American Standards songs in Spanish?
I need songs that are American Standards but have Spanish translations or Spanish lyric versions. Standards like: Autumn Leaves, Teach Me Tonight, Jut the Way You Look Tonight, or anything else like that. I sing with a band with an international audience and I need to expand the repertoire.... any suggestions? Thanks! Nancy
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One word ABBA.
Many of their songs are English and Spanish.
I don't know exactly what kind of music you are looking for but here are some.
America - Sister golden hair = En medio del camino - Guaraná
The Steve Miller band - Serenade = Llamando a la tierra M-CLan
Patti Smith Group - Because the night = La noche es - Tahures zurdos
Soft cell -Tainted love = Falso amor - La unión
Martina McBride - I never promised you a rose garden = Jardin de rosas - Duncan Dhu
I dont rememebr this one = Estoy contento nena - Claudio Taddei y Rubén Rada
Hi hotgirlsinger. I've found this information for you. Copied and pasted with url. I hope it helps. It sounds like what you might be looking for.
Grammy award winning vocalist Sylvia Bennett releases Sonríe, a jazz standards release with a new twist, well a Latin tinged one at least. In an era where a high percentage of jazz vocalists focus on the technique and articulation of the notes, it is refreshing to hear a master of song stylings put her spin on classic jazz standards completely sung in Spanish. So what about the authenticity you ask? Italian born, Bennett an always striving for perfection and reaching new heights (no wonder Lionel Hampton hired her permanently) artist procured a language coach (Juan Angelogianopulos) to make sure her journey would be flawless, and I must say that it is. Bennett shines; she lures the listener in with her luxurious voice and golden pipes, then sets the mood and delivers just the right atmosphere – no matter the language – for the listener....read more
Geannine Reid, JazzTimes
“It is amazing how versatile the Great American Songbook has become – and, of course, how much of an important resource for jazz vocalists and musicians it has become. That is the case with vocalist Sylvia Bennett – she has selected fourteen popular songs, many famous from usage in movies and musicals, and given them a Latin feel to update them. On the whole this works very well, even those normally associated with a swing beat.
And finally, but not least, there is Ms. Bennett's voice, light enough to glide effortlessly over the music, and also to be so completely wistful at the same time. This is an excellent album, rich in melody and rhythm and it reinforces that cliched idiom that ‘they don’t write them like that anymore’!”
John M. Peters, The Borderland
click here for Silvia Bennet's website
Cheers!
The good stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APtVJQk7hvM
Translations and lyrics in another language are completely different kettles of fish. The latter are seldom close to the original and often completely different, plus much more difficult to make.. Like opera such translations do not travel well from the original language to another. Moreover, also like opera, most prefer to hear the original lyrics, for one reason or another.
By "American standards" is "United States standards" meant?" Anyway even the US has some good songs in Spanish originally, and other parts of the Americas also have many American Standards, in various languages, including French and Spanish.
What Pat Boone would sound like with Spanish lyrics is enough to keep one up at night--"Cartas de amor en arena"
