![]() ![]() Self-taught from a very young age, he says he started to deal seriously with the discipline of singing as a young adult. ![]() Their insistence led me to think that singing might, one day, become my profession.” I was always told I had a pleasant voice by relatives and friends, who often asked me to sing for them. “I used to listen and learn the great arias, and then tried to emulate the great interpreters, singing loudly with them in our living room. “I could instantly recognize all the famous voices of the time,” he explains. Discovering his passion for music at an early age, he realized he had a very special talent when he was just seven years-old. “He was soon followed by other greats, Mario Del Monaco, Enrico Caruso, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Mario Lanza… and, of course, Franco Corelli, who was, and still is today, my greatest source of inspiration,” Andrea tells me.Īndrea grew up on his family’s farm in the sun-soaked hills of Tuscany. So, how did it all begin? The Italian tenor says his first ‘musical hero’ was Beniamino Gigli, the Italian opera singer and ‘hero’ of passionate stories Andrea was told by an uncle, who greatly admired the most-famous tenor of that generation. Astronaut Umberto Guidoni included Andrea’s ‘Bocelli’ album in his seven kilos of baggage allowance for his shuttle mission into space, and Andrea himself has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records and even been honored with a sought-after star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As one of the most significant artists of our times, he has sold an incredible 80 million-plus albums worldwide.īut his journey to the top wasn’t an easy one… Who would have thought he struggled to achieve such heights of fame?Įlizabeth Taylor famously stated that his voice brought her out in ‘golden goose bumps’, while Céline Dion, with whom he’s collaborated, said “If God had a singing voice, he would sound like Andrea Bocelli.”Īnd the accolades just keep rolling in… Andrea has won countless coveted awards, been made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and been named one of People Magazine‘s 50 Most-Beautiful People. He has performed for four US Presidents, three Popes, the British Royal Family and many world leaders, in venues ranging from NYC’s Central Park and London’s Royal Albert Hall to the Pyramids in Cairo and under the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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