Andrea BOCELLI
Andrea Bocelli, born September 22, 1958 in Lajatico, is an Italian-inspired lyric tenor. he sings, at once classical and pop music and has performed in many operas. To date, he has recorded seven complete operas (La Bohème, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Werther, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana and Carmen) in addition to dozens of classical and pop albums. He was born with an inherited form of glaucoma and went completely blind at the age of 12 years. It is one of the most famous Italian singers in the world and tenor with the most albums to his credit, over 65 million worldwide. Early in his life 1958-1992Bocelli was born in Lajatico, in Tuscany, near the historic city of Pisa, Italy, in 1958 and grew up in the farm family. Fascinated by opera and traditional Italian music from an early age he dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idols, the greatest Italian tenors of the twentieth century, including Mario Del Monaco, Beniamino Gigli, Franco Corelli and especially. At age six he began playing the piano before learning to play the flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, harp, guitar and drums. Bocelli also spends a lot of time singing during his childhood. Indeed, his beautiful voice made him a sort of local celebrity in his debut. At age 14 he won his first singing competition at the Margherita d'Oro in Viareggio with "O Sole Mio". After finishing high school in 1980, he studied law in Pisa University and after earning his doctorate in law, he worked as one year. To pay for his education, Bocelli playing in piano bars and night for many years. In 1992, he attended a class in the great Italian tenor Franco Corelli, singing "Che gelida Manina" from Puccini's La Bohème. Corelli was very impressed, and takes as student. In 1992, Italian rock star Zucchero asks an unknown Bocelli to record a demo of his song "Miserere", that Zucchero sang later, in duet with the great Luciano Pavarotti. When it hears the voice of Bocelli, Zucchero impressed and told that nobody can sing this song better than this young tenor. Bocelli's voice soon attracted attention outside Italy with her duet "Time to Say Goodbye" (Con te partiro) with English soprano Sarah Brightman. The solo version is a success in the world, while the duo holds the top spot in Germany for fourteen weeks, and, with three million copies sold, this is the biggest selling single in Germany of all time. "I have wonderful memories singing with Andrea," says Sarah Brightman today. "" "Time to Say Goodbye" will always be a special place in my heart ". In 1996 and 1997 Andrea Bocelli conquered the world with his first international album, Romanza, a collection of his popular songs. The album was a huge success first in Europe, then in the World, he meets a multitude of platinum and multi-platinum, with worldwide sales of more than 16 million copies to date. IT sells 500,000 copies in the Far East, one million in Italy, more than three million in Latin America and Spain. The album also features the single "Vivere", "Il Mare Calmo Della Sera," and the title track, "Romanza" which all appear in his album "Best Of" Vivere, in 2007. In 1999 he received the nomination of "Best New Artist" Grammy making him the first classical artist to be nominated in this category for 38 years. "The Prayer", his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film, "The Quest for Camelot" (Quest for Camelot), won the Golden Globe for best song and was nominated for an Oscar. In March 1999, his second pop album Sogno fate. The album, containing "The Prayer", holds the first position of the pop album charts worldwide and sells more than 10 million copies, confirming his position atop the world of popular music, and giving rise to phenomenon of "Bocellimania". In Autumn of that year he published Sacred Arias, who became his most successful classical album to date and especially the album with the highest number of sales by a classical soloist of all time. With its release, Bocelli entered the Guinness Book of World Records, being the only one to hold the positions 1, 2 and 3 in the charter of the classic albums of the United States at the same time, of all time. The next three years-and-half, he will hold a permanent position at the No. 1 spot this chart. In 2001, Bocelli released his semi-autobiographical "The Music of Silence", and ended the year with another successful pop album, Cieli di Toscana, which "melodramma" and "Mille Lune Mille Onde". The romantic yet melancholic sound of 2002 with the album "Sentimento", combining the voice of Andrea Bocelli and the violin of Maestro Lorin Maazel. The album was a huge success in the international pop and classical, and two awards worth it, "the album of the year" and "Singer of the Year" for the prestigious "Classical Brit Awards" in 2003. In support of this album, he embarked on a package of concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York in places as far away as China. In addition, he also sings in front of the Pyramids of Egypt (an event that could not be matched only by his concert in front of the Statue of Liberty, later during his prolific career). In 2004, he launched "Andrea" her fourth pop album, an album that sold over 10 million copies, and in 2006, "Amore" where he sings duets with Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera. The album quickly takes position THE THIRD Sales USA. It also contains "Because We Beleive" song he sang during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games Torino 2006. In 2007, he released his first "Best of" Vivere who sell more than 3 million copies and in 2008 he launched a new classical album "Incanto" which took second place in Hungary and Greece in the fourth to the seventh World. "What I most want and I hope to achieve," he says, "is to communicate with the public, feel the same way that I was hit in my childhood by my favorite singers, who made me cry and made me dream ". Google machine translation: Andrea BOCELLI's original bio |
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Publisher : De Haske Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (HDH970906.01-BA) : € 82,86 Full score (HDH970906.01-CO) : € 23,67 |
||
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Publisher : Marc Reift Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (EMR1577M-BA) : € 165,64 | ||
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Publisher : Marc Reift Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (EMR1577/1-BA) : € 142,53 | ||
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Publisher : Marc Reift Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (EMR1577-BA) : € 165,64 | ||
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Publisher : Marc Reift Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (EMR1405-BA) : € 125,55 | ||
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Arr : TED PARSON Publisher : Marc Reift Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (EMR11505-BA) : € 116,05 | ||
 |
| ||
| Céline DION/Andrea BOCELLI Arr : Frank BERNAERTS Publisher : Bernaerts Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band Style & options : Pop music |
Set Wind Band (BER370-BA) : € 90,33 | ||
 |
| ||
| Andrea BOCELLI Publisher : Bernaerts Genre : Orchestra Group : Wind band |
Set Wind Band (BER146-BA) : € 90,33 | ||