I agree with you, M.Ted What follows is a couple of arguments from me: For example, a few years ago, Sting wrote and sung "Muoio per te" in italian and I can't say if the song was only for italian maket or not, but this makes me think, since some times people tells me that I should sing in italian, while what we call BLUES needs it's original language. Translation: an english man sings in italian (sometimes the accent is bad), an italian man sings in english (same as above). More: a lot of chinese, corean and japanese classic musicians, but also sweden, american and whatever you may think, are interested in coming to Italy for improving their knowledge of what we call MUSIC. Great singers of Opera from all over the world sings in "italian", but only a few of them is comprehensible, but they seem to be always much more important than folk or blues or what else musicians. My personal opinion is: MUSIC IS THE NATION