who is.

[freewilly]

who is the only briton to have had hit singles in three different languages.

[Skreecheeboy]

Cliff Richard?

[kempie]

Petula Clark - "Casanova" in German, "Ya Ya Twist" and "Chariot" in French and various others in English.

[sambro]

Fern

[Narolines]

I would have said Petula Clark, but I'm sure she wouldn't be the only Brit to have had multilingual hits; it used to be quite common for songs to be released by the original artist in the language of the country of release. They used to learn the lyrics phonetically, and I guess there would be a few odd moments for the local listeners - like the one you get in an overseas hotel bar when the vocalist has "learnt" a song in English from listening to it. Pet Clark, on the other hand, is fluent in French and I think speaks quite good German too, so she would have been in a position to release songs specifically for those markets in their own languages. incidentally, she also had hit songs in Italian, so that would be four languages........

[kempie]

...the point being that Petula Clark charted in the UK in the three languages stated in my first answer. This is in addition to charting elsewhere in the world/Europe with songs in French, German and Italian.

[kempie]

oops! - and English.

[Narolines]

Ah, Kempie, you're dead right there. Mind you, the original question doesn't specify where the singles had to be hits.....