Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Andrea Bocelli Life Story Interview…..
Andrea Bocelli, born 22 September 1958, is an Italian tenor, and singer-songwriter. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident.
Bocelli has recorded fourteen solo studio albums, of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists.
He has had success as a crossover performer bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts.
In 1998, he was named one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People.[7] In 1999, he was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. “The Prayer”, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.
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With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the top 3 positions on the US Classical Albums charts.
Seven of his albums have since reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and a record-setting 10 have topped the classical crossover albums charts in the United States.
With 5 million units sold worldwide, Sacred Arias became the biggest-selling classical crossover album by a solo artist of all time,[1] and with over 20 million copies sold worldwide, his 1997 pop album, Romanza, became the best-selling album by an Italian artist of any genre in history, as well as the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Canada.
Belfield met Bocelli for a rare and exclusive interview in 2006.
I enjoyed this very detailed and in depth interview. So glad you have it online for us to hear. It is rare to get a long interview with Andrea Bocelli. I enjoy his music and personality very much.