Since the pandemic, Piero has made tremendous strides in his career! As I’ve said before, the pandemic had its bad points and its good points. For Piero, it was his opportunity to devote his time to his first love ~ Opera!
Yes, for Piero as for Gianluca and Ignazio, their first priority is Il Volo, but each has a life that will follow Il Volo. Of course, we all hope that won’t be for a long time but someday! For now, we have to listen to the guys when they say they are Il Volo and plan to continue being Il Volo.
For the last few years, Piero’s voice has blossomed into a true operatic voice. With the new Individuality, we find the true meaning of each guy’s voice and we focus on what they want us to know about their voices. For Piero, we’ve always known it but now Piero shows it in every performance. Not only does he sing his opera, he also is beginning to sing Neapolitan songs like all other opera singers going back to Enrico Caruso who, after his performances at the Met, would come out on stage and sing Neapolitan songs.
Of the three, Piero is the only one who said, “…. if there is one thing I want to do in life, it is singing, living for and with music.” That pretty much sums up Piero. He sings with such feeling and devotion. He studies endlessly! Opera is his dream! He’s studied among other opera’s Cavalieria Rusticana. I await the day when he will sing in his first opera. No matter where it is in the world, I will be there to see him fulfill his dream!
It might seem strange to you that he dreams of being an opera singer. He is a superstar. He has achieved in 15 years what most men can only hope to achieve in a lifetime. But, when you have dream, you have a dream and, with that dream, we will watch Piero go from Superstar to Opera Star.
Let’s go back and see what I’ve said, in the past, about Piero’s Golden Voice!
Piero is a spinto (meaning pushed) tenor. A spinto tenor has the brightness and height of a lyric tenor, but with a heavier vocal weight enabling the voice to be “pushed” to dramatic climaxes with less strain than his lighter-voice counterparts. His voice is warm, graceful, bright, and can be heard over an orchestra. Piero has a powerful voice that easily reaches the higher notes. Every note that comes out of his mouth reaches us with such intensity and remains with us for a long time. It’s the voice that reaches out to you and demands your attention. Think of him singing “E Lucevan le Stele” from Tosca (his favorite opera). Or singing the beautiful Spanish aria “No Puede Ser” from A Tabernera del Puerto. From the first note Piero pierces our souls! His passion comes through in his music. Arias are very dramatic and, Piero brings all the drama of the aria into his performance. Always a showstopper!
So, let’s move on to Piero’s classical education!
We know that Piero was discovered by his grandfather when he was about 4 years old. You will recall he was swinging on a swing that hung from a mulberry tree in his grandfather’s garden. And as a result, he began his classical education by taking piano lessons.
But how do you get from that swing to stardom. You do what all three guys did! You start by joining a choir. Let’s listen to what Piero had to say about this first meeting with the choir…
The first thing I find myself in front of these guys who are in a semicircle. I enter, I hear them singing and immediately I see in the center of this semicircle a lady and a gentleman sitting at the piano. I had just made the acquaintance of the Little Singers of the Philharmonic Association – Santa Cecilia of Agrigento. The association was founded in 1983 and has two choirs, one for white voices and one for adults. Until 2008 they also collaborated with the “Sistina” Music Chapel of Rome, which led the choir to perform before the Pope during the Jubilee and which was opened to the best singers with the possibility of doing an internship in Rome.
The master accompanist was Alfonso Lo Presti and the director of the chorus of white voices was the maestro, Marisa Bonfiglio.
I will owe everything in my life to this lady.
Marisa was right in the middle and waiting for me. My father had warned Marisa that we would go to see the evidence to understand how it worked and if she could like me. I arrive, I was ten years old and, I was pretty chubby and, I find myself in the midst of all females and just two boys, Davide and Arturo.
After the greetings, Marisa asks Piero to introduce himself.
Hi, guys, I’m Piero, Piero Barone, I was born in 1993 and I like to sing. In a chorus what else should I say? If I was there, I had to like music, right? I thought it was the first thing to clarify. At that point the master Bonfiglio made me sit on the left, next to Davide and Arturo, while all the rest of the chorus – all females – were on the right. Three males in a world of females:
The number three would be my destiny, right?
We begin to sing, Easter songs, Christmas carols, church choir songs. With Davide and Arturo, I established a very strong relationship, which continues today: we are still friends. We phone each other when I am far from Naro and, when I come back, we go out together as often as we can.
At the time of the choir, we were always attached to each other, we looked at the girls but, we were three losers of nine to ten years, losers! Marisa never scolded anyone, but if we were disruptive, she looked a little like that and said ‘Guys,’ and we were immediately serious again.
This is the point where Piero’s voice is beginning to change, and so adjustments have to be made to accommodate this change. Let’s hear what Piero had to say about that….
Even my passion for red is in some way linked to the chorus of the little singers. I dressed in red, all red from head to toe. They make my presentation I start to sing. I could still sing but I was at the limit and I start the Ave Maria. Until then other tenors have arrived at the end of the piece all red in the face for the effort. Because singing, in reality, requires a much greater physical effort than one imagines. In short, I finish the song, the teacher looks at me, looks at Marisa Bonfiglio, looks at my father, looks at all the others: “Do you see this guy? He has everything red, except his face: he sang with incredible ease”. And to my father’s question, ‘What could I do with my son?’ The master replied: ‘Mr. Barone, now your son is having a change of voice, your son in his throat has a diamond. What would I do in his place? I would take this diamond, put it in a safe and hide the keys. Between two years we reopen this safe.’ And, so, we did!
What about those red glasses?
But it must be said, my ‘fixation’ for red glasses was not born here but was born in 2010 in Los Angeles. I was at my first photo shoot, and I went to the studio, it was the first real photo shoot. In short, I had glasses, as always, but one of the photographers who follows us looks at me a little and tells me: ‘You have to keep your glasses, but they must be red.’ And how could I do a pair of red eyeglasses in Los Angeles in one day? I think and think again, in the end the idea came: I called my optician of confidence in Naro, Giuseppe Minio, and I asked him to do it for me. Would you ever believe it? In twenty-four hours, I received the envelope in Los Angeles with my red glasses, and inside I also found rose petals and little hearts, pure affection directly from Naro, which is always good.
But I’m getting ahead of myself I still had to face the change of voice. That moment of change is something excruciating because you cannot sing, so no longer being a white voice, I had to leave the chorus. But Marisa Bonfiglio did not let me go like this, ‘Piero, see you soon,’ she cared about me and then helped me again: she took me to Palermo to a conservatory professor, a tenor. That master’s verdict was again: ‘Let’s wait.’ But in the wait, I could not remain completely silent. In reality, the wait for the change of voice lasted less than I thought, because towards the fourteen and a half years my voice had already matured.
So, the change happened, and Piero moved on in his life. He did participate in many singing competitions and won most.
But there was also his schoolwork to consider. Piero said, “Had it been for me I would have studied only singing and music.” But in fact, Piero studied accounting. Piero tells us “And I excelled in Math, in fact, I am so good, that I am the one of the three that runs with a bag full of all of our accounts.”
Let me pause a moment to tell you about the archives at Il Volo Flight Crew. Everyone should take the time to visit them. They are the history of Il Volo from 2009 to the present. Anything you want to know; any past event and any future event can be found in the archives.
When I write these stories I like to go into the archives and see if there is something that would work with my story. I remembered an interview that Piero did when he was 19 years old. The interviewer was Marcella Lattuca who was a friend who Piero knew from the chorus. I think this interview gives us some great insight into who Piero was at the beginning of his career and his hopes and aspirations for his future and the future of Il Volo.
So, let’s go right to the interview with Marcella Lattuca from Agrigentini Bella Gente.
Marcella:This episode is very special because I have the privilege to talk with a real star of international music, he is only 19 years. Piero Barone, whom I thank for the interview, has reached goals that perhaps, artists cannot reach, over a whole career. Thanks Piero, for being our guest.
Piero:It’s a pleasure. We did the chorus together and today we are here to do this fantastic interview.
Marcella:It’s true, you and I started in parallel, with a fairly considerable age gap, alas. You start from Naro, you were born in Naro, you have a family from Agrigento, and you start with the Little Cantori di Santa Cecilia. Tell us how you approached music.
Piero:I have always pursued this dream of music, I grew up in the middle of music with my grandfather, Pietro and thanks also to my father, because you know, sometimes there are moments, when you’re little, you play piano and you want to give up everything, but thanks to the constancy of my father, I always pursued this dream, first with the chorus of Santa Cecilia, studying with private teachers, and now fortunately, I’m here.
Marcella:Your career was born a few years ago, when you were really a child. What was actually the turning point, which made you feel you wanted to do something more?
Piero:In fact there was not a turning point because I always wanted to sing, but there was luck, thanks to my father, always, thanks to my father, to do a summer festival in Cosenza.
My father called me and told me, ‘Do you want to do this festival? Let’s go and come back in 24 hours (by car), let’s go and come back.’
I replied, ‘Dad, are you crazy?’ and he ‘Come on, let’s try, I drive and you sleep in the car.’
For that selection they did not take me, but they gave my name to the editorial office of Ti Lascio Una Canzone, Antonella Clerici’s program.
One day I was returning from piano school, and I found my father on the phone with a lady Isabella Abiuso, and from there it all started, in fact my father asked me if I wanted to do that program and I replied ‘Why not, let’s try.’
Marcella:You started as a soloist at Ti Lascio Una Canzone, and then maybe fate played a special role.
Piero:Oh yes, we started this program as three singers, and now I, Ignazio and Gianluca are the group Il Volo, on the fourth episode, the producer Roberto Cenci, had the idea to join our voices, and from there started … the three tenors …. the Tryo, we changed name, but in the end we decided to call ourselves Il Volo. They wanted a short Italian name. Il Volo was a metaphorical name, Il Volo, to fly. Immediately after the program, we signed a program with Universal Music in Los Angeles.
Marcella:What I understood from you is, the one that followed you the most, was your dad, also because, being a minor, you could not go around alone.
Piero:My father and my grandfather – my grandfather discovered my voice my father helped me. He is great and he has been a great support.
Marcella:So immediately after Ti Lascio Una Canzone, you signed this contract with Universal, and you started your flight.
Piero:Yes, we signed a contract with Universal, with our producer Tony Renis and Umberto Gattica and our manager Michele Torpedine, and from there, the first TV, the first album, with the first album we sold 1 million copies. And now the new album We Are Love has been released, where there is also a duet with Eros Ramazzotti and with Placido Domingo.
Marcella:But when you say these things, do you realize where you’ve come from and all the way you’ve come in such a short time?
