Biography of Andrea Bocelli

Dreams the voice

September 22, 1958 is without doubt the most beloved Italian voice in the world for the last 15 years, especially internationally where people compete to buy his records and where everyone appreciates, as he himself admits, really and genuinely Italian products. And what could be more Italian than a voice grown into melodrama and given occasionally to light music? Born on September 22, 1958 in Lajatico (Pisa), Andrea Bocelli grew up on the family farm in the Tuscan countryside. At six years old, is already facing the daunting piano studies, on which tiny hands slide still willingly and with ease. Not happy, you can also play flute and saxophone, in search of a deeper expression of the music. The little Andrea still did not suspect that this expression would then come from the voice, the tool ever more intimate and personal. When she started singing his "appeal" is discernable from the start, and enough tales of relatives, kidnapped in front of his family, often impromptu, but soon runs. Finishing high school, he enrolled in law school at the University of Pisa where he graduated, always careful not to forget the vocal studies. Indeed, so serious is his commitment that ends up taking lessons from a sacred monster of the 20th century, the tenor Franco Corelli is the idol of many Opera lovers. However live music nowadays is almost impossible and Bocelli is not ashamed to try their hand at times even in the more prosaic piano-bar. It was during this period that she meets Robert, who would become his wife and that will give him two sons, Amos and Matteo. The romance between the two unfortunately seems to have ended recently and have become well-known singer's statements about the problem of divorce and his children. Returning to music, the "official" start of her singing career is random. Comes forward for an audition that the already famous Sugar held in 1992 to achieve an audition of Miserere, conceived to Luciano Pavarotti and to realize the great tenor from Modena. And here it happens on "coup de theatre". Pavarotti, in fact, playing it, will comment: "thanks for the wonderful song, but let Andrea to sing it. No one is better suited to him. " Luciano Pavarotti, as you know, afterwards will still register the song, but in the European tour of sugar, Andrea Bocelli will replace it on stage. Soon after, in 1993, he also began recording career, sealed by a contract with Caterina Caselli, owner of "Sugar". The Capper is focusing on him and to make him known to a wider audience the enrolled at the Sanremo Festival where exceeds preliminaries singing "Miserere" and then WINS in the category new proposals. In 1994 is thus invited to participate in the Festival of Sanremo among the Big with "Il mare calmo della sera", and won a record score. His first album (which bears the title of the song) is the confirmation of a rapidly growing popularity: in a few weeks gets the first platinum record. Returns to San Remo the next year with "Con te Partiro" and placed in the album "Bocelli" and that in Italy gets a double platinum. In the same year, during a European tour ("Night of the Proms"), attended by Bryan Ferry, Al Jarreau and other large, Bocelli sings in front of 500,000 people and tens of millions of viewers. The success was immediate. The singles "Con te partirò" (and its English version "Time to say goodbye") exceed sales records in many countries, while the album won awards across Europe. In France the single remains topped the charts for six weeks, winning three gold records; in Belgium will be number one for 12 weeks: the biggest hit of all time. The album "Bocelli" then you will get something like four times Platinum in Germany (for almost 2 million copies sold), four in the Netherlands and two in Italy. However, the next album, "Romanza", reaching incredible heights of international success in 1996. Only after a few weeks, the cd was already Platinum in almost all the countries where it was released, and the international press acknowledged the Tuscan tenor a popularity worthy of Enrico Caruso. But in the wake of the phenomenon already in 1995 Bocelli had offered upright his tribute to the tradition of Italian tenor, releasing the cd "Italian Journey", inspired by the emigrants and to the artists who popularized the Italian opera in the world. So in 1998, with the international debut of the disco classic "air," will dominate the ranks of classical music and to climb the international pop music. Same fate will touch the next "Dream". Meanwhile, in parallel with the tour, many now also proposals for the interpretation of operas, an aspiration cultivated since childhood and that finally the tenor failed to accomplish. One of his most beautiful works is etching the fearsome "Tosca" by Puccini, a masterpiece that the shy singer toscano knows how to make it with class and taste of phrasing. In 2004 he released the album that is titled simply "Andrea", where there are songs written by, among others, Maurizio Costanzo, Lucio Dalla and Enrique Iglesias. Alternates later live releases, those in the study, addressing several valuable evidence in the field of classical music, until the collection of Christmas carols in "My Christmas," published in 2009. BIOGRAFIEONLINE >>> PEGAR CONTENIDO AQUÍ >>>
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