Backlash to his selection exposes discomfort among politicians, commentators and media outlets toward non-English performances.

A small group of adults in Tulsa are learning to sing in Cherokee, as they revive the language some spoke and sang in childhood. It’s part of a larger effort by the Cherokee Nation to preserve and ...

FARGO — Classical singers will often learn a few additional languages to sing in Italian, German or French. “I never thought I’d sing in Japanese. Or Turkish. Or Arabic,” she says. Fans can hear ...

If anything proves that music is the universal language, it’s the fact that The Beatles songs have been translated into so many dialects. A teenager covered The Beatles’ “Blackbird” in the Indigenous ...

Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers recorded themselves performing traditional music and speaking in their native language. In all 50+ languages, the ...