Piero:This is nothing, we made this new album, but behind this album we have done lots of experiences, like, a tour with Barbra Streisand, 12 dates with her. She was a great teacher for us, and we learned so many things from her, like from many other great artists.
Marcella:I can mention some reviews I read on the internet.
El Paso Times: ‘Electrifying: the name of the group means the flight in Italian, perfect name for a trio of young tenors who conquers ever higher peaks,’ just to name one, another: ‘Beautiful and intense voices accompanied by beautiful harmonies that enchant the public by giving strong emotions,’ this is the enthusiastic comment of the New York Journal.
You are a trio, so you are dealing with two other guys who are the same age.
Piero: Ignazio and Gianluca
Marcella:Perfect. What is the relationship between you three? Is it really difficult to keep united, even if you go in one direction only?
Piero: This project was born as three friends, you know, living every day together, we have established a great relationship, we are like three brothers, because we share everything ….not everything. There is a great relationship, a great agreement.
Marcella: But you also perform individually?
Piero: No, no, our concert is the concert of Il Volo. We have just finished a tour of 48 dates in America, this is the fourth tour. We have done an American tour, a South American, a European and another American just finished and now in 2013 we will do another South American, American and European.
Marcella:But for a boy of your age, you have spent most of your adolescence ….
Piero: On the plane
Marcella:In fact, and what effect does it make, having left your friends, your country, was it tough? Then you had to approach even with a language that was not yours, you had to learn English.
Piero:English is fundamental, and we also had to learn Spanish.
Marcella:You have learned Spanish because now, however, you will start a tour, if I’m not mistaken in South America.
Piero:The second tour, and now there are great future projects, but I’ll tell you what we did in the last two months. We started at Rockefeller Center in New York, with the lighting of the Christmas tree, the Christmas season opens all over the world. We were there with Michael Bublé, Mariah Carey, Tony Bennett, everyone was there.
Immediately after we sang for the Nobel Prize presentation in Oslo. We represented Italy, because the Nobel Prize was given to the European Union. There were Jennifer Hudson, SarahJessica Parker, Gerald Butler, Sial, it was a great experience.
Marcella:I see on the internet, I read that you have also become a style icon, because your fans have adopted this red eyewear look, is your brand?
Piero:If you come to our concerts, you will see all the girls with red glasses, it’s really nice!
Marcella:And then you also have some very important fans, like for example …. say you …
Piero:We were in Panama and a friend called us and told us ‘Guys, read the interview about ‘La Repubblica’ we go on the internet and we read that they asked Placido Domingo what music he is listening at the moment, and he replied: ‘I listen to Il Volo they are three jewels that the whole world should know.’ And the nephew of Pacido Domingo, is a wild fan, crazy about us, he wears red glasses, the vest, the tie ……. and from there was born the duet with Palcido Domingo.
Marcella:In fact, because in the last album, in addition to the duet with Ramazzotti, you also have one with Placido Domingo, which is one of the three historical tenors.
Piero:Domingo, Carreras and Pavarotti. We dedicated the song we sang together with Placido Domingo, Il Canto, to Pavarotti.
Marcella:It’s an extraordinary thing, you said that you met so many famous people and I would like to know if any of these gave you advice, if they made you a “mentor” in addition to your grandfather and your dad.
Piero:The advice, be yourself, because the key to success is only one, talent and humility, because all the great artists are great people.
Marcella:The real ones.
Piero:Real ones, like Barbra Streisand, 70, and every night she entertains 25,000 people in America’s biggest arenas.
Piero:American Idol, as jurors were: Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson. Steven Tyler is the singer of Aerosmith and in our new album we sang ‘I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing,’ but we did it in a classic Italian ‘Questo Amore Splendido.’ (Piero sings a few words)
Marcella: Nice to even hear it live.
Piero:We did Jay Leno, three times. Jay Leno is America’s most watched Tonight Show, Jay Leno and Larry King are the most famous, we sang “Beautiful Day” two weeks ago, which is the cover of U2.
People ask us, but your kind of music, what is it? We did two duets, one with Ramazzotti which is the top of pop and Placido Domingo, which is the top of classical music.
Marcella:So you are versatile, you have shown your versatility and even those who gave you a kind of emulation of the Trio of Tenors, like a bad copy of the trio, in the end it was denied.
Piero:This problem is only in Italy, but you know, Italy is a very, very difficult country, but …. let’s do everything in the time. The thing that makes us angry, and I have to say this, we participated in the Nobel Prize, we have represented Italy, the whole world talks about it, who does not talk about us: Italy.
Marcella:It seems we are a little xenophilous.
Piero:But we love our country, so we love it as it is.
Marcella:You said you spent most of your teenage years on a plane, but how did you stay in touch with your friends and study?
Piero:I always say that what we do is what we like to do, so if you love what you do, everything becomes easy.
Marcella:But how did you study?
Piero: I study again, because I lost a year with my work. But this year I graduate, study in hotels, on airplanes. I took the license. I did the theory in August and the guide in November.
Marcella:Even if in America? It’s not like you travel by car there.
Piero:Yes, I do. I drive my producer’s car. Sometimes I hire a Ferrari, or a Porsche, I like driving.
Marcella:And can you orient yourself? You are now a citizen of the world.
Piero:But the beautiful thing … ‘beautiful,’ so to speak, because sometimes you lack freedom, especially in South America we have five bodyguards at the baggage claim because at the exit of the airport there are a thousand girls.
Marcella:They recognize you on the street, it is shocking!
Piero:We travel with cars darkened and armored because unfortunately South America is a dangerous country but we love it and they love us, the girls chase us with taxis…. and shout, it’s nice!
Marcella:Are you afraid of this thing?
Piero:No, no fear, it fills you with pride and satisfaction because you understand that what you are transmitting reaches people.
Marcella: But this life is so stressful, how do you recharge? What is your secret to recharging?
Piero:It’s my family. Many people tell me “you have traveled the world.” Everyone asks me “What is your favorite city? ? Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, Paris” my favorite city is Naro, Naro is my world.
Marcella:What’s your relationship with Naro?? After singing in faraway places, with immense crowds, when you arrive at Naro, do you have to re-program again?
Piero:No, Naro is my homeland, so every time it’s always a party.
Marcella:What is your relationship with Naro’s inhabitants?
Piero:Fantastic, I love them!
Marcella:Welcome you?
Piero:Yes, I go to buy fruit, I go to the hairdresser … it’s very nice!
Marcella:Perhaps paradoxically your country is the only place where you can roam freely.
Piero: With my little car, now I go around with my friends, I greet everyone, I am a very open type.
Marcella:It is a practice of our program, to ask what advice would you give to a person who has become a public figure, like you, to the Agrigentini boys who want to approach the art of singing.
Piero:My advice is always to follow your dream, never give up, there will be people who will say, “But come on, change jobs, change profession.” Never believe in them, believe in yourself, but when you arrive, stay where you are. Returning to the previous speech, I learned this from Barbra Streisand, and from all the great artists.
For example, we were on tour with Barbra Streisand, we were in the dressing room and we hear a knock, I go to open and there is Sting, or Michael Buble, David Beckham, Tom Hanks, all these great artists who knock on our dressing room, to have a photo, to greet us.
Marcella:This proves the fact that these great artists that have such long careers, it means that they remained what they were, it means that goodness of mind pays, beyond talent.
Piero:And then the humility even if it is really difficult to stay what you are, if you do not have great people behind, like a big family, I am doubly lucky because I am a person that could follow his dream and get there. Yet we have not arrived, but we are working, we study a lot, and my second fortune is my family – a moral support, a daily support, my father travels with me only when there are concerts, because the tour is very stressful. But for promotions, I travel alone, and you know, in the morning, when I call home, they give me the charge to start the day.
Marcella:As a good Sicilian you have left the roots here, however you continually feed from your family.
Piero:When someone tell me ‘You know, when you speak, we hear the Sicilian accent, the Italian accent’….. let it be heard!
Marcella: On the other hand your pride, it is this and, I can say, you are also our pride and I believe I also interpret the thought of all the inhabitants of Agrigento who followed you. Last question, what do you dream of doing ‘when you grow up?’
Piero: I’m studying lyric now, because that’s my dream, that world, it’s my dream, the lyric is another dimension, but you have to study … too much … and now I’m studying, thanks to my possibilities, I am studying in Bologna, with my teacher Sergio Bertocchi, a great teacher, and he is a great person. I’m studying an opera setting, however, always with Il Volo. Il Volo is always …. the group Il Volo…. IS IL VOLO. And so my dream is that one day maybe, to do the Premiere to La Scala or in some theater.
So, as we can see Piero’s dream has always been to be an opera singer. And here we find Piero on the threshold of an opera stage and ready to go from Superstar to Opera Star. And what an opera star he will be.
Piero did say at the age of 30 he will sing in an opera! Let’s see if there will be a surprise soon!
Join me next week as I go back Through the Fields of My Mind and open the door to a new adventure!
The guy’s new album Ad Astra will be released on March 29, 2024. Available For Pre-Order NOW! It’s available on all digital platforms including Spotify and Amazon Music.
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Beautiful presence, interview and mini concert of Il Volo at Radio Subasio during the program Radio Subasio Music Club, interviewed by Katia.
Gianluca Ignazio and Piero, extremely at ease, dressed casually, relaxed, sing live, and what performances, always excellent and their voices, oh what voices!!
Presence of a small admitted audience among which I noticed with great pleasure young girls and many, many males!!
Lots of girls online who will be able to ask questions (they had to make the request to be admitted).
Our boys, in addition to being good, also know how to be very witty, we know it well!
I’m sorry for not being able to insert subtitles and this time there isn’t automatic translation so I’m translating this lovely interview in which I laughed so much!!😂😂😂
KATIA= And here we are, very ready again this evening, good evening everyone, live music is back as the protagonist on Radio Subasio, Radio Subasio Music Club returns this evening with a trio much loved in Italy and around the world. They are celebrating 15 years of their career and at the end of the month they will also do so with a new album called AD ASTRA, and then many dates in Italy and also around the world, in short, a lot of irons in the fire, we will talk about it with them too, but let’s do it straight away a big round of applause to Il Volo!!
(Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero enter and sing Capolavoro)
Hello guys!!
KATIA= Il Volo live, on Radio Subasio, welcome guys.
IGNAZIO= Thanks, hello everyone.
GIANLUCA= Hi Katia, hello everyone.
PIERO= Hi.
KATIA= Hi Piero, hello Ignazio, hello Gianluca.
GIANLUCA= Thanks, hello everyone.
KATIA= How beautiful you are, as well as good, it’s a pleasure to see you….
PIERO= We kept our promise.
KATIA= Absolutely yes, these guys keep their promises, I see you in excellent shape and despite the rumors lately, I also see you very united!
