Andrea Bocelli was born on 22 september 1958 in Italy, tenor ,
multi-instumentalist and classical
crossover artist .He lived on a family farm selling farm machinery and making
wine. The
small Village of La Steriza is about 40 Km south of Pisa. Bocelli’s
mother and younger brother Alberto lives in the family home. Bocelli’s father
died in 2000. When he was six years old started piano lessons and later the saxophone
, harp, the guitar, trumpet, trombone,
flute and others.
Bocelli had problems with his vision and after visits to doctor, he was
diagnosted with congenital glaucoma. In 1970, he lost completely his sight in
an accidente during a soccer game. He was accidentally hit on the head during a
match and suffered a brain haemorrhage
In
1987 he met his wife, Enrica Cenzatti and had two children Amon and Matteo. Although know he’s divorced lives with his girlfriend Veronica Berti. In 2011 the couple announced
that Berti was pregnant.
In
1996, Caterina Casteli discovered
Bocelli . In 1994, Bocelli entered the main San
Remo Festival with music “il more calmo dela Serra”, again record score
in sales.
In 1996 Bocelli
performed a duet with
Marta Sanches ”Vivo por Ella”, the Spanish version of the music Vivo per
Lei. In 2006, he opened the FIFA World Cup,
in Berlin. In 2008, he arrangement Mozart’s Ave Verun Corpus at the funeral of
Luciano Pavaroti in Italy .In 2010 he performed on the Incanto tour for 100.000
people in São Paulo in a free concert.
Bocelli is admired
an singer, all over the world because of
his voice timbre it is as recongnisable
as signature. The tenor José Carreras commented that Bocelli
has a wonderful instrument and he
knows how to use.
