Stories of New Americans with Ron Klutho on NewsTalkSTL

MUSIC: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watasai Stone by Rozzy Sokota ft. Itribe

Next week Ron will talk about Somalia with Warsame Warsame

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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0:00 SEG 1 - A lot of people speak a type of broken English called Creole | His first language was Mandingo | 80 % Muslim and 20% Christian | How the country got its name | Freetown | Being colonized by the British lead to a lot of British names | The civil war and blood diamonds

16:34 SEG 2 - He was born in Kamabai | What was school like? | What was his impression of the United States growing up? | Working in diamond mining | Leaving Sierra Leone in 1997 | Finding out which country he was going to

32:11 SEG 3 - Coming to St. Louis in 2004 with the help of the International Institute | Seeing and feeling snow for the first time | Cultural differences | Not having cars in Sierra Leone | Having to eat American food | His first job in America was a factory job | How big is the Sierra Leonean population in St. Louis? | Has he gone back since leaving in 1997? | He still has family back in Sierra Leone that are struggling financially | Rice and cassava | Is there tourism in Sierra Leone | Gumbay music | What is the best and worst thing about living in America? | Did anyone help him adjust to life in America | Words of wisdom

MUSIC: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Galeb i ja by Oliver Dragojević

Next week Ron will talk about Sierra Leone with Mahmoud Conteh

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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0:00 SEG 1 - Where is Croatia on the map? | How Croatia was able to keep its identity | Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian languages | Tito was President of Yugoslavia for life

15:28 SEG 2 - Growing up under Tito | Parents had an arranged marriage | Schools | Communist journalists

32:43 SEG 3 - Was her childhood happy? | Meeting her future husband | Her English when she arrived | Didn’t understand why people thought Johnny Carson was so funny | Connecting with other Croatians in St. Louis | Teaching her children Croatian | Being an interpreter for boxers | How has Croatia changed since her childhood | Are there a lot of tourists visiting Croatia?

MUSIC: ⁠Gurbet Türküsü (Ah Şu Eller) (Ah Şu Eller) by Zara

Next week Ron will talk about Croatia with Nasja Meyer

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0:00 SEG 1 - Where is Turkey? | Istanbul is the only city on 2 different continents | Immigrants from Afghanistan | Turkey spelled differently to Turkiye | Ottoman empire | Bosnia | October 29 is Turkey’s 100th birthday | Turkey became a secular country

13:59 SEG 2 - Born in Soma, Manisa | Going to a private all-boys boarding school that was dedicated to service | Participating in soccer and gymnastics | Volunteering in college | Learning English | Teaching English | Thoughts about America came from TV shows like Dallas and Knight Rider | Applying for a green card because of a friend and then winning the Visa lottery | Securing a job before coming to America | Teaching Turkish | Coming to St. Louis in 2012

33:26 SEG 3 - Chicago was too big for him | Not believing that a teacher could own two cars | Would not drive two minutes to the grocery store | Finding halal foods | Interfaith and intercultural volunteer work | Organizing soccer games and mentoring others | Turkish restaurants | When Americans hear his accent | Oil wrestling and women’s volleyball | Turkish soap operas have become very popular | Best and worst things about living in America | Where should a tourist go in Turkey? | Tells his kids they are American first

MUSIC: My Sweet Bamenda by Dog Star

Next week Ron will talk about Turkey with Ali Durhan

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0:00 SEG 1 - Where is Cameroon located | How many different languages are spoken in Cameroon | Ambazonia and the separation of the Northwest and Southwest Regions | Being judged in court in English

14:55 SEG 2 - Elections in Cameroon | Taxes | Draining the seaport | Growing up | Speaking Moghamo | Homework | Speaking French and English | Mom had 8 kids who all shared clothes | Starting a business after high school

31:47 SEG 3 - He didn’t know there were homeless people in America and thought that everyone had a car | Linguistic mistakes between American English and British English | Getting help from the International Institute | Getting his first job in America in a factory | Arriving in America in winter | Going to college | Hospitals will save your life first | Any discrimination in the United States? | Cameroonian food like Achu Soup and CocoYam | Finding ingredients for his food in St. Louis | Nigerian music | The band Manu Dibango and Makossa music | Where should tourists visit in Cameroon?