IGNAZIO= (joking) No, no, we broke up!! 😂 In fact, we’re loose now (and points to a circle with his hand) 🤣
KATIA= No, absolutely, also because more often than not, you have talked about how your union, your bond, is probably your strong point in your story, also because you didn’t choose each other, we remember that, you already know it in short, they met and then they were put together…
IGNAZIO= Yes, unfortunately yes.😂😂
KATIA= …..it’s even more difficult this way…
IGNAZIO= Unfortunately yes.😂😂
KATIA= No, come on, the premise isn’t right like that…
IGNAZIO= Well, we took part in a television program and in the end, we were three single singers and we were fine, then they put us together (laughter)...😂
KATIA= And it’s over….
IGNAZIO= … and we’ve been together badly for 15 years….😂
GIANLUCA= (he points to Ignazio) It’s self-deprecating, I don’t know if it’s understood…😂🤣
PIERO= No, because lately perhaps they take us at our word. (they laugh)😂
GIANLUCA= Let’s be careful about what we say.😁… well anyway I believe it is the basis of a lasting relationship, dialogue, understanding and over time we have matured together and grown, since we were 15 years old, we have spent half of our lives together , today we are in our thirties, we met when we were 15, so it’s nice to also send this message of union, I think it’s important.
KATIA= Absolutely yes, absolutely yes.
PIERO= Can we greet the people who are connected via video?
KATIA= And in fact, we greet the fans who are on video connection who will soon interact with you. (they frame all the fans on video link who greet Il Volo by waving their hands).
PIERO= I see a girl in a yellow shirt with a blow-up of Ignazio next to her (everyone laughs) as big as the wall. 😂
IGNAZIO= In that photo I look like Stash (the singer of The Kolors)
KATIA= Here she is, I see it. It is true!!
IGNAZIO= What’s true?? 😳
PIERO= Excuse me, but where is the blow-up of me and Gianluca??🤣🤣
KATIA= I see one with you on the shirt.
PIERO= Ah, there’s the t-shirt, ok…😉
KATIA= We also greet the studio audience, (applause) it seems right to me, they too have come for you and to ask you a few questions, soon they too will have the floor.
Guys, 15 years of a career that you will celebrate in a big way soon also with a new album, I would also talk about this, an album called AD ASTRA and will be released at the end of the month…. How do you say Piero, sorry?
PIERO= This album will be released on March 29th.
KATIA= It will be an interesting album, you’ve said it several times, an album that will allow us to get to know different facets.
GIANLUCA= Unfortunately we can’t sing it today, but we will return to Radio Subasio to sing the songs from the new album, it’s a promise, if you want us it’s obvious, we auto-invite ourselves to sing the songs from the new album.
PIERO= 15 years is a goal, a great goal for us and we have decided to celebrate it, first with the Sanremo Festival, presenting Capolavoro, on March 29th our first album of unreleased songs will be released and then this world tour will follow which will keep us busy for two years. We will leave on April 13th…
KATIA= Exactly, then there will also be 4 dates at the Verona Arena…..
GIANLUCA= However, also at the writing level there was a different maturity, a search for sound and also a search for singing, without losing our personality obviously, but it is the first time that we have dedicated ourselves to a work that speaks 100% our…
IGNAZIO= (tries to cut the conversation) ….come on we only have an hour I want to sing…😁
GIANLUCA= This is important..
KATIA= Indeed it is important..
GIANLUCA= Because we’ve never done it, so…
KATIA= There is a lot of curiosity in this album, then I also heard this thing you were saying in a recent interview, I think it was said by Piero, he said….
PIERO= I only say sensible things…😂
KATIA= Exactly, (laughter) you said “true to yourself, while keeping up with the times”, which is a difficult balance to strike and you are managing it perfectly I would say.
GIANLUCA= And it is perhaps our strength. 🥰
KATIA= Exactly.
GIANLUCA= Without being too nostalgic but not even imitating someone we don’t want and can’t be…
IGNAZIO= Can we sing?? 🤣
KATIA= Not yet, I decide when, he he he, there are also some “featurings” on the album…with Irama…
PIERO= (he seems to want to explain the word to Ignazio) Igna, featuring means collaboration….😂 (laughter)
GIANLUCA= That will surprise you, because in that piece, we managed to find that contrast, as we were saying, we were ourselves and he was Irama, but with our four voices together in harmony, it was, it’s very emotional. ..
PIERO= All four of us create Mahmood’s sound 🤣😂
KATIA= We are even more curious at this point to hear the new album, which I repeat is called AD ASTRA and, as they say PER ASPERA AD ASTRA, through difficulties you reach the stars, in your 15-year journey, what difficulties have you encountered ? Because I believe that every path…
GIANLUCA= Getting to know the two of them 😂🤣
KATIA= Here, you see!
PIERO= But this is a significant title, because through many sacrifices the objectives are achieved, today we live in a reality in which perhaps the message of obtaining everything immediately without a bit of effort, I think is a wrong message, in fact we rejoice more when you reach a finish line after a path that is at times turbulent, but at times also joyful…
KATIA= See how wise you really are!!
PIERO=No, but they were 15 years not only of music and stage..
KATIA= It’s true, it’s true.
PIERO= They were also 15 years, there is our manager Torpedine who can testify to it, they were quite particular 15 years, more beautiful years, less beautiful years, but in the end we are here, with our audience….
KATIA= Who loves you…🥰
PIERO= …. is the most faithful part of this journey.
KATIA= There is Ignazio who wants to say something.
IGNAZIO= Can we sing???🤣😂🤣
KATIA= What do you think, let’s make them sing??
PEOPLE= YesIII
KATIA= So, let’s let those who are listening at home feel a little warmth, a round of applause for Il Volo from Radio Subasio Music Club: MUSICA CHE RESTA.
PIERO= Can you ask the hunchback to go further?
KATIA= Musica Che Resta, live, Il Volo on Radio Subasio. We said it before, here is your audience, both in the studio and at home and they want to ask you questions, so I would start immediately from home via video connection Carmela from Catania. Hi Carmela, welcome where are you?
CARMELA= Hello everyone.
PIERO= Here she is, isn’t she the girl with the blow-up of Ignazio?
KATIA= No, it wasn’t her. Carmela, what do you want to ask Il Volo?
CARMELA= What would you have done if you hadn’t become singers?
GIANLUCA= Probably in place of Borghi on the radio….(he means a person who works on the radio…..laughter)
IGNAZIO= I don’t understand…..😂(Piero tries to explain to Ignazio)
GIANLUCA= Come on, I’m joking, there’s no need to explain… Oh God, maybe I probably would have been an architect.
KATIA= The architect??
GIANLUCA= Yes, probably yes.
KATIA= You, Piero?
PIERO= I would have been the manager who bought the houses built by Gianluca.🤣
KATIA= Right! You Ignazio?
IGNAZIO= (to Piero) The manager???😳
PIERO= No, in any case I wouldn’t be able to imagine my life without music, maybe I would have been a piano teacher.
GIANLUCA= Or the question could be what are your other passions besides music?
KATIA= Exactly.
IGNAZIO= But if she has already asked the question…😂.
KATIA= But actually among the other talents one has, one can also imagine a different path…..
IGNAZIO= When I was little I wanted to be a vet, I always liked animals, and then I don’t know, maybe I would have been a pizza chef , I’m realistic, because we had a pizzeria and so I would have become a pizza chef, yes.
GIANLUCA= Singing pizza chef.
KATIA= An architect, a pizza chef and an entrepreneur, you think, dear, thank you dear (to Carmela), thank you and have a good evening.
IGNAZIO= Hi Carmela.
KATIA= Alice from Belluno is in video this time, hello Alice.
ALICE= Hi
G+I= Hello
ALICE= I wanted to ask you, since you have sung in many important events around the world, if there is an event, a situation that made you think “if we are here singing we really did it”, maybe a dream you had when you were younger.
GIANLUCA= But did we really do it??
IGNAZIO= That’s the problem. That question persists in our heads always, every day, that’s fine because this gives us the desire to do more and more, but personally, one of the moments that we often forget but that we experienced is when we sang for the Nobel Prize Prize, not do we ever remember it, but that was an event…yes the Nobel Prize….
PIERO= Nobel Prize Prize …(makes fun of Ignazio)😁
IGNAZIO= Yes, because what’s his name??
PIERO= But say Premio Nobel (in Italian)
IGNAZIO= Ok, Premio Nobel…
GIANLUCA= It is right to be ambitious, but to enjoy what you achieve, the message must not be conveyed that one is never satisfied, and it is not good, on the contrary, to always enjoy the objectives that one achieves, but always have the ambition to do….(then turning to Ignazio) why are you looking at me?
KATIA= Exactly, never feel like you have arrived because then, unfortunately, if you stop and no longer grow. Thank you, dear Alice.
IGNAZIO= Gianluca makes more noise with his shoes than Heather Parisi (a dancer) when she dances.
KATIA= She could do tap dancing.
GIANLUCA= Like Elio and Le Storie Tese by Lol. (he’s a comedian singer)
KATIA= Exactly Thanks Alice.
Michele from Perugia is here from the studio and wants to ask you a question.
MICHELE= Hi guys….
IGNAZIO= Do you like Gianluca’s shoes? 😳
MICHELE= Beautiful!
PIERO= Do you know who you look like? To the sheriff who was looking for Pablo Escobar in the fiction, if you put teardrop glasses on him, you are him!
KATIA= We found a lookalike, go Michele, go ahead.
MICHELE= First of all congratulations, you have already answered me in part, with the last song of Sanremo you had a slightly more pop twist, and it was also much appreciated. I wanted to know if with future projects, this pop influence, this turning point, will be confirmed or not.
IGNAZIO= It’s not much of an influence, yes, but no. That is, in the sense that in 15 years we have never made a completely unreleased album and we thought it was the right time, also because we have grown up, we have had a lot of experiences that have led us to be what we are today and therefore we think that in Capolavoro but then in what will be the album, Capolavoro will be the perfect bridge and you will then listen to it on the album, because it is not Il Volo distorted or the change of Il Volo it is just actually how Il Volo is in the unreleased ones.
GIANLUCA= However it is clear that…..
IGNAZIO= But why do you always have to add something?? 😂😂😂
I’ve already been exhaustive and you have to exhaust me. I am exhaustive, you are…..🤣
KATIA= Let’s have another fight live so the newspapers will then…..😁😁
IGNAZIO= We broke up, ok, I’ll say it, we’re loose but we sing together. 😂🤣😂
GIANLUCA= Well come on, this time he’s right, there was no need, he had already said everything…
KATIA= Thank you Michele, thank you very much.
