Where are your favourite musicians from?

Aha! Ok I understand better now. Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Well thanks for your information and for your time to post in my discussion :)

Yeah that is very true! That all makes perfect sense. English is the most common language spoken in the world, so that makes sense. And the United States has the largest population of English speakers in the world too, so it makes sense why the dominate the music market. Canada and the United Kingdom also have a decent amount of people, so it also makes sense why there are a lot of good musicians from those places as well.

Actually it has nothing to do with the language spoken and population. It depends on the spending power of the country. As an example, the second biggest music market in the world is actually Japan. Follow by UK, France and Germany. These 5 countries (include US) make up of about 70-80% of the world music market, with US having about 35%. And if I remember correctly, country like Russia, Spain, Mexico, India, Brazil have sold more recorded music than some English speaking country like Canada and Australia. The reason why we all think there are more good musician from US, UK or Canada is because that is the common language that we used, that doen't mean there is no good musicial else where. As an example, one of the vocalist in my Song Zuying, I only get to know her due to Olympic 2008 and I think she is as good as my favourite female vocalist Sarah Brightman who I personally think has a better vocal than Celine Dion. Here is another story. A few months ago, while I was on my way to visit a friend of mine in Nottingham, I passby this market in the city centre of Nottingham. Over there, there is a man I assume to be a Mayan performing a Mayan traditional music using a flute. The music is so nice that I tempted to buy a concert recording which he is a member of the background musicial in that concert, but due to time concern and I don't have much cash with me at that time, I leave with empty hand.

Good list and lots of variety I can see. Thanks for your response! It looks like you have quite a few composers and classical musicians in there.

Yes that is quite true. Thanks for your response!

Actually I like different type of music, except maybe heavy metal and hard rock. And the lists is not complete. These are just the most notable one and I like quite a number of their song/music/lyric. There are some other song/music by other people that I like as well. Like I said in the post below, I give credit to the composer and lyricist for producing a good song. A singer will be nothing if the music or the lyric is bad, unless you are a very good vocalist that can sing without accompaniment and words, ie choir, a cappella, opera etc. but definitely not pop, rock or r&b.

Awesome! A nice variety of countries for your favourite music I can see. It looks like England is where the most of your favourite bands come from. And United States closely behind. Also, I always thought Ricky Martin was from Spain, atleast Im pretty sure that he was born in Spain though anyways.

Ah, yes I found out that Ricky Martin is in fact from Puerto Rico. Sorry about that, I must be thinking of some other latin guy that is from Spain haha. And its always good to like a lot of different types of music and people from different places! :)

I think Ricky Martin born in Puerto Rico as well, if not Central America, definitely not from Europe. I live in England, so obviously most of my favourite band will be British. Since my first language is English, I listen to American song as well, or should I listen to Russian/Arabic/Finnish/African song because I can't understand a single word? Granted I did took Chinese as my second language back in my GCE and took private class for Japanese when I am still in the school and I like Japanese anime, but I am not familiar with Japanese and Chinese bands, so there are few in my list as I do not know who sang those songs that I like. And I like Latin song because they have the joyful, festive and passionate mood which other pop culture lack of, but again I don't know any band's name, because they will not appear in our daily local news, do they?

Cool, thanks for your response! :)

I also like classical music but I dont listen to it much because its not my favourite. My favourite is different types of rock music. Classical music really is great though, good for relaxing and what not. I will try some Indian classical music some time. Thanks for your response! :)

Ah cool. I really liked Slumdog Millionaire, that was a spectacular movie! :) And I enjoyed the music, so Im sure I could get into his music. Thanks for your response!

Cool, very cool :) Its always good to have a good variety of music types and where the bands come from in my opinion. I like all of those bands you mentioned, and find it interesting how your music tastes vary for English bands and bands in general. I especially like Sublime from your list, great stuff! :D

Aha! Cool. So most of your favourite bands are from Europe then? Interesting. Im assuming that youre from Europe yourself? Lots of great bands are from Great Britain, as far as Sweden and Norway, Im not too sure though. I know maybe one or two bands from Sweden and Norway.. Some metal bands.

Cool, I also likes the Beatles. Who couldnt like them really right? And yeah Im pretty sure that youre right about them going to New York. They were on the Johnny Carson show or something along those lines around the same time they got really famous I think.

Cool, thanks for your time :) It seems like most people have atleast SOME favourite bands from the United States.