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The song "Now We Are Free", featured in the movie "Gladiator" (2000) was written in what language?

Question #120790. Asked by Matthew_07.
Last updated Aug 25 2016.

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A song by Lisa Gerrard.

link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/soundtrack


Most probably a language she made up.

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Jaw-droppingly soaring contralto vocals, wordless lyrics.

Singing in a made-up language.

link http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314713/bio

link http://www.filmtracks.com/comments/titles/gladiator/index.cgi?read=854

Mar 20 2011, 2:16 PM
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While numerous stipulations have pointed to the song being composed in languages ranging from Hebrew to Gaulish to Andalucian, Gerrard has stated that the lyrics are composed from elements of various languages in a tongue bending glosalalia.

link http://www.last.fm/music/Kelly+Sweet/_/Now+We+Are+Free

Lisa Gerrard's lyrics in "Now We Are Free" have no language known to man. She uses her own "language" or glosalalia, similar to what young children use to talk or sing or what some pentecostal groups use to pray. At least this is how LG has described her process in many interviews. She has said she makes up the words as she goes along. Sort of like Jazz vocalists when they scat sing. My impression is that she finds doing this doesn't hamper the listener's ability to add their own experience with the song itself - words get in the way, kind of like now, for example.

link http://ecstaticspeech.blogspot.com/2007/07/lisa-gerrard-uses-her-own-language.html

Response last updated by CmdrK on Aug 25 2016.
Mar 20 2011, 7:24 PM
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