We talked about the album before and it was said that this new album was tailored to your personalities which are different but complementary. I ask you how you are similar and how you are so, so different.
PIERO= When we talk about “tailor-made” it is because for the first time we have put together a team of authors who have lived with us for about a year, therefore they have witnessed our relationship, our dialogues and above all also our daily discussions , because maybe today, I won’t tell you that we are deeper, but at thirty years old we ask ourselves different questions, so these authors have also observed our thoughts and our discussions and this album yes, talks about love but not only, it also talks about many questions we ask ourselves about life and why we are here singing and many other things….
KATIA= But I wanted to know more about your personalities, your characters, if there is one thing in which you are completely different…
IGNAZIO= Let me explain, Gianluca and I are completely different, me on the positive side and him on the negative side.
GIANLUCA= Maybe it’s the opposite. 😁
IGNAZIO= I’m talking about poles, I’m talking about poles, in that sense…
PIERO= I am the equator. 😂
IGNAZIO= He (Piero) is the equator, yes. He (Gianluca) is just the opposite of what I am.
KATIA= Let’s go with live songs on Radio Subasio Music Club…
IGNAZIO= We broke up…😂😂
KATIA= They don’t leave each other…. Il Volo, ANCORA a success by Edoardo De Crescenzo we listen to it live from Il Volo!
Great, Il Volo, ANCORA live on Radio Subasio. While we are chatting with Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, thanks also to the contribution of our audience here in the studio, Martina, right, Martina from Spoleto wants to ask you a question, go Martina.
MARTINA= So, when you leave for your tour….
IGNAZIO= …..what shouldn’t be missing in your suitcase….
MARTINA= …the three things that cannot be missing from your suitcase, well done!
PIERO= But three things, one, one, one, or three things each?
MARTINA= Three things each.
PIERO= Ok.
MARTINA= Don’t tell me socks or….
IGNAZIO= But let’s play a reverse game, you (to Piero) say about me and I say about you….
PIERO= About you, then… the computer that weighs a lot for doing live twitches, all the equipment for recording…
IGNAZIO= Yes…
PIERO= And then…
IGNAZIO= The underwear..😁
PIERO= …but at least once, you bring the razor!! Because you should know that when we are on tour he always forgets the razor, knocks on the room: “Can you lend me the razor?”..😁
IGNAZIO= Don’t laugh (to Torpedine) because you forget the razor too. 😁
IGNAZIO= You instead. (to Piero)
GIANLUCA= The giant headphones..
IGNAZIO= No, definitely running shoes, glasses, sure, not a book, but the computer with which you read the news in the morning.
PIERO= Well done.
KATIA= This is proof that they know each other well. Gianluca, someone has to tell about you.
IGNAZIO= I say so. Gianluca high heels,😂 books, never-ending books, he reads ten books a week, and then the third thing, I don’t know… the embarrassing clothes. 😂
PIERO= Clothes for going to the gym.
IGNAZIO= No, the embarrassing clothes.
KATIA= But are all three of you sportsmen? I know you run a lot, you’ve even done the marathon..
PIERO= Can I show you the wallpaper on my cell phone?
KATIA= Yes, yes, I want to see it, let’s see what the background is.
IGNAZIO= He runs away, no one knows from whom, but he runs away. 😁
PIERO= Look how beautiful?
KATIA= The New York marathon, fantastic, then is it true Piero that you do 20 km on the treadmill? When I read this… but there are many, but every morning?
PIERO= Or you’re crazy.
KATIA= Either you are crazy or you are crazy.
IGNAZIO= But he only did it once, once.
KATIA= Oh yes?
PIERO= I had to train and I couldn’t go out, it was raining and I had to get ready, but if I don’t do them on the treadmill I’ll do them outside.
IGNAZIO= He had to get ready to go out, because before leaving the room he gets ready by doing 20 km on the treadmill, understand?😂
KATIA= Of course, of course.
IGNAZIO= It’s a preparation, there are those who do skincare (Gianluca) and those who run 20 km inside the house. 😂
KATIA= Everyone prepares in their own way.
GIANLUCA= I get made fun of for skincare, understand?
KATIA= But skincare is important, now if we want to open a debate….
IGNAZIO= Absolutely, even the curlers…
GIANLUCA= Do you do skincare? (to Ignazio)
KATIA= Don’t you do skincare? (to Ignazio)
IGNAZIO= No, I do it, but I started doing it. I go to bed and I have my girlfriend who gives me all the skincare.
GIANLUCA= She does it for him, for his laziness.
KATIA= Do you understand? Thank you dear. Still from the studio, let’s go to Francesca from Ischia, how wonderful (Ischia is a beautiful island), here she is Francesca, it’s your turn.
FRANCESCA= A merit and a flaw of the other.
IGNAZIO= A merit and a flaw, Maria!😁
KATIA= Go, let’s open fire.
GIANLUCA= So, Ignazio is a good boy.
KATIA= Good?
GIANLUCA= Yes, he is the nicest person….🥰
IGNAZIO= …to eat?😁
GIANLUCA= Yes, he is tasty…
PIERO= Defect: He’s messy.
IGNAZIO= I’m not messy at all, you don’t know me.
GIANLUCA= The biggest flaw is that he is touchy, the most touchy person in the world.
KATIA= He ties it to his finger and won’t let you pass it.
PIERO= (to Ignazio) Aren’t you messy? Why do you wear a hat? Because you forgot to do your hair. 😂
IGNAZIO= Absolutely not, I wanted to wear the hat because it matches what I wore, and I decided to wear the hat, look, I also wear it backwards.😁
KATIA= I said that now it ends in an argument….
IGNAZIO= We broke up, we are dissolved.😂🤣😂
KATIA= At the end of the evening we will announce it officially. Piero, merit and flaw, about Gianluca.
PIERO= Merit……
IGNAZIO= I’m not saying it because the list would be very long…🥰
GIANLUCA= Flaw above all.😁
PIERO= Wait, flaw: stubborn. Merit……(Ignazio tries to suggest in a low voice)
KATIA= Ignazio would you like to add..
PIERO= Merit: he is very sensitive.🥰
KATIA=Okay, come on, sensitive and stubborn.
GIANLUCA= Piero is very thoughtful and determined,🥰 and then a flaw….
IGNAZIO= Authoritarian! 😂
PIERO= I’ve been told for years that I’m authoritarian! 😂
KATIA= Authoritarian why? Does he lay down the law?
IGNAZIO= My goodness, he lays down the law. 😂
KATIA= That is, things have to be done as he says?
IGNAZIO= Here we have the Sicilian Pion Peng (he means a dictator). 😂
KATIA= Piero, what do you say in your defense? Because here, in short….
PIERO= I submit.
KATIA= Do you submit?
GIANLUCA= Mitsubishi. (he plays on the pronunciation) 😂
KATIA= So thanks to our friend Francesca and also from the studio there is Tomas from Arezzo. There he is.
IGNAZIO= Hi Tomas.
TOMAS= Hi guys, my question is this: What was the motivation for calling you Il Volo?
IGNAZIO= I wonder that too 🤣🤣…….we were thinking of a name…
PIERO= You have to leave a little early. In 2010 we signed a contract with an American record company, Interscope, Universal.
The president was Jimmy Iovine, do you know the one who invented the beats? (headphones)….
IGNAZIO= He doesn’t know, but he invented them…🙄
PIERO= Yes, come on, there’s also……
GIANLUCA= Let’s say he started out far away.😂…..now he’ll sell you headphones.🤣🤣🤣
IGNAZIO= What is he interested in knowing who Jimmy Iovine is???…
PIERO= But it’s right to contextualise….
KATIA= You made the premise…
GIANLUCA= (to Tomas) Did you bring the cash? 😂🤣😂🤣 (to pay for the headphones that Piero sells him)
PIERO= We sat down with Jimmy Iovine of Ischia origins, Iovine (he pronounces it in Italian) is his surname, and we decided on a short Italian name that was easy to pronounce, but we didn’t take into account all the countries in the world, Il Volo is only pronounced well in Italy. 😁
IGNAZIO= But it’s not true!
KATIA= Oh yes, why?
PIERO= Come on Ignazio….Vro is in Japan 😂🤣🤣
IGNAZIO= Okay but those are some characteristics…
PIERO= Do you know what they called us in America one day? The Volvo. 😂🤣
IGNAZIO= No, in Germany.
PIERO= No, we were in America in Los Angeles, the name Volvo was on the dressing room, next to us we were missing Fiat and Chrysler (all car brands)😂
IGNAZIO= Hidden advertising, sorry. (applause)
KATIA= Thanks Tomas.
Radio Subasio, live Il Volo, or rather Il Volvo 😂: GRANDE AMORE.
KATIA= Il Volo, live on Radio Subasio, Grande Amore, a song that takes us back to a Sanremo Festival a few years ago.
GIANLUCA= Nine years ago.
KATIA= Mom guys, it seems like yesterday.
GIANLUCA= We were twenty years old, think about it.
KATIA= What memories do you have of that Festival and that moment when you were nominated.
GIANLUCA= It’s one of the best memories of our career, because like it or not, if you win Sanremo you officially go down in the history of Italian music, right?
KATIA= Sure.
GIANLUCA= This represents a bit for us, having entered the history of music with a song which then gave us a lot of satisfaction even abroad. Bringing this music to the new generations has always been our goal and therefore twenty-year-olds winning Sanremo with bel canto was certainly a great satisfaction.
KATIA= It’s true, it’s true, it deserves applause.👏👏👏
The public still wants to chat with you, and there is Valentina from Bastia Umbra in the province of Perugia. Go Valentina.
VALENTINA= I wanted to ask you what your hobbies are as normal guys.
KATIA= Eh, normal guys!! Everyday life.
IGNAZIO= Okay. In the end, it’s not so much being normal or different, this is our normality and it’s more our simplicity, because what we experience is not everyday (meaning it’s not a normal thing), so it’s not so simple, then one can experience it with simplicity but if you go and see it in essence, it is actually not very simple.
Personally, the passions that I live and that I like to live are tennis, paddle and motorbikes. I relax a lot, I take my two motorbikes and go for a day, with both at the same time. 😳😁
It relaxes me a lot, I go to the Bolognese hills…
GIANLUCA= As Cremonini did (Italian singer who lives in Bologna)
KATIA= Like Cremonini did, yes.
IGNAZIO= With wings under your feet…(it’s a phrase from a Cremonini song)
PIERO= He goes there (on the Bolognese hills) on foot and you with the motorbike.
GIANLUCA= Exactly.
KATIA= (to Piero) You do them on foot.
PIERO= My hobbies are….
IGNAZIO= …in fact he had invited me to the marathon and I said: “If they let me come on a motorbike I’ll come.” I’ll do it on a motorbike damn it.
