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* ChristinaAguilera, NellyFurtado and {{Shakira}} have all done covers of their own English-language songs in Spanish.

* "Hot Limit" by John Desire is a GratuitousEnglish Eurobeat cover of a Japanese song by TM Revolution. Conversely, many Eurobeat songs have been covered in Japanese.

* DschinghisKhan did an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCnvA9Jl-U English version]] of their German song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv20M0iPnTg "Moskau"]].

* "Gloria" by Laura Branigan was originally an Italian song by Umberto Tozzi. Branigan's version isn't a straight cover, though; her Gloria is a lonley, promiscuous loser and the lyrics are sarcastic and contemptuous, while Tozzi's original gushes almost worshipfully about a woman who is waaaaay out of his league.

* "Gloria" by Laura Branigan was originally an Italian song by Umberto Tozzi. Branigan's version isn't a straight cover, though; Branigan's lyrics are sarcastic and contemptuous, while Tozzi's original borders on worshipful.

* "Gloria" by Laura Branigan was originally an Italian song by Umberto Tozzi.

* "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (aka "Wemaweh" and "In the Jungle") was originally a Zulu pop song from South Africa.

* Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" has been covered in Japanese by Hitomi Yaida. While the translation is mostly faithful to the original, all references to the singer having a job/being the breadwinner while her husband is unemployed have been taken out -- which slight alteration [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning completely changes it]] from a song about a girl from a poor neighborhood who dreams of better things but ends up with a good-for-nothing husband to a song about a girl who dreams of an exciting life but winds up playing housewife to a salaryman husband who's never home.

* Phil Collins translated and sang his own songs in French.
* Every Disney song is translated into around 20 languages each, and some languages have more than one translation, to accomodate local variation.

* Argentinean bands Renacer and Tren Loco, who have covered several English-language songs in Spanish, such as ''[[JudasPriest Metal Gods]]'', ''[[{{Megadeth}} Reckoning Day]]'' and ''[[{{Helloween}} March of Time]]'' in the case of the former, and ''[[JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]'' and ''[[{{Megadeth}} Train of Consecquences]]'' in the case of the latter.

* According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_a_Gigolo_%28song%29 the other Wiki]], "Just a Gigolo" was originally an Austrian song that was a poetic vision of Austria's social collapse after World War I, in which a hussar must make a living as a hired dancer. It wasn't originally by David Lee Roth either, but that's [[CoveredUp another trope]].

* Every Disney song is translated into around 20 languages each, and some languages have more than one translation, to accomodate local variation.

* The original "Macarena" was in Spanish. A popular version exists with English lyrics.

* Argentinean bands Renacer and Tren Loco, who have covered several english language songs in Spanish, such as ''[[JudasPriest Metal Gods]]'', ''[[{{Megadeth}} Reckoning Day]]'' and ''[[{{Helloween}} March of Time]]'' in the case of the former, and ''[[JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]'' and ''[[{{Megadeth}} Train of Consecquences]]'' in the case of the latter.
* ''Solo Le Pido a Dios'' by Argentinean singer Leon Gieco has been translated by several other artists and groups into different languages, as well.
* ''Ue wo muite arukou'' ("Sukiyaki") by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k Kyu Sakamoto]] (1963) was covered in translation by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFkUNqBwMw A Taste of Honey]] (1981).

* Ben Folds has covered his own "Song for the Dumped" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJT3cj-NWk0 in
Japanese]]. Naturally, the swearing remains in GratuitousEnglish.

* "I Will Go With You" by Donna Summer is an English rendition of "Con Te Partiro"(Time to Say Goodbye) by Andrea Bocelli/Sarah Brightman.
* Gloria Gaynor recorded a Spanish version of "I will survive" called "Yo vivire".

* "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (aka "Wemaweh" and "In the Jungle") was originally a Zulu pop song from South Africa.

* Ben Folds has covered his own "Song for the Dumped" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJT3cj-NWk0 in Japanese]]. Naturally, the swearing remains in GratuitousEnglish.

* "Hot Limit" by John Desire is a GratuitousEnglish cover of a Japanese song by TM Revolution.

* SongsToWearPantsTo did an English cover of the Utada Hikaru song "Blue".

* {{Abba}} recorded Spanish versions of many of their songs, enough that a compilation album, ''Oro'', was produced to collect them. Their native tongue is Swedish, but oddly enough, only their earliest singles have Swedish versions.
** Not that strange. Nearly all Swedes speak English as a second languege, and since Sweden detests dubbing, most media is taken in in english. During Eurovision, at least a few songs are in english.

* The DavidBowie song "'Heroes'" has been done in three languages, the original English, in German as "'Helden'" and in French as "'Heros'"