sarah brightman & andrea bocelli
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Artist bio
Andrea Bocelli (born 22 September 1958) is an Italian operatic pop tenor and a classical crossover singer who has also performed in operas. To date, he has recorded six complete operas (La bohème, Il trovatore, Werther, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana and Tosca) in addition to various classical and pop albums. He has sold 60 million albums worldwide thus far. Born with congenital glaucoma, total blindness came to Bocelli at the age of twelve, after a football accident. Read more
Bocelli was born in Lajatico in Tuscany, Italy in 1958 and grew up on the family farm. At the age of six he started piano lessons before also learning to play the flute and saxophone. Bocelli would also spend time singing during his childhood and would later recall that he was "one of those children who would always be asked to sing for my relatives. I don't think one really decides to be a singer - other people decide it for you by their reactions."In 1970, when he was twelve years old he was blinded in an accident when he was hit in the head during a football match in Tuscany.That same year he also won his first song competition, the Margherita d'Oro in Viareggio with O sole mio.
After he finished secondary school, in 1980 began studying Law at the University of Pisa. After graduating as a Doctor of Law he spent one year as a court appointed lawyer. To pay for the fees Bocelli performed in the evenings at piano bars. Also in 1992 he attended a master-class with Italian tenor Franco Corelli, singing "Che gelida manina" from Giacomo Puccini's La bohème. Corelli then took him on as a pupil.
In 1996, Bocelli was invited to duet with English soprano Sarah Brightman at the final bout of German IBF World Light-Heavyweight boxing champion, Henry Maske, who was a national icon in Germany and was known for selecting entrance themes to his bouts. Brightman, a friend of Maske, approached Bocelli after she heard him singing Con te partirò, whilst she was dining in a restaurant. Changing the title lyric of the song from Con te partirò (I’ll go with you) to Time to Say Goodbye, they re-recorded it as a duet with members of the London Symphony Orchestra and sang it as a farewell for Maske. On 23 November, Maske lost the match on points, beaten by American champion Virgil Hill and retired from boxing. As the German public paid tribute to their departing hero, the arena was filled with the sound of Time to Say Goodbye. The single was released and went straight to the top of the German charts where it stayed for fourteen weeks. With sales nearing three million copies, and a sextuple platinum award, Time to Say Goodbye eclipsed the previous best-selling single by more than one million copies. He topped the Spanish singles chart in 1996 with a duet with Marta Sanchez, Vivo Por Ella.
Bocelli was born in Lajatico in Tuscany, Italy in 1958 and grew up on the family farm. At the age of six he started piano lessons before also learning to play the flute and saxophone. Bocelli would also spend time singing during his childhood and would later recall that he was "one of those children who would always be asked to sing for my relatives. I don't think one really decides to be a singer - other people decide it for you by their reactions."In 1970, when he was twelve years old he was blinded in an accident when he was hit in the head during a football match in Tuscany.That same year he also won his first song competition, the Margherita d'Oro in Viareggio with O sole mio.
After he finished secondary school, in 1980 began studying Law at the University of Pisa. After graduating as a Doctor of Law he spent one year as a court appointed lawyer. To pay for the fees Bocelli performed in the evenings at piano bars. Also in 1992 he attended a master-class with Italian tenor Franco Corelli, singing "Che gelida manina" from Giacomo Puccini's La bohème. Corelli then took him on as a pupil.
In 1996, Bocelli was invited to duet with English soprano Sarah Brightman at the final bout of German IBF World Light-Heavyweight boxing champion, Henry Maske, who was a national icon in Germany and was known for selecting entrance themes to his bouts. Brightman, a friend of Maske, approached Bocelli after she heard him singing Con te partirò, whilst she was dining in a restaurant. Changing the title lyric of the song from Con te partirò (I’ll go with you) to Time to Say Goodbye, they re-recorded it as a duet with members of the London Symphony Orchestra and sang it as a farewell for Maske. On 23 November, Maske lost the match on points, beaten by American champion Virgil Hill and retired from boxing. As the German public paid tribute to their departing hero, the arena was filled with the sound of Time to Say Goodbye. The single was released and went straight to the top of the German charts where it stayed for fourteen weeks. With sales nearing three million copies, and a sextuple platinum award, Time to Say Goodbye eclipsed the previous best-selling single by more than one million copies. He topped the Spanish singles chart in 1996 with a duet with Marta Sanchez, Vivo Por Ella.