KATIA= Ah, yes, but he couldn’t convince you…
IGNAZIO= No, because you couldn’t wear the bib instead of the license plate, that was the only problem and I couldn’t go. 😁
PIERO= My hobbies are: running 3 times a week, the sea ,if you want to make me happy take me to the sea…..
KATIA= Dear Piero I agree with you..
PIERO=…and then what I like: tennis..
IGNAZIO= I hate sand..
KATIA= Do you hate sand? Really?
IGNAZIO= I can’t do it..
GIANLUCA = Don’t interrupt him, he’s talking..😁
PIERO= Tennis is another great passion of mine and then on Sunday afternoons, leave me on the sofa watching films.
KATIA= Well, you see, you know that I agree with various things. Tennis you two can play then.
PIERO= We always play, twice a week.
KATIA= Oh are you playing? Who wins?
PIERO= (to Ignazio) Shall we play this week?
IGNAZIO= Let’s play, Wednesday afternoon, I’m up for it.
KATIA= You Gianluca?
GIANLUCA= I live by the sea so like Piero (he loves the sea). I live in Roseto degli Abruzzi, indeed I greet all the people of Abruzzo.
KATIA= We salute the people of Abruzzo obviously.
GIANLUCA= We are close, in an hour and a half I arrived (he mean Radio Subasio), we are also close.
Then I really like reading, but also the habits, I live in a town of 300 souls, so having coffee in the morning, taking a walk in the hills, being with my family and my friends, these are the habits of a boy just like you said “normal” which is what we are. We live a parallel life, the important thing is to disconnect, recover, you will recharge and then start again.
KATIA= Thank you very much dear (to Valentina)
I’m going to the video this time and there’s Emanuela from Taormina, talking about the sea.
Emanuela are you there??
EMANUELA= Good evening (she has a strong Sicilian pronunciation, with very open vowels and Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero make fun of her jokingly)
GIANLUCA= Good evening (with the A open) 😂
IGNAZIO= Good evening, good evening, how are you? (with the A and E open), truly (an expression often used by Southern girls) 😂🤣
PIERO= We can hear that you are from Taormina (all with a Sicilian accent), truly, hello. 🤣
IGNAZIO= Hi Emanuela (with the A very open) 😂
GIANLUCA= Precisely an accent from Valtellina (an area in northern Italy) 😂
KATIA= Emanuela see, they welcomed you well!! 😁
PIERO= How are you Emanuela, are you okay?
EMANUELA= Everything okay and you?
IGNAZIO = Too good we say (said in Sicilian dialect) 😂
PIERO= How beautiful your accent is, wonderful!
KATIA= It’s true, it’s true.
PIERO= See while she talks, I imagine Saretto’s granitas at BamBar..🥰🥰
KATIA= Shut up Piero… how painful (she also likes Bambar’s granitas)
GIANLUCA= Yesterday it was Christmas, in a month it’s almost summer, it’s coming, and we’re arriving.
EMANUELA= I’m waiting for you.
KATIA= Emanuela asks your question.
EMANUELA= My question is: “What is your self place outside of home” (she pronounces self place in English)
GIANLUCA= Ignazio what is your self place (he pronounces it all in English)
IGNAZIO= And what is the self place? But why don’t you talk about how you eat, drinkable, drinkable! (Here in Italy there is a habit of using words or phrases in English and Ignazio means to speak in Italian. Everyone laughs)😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
What is SELF PLACE? what is that. (he pretends not to understand)
PIERO= It’s your safe haven.
EMANUELA= Your “safe haven” beyond home and beyond the stage obviously.
IGNAZIO= Ah, the safe place!! Easier.
KATIA= Here you see, it sounds even better, safe haven, safe place come on.
IGNAZIO= What was the question?🤣🤣
EMANUELA= What is the safe place beyond home.
IGNAZIO= Home, I really can’t find anything else, if we talk about “place” like a place, a home: home. There is nothing else, I enter the front door and I feel like God, I feel naked, dressed. Did you understand? I feel good.
GIANLUCA= Does the stage count as an answer or not?
IGNAZIO= Come on, don’t be a philosopher. 😁
KATIA=She said beyond the house and beyond the stage, so she has already ruled it out.
EMANUELA= Beyond the stage.
GIANLUCA= Ah, beyond the stage…
KATIA= You have traveled a lot…
GIANLUCA= Japan, that’s where I feel at home.
KATIA= This is what I wanted to ask you..
GIANLUCA= It’s a completely different culture…
PIERO= In fact he goes out to have coffee with the Japanese…🤣🤣🤣
GIANLUCA= Green tea…
KATIA= What do they drink…sake.
GIANLUCA= Sake.
IGNAZIO= But in fact he doesn’t drink coffee, he goes to the bar and asks for sake.
GIANLUCA= A sakè.
KATIA= But do you also feel good in Japan?
IGNAZIO= Yes, we get on well, but it’s not a “safe haven”, what kind of safe haven is it? (turning to Gianluca)
GIANLUCA= You understand what direction it has taken, come on, let’s move on.
KATIA= Piero go.
PIERO= So, whatever place the sea is in, I repeat what I said before, but there is also a place where I feel safe, wait I’m cheating (superstition): the plane.😳
KATIA= Oh my God!
PIERO= When I’m on the plane I’m very calm…
IGNAZIO= Tell the truth, tell everything properly, the plane what???
GIANLUCA= He gets off the phone.
PIERO= Well done.
GIANLUCA= You are alone with yourself, you have time without anyone and without distractions.
PIERO= You know that you can buy wi-fi on a plane.
KATIA= Yes.
PIERO= I have never done it, maybe once and then I never did it again, because on a plane, even if we have a 12-15 hour flight….
GIANLUCA= 20 – 35, we arrive on Mars…😂😂
PIERO= I turn off, I turn off my cell phone and for those 15 hours alone, reading while being with myself.
IGNAZIO= I have the same feeling, for example I have insomnia problems, I couldn’t sleep at night anymore, calculate that I went to bed at 5.30 am and woke up at 10.00 am, I slept 3, 4 maximum 5 hours a night, really I can’t sleep.
KATIA= How did you solve it??
IGNAZIO= We travelled…..resolved, let’s say I was awake for 10 days and it was resolved, but when we travelled, instead, I got on the plane and slept, and from there I understood that they are the distractions, because you get on the plane and you can’t do anything, so your head knows that you sit, lie down and sleep.
GIANLUCA= Katia has a passion for planes…..(it’s the opposite)
KATIA= Did you understand?
GIANLUCA= I understood it from your look, you see you have a passion for flying (flying =Il Volo). 😃
PIERO= You know what I do on the plane, sometimes, almost always, I get on the plane in “flight” mode (on his cell phone), I reply to all the WhatsApp messages that I may have left behind….
IGNAZIO= Yes because he is a snob..😁
PIERO= It’s not that I’m being a snob, maybe some messages escape you, like the Sanremo period, you get hundreds of messages, on the plane at those times, I reply to all the messages then on the ground, I activate the data mode and send all messages.
KATIA= Obviously talking about the fear of flying with you is not possible, but at the beginning for example, none of the three?
PIERO= No.
GIANLUCA= We have a constant unconsciousness… like children.
IGNAZIO= Consider that as a child I did model airplanes with my father, he built and I piloted.
GIANLUCA= We really don’t think about it.
PIERO= I also gave him (Ignazio) the injections on the plane, one day he had a fever, who knows what it was?
IGNAZIO= I had an infection.
GIANLUCA= I prepared him a plate of pasta on the plane (for Ignazio).
KATIA= Plan B male nurse (to Piero), at this point we have found you another (job), right? Thanks to Emanuela.
EMANUELA = Thank you to you all.
PIERO= Beautiful image (him giving Ignazio the shot on plane).😱
KATIA= The image is actually a little disturbing.
GIANLUCA= Bye Emanuela.
EMANUELA= I’ll wait for you in Taormina.
IGNAZIO= Bye
PIERO= Bye Emanuela.
IGNAZIO= Emanuela speaks “drinkable”! 😂😂(which means speak as simple as the water you drink)
KATIA= Also on video, in Ravenna or Faenza to be precise, there is Veronica. Veronica?
PIERO= Faenza (imitating the pronunciation of the Romagna area) 😁
VERONICA= Hi guys.
IGNAZIO= But that is, we are neighbors (he says it with the pronunciation of Romagna since Faenza and Bologna are in Emilia Romagna)
KATIA= Hi Vero (Veronica), wait…
GIANLUCA= She is one of Piero Barone’s biggest fans
KATIA= Ah, see?
GIANLUCA= Is it true that I remember?
VERONICA= Yes perfect…
PIERO= The girl with the shirt..
VERONICA= I’m the one with the t-shirt.
KATIA= Ah, here’s the t-shirt..
GIANLUCA= But that shirt is 10 years old.
IGNAZIO= I am sorry for you. 😂
VERONICA= Yes, I’m 20 now, yes I was 12.
IGNAZIO= Mamma mia! She really grew up.😳
GIANLUCA= So today you are 21 if mathematics…
VERONICA= In July, 21 years old, YES.
KATIA= Your fans are also growing.
VERONICA= I grew up with you…😍
IGNAZIO= What a ruined adolescence 😂😂
VERONICA= Made together with you and I’m very happy with it.🥰
PIERO= Tell him, tell him.
KATIA= Veronica ask the question, what do you want to ask?
VERONICA= I’m really happy.
PIERO= They’re envious. 😂
IGNAZIO= Do you also have a question you want to ask?
GIANLUCA= It’s nice to see you again, you’ve grown up, become more and more beautiful and have come to so many concerts….but now you speak otherwise it seems like I want to bring her to my side…so you speak. (to Piero)
KATIA= Veronica if you want to ask something?
VERONICA= Yes, the question, on the subject of music obviously, which are the three songs that cannot be missing from your play-lists.
GIANLUCA= Do you know that lately I’ve been listening to PURPLE RAIN by Prince every day?
KATIA= Wow, beautiful!
GIANLUCA= Every day at all hours I listen to it.
KATIA= It’s a piece that deserves a lot.
GIANLUCA= Then CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE obviously and then something by the great Lucio Dalla, for example LA SERA DEI MIRACOLI.
KATIA= Wow.
GIANLUCA= One of my favorite pieces.
KATIA= Not a bad list. Ignazio?
IGNAZIO= I don’t listen to music.
KATIA= Don’t you listen to music?
IGNAZIO= I swear to you. I’m terrible, I listen to very little music, I almost never listen to music, only when I go to the gym..
GIANLUCA= Okay, pretend you’re listening, say something..
IGNAZIO= I listen to music, I listen to Eminem…
KATIA= Listen to the radio.