MUSIC: Game Changer by Flavour

Next week Ron will talk about Cameroon with Charles

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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0:00 SEG 1 - Pronouncing Nigeria and Niger and the people that live there | Where is Nigeria? | There are about 500 ethnic groups | Speaking pigeon and broken English | English is the language of instruction | Is Nigeria a tea-drinking society? | Being suspended by the British Commonwealth | How long has she been in St. Louis? | Immigrating to the UK | Is there a national pride? | The 2023 election | Christians and Muslims | Having running mates of different religions

14:10 SEG 2 - Biafran War | Weaponizing starvation | Being born in Benin City and growing up in Delta State | What was her idea of the U.S. back in school? | Did she ever think she would live in another country? | Coming to St. Louis for her masters | Flying on a 40-hour flight | Buhari Regime made it so she couldn’t go back to Nigeria | Getting a job at St. Louis University | Not wanting to get her masters at a Nigerian University

32:22 SEG 3 - Visiting St. Louis once before because she already had family in Missouri | First impressions of America | Americans respond to emails | Being impressed by the churches | Linguistic misunderstandings | What are the most common questions she gets about Nigeria? | Where did you learn to speak English? | Would she ever go back to live in Nigeria? | Being worried about kidnappings | The Nigerian film industry | Nigerians in St. Louis | Why is education important to Nigerians? | Best and worst part about living in the U.S. | Final words of wisdom | Nigerian travel advice

MUSIC: Fanfare for the Common Man

Lee Greenwood - God Bless The U.S.A.

Next week Ron will talk about Nigeria with Anwuli Okwuashi

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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0:00 SEG 1 - Lost 241 heroes that day | First Lt. Scott Sommerhof died that day | Scott loved to play soldier as a kid | Joining the Navy ROTC with a Marine option | Why did Johnny join the military? | Did Johnny’s father support him? | Training at Paris Island | What were they fighting about in Lebanon? | Beirut had tunnels all over the place where fire fights took place

19:02 SEG 2 - Using a plane wing for protection | When did Jo and John find out that Scott got killed | When did Scott’s family hear from him last | Seeing a picture of where he was staying on TV | John joined the Coast Guard | Johnny teaching his son good values | Talking to schools

39:43 SEG 3 - There is a memorial at Camp Geiger | Johnny sends letters every year to radio and TV stations on the anniversary of the blast | Aunt Jo would like a commemorative stamp made | It took Johnny 30+ years to ask for help | 22kill is an advocacy group for vets | Johnny used to ride broncos | Semper Fi

MUSIC: ⁠I Still Call Australia Home with Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, Troye Sivan, the Australian Girls Choir, the National Boys Choir, and the Gondwana Choir

Next week Ron will talk about the 1983 Beirut Bombing

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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0:00 SEG 1 - The meaning of the song 'I Still Call Australia Home' | Growing up in Perth, Western Australia | Parents are from Portugal | Getting married by proxy | Parents lived in Fremantle | Having nuns as teachers | Thoughts about America before moving here | American TV shows | Working at Young Australia League and then the bank | The Portuguese community in Perth | Were immigrants accepted in Australia?

17:52 SEG 2 - Immigration in Australia | There are only so many VISAs a year | Meeting her future husband | Culture shock after 2 years of waiting to come to America | Slang | How she got here and working as a personal assistant | Being a private remitter that helps people register vehicles | Going back to visit Australia | Retiring to Australia

32:30 SEG 3 - Her 23-year-old daughter | Her daughter joined the National Guard as a permanent resident | Losing her accent | Australia is part of the British Commonwealth | Aborigine people | Strange foods like Vegemite | Fluffernutter | Anzac biscuits | Lamington sponge cake | sports | Where should tourists go in Australia | Portuguese restaurants in Perth | Portuguese communities in America | The Blessing of the Fishing Fleet Celebration | The best and worst part of living in America | What feels like home? | Any words of wisdom for Americans

MUSIC: Weather With You by Crowded House

Next week Ron will talk about Australia with Frances Sommerhof.

