Sentence examples for language lyrics from inspiring English sources

There have been caveats - what with language, lyrics, different media, co-singing, humming, and peek-a-boos impacting just how "solo" a performance can be.

The ballad "Calling", featuring Mexican balladeer Rocio Mendoza, draws on Motown's late 1950s R&B roots and doo-wop music, and incorporates Latin style guitar, and Spanish language lyrics.

The song is loosely about AIDS and contains the Italian language lyric "Fuggi, regal fantasima", taken from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth.

Written by Alain Boublil and the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg (with English-language lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer), the musical "Les Misérables" is of course one really big show, perhaps the biggest and certainly one of the longest-running.

John Ceiriog Hughes, pseudonym Ceiriog, or Syr Meurig Grynswth (born Sept. 25, 1832, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales died April 23 , 1887 Caersws, Montgomeryshire), poet and folk musicologist who wrote outstanding Welsh-language lyrics.

She was onstage, gamely singing a song with Xhosa-language lyrics, and when she started to dance a few simple steps, Simon Mahlangu, a 42-year-old man looking on, nodded appreciatively and said, "She's really not as bad you'd expect".

But it has gotten a face lift in the form of a revised libretto, by the playwright Douglas Carter Beane, and new English-language lyrics by the production's director, Jeremy Sams, who penned the charmless, aggressively rhyming text of the Met's recent "Enchanted Island" pastiche.

September 25 , 1832Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Wales April 23 , 1887Caersws, Wales John Ceiriog Hughes, pseudonym Ceiriog, or Syr Meurig Grynswth (born Sept. 25, 1832, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, Wales died April 23 , 1887 Caersws, Montgomeryshire), poet and folk musicologist who wrote outstanding Welsh-language lyrics.

Nazir Ahmed, a political rap artist who goes by the stage name Ziriums and said he was banned in his home state, told the audience he sings about education and other problems in Nigeria, but often chooses to set his Hausa-language lyrics to Bollywood tracks because "this is the only way I could get people to listen to the message, by setting it to a popular song they recognize".

The magazine also described the album as the most accessible Super Furry Animals release, despite its Welsh-language lyrics.

The introductory track, "En Tus Pupilas" ("In Your Pupils"), incorporates folk music styles and its opening verse includes French-language lyrics.