GIANLUCA= Listen to Radio Subasio, every day, here, on Radio Subasio.
IGNAZIO= I listen to Eminem…..
PIERO= It’s called rap cartel.
IGNAZIO= And then I listen to Fibra (an Italian singer), then….tell me the name of some rapper…
KATIA= Mahmood…. Tuta Gold ..(Mahmood song)
IGNAZIO= (motions to sing Tuta Gold)
KATIA= We’re good to go, playlist complete.
GIANLUCA= He looks like an old man in the body of a thirty year old.
IGNAZIO= Now I’m exaggerating, but you listen to various artists (he says some artists I don’t know and I don’t understand their names).……beautiful.
KATIA= And Piero instead?
PIERO= ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK by Sting, L’APPUNTAMENTO by Vanoni (Italian singer)…
GIANLUCA= “Il desiderio e la pazzia”, what a piece….(a song by Vanoni)
PIERO= “Eternità” (another song by Vanoni)
IGNAZIO= With chocolate.😁
KATIA= Not bad, not bad, thanks Veronica, I have to say hello, let’s go quickly, bye Veronica.
This is Subasio Music Club Radio, Il Mondo, Jimmy Fontana’s masterpiece sung by Il Volo live!
KATIA= Wow. Il Volo live on Radio Subasio. Time runs too fast, I’m leaving right away…
PIERO= There is a huge teddy bear, via zoom, show, but what is it? Hello Kitty? No?
GIANLUCA= How much time has passed?
KATIA= Almost an hour.
IGNAZIO= But is it Groot? It’s Groot, it’s Groot.
KATIA= Let’s go to the studio, right, yes, Claudia of Maiori, province of Salerno, Claudia go!
CLAUDIA= Hello, hello everyone. I wanted to ask you what did you miss about your adolescence?
GIANLUCA= Ours is a perpetual adolescence, let’s say, no but really, to do this type of work you have to be an eternal child…😁
PIERO= Of the time spent with our peers….
KATIA= You had a different adolescence..
GIANLUCA= Yes, in the end yes.
PIERO= And I have to tell you that we rediscovered that period in the post-Covid period, because we started doing concerts again…we were perhaps the last to restart with the tour, so we spent a few months at home and spent a lot of time with the our peers, our childhood friends, so those dinners, chats, sharing our experiences that perhaps the hectic everyday life doesn’t allow you to be with them. But we can’t…. honestly I don’t regret anything, because what I didn’t experience during my adolescence perhaps at home, I lived other lives outside, so we are three privileged guys and we are aware of this.
KATIA= Thank you dear (to Claudia) always from the studio: Aurora from Foligno.
AURORA= Hi, so, in the last song from Sanremo you say that “you fall from the sky like a masterpiece”, as if it were something unexpected….
IGNAZIO= Hoping he doesn’t get hurt…😁
AURORA= In your musical career, what would you have defined as a masterpiece, from this perspective?
IGNAZIO= In your musical career, in our career or even in life?
AURORA= Even in life. In life and musical career.
IGNAZIO= But I think this thing is very subjective, for example, for me one of the fundamental things in my musical career together with them (Piero and Gianluca) is enthusiasm, because for me enthusiasm is what moves everything inside and it’s not in my stomach, but in my heart, enthusiasm gives me the desire to do, to create, it gives me the desire to cry and laugh, it gives me the desire to do everything and if enthusiasm is missing it becomes a mess. So for me the feeling of enthusiasm becomes a masterpiece for me.
KATIA= Beautiful!
IGNAZIO= But even in love it’s like this for me, in the sense that if I have enthusiasm in love, I rock the world….
KATIA= Do we want to say that you will get married soon? 🥰
IGNAZIO= There are details..
KATIA= Are there details? well come on, well…
IGNAZIO= Incidentally, she is in the living room watching us…😍
KATIA= Oh yes? Shall we say goodbye then??
IGNAZIO= (he blows two kisses) 😘😘
KATIA= You see, he has a loving eye…let’s go live then (meanwhile Ignazio sings two words of Only You), Se Telefonando by Mina who sings Il Volo for us.
KATIA= Il Volo live, in the evening of Radio Subasio, there are two other fans who want to talk to you, there is one on video from Sant’Antonio Abate, Naples: Emilia, are you there? Where? Here she is.
IGNAZIO= Hello.
KATIA= Welcome, feel free to ask your question to Il Volo.
EMILIA= Thank you. So I wanted to ask you, it’s a somewhat existential question: What would you do if tomorrow was the last day on earth?
IGNAZIO= Here is the philosopher, 😂 Giancluca, he is the nephew of Galimberti (a philosopher) 🤣
KATIA= Oh yes??
IGNAZIO= Yes, he answers…what is the question that I haven’t heard, that already when I heard “existential” I thought of Gianluca.
KATIA= What would you do if it was your last day on earth.
GIANLUCA= The answer is simple, I would spend a day at the seaside eating kebabs with my family.
KATIA= How beautiful!
GIANLUCA= It’s nothing existential, it’s the most beautiful thing that takes you back to adolescence, that takes you back to your roots, to a moment of joy, the moment of greatest joy with your family, friends, the closest people dear for you, the world ends and you die happy.
PIERO= I would live like every day, because I live every day as if it were my last.
GIANLUCA= Wow, wow.
KATIA= Well done! Great Piero!
IGNAZIO= I’m silly to play down, but I’m a bit like him (Piero), I don’t think about it, I’m someone who lives everything to the fullest, I live every day with responsibility, respecting others, respecting the people who are close to me , but above all by respecting myself, which is fundamental and then I think you learn to answer this question, when perhaps things happen in your life that make you reflect, like when I lost my father 🙏 and I understood that every day you have to really live it not like it was the last one, but you don’t have to waste your time getting too lost in thoughts that we often have, live more, just live. This is what I think.
KATIA= Excellent, excellent. Thanks Emilia, I always go on video, in Schierano, province of Bergamo, am I right Michela?
MICHELA= Exactly, hello everyone! (the video shows Emilia drying her eyes again)
IGNAZIO= I didn’t want to make you cry Emilia, sorry.
KATIA= She was moved, but is Michela here? Michela are you there?
MICHELA= Hi.
KATIA= We hear you, here it is, ask your question.
PIERO= Hi Michela.
MICHELA= I wanted to ask you in these years of your career what were the key and least important moments for you.
GIANLUCA= The most important moments.
KATIA= The key moments, the most important moments of your career.
IGNAZIO= Certainly the signing of our first contract was a very important moment.
GIANLUCA= Can I say something? I’m interrupting you because….
IGNAZIO= You didn’t even get me started…
GIANLUCA= Because it’s important to say it, you must never forget the beginning and the people who then allowed you to express yourself artistically and it’s Michele Torpedine who is here this evening and is our manager.
KATIA= Applause, that’s right.
GIANLUCA= Because it took courage and a great vision to see three children like that, how can you imagine that maybe one day… in short there are things that only a visionary can understand…
KATIA= It’s very true.
GIANLUCA= Look, I want to say it because then there is also Barbara Vitali who is our shadow, really, the important thing is to thank people and be grateful.
KATIA= And never forget how you started..
GIANLUCA= That was a key moment… forgive me for a moment because I have them here in front of me (Torpedine and Barbara) and so I got a little confused.
IGNAZIO= It’s the emotion..
GIANLUCA= But that was a key moment which is the beginning, then winning Sanremo, the tour with Barbra Streisand was very important for us.
KATIA= There are many..
GIANLUCA= Many things have happened…
IGNAZIO= But can I name one of the key moments? (Piero was starting and everyone laughs) 😂 I didn’t speak, he interrupted me!
A moment that you will then share I think (he tells Piero).
Because then an artist, when she talks about herself, only tells the good things: “I sang with Barbra Streisand, I sang with Placido Domingo, Nobel Prize winner”, they are all beautiful things and they are key moments in our career and they gave me crazy prestige. Some children singing in the choir of We Are The word for Haiti, it’s something that happens once, in short they are key points, but we never think about it, but I think that one of our key and important points in our career was in 2014 , when we had the transition from one record company to another. That was a delicate moment in our career, we made the move to the record company, but above all we grew up and therefore we were no longer the children without beards, but the boys who cut their beards to be more children.
KATIA= Oh yes?
PIERO= This is a response to Marzullo (a person who always gives complicated answers)
IGNAZIO= But it’s the truth and so it was that moment of transition that was very delicate for us and that’s when we understood: Ok the fun is over, now we get serious and start working.
GIANLUCA= And then came Grande Amore.
IGNAZIO= Because everything arrived in one easy way… and then you have to start working and I must say that we did a great team job but above all Michele, he hid things from us (the difficulties) but if we find ourselves here today it is thanks to him because ... (makes a gesture as if to signify that Michele has broad shoulders).
KATIA= But you have had a crazy journey, many things have happened to you, I would like to keep you here for another hour because you also have some interesting anecdotes..
IGNAZIO= When the album comes out.
GIANLUCA= When the album comes out we’ll be back.
KATIA= Good, ok.
PIERO= We want to say something important.
KATIA= Sure, go!
PIERO= And it’s not the violin that’s being played, it’s the truth. We can talk about everything we have done for another hour, but there is one important thing, we are celebrating these 15 years with a two-year world tour and many concerts, but there is a basic truth, that we have an audience that make us feel like super heroes…🥰
KATIA= Nice…
PIERO= Who supports us, supports us and has been coming to our concerts for 15 years and therefore we cannot… there are no words enough to thank them, so we are grateful, we are grateful to them.
KATIA= Well then I would close with the song….tell me Ignazio.
IGNAZIO= Since we sing then we leave, and we don’t talk anymore we wanted to say thank you…..shall we talk later?? Then we sing and say goodbye with Capolavoro.
GIANLUCA= Capola-Volo 😁
KATIA= Great Il Volo: Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, what a fantastic evening you gave us.
GIANLUCA= Thanks Katia, thanks also to Beppe (director), thanks to Radio Subasio for everything.
KATIA= Thanks to the studio audience.
GIANLUCA= Thanks to the public, thanks to all of you for the love…
KATIA= Also to your fans at home..
GIANLUCA= Also to all the technicians and all those who are backstage and are no less important.
PIERO= Hello to the girl who wrote “Hi Piero”, bye darling.
GIANLUCA= I remind everyone that our first album of unreleased songs will finally be released on March 29th.
KATIA= And it’s called AD ASTRA, thanks!
IGNAZIO= Last greeting, I wanted to say an important message, at least for me, is that in life it is important when you believe in something, first of all we have to believe in it, in what we want, in what we want to do, but above all if you have the opportunity and believe in someone, do it with others too, we were lucky enough to have someone believe in us, so if you have the opportunity, do it with others too because it gives incredible strength.