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0:00 SEG 1 Born in Reading and lived in Bradfield | Childhood at a Victorian school | Coming to America for her dad’s job | Getting lost in New York because all the homes looked alike | Al Capone represented America | Not being able to tell the islands apart | Struggling at school because of her accent and making her own school uniform | Going back to England in her 20’s | Asking her teacher for an eraser | Completing school in New York

16:53 SEG 2 Slipping back into her accent | Working at a holocaust museum on Long Island | Learning about the holocaust at 7 years old | Meeting holocaust survivors | Giving virtual tours of the museum in Long Island during the pandemic | Being the director of education at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum | The museum got to be too popular for its space and went under a reimagination | The impact lab | What does anti-semitism look like today? | Empowering people to report anti-Semitism | St. Louis holocaust survivors

33:29 SEG 3 What is a typical day at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum for the director of education? | Some students drive 3 and 4 hours to visit the museum | How long does an average person spend at the museum? | Reusing items from the old museum | How many holocaust museums are there in the country? | Traveling around Europe for holocaust research | Visiting Krakow | Bringing films to the museum | U.K. vs Great Britain | Voting in Brexit | The Royal Family | the best and worst thing about America | America relies too much on cars | The education is incredible

Find out more about the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum https://stlholocaustmuseum.org/

MUSIC: The Princess Royal by Eileen Gannon

Next week Ron will talk about England with Helen Turner.

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0:00 SEG 1 She was born in Limerick | A corporation house cost 25 cents a week | only had a car because her dad was a mechanic | Her dad worked for the Shell Oil Company and Shannon Airport as a mechanic | going to Catholic school | didn’t finish school and went to work at 14 as a telephone operator | going to dance halls for fun | working in England as a nurse and midwife | Everyone in Ireland has someone who works in England because it was easy to get a job there | The Royal Irish Constabulary

16:20 SEG 2 Working as a midwife | Living on the hospital grounds | Being able to afford cigarettes in England | Coming to St. Louis | The painful transition of immigration | Finding lots of Irish people in St. Louis | Learning Irish Gaelic in school but not keeping the language | The first Lamaze teacher in St. Louis | Meeting Michael Flatley of Riverdance | The Suzuki Method | Reaching her 5-year limit on her VISA | Losing her son | The Culture Movement of Ireland | Putting a harp in the living room instead of a chair

34:23 SEG 3 St. Louis Irish Arts is celebrating its 50-year anniversary | Her school is open to ages 4 and up | Anyone can make music | Making her children play the fiddle instead of mowing the lawn | Her classes are at Immaculate Conception School in Maplewood | SLIA.org | Your knees will eventually give out | Performing at the Sheldon Concert Hall on December 17 | "Eirenn Go Brah" means "Ireland Forever" | Limerick of the 2 flags of Ireland and America | Going back to Ireland | best and worst parts of living in America | Opportunities to work and amazing customer service | The heat

Find out more about the St. Louis Irish Arts at https://slia.org/

MUSIC: 먼지가 되어 by Kim Kwang Seok

Next week Ron will talk about Ireland with Helen Gannon.

