Any More Spanish Versions?

No,I don't see any point in it.I am an american and my major audience is american,I liked what I did,it was very hard for me to do to as I do not speak fluent spanish.I would really though like to take a moment to thank my hardworking vocal coaches,Robert Ortiz,Tina Prieto,and Olga Forsythe.I did what I could do you know but american rock music sung in spanish does not have a big market.it is a novelty,a joke really.Not to sound bitter either as one day people may catch on to it.yet at this time spanish music is spanish and rock and roll is american.If you have got a good rock tune spanish people will not mind that it is done in english.They will dig it.If it is requested and somebody pays me to do one of my tunes in spanish of course I would do so, and am prepared unlike most english singers to do so as well.Yet it is a lot of work to go through the translation.Even with the music tracks completed.Here is a fact that may be of interest to you that the engilsh language has about 200,000 more words than the spanish language,due to slang and whatever and spanish speaking people will deny that of course yet the entire language consists of about 50,000 words.Yet because you have got to have the proper tense of the verbs it requires many more words to convey the same thought.The same with french,only about 80,000 words.Against english with 300,000 words.If you do not have the proper tense of the verbs you are speaking gibberish.So you have got to put 14 words in the space of 8.I can do that,I learned how but you have got to pay me straight up to do that now.Plus the production costs and my coaches.Otherwise I am total english if you can dig that,I really don't give a shit about singing in spanish anymore.Really it is more than enough work for me to nail the track in my own language.If you want a spanish version I would allow a great spanish singer to cover my version with the original music track.And you see in America you have got a lot of spanish people,children from old world parents who are perfect bi-lingual.Tina Prieto,my coach was that.She did my initial training and set it up and then I went to Olga Forsythe(my landlady-83 years old) who had a masters degree in spanish language from The University Of Havana-Cuba.Olga was amazed at how well Tina had set me up.Yet drilled me with no mercy on pronunciation and verb tense.Sittng at her kitchen table I would sing the tune hundreds of times and she would pound her fist on the table....NO! No! are you kissing every girl in town goodnight or just one girl?And she would get out a pen and paper and drill me through the tenses of the verbs.Plus the pronouncement of them.Spanish has a lot of silent s's yet again this was all a thing that the world missed.They wanted the bullshit fed to them by the mass media.And shoot I don't care,if that is what you want go for it.One after another the major labels are dying.The Capital Records building in LA is being converted to condos.Broadcast radio is dying via ipods,the internet and androids.It is now a free consumer oriented market.That has also in no way diminished the power of a great hit song.If you have produced something that people want to hear you will be able to sing for your supper.

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