KATIA= Thank you very much Ignazio, thanks again to Il Volo!!
Beautiful interview and beautiful performance, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
This morning, I sat at my desk and said, “what are you going to write about this week.” Since I was already two days behind schedule, I figured I better decide quickly.
Life can be hectic at times! It seems the last few months have been hectic for me, but I must say it’s been even more hectic for the guys! Sanremo, new songs, many interviews! A never-ending day. It seems these last three months the guys have worked endlessly! And what beautiful results they are showing us for all their work. At this point everything that needed to be said about Sanremo has been said. We love Capolavoro and we anxiously await the new album. So, for a while we need to sit back and savor what we have and wait for what’s new to arrive.
Well, that’s all well and good but it still didn’t resolve my problem about what I will write about this week.
So, I got myself a cup of coffee and went on Instagram to see what was going on. As you know, my stories are Through the Fields of My Mind, so they have to be old stories made new. The first story I came to was by Il Volo en Clase, They’re following the guys at a Press Conference about the concerts for “Pompei e arte.” The event was held at the Italian Ministry of Culture and the event began with Makari, the theme song Ignazio wrote for the series “Makari.” So, I thought, the story I wrote about their song Makari was such a wonderful story about Ignazio, why not write about that this week.
In my original story I wrote, “Sometimes I feel like I spend every day of my life writing about Ignazio!” Now that has changed because the guys are so busy doing new things that they equally take up my time.
But there was a time when because of all his projects I sometimes would write two and three stories a week about Ignazio, wearing many different hats. Entertainer, Lyricist, Manager, Entrepreneur! The amazing thing about it is, I could never get enough of him! Ignazio for all that he did every day he would live in mind. I tried to find stories about Piero and Gianluca but they didn’t do what Ignazio did, so it was always back to Ignazio.
With fictional characters, the writer develops the character but, when you’re writing about real people, you come to a point where you are in their minds, and you feel their passions and emotions! We all know about Ignazio’s passions and emotions! Every song he sings is full of them.
So how did I come to hear about Makari? As usual, it was Daniela Perani who made me aware that something new was going on. She sent me a video that said Màkari and I wondered what is this about? And then I clicked on it and heard Ignazio’s beautiful voice and I thought when did Ignazio record this? That’s when I realized it was a new series on Rai1 and Il Volo will be singing the theme song. And if that wasn’t enough, I learned Ignazio wrote the theme song. Ignazio, do you ever sleep?
Ignazio, I remember at the time you had told us you had many surprises for us. Makari obviously was the collaboration with Rai1 you were talking about. But of course, we never know when there is another surprise in store! We can only hope!
But, truthfully, who better to write a song about Sicily and the region of Trapani than a native child! No, Ignazio wasn’t born in Sicily but, for Italians, who your parents are is who you are so, in fact, Ignazio is Sicilian.
It amazes me that the young boy who went to Sicily kicking and screaming when he was ten, became the spokesman for Marsala, around the world, and now for the region of Trapani. Ignazio came to embrace the land of his parents and he loves all the wonders of Sicily.
Sicily is different than Italy. Yes, I know Sicily is Italy but, how the Sicilians live and, who they are is very different. Ignazio’s song invites us to take a better look at this other land in the south. It speaks of “a land of sages and a land of fools, made from devils and saints.” Yes, that’s what Sicily is! They honor their saints while keeping their superstitions!
Ignazio invites you to live a new reality through his eyes. He invites us to see a different side of Sicily through his beautiful theme song, Màkari.
Ignazio begins his video by explaining to us his experience of Sicily as seen through his eyes. “It is a Sicily as told by a twenty-five year old who lived Sicily through stories, through images!”
This song speaks volumes! Where did the words of this song come from? Ignazio’s heart! There is something very mysterious about the song. Besides the fact that it speaks of a land as seen through Ignazio’s eyes.
In the following video, Ignazio joins Claudio Gioè, the star of the series Makari.
Ignazio: Hello everyone, I will start by saying that I am and we are really happy to be part of this project because it tells of our Sicily and therefore we are Sicilians. And it is a landscape that they are used to seeing in every stable. Personally, I have many friends in San Vito Lo Capo when I can I always count on the opportunity to go and stay in that land for a while. Well, we’re happy because I had the opportunity to tell my Sicily view with one of my songs. It’s told through images and by my grandparents and family. It’s a song that speaks of a true and sad truth, of devils and saints, of wise men and astray ones and that when you come to Sicily you cry twice, when you arrive and when you leave. I want to compliment Claudio Gioè. It was fantastic. His art in telling it is mine. Greetings to everyone who was part of this fiction and best wishes.
Claudio: Hello everyone, from the height of their global popularity. Truly they (IL Volo) have always maintained this great humility and I thank them very much. I give them many compliments.
Ignazio’s words allow us to see Sicily through tradition, home and love!
In a video, Ignazio talks about the summers he spent in S. Vito Capo in the landscape of Màkari. What is it that draws him back year after year? Is it the “silence” of the land that screams for you to open your eyes and look around at the wonder of the landscape or, the traditions of the land that go deep into your soul? It seems to Ignazio Màkari is joy and love and so he will never forget it! And what does that say! Simple! This is Ignazio’s story!!! His story of Sicily, the land he left to pursue his dream and the land he is drawn back to time and again.
Think about the words of the song! Is Ignazio talking about the writer who leaves his home and returns after a long period of time or the entertainer who travels the world? The similarities in his life and the life of the writer are striking, that’s why he was able to write such an emotional song! I feel like Ignazio wrote the song and then they made the show. His words are very enticing, they pull you into the story. They tell all there is to know and, Ignazio tells us a story, through the imagery of his words!
I believe a good part of the success of the show has to do with the theme song!
The mystery of it all is the relationship Ignazio has with this land! Having become a part of this land at the age of ten, it is amazing to me that Ignazio developed this great bond with Sicily. Yes, Bologna is his home but, Sicily is the place he comes home to!!!
Ignazio says, “it is an honor to talk about my Sicily through a fiction that tells the truth of this Sicily.” Ignazio loves that through all the mysteries and mystique of the program, the show speaks of love, which is something that he loves and, he loves that that love is combined with yellow (mysteries)!
Sicily is amazing for Ignazio because it’s different for him every time. He sees a Sicily that is always offering something new while being a part of something old. Always remembering what was while looking forward to what will be! This speaks to Ignazio’s soul!
Ignazio’s thoughts and emotions are everywhere in this song. In the interview with Inga and Claudio Gioè, Ignazio reminds us of his words, in the song, about His Sicily. “Whoever comes to Sicily, cries twice,” (once when you arrive and, once when you leave). I think that sums up Ignazio’s feelings for Sicily.” I think the words of this song will be on the lips of everyone for many years to come! A Classic!
The final verse of the song is sung by Ignazio with a few beautiful words in Sicilian and he is accompanied by a classical guitar. “Sing louder but do it in silence because here no one hears us, sees us. This is a story a little curious, a little grumpy, it speaks to me of love. For traditions, for my roots, Màkari is home and my heart sings for you!” These are emotional words, very touching!
In a video, Gianluca and Piero expressed their feelings about the project. Gianluca said, “I have anxiety waiting for this moment, so I renew my congratulations to everyone for this great project and we are delighted to be part of it.”
We, also, learned something very interesting in this video. We now know what everyone’s plans are for the future! Gianluca says, he would love to be an actor. I always thought he would be a model. He certainly has the body and looks for it! But who knows maybe he will show up in one of the episodes of Màkari? And Piero the sweetheart that he is, told us how proud he is of Ignazio and how happy he is to be a part of this project! Piero, all of us are very happy that all of you are embarking on this new adventure together!
One final thought! Ignazio’s words in the song call out to many people to express his feelings on many matters! I would like to go back to those last words of the song so that you can listen very carefully to Ignazio words! “Sing louder but do it in silence because here no one hears, sees us.” Think about it!
Màkari we’ve been waiting for you!
What an amazing song! Ignazio as usual you took my breath away, not just with your voice but with your beautiful words. No doubt they were from the heart. They truly hit home! They so speak of where your heart is! And from the bottom of my heart I say, thank you for the song and thank you guys for the beautiful delivery!
Ignazio, this story may be old but writing about you never gets old. You are a phenomenal entertainer and composer. I see a wonderful future for you!
The English words for Makari
You know how many times I’d like to leave
from this land of devils and saints
but Màkari is home, it’s joy and pain
this is my land.
Land of Wise Men and Land of Fools
of people who take heart, take it and give it!
Whoever comes to Sicily, cries twice!
Màkari is my home.
This is a story a little curious, a little grumpy,
it speaks to me of love.
For traditions, for my roots,
but Màkari is home, and the heart sings for you.
Sing louder, but do it in silence,
because here no one hears us, sees us,
but Makari is home, it is joy and pain,
Màkari I do not forget, I forget no more.
This is a story a little curious, a little grumpy,
it speaks to me of love.
For traditions, for my roots,
but Màkari is home and the heart sings for you.
The guys’ new album Ad Astra will be released on March 29, 2024. Available For Pre-Order NOW! It’s available on all digital platforms including Spotify and Amazon Music.
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Il Volo was a guest on the television show Le Iene.
The notice of their participation was communicated to us by Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio themselves in this way:
IGNAZIO= Maybe you’ve gotten tired of Max (presenter of Le IENE), we’re here.
PIERO= You have the new hosts of Le Iene in front of you.
GIANLUCA= No, no, new no.
IGNAZIO= At 9.15pm tonight.
GIANLUCA= See you tonight.
But let me explain what the Le Iene program broadcast on Italia 1 consists of.
It is a program that offers investigations and journalistic services using an irreverent and satirical style.
The studio hosts who present the various journalistic services this year are Veronica Gentili and Max Angioni.
I’m sure you will have really liked our three boys in their black suits, white shirts and ties, but know that that is Le Iene’s usual dress.
I have to admit though that they were truly beautiful. 😍😍😍
The episode begins with Capolavoro and Max Angioni (the one with the black bob hair) together with two collaborators (two other Iene) they start singing in Gianluca’s place…….but then they arrive!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
VERONICA= How wonderful, or rather what a masterpiece, because this was Masterpiece and they are Il Volo! (applause)
Welcome guys, what an honor to have you here, I’m really mortified for these three scoundrels who every time someone arrives they have to get in the way……
IGNAZIO= Unfortunately we cannot say that they are a masterpiece….
VERONICA= You’re right, we can’t really say…
GIANLUCA= I would like to be Max.
MAX= Good.
