Sigrid begins her tale of how she ended up in Italy, where she's now living. She was born in Minneapolis and raised in New York. As a young adult, she relocated to Switzerland in order to study early music. In this video, she talks about traveling to Europe for the first time and learning about the different genres of music prior to the classical era.

Sigrid describes her time in Basel, and how she ended up visiting France and Italy as well.

Sigrid talks about some of the ways she learned how to speak Italian and French.

Sigrid talks about the reality of conversing with someone who has Alzheimer's. They often have trouble finding the word for the thing they are thinking of.

Every four years, in the United States, elections are held for the office of the presidency. Sigrid lives in Italy, so she needed an absentee ballot in order to vote. Here's her story.

Canadian rock band Simple Plan performs Summer Paradise, a reggae and ska punk-based track inspired by the band vocalist's hobby of surfing. One reviewer commented: It’s a quintessential summer track, with all the hooks and melodies to make you feel like you’re either at the beach, or on your way there having the time of your life.

This power ballad version of a song written by Prince became Sinéad’s international breakthrough hit, topping music charts around the world. Her deep emotions are clear to see in this memorable video, as she explores feelings of love and loss.

SINGinKA is a group that comes together to sing in a pub every month. In this video, you can hear them perform Roxette’s wistful and romantic ballad “Listen To Your Heart.”

When the U.S. Congress convened in January 2023, the gavel that had been held by the Democrats had to be handed over to the Republicans. This task fell to Hakeem Jeffries, who first gave a speech and had some fun with it, which is why we'd like to share it with you. But first a little background information.

In the last part of Jeffries' speech, he goes through the letters of the alphabet with pairs of words (with rather opposing qualities) in order to describe some principles of the Democratic Party. The speech is affectionately known as the ABCs of Democracy.

Destin Sandlin, an Alabama engineer and YouTube star, shows us how very difficult it is to learn to ride a backwards bike. You think it's going to be a piece of cake, but it's not!

While it took Destin eight months to learn how to ride a backwards bike, his young son learned how in two weeks. The son's reward was a trip to Australia, where he got to meet Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.

British pop recording artist, Cheryl Cole, teams up with Snow Patrol at the BBC’s ‘Children In Need’ charity event. Enjoy!

Witness how Bob successfully reads his friends’ minds. How, on earth, does he do it?

From the TV series Soap. In this clip, Jodie (Billy Crystal) steals Bob, and Chuck freaks out! For those of you that don’t know the series, Jodie is gay and Chuck is his step-brother. Chuck is a ventriloquist and his dummy is named Bob. Chuck believes Bob is a real person.