heavily on highly produced music and autotune, but the beats are so sick that you can’t help but like the songs despite the shitty lyrics and autotune. There are still many Nigerian artists with amazing voices though, but they’re not as famous. Some famous Nigerian Artists not in Nigeria include Wale, Tinie Tempah, and many more.
<u>CONGOLESE</u>
My favorite Congolese singers are Fally Ipupa (obviously) and Awilo Longomba (even more obvious)
<u>Côte d’Ivoire</u>
<u>SIERRA LEONE</u>
<u>UGANDAN</u>
<u>MOZAMBIQUE</u>
Fun Fact about Mozambique: It was colonized by the Portuguese so it’s one of the few countries in Africa (Angola is another one) that the national language is Portuguese.
<u>RUSSIAN</u>
Okay, I seriously don’t feel like writing more, but some other artists you should check out include: German group Scooter, German Group Die Artze, German Group Die Atzen, Italian Singer, Andrea Boccelli, Hungarian Ruzsa Magdi, Shitty Russian Rapper Timati, Canadian Deadmau5, Romanian Techno/House Group Fly Project, Italian DJ Benny Benassi, Dutch DJ Korsakoff if you’re into heavy metal, killer bass, and techno…and many more.