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0:00 SEG 1 Kim, Pak, and Lee are popular names | Where is Korea? | Koreans not being able to become Japanese citizens | North and South Korean people have a meeting time | Will North and South Korea ever unite? | Formal language VS slang | How did Korea become such an economic powerhouse | birthplace | weather

15:32 SEG 2 family members | father was a well educated poet and newspaper editor | older sister is a nun | elementary school | head of the class and respecting teachers | suicide due to pressure from parents | after school activities | video game addiction | Popular American music | majoring in French and becoming a social worker

32:28 SEG 3 Coming to America on a vacation and being proposed to | Liking St. Louis because it’s part city and part countryside | sports | Making friends with Americans | How big is the Korean community in St. Louis? | Korean restaurants in St. Louis | K-Pop music and K-drama films and shows | going back to visit Korea | the birth rate is low | The best thing about living in America is the job opportunities

MUSIC: Aakashaima Chil by Mahesh Thulung, Puspa Khadka, and Akesha Bista

Next week Ron will talk about Korea with Yuri Bollato.

Stories of New Americans can also be heard Saturday nights from 10-11pmCT on NewsTalkSTL

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Nepal and Bhutan | Buddhism and Hinduism | The language | Lobuchu | Grandparents were from Nepal | The 1990 Nepalese revolution | Not being able to practice certain religions | Burning villages | Using military force to catch protestors | His dad was in jail for 18 months and tortured | The Nepalese refugee camp | The death rate at the refugee camp | Food in the refugee camp

15:32 SEG 2 Lhotshampa Village | Learning English at an early age | Bowing your head in respect to teachers | The legal system in a village | Fleeing by foot in the night | The U.N. took over the refugee camp | He lived in the refugee camp for 17 years | Staying positive in a refugee camp

32:00 SEG 3 Where did everyone in the camp hope to end up? | The resettlement program came to the camp | Australia was the country he wanted to go to the most | His first day in St. Louis | The sun was still out at 9 pm | Working with the International Institute | His first job was in a kitchen | opening a Nepalese market which is also a type of community center | Momo dumpling | Are the refugee camps still open? | What's the best and worst thing about the U.S.? | His store is called Gurung Bazaar at Grand and Chippewa https://www.facebook.com/gurungbazaar/

MUSIC: Ciprian Porumbescu: Balada pentru vioară și orchestră, op. 29 by Mădălin Voicu

Next week Ron will talk with Rajiv Gurung about Nepal!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Romania on the map? | Romanian is a romance language | Are there any Ukrainian refugees in Romania? | Count Dracula was a real person | Romanians love garlic | Bran Castle is a very well known tourist attraction | The 1984 Summer Olympics boycott | Communism | Her aunt was a nurse who went to jail | There was no heat in the winter

16:25 SEG 2 Secret police | Nicolae Ceaușescu | Her dad wanted to be an attorney | Her dad worked at the Ministry of Finances in Bucharest | Childhood | Typical Romanian diet | The United States was called the land of possibilities | Was the education in Romania good? | Health insurance | Tipping the doctors and nurses | Why were the Romanian Olympians so good?

32:57 SEG 3 Teaching during the 1989 revolution | Executed bodies were shown on TV | Meeting her husband | Learning English in university and early days in America | Being adopted by America | Romanian community and church | Life in America is 1000 percent better | Love of God and prayer | What is the best and worst part about America? | America's drug problems | The national anthem puts tears in her eyes

MUSIC: ⁠Zogam Aw by Thawn Kham

Next week Ron will talk with Miky Balta about Romania!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Burma on the map | Being colonized by Britain | being under Japanese control | The father of Burma | 8/8/88 protests | changing from Burma to Myanmar | the Chin people were discriminated against

16:51 SEG 2 Childhood | parents were farmers | image of America as a child | applying for the diversity visa lottery | every country gets a handful | getting to Malaysia on a boat

34:11 SEG 3 How he came to the United States | Being sent to St. Louis by himself through Catholic Charities | It was hard to find a job | Meeting other Burmese people in America | What was shocking when he arrived in America | Living with a roommate | getting pulled over by a state trooper and getting pulled out of the car | best thing about living in America

MUSIC: Esperança · Yola Semedo

Next week Ron will talk with Daniel Thang Pui about Burma!

