42 sats \ 6 replies \ @Roll 26 Feb \ on: "Meta Music Mondays" 😉 February's Femmes Fatales! Celebrating women in music. Music
Niagara was a French rock band that achieved popularity both in France and Canada in the 1980s and early 1990s. The band, who was known under the name L'Ombre jaune from 1982 to 1984, was formed in Rennes, France by vocalist Muriel Laporte (later known as Muriel Moreno [fr]) and keyboardist Daniel Chenevez [es].Early on, the band also included guitarist José Tamarin, although he left before the release of their first album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_(band)
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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 26 Feb
Beautiful voice Roll. Great shout, I'd never heard of them before really happy to have been introduced to them.
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2 sats \ 4 replies \ @0b1CoinObi 26 Feb freebie
Great rock sound. Shame they never did an English version as I think the band would have gone down rather well in the UK in the late '80s. I'd have definitely stumped up £8.50 to see them.
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @Roll 26 Feb
French music never went worlwide (or a little) as many countries in the world (and it s not for a lack of artists)
Probably cause of the language, as it s the english language/culture.. has been spread over the world.
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23 sats \ 2 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 26 Feb
I think that's such a shame because of how beautiful it can sound. There's lots of Spanish songs worldwide (but also Spanish is the 2nd most widespread language behind English).
Germans done pretty well globally within certain niches eg. Rammstein.
It is a shame that french music doesn't get the time of day. I mean I don't speak Korean but I know that BlackPink are a worldwide bestseller. In my view, you don't have to speak the language to appreciate the music. Sure there's some nuance and clever lyrics that you may miss by not understanding it. But that's what googles for, go look it up later and then appreciate how clever it was yaknow?
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0b1CoinObi 26 Feb
Agree, in their own language they can be huge but still limited to that geographic market. Unfortunately "Big" music isn't going to get behind them for the US, UK, CAN, AUS & NZ markets where there's big bucks to be made, but it has to be in English. Would Abba & Roxette have done as well singing in just Swedish?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 26 Feb
i won t say better than that :)
it may also come from the negociation done at the end of the 2nd world war with the Marshall plan to spray in that case American Culture and so English Culture in a way.
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