Music around the world

The passion for music is diverse and widespread: from hip hop to heavy metal, fans all around the world can be found. Some, like me, are eclectic. But regardless of taste, I've never heard of anyone who does not enjoy at least a specific music genre, or who's not a fan of that band whose songs can't get out off its listener's head.

Some people though, go further: "How would a song from Poland sound like?", a Canadian guy wonders; or "Which styles of music could I find in Turkey?", a girl from the Philippines thinks to herself.
It may be a bit weird to listen to something unlike anything you've heard before, either for its beats or for the sounds of a language. But who's never dreamed of a journey around the world? Music can take you further simply by pressing play.

Despite having Portuguese as my native language, I've been listening to songs in English since I was young. But as I became familiar to the anglophone world, Russian turned into my first passion. That language sounded so cool when I heard its introductions on a language learning page for the first time that it got to me. The first band I got to listen to was Градусы (Gradusy), or "Degrees" in English. That pop rock band messed with me in a way I couldn't explain. I just knew I liked it and I wanted to get to know even more about it. Multilingual lyrics pages were of good help at first, as I could follow both its lyrics in Russian and its translation in English.

Now, my "Songs around the world" folder is filled with songs from more than 20 different languages, including: Croatian, Estonian, Danish, Greek, and even Xhosa (the click language). Unfortunately, I can only  communicate in a few of the languages on my list: Portuguese, English, Spanish and getting better at French, and I know the basics of German and introductions of some languages, but I'm sure that if I choose to pick any of these languages to learn, listening to them first, enjoying its sounds, is gonna boost me to keep learning it with much more pleasure.

So, if you are curious to find out how that band mentioned above sounds like, here is the first song I got to listen from Градусы (Gradusy), Голая (Golaya), or "Naked", in English.