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0:00 SEG 1 slave trade in the 1600's | cotton gold and diamonds | they said they had no apartheid but that's not true | the school was in Portuguese | what was school like | Catholic school | no running water | jobs after school | teaching at missionary schools | married | coup started

16:44 SEG 2 struggling to get independence | 3 political parties | what made her family leave | witnessed executions | going from Angola to Namibia | South African military was helping refugees | escaping on a bus | going to a refugee camp and sleeping in a tent with other families for 2 years | rations in the refugee camp | living day to day

33:35 SEG 3 being considered stateless when born as a refugee | nobody spoke English | driving the length of Namibia in a blue pickup truck with 6 kids in the back in order to get to Botswana to stay in a refugee camp | coming to America in 1990 | trying to learn English while in a refugee camp | watching American movies and going to the library | coming to St. Louis in February was a shock | was taken to an apartment and didn't know how to turn on the heat | starting school in America | all the houses looked the same | 2 bedroom apartment for the 8 of them | going to school in flip flops in the winter | things started to fall in place once they found their church community | going back to Angola to visit | keeping Angolan culture alive | best and worst parts of living in America

MUSIC: Касіў Ясь канюшыну (Yas mowed the stable)” by Песняры (Pesnyary)

Next week Ron will talk with Lucrecia and Marcelina DaSilva about Angola!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is Belarus on the map? | invasions of Belarus, dictator of Belarus aligned with Putin | Why is Belarus its own country | Belarusian language | How is it different from Russia | the USSR and the Soviet era | History presented differently, Russiafication | Belarusian language not taught in elementary school | losing a lot of population during ww2 | visiting Minsk memorial in 2011 showing how Nazis burned villages | Minsk ghetto | grandparents fled while others were slaves | Belarus became independent in 1991 | being 12 years old in 91 | parents discussed politics after kids went to sleep | Chernobyl accident in 1986, the wind carried the nuclear waste to her town | dad was going to be sent to rebuild Chernobyl. People passed at the age of 40 of cancer | Father was a civil engineer | Were there celebrations for Belarus' independence? | Changing the name of Belarus | What does Belarus stand for?

17:40 SEG 2 the unavailability of necessities | reselling items to make money | rations and coupons | freezers were small | ice cream | Lukashenko | laws change all the time | falsifying elections | Lukashenko assisting Putin | childhood, living with parents and grandparents | parents sent to Siberia for internship | 35 kids go through the entirety of school together | no variety in what subjects are taught | how America was presented. Movies 'Red Heat', 'Weekend at Bernies', people would line up to watch vhs cassettes | Americans were presented as spoiled | no diversity. Everyone looked alike | being curious about America and Europe | Manhattan represented America. St Louis was like a camp | How she moved to America | St. Louis was chosen for them | Moving in 1996 at the age of 15

34:27 SEG 3 going to the refugee office, any backlash from employers or friends, keeping it a secret | anti-Semitism | religion not allowed, baptized in secret | did not speak English | E.S.L. classes at Parkway Central | pavilion apartments in Creve Coeur had other immigrant kids so she didn't feel weird | started 2 years back in high school | do her own kids speak Russian? | trying to keep the culture alive | Russian pop culture | Ms. Anna was like a 2nd mother | Russian foods | working at Wash U now | would probably be in jail if never left | best and worst things about America | final words of wisdom

MUSIC: ⁠⁠Mungu Mwenyezi

Next week Ron will talk with Alesya Bernatskaya from Belarus!

