An operatic tenor, he has released quaternary complete operas (La Boheme, Il Trovatore, Werther & Tosca) & all over eleven more albums, each authoritative & popular a la mode. He has 2 sons Amos (b. 1995) & Matteo (b. 1997). He was married however has since separated from either his just married woman, Enrica. Bocelli was natural using glaucoma, and was blinded at the age of Twelve by a brain bleeding, which he suffered whilst hit on the head swimming football. He might non discuss his handicap & has universally played it down.

As a infant Andrea was already swimming a church organ, & at a age of 12 won a Margherita five hundred'Oro around Viareggio with O sole mio, his first competition win. Fallowing working for a year as a attorney (he graduated as a Doctor of Law from either a University of Pisa) he undertook singing lessons from Maestro Luciano Bettarini, ingesting higher music fully period. He has never stopped his vocal expert training videos, attending an expert class by owning far-famed tenor Franco Corelli around Torino, for instance.

National recognition

A Italian rock star Zucchero Fornaciari first auditioned Andrea when scouting for tenors around 1992; upon hearing the tape, tenor Luciano Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Andrea instead of himself. Around 1994 Andrea performed the winning entry Il mare calmo della sera in the San Remo Festival, which lead to his 1st Golden Disc. That month he debuted when Macduff within Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth, sang at Pavarotti's benefit concert at Modena, and prior to a Pope at Christmas.

In the 1995 San Remo festival Andrea won fourth place singing Con Te Partirò.

International recognition

Around 1996 in Germany with treble Sarah Brightman he sang an English version of Con Te Partiro, entitled Time to Say So long, which broke sales records & stayed in the German top x for about sixer months. Inside subsequent years Andrea performed at Paris, Bologna, Torre del Lago and the Vatican, and freed farther albums, until typing a U.s. market inside 1998 with a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and a White House reception. Two that month & inside 1999 Andrea embarked on tours to Northward & South Us & duets by having Céline Dion. Andrea's albums top a United states authoritative album stock and index charts. Inside 2002 Andrea repeated his America tour, winning 2 Globe Music Awards. Since so, Andrea has continued to expand his career by using concert appearances throughout the world.

Charitable and other works

He has sung for numerous good-hearted cases & occasions, like at Ground Zero within October 2001; many of the "Pavarotti & Friends for Children" events; participated in the Sharon Osbourne CD project for tsunami relief; and performed in a large, televised concert in Italy in March 2005 called "Music for Asia". Nwithin limited to singing, Andrea has contributed to many written works, including the short piece on friendly relationship in a compilation by Dorris Platt, & the preface to an Italian book just about divided up custody. He too published the thinly-disguised autobiography known as "The Music of Silence" within 2001.

Discography

Aria - The Opera Album (1997) Romanza (1997) Hymn for the World (1997) II Mare Calmo Della Sera (1998) Viaggo Italiano (1998) Bocelli (1998) Hymn for the World 2 (1998) Sogno (1999) Sacred Arias (1999) Verdi (2000) #25 US, #2 ITA La Boheme (2000) Cieli di Toscana (2001) #11 US, #3 UK, #3 ITA Sentimento (2002) #27 US, #7 UK, #13 ITA Tosca (2003) Il Trovatore (2004) Andrea (2004) #6 ITA Werther (2005)