VERONICA= And despite this, always in the middle… so Il Volo stays with us and in the meantime we begin this episode with Gaston Zama’s journalistic report.
(The journalist report is cut in this video and instead resumes the part of the evening where Il Volo is still present)
MAX= Here we are with Il Volo. (applause) Welcome to the usual column that makes you laugh or make you think with the best news and worst jokes of the week. Are you ready? (addressed to Il Volo)
IGNAZIO= Very ready.
(Piero starts reading)
GIANLUCA= (to Piero) Wait, there is an order to follow.
MAX= Wait, please! Ready, let’s start with the news. (it’s real but ridiculous news)
Then: “Delta Airlines nightmare in flight (I play on the word flight) it rains worms on the passengers and the plane turns back, mostly due to the complaints of the animal rights activists who had asked for the vegan menu!!” 😂😂😂 (laughter) It makes you think!
GIANLUCA= “Lighthouse keeper wanted, 3000 euros per month, requirements:
do not suffer from vertigo,
don’t suffer loneliness,
don’t have the habit of turning off the light when he leaves the room” 🤣🤣🤣 (laughter)
MAX= Makes you laugh and makes you think. You can throw it if you want (the news) . Please. (to Ignazio)
IGNAZIO= “Rhianna (singer) performs for 1 and a half hours for the richest Indian for an absurd sum. The magnate comments: -I was convinced that she was Beyoncé, good anyway- 😂😂😂(laughter)
MAX= Insults…..(Piero starts reading his news) You’re welcome.
IGNAZIO= (to Piero) I swear that if it doesn’t make you laugh I’ll throw you out like a masterpiece! (Piero naturally plays along from the beginning, seeming like the one who doesn’t wait for his moment to read)
PIERO= (finally he can read his news) “A news agent for 36 years, he works every day.
36 years and a day ago, his wife told him:
– As soon as you get home we’ll do the math! -” 😂😂😂 (laughter)
I don’t understand!
MAX= Okay, it doesn’t matter.
PIERO= (He pretends to be angry) Give me a close-up (and throws his crumpled tissue paper)
MAX= And we close with: “Cocaine in the air of Rome, the drug recorded by the control units (which measures the quality of the air) I believe that from tomorrow in the city it will be snorted with alternate nostrils.” 🤣🤣🤣 (it is a parody because when the control units register unhealthy air, citizens are obliged to circular with alternating car license plates)
Congratulations guys, let’s continue with the program!
Really funny, I dare say irreverent, but they were good, I liked them and also their elegance, reminded us of so much beauty, and perhaps also that these are the most alternative clothes compared to current fashion. 😉
But here is a roundup of photos from the evening.
Today was an unforgettable moment, not for the experience but for the intensity. The music is a masterpiece – with Il Volo in the Le Iene studios.
Meanwhile, the list of concerts both in Italy and abroad continues to increase. A concert in Switzerland has recently been added.
And then PARIS, and I think it’s the first time in Paris.
While in the Arena in Verona the fourth evening was added on May 13th and then in Rome at the prestigious Baths of Caracalla on June 8th. 🥰🥰
As many of you will know, in recent days our Piero also had time to register for the Bologna half marathon, here he is registering and handing over his bib.
PIERO= I now live here, 2/3 of Il Volo are here (Bologna). It’s a beautiful city.
The last marathon I did was in New York and then I took a bit of a break because I was on tour with the guys, and now we’re off to Japan again, so this is just pre-tour training.
I started just as a matter of breath, to increase resistance, then, when you are ambitious and set a goal, you always try to achieve it, and running is perhaps the most intimate moment for each of us, us with ourselves.
MANY CONGRATULATIONS PIERO!!! 💪
The news of the release of the new CD interested many newspapers.
And we hope that listening to the new songs will be positively received by critics.
Their performance at Le Iene was really funny but also elegant!!
Many congratulations to Piero for running the half marathon!!
There is excitement for the new CD, we don’t know what to expect but we trust in the taste of our beloved young men.
And now to finish, enjoy this short acoustic performance of Capolavoro!!
No question about it, Il Volo has achieved worldwide fame! From the first time they stepped on stage they won the hearts of people around the world. Every place they perform at you will find thousands of people waiting for them. Why? Because they deliver a perfect concert every time. It’s always about the delivery. It’s always about giving the fans what they want! Every performance is an event to be written in our minds that we look back on when we hear a certain song or remember a moment when they first touched our hearts!
It’s a feeling you get. It’s not just a song, it’s their voices that captures our inner being and draws us to them! Many people will say, about other groups, “isn’t that a wonderful song” but with Il Volo they say what phenomenal voices. Gianluca said when he first heard “Grande Amore,” he didn’t like it, but he said what he should have considered was “our voices change the song.” It’s not the song that changes, no, it’s their voices that make every song phenomenal! It’s how their voices draw us to them and to our past and important moments in our lives. Yes, all their music, all their songs are amazing but above all it’s the voices! And this explains their continued success worldwide! Three absolutely phenomenal voices.
When I think about their voices, I immediately go to Ecstasy of Gold and the opening of the Tribute to Ennio Morricone at the Verona Concert. I can’t help but talk about the intensity of their voices when they sang The Ecstasy of Gold. What force! But it doesn’t stop there! I must add that you need to watch how their bodies react to the music! They are in motion.
Look at Gianluca! Watch his fist come at you! This is the punch, just the beginning.
Listen to Ignazio ride the note that guides us into the story! Now we’re sailing on the wind!
Piero intensifies the moment with his powerful voice that says the journey has begun! Follow us in this new adventure!
Now I need to go beyond the Voices, Movement, Expressions to bring you to what it all equals ~ Sceneggiata.
On stage in Verona, their voices, their expressions, their movements blended into the background becoming a part of the movie behind them. They themselves felt this and they looked back from time to time to absorb what was going on behind them. The movie, the orchestra, the phenomenal lights constantly changing color and reflection! Just intense!
The soundtrack of “the Ecstasy of Gold” from the 1966 Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history. It was so important that it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It is one of the most well-known of Morricone’s themes and one of the most iconic pieces of cinematic score in history.
I usually don’t repeat videos within a story, but I find it necessary to do so in this story because I want you to see where it even goes beyond the voices and body movements. Watch the expressions on their faces. Movement and expressions tell a story that goes beyond the voices. It’s like a story within a song. There’s a Neapolitan name for that. Sceneggiata (pronounced shen~en~ja~ta) which means a story that’s built around a song. Believe me their songs in videos are Sceneggiata. So today, I want to tell my story a little differently. I want you to watch these videos and I want you to listen to the song and live the story. I want you to see how the story builds as the song goes on. The whole idea of a video is to do just what Sceneggiata does. It tells the story within the story of the song!
When the major video for the album, Il Volo Sings Morricone, needed to be produced we followed the guys to Sardinia for the videoing of The Ecstasy of Gold which brought back memories of American cinema in 60’s, 1966 to be exact, the year The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released! Some of the early American Western Films were made in Italy and Spain. Remember Clint Eastwood made many Italian Westerns.
Now, let’s take a look at the guy’s official video from Sanremo 2019. Let’s watch and listen to Musica che resta, which came in third at Sanremo. Who can forget the intensity of this song as the story builds within it!
The next video is a very important video. Grande Amore, the song that won Sanremo 2015. This is three stories within a song. Each story holds our interest and brings us to a beautiful conclusion.
A Chi Mi Dice took us on a journey along the Amalfi Coast. The song is about losing the woman you love and hoping she would come back. In the video you feel the cool and calmness of the day as the guys sail around the Mediterranean Sea. Are they searching for something or someone?
The vastness of the Arena and the emptiness lets us feel the absence of the woman they are singing about in Si Me Falta Tu Mirada. It makes you feels how much they miss the gaze of the woman they’re singing about!
Your Love needs no explanation! Of course, this story is about the 50th Anniversary of Grotte di Frasassi but for all of us who knew Vito Boschetto, Ignazio’s father, this song reminds us of him because it was the song the guys sang at Sanremo 2021 three days after Vito passed away. A very sad day but at Verona it became a tribute to Vito and it’s a song that always makes us think of him.
When I think of Per Te Ci Sarò I think of the guys growing up. This video is about young love! And it says it so well!
This video is a story of a lifetime. The video L’amore si Muove takes us through the lifetime of two children born at the same time. It tells of how they grew and fell in love and married and had a family.
In this video, the guys sing about being in love – We Are Love – While the artist is expressing love through peace.
This is a fun song Noche Sin Día. There’s no night without day. It’s like the rhythm of the night. The song begs the question, “What would life be if love didn’t exist,” and it acts it out almost as a game we play to find love. See if you can find Fabio Ingrassia in the video.
So, we come to Capolavoro. A true Masterpiece. The song talks about a masterpiece that fell from the sky. And how is it expressed in the video? This is different. The song says, “You were the only light giving things a meaning, and this life spent with you, my life spent with you, is a masterpiece. So, the guys are singing about the creation of a love that forms from a masterpiece (a person) that fell from the sky (came out of nowhere).
That’s the song, now think of the story. The masterpiece fell from the sky – that’s the light that we see fall from the sky. The light that fell from the sky lit the world – and a new creation was formed – a masterpiece. This is expressed through the four elements of life. Think of the video. Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire come together and a whole new story of life begins! It is a story of creation! What is the creation? It’s the new Il Volo! It’s their new way of looking at life! Their new music! Their new beginning! Each is the story of a creation!
What a beautiful presentation!
In conclusion, I want to tell you how the word Sceneggiata came about. After World War I, the Italian government increased the taxes on variety shows, which mostly included various types of singing and music, but they did not increase taxes on actual theater, thus causing many authors to devise a mixed type of show that would complement songs with dramatic acting, in order to circumvent such duties. So, a story was merged with a song to form a dramatic production and no taxes were charged.
Well in this day and age it’s not about taxes. Back then it was more about what the song became in order to survive in the industry. Today it’s about making a song more dramatic or giving it a reason by giving it a background with a story!
At times it could act like a fresco in medieval times. They would paint frescos on the walls of the churches so that those who couldn’t read would know the stories in the gospels. Many of you don’t understand Italian but you understand what’s going on because of these video clips!
That’s what videos do today! They give a story within a song ~ a Sceneggiata ~ that brings every song to life!
Before I close, I want to say Congratulations to Piero on his run in the Bologna Marathon. Great Job! He came in 1,556th position in just over two hours!
For your listening pleasure Il Volo Takes Flight Detroit 2011.
Join me next week as I go back Through the Fields of My Mind and bring to you the next exciting adventure of Il Volo.
The guy’s new album Ad Astra will be released on March 29, 2024. Available For Pre-Order NOW! It’s available on all digital platforms including Spotify and Amazon Music.
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