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0:00 SEG 1 Where is the Democratic Republic of Congo? | over 300 different ethnic groups | parents are from 2 different tribes | official language is French | it was under Belgian control for a while | King Leopold made it his playground | Katanga wanting to secede | Lumumba and Mobutu | changing the name to Zaire | changing the name back to the Democratic Republic of Congo | First Congo War | rebel groups in the southern part of the country | tribalism is a huge problem | borders were drawn by Europeans | it's a rich country full of natural resources

15:52 SEG 2 Grew up speaking Swahili | school | physical punishments at school | teachers are respected | what did kids do for fun, marbles kick the can | Kabila regime | punishment on the scene | no littering or eating in the street, forced to eat as punishment | parents were missionaries | father was a church planter | Christians and Senegalese Muslims | moving to Senegal at 8 years old | learning academic French and Wolof | losing accents | playing soccer in the streets of Senegal, wrestling is a major sport | Mbalax music | Senegalese dancing uses the lower body while Congolese dancing uses the torso | Senegalese food is greasy

32:47 SEG 3 Coming to America for parent's missionary work | senior year of high school | college in South Carolina | Interest in Japan and DEATH NOTE | Going to Japan for 3 months accelerated his learning | joined the school soccer team, stayed out all night | working in Japan for 2 years | Japan was very clean | Japanese food | working in a youth center in Japan as a mentor | coming back to the U.S. as a green card holder | choosing St. Louis over Dallas | being a YMCA counselor | had America changed since he was a kid | America abandoning it's traditional American values | best thing about living here in America? | Do you feel welcome? | people guessing where he is from | return to Japan | encourage Americans to love our country

MUSIC: Cuando Sali de Cuba by Vince and Tony Estrada and Friends

Next week Ron will talk with George Ndjungu Estrada from the Democratic Republic of Congo!

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MUSIC: Riblja Corba - Pogledaj Dom Svoj Andjele

Next week Ron will talk with Vicente Estrada from Cuba!

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MUSIC: '⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarajevo ljubavi moja' by Kemal Monteno

Next week Ron will talk with Zoran Lazic from Serbia!

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MUSIC: ⁠'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen

Next week Ron will talk with Safeta Ovcina from Bosnia!

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MUSIC: 'Liten Fuggel' by Vamp

Next week Ron will talk with Tamara Kulish from Canada!

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MUSIC: Nduwawe by Maya Nzeyimana

Next week Ron will talk with Andreas Birkedal from Norway!

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MUSIC: ياسر عبد الوهاب & زيد الحبيب - قلبي ( حصرياً ) Yaser Abd Alwahab ft Zaid Alhabeeb - Qalby

Next week Ron will talk with Rozi Niyayokira from Burundi!

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MUSIC: Def Tech - My Way

Next week Ron will talk with Mohammed Nasr Alashari from Iraq!

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MUSIC: So Good - Eddy Kenzo

Next week Ron will talk with Naoya Fujimoto from Japan!

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MUSIC: Adnan karim Law Rozhawai tom diwa

Next week Ron will talk with Christine Sseremba and Majesty Mukulu from Uganda!

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MUSIC: Vaçe Zela - Moj e Bukur Arbëri

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MUSIC: The Singing Nun “Dominique” 1963

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Music: CLAUDIO VILLA - Mamma

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Music: Kang JJ Kua kor pel

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Music: Ne me quitte pas Jacques Brel

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Music: Knez - Adio

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Music: Aththitha Nodadiru

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Music: Exuberante - Bountiful

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Music: Ludwig van Beethoven: Ode an die Freude/Ode to Joy 1

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MUSIC: Lâu Đài Tình Ái - Đàm Vĩnh Hưng

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MUSIC: CHUMA QHANTATI DISCO 25 AÑOS KALLAWAYAS

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MUSIC: 情人 谭咏麟 (歌词版)

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MUSIC: MAGIC SYSTEM - Magic In The Air Feat. Chawki

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MUSIC: Yulduz Usmonova - Hech Kimga Bermaymiz Seni O'zbekiston

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MUSIC: Vörös Rébék - Koncz Zsuzsa

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MUSIC: Jambo Bwana Kenya - The Crane Band

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MUSIC: Javed Amirkhil - Mansori Sarood

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MUSIC: CECILE KAYIREBWA - None Twaza

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MUSIC: با من صنما - کیهان کلهر و علی بهرامی‌فرد

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MUSIC: Шляхи буття - 09 Різдвяна пісня

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