ANDREA BOCELLI

At last, a legend for the new millennium. A legend in the Homeric sense of a myth, the “word that speaks”, flowered through singing, just like Caruso, Gigli, Del Monaco, Corelli… A legend of Andrea Bocelli’s stature cannot be built through design: not even the most astute marketing would be able to come up with such a result. People simply recognise and vote for him. And this is what happened, in an apparently equal yet perfect context (a singing competition, the Sanremo festival in 2004), because the infancy of a legend follows a course which breaks traditions. From then on the tone of his voice has brought tenderness to the world and his fame has increased exponentially. Because “if God could sing, He would sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli”: even Celine Dion’s famous comment is a clear, unadorned testament to the artist’s mythical status as well as the perception of a gift…That voice, that simultaneously melancholic and radiant colour, unrivalled in the expression of the song of a lover or a father, a matchless expression of earthly desire or heavenly love, with over 75 million record sales in the first seventeen years of Bocellis’s career to testify to it.