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~ The Prince of Marsala ~ by Daniela
Fabio Ingrassia, great friend of Ignazio, performed this beautiful portrait in black and white and a friend of mine, Rita Spera wrote these beautiful words.
Ignazio is wonderful.
In this work, his friend Fabio manages to portray all the sweetness of his gaze and lets us glimpse the beauty of his soul as a good boy.
When at the end of a public performance he thanks, with his hand on his heart and whispers “thank you” in a low voice and holds his breath by bowing. Here this is the moment when I love him more.
What happens to the matador? The comedian? The clown? The dancer ….. all those that I like so much and have fun with real heart ?????
They disappear by magic …
and he remains, the prince of the modern fable bare, with no other capacity to hide or change. Sweet, sensitive, affectionate, passionate, serious, that is moved by a standing ovation. With the sweet eyes of a boy, incredulous … that they are all standing up for him.
This is Ignazio one of the three Wonders of Il Volo.
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Ignazio is really a special person, who does not forget his friends.
These days Amelie Grace was born, daughter of Roberto Amadè, a friend of Ignazio with whom he shared a passion for music.
These are the words of Roberto and his wife,published on his personal profile:
“” Thanks Igny for this immense surprise yesterday; Seeing you arrive on the most beautiful day of our life has been a real gift. You are a brother. Everyone must know how much goodness there is in you and that the bonds of true friendship overcome the distances and commitments. “” Roberto e Isabel
And this is the announcement that Roberto Amadè has given on his professional profile.
My daughter “Amelie Grace” was born yesterday with immense and authentic joy. Incredibly I can not get away from her. The ecstasy prevails. The family gets bigger. Happiness makes us more and more united.
Yesterday was made even more magical by the surprise arrival of my fraternal friend Ignazio Boschetto, one of the voices of the trio, famous all over the world: IL VOLO. Thank you my friend for being with me on the most important day of my life. The emotion still lasts now.
I’ll never forget it.
Our PRINCIPE DI MARSALA is really sweet and sensitive.
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On March 22nd, at the Paladozza in Bologna an indoor soccer match was played.
The income was for charitable purposes, for research on ALS.
There were several artists playing, and who could not miss? Our Ignazio with a big heart.
There he is.
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Credit to all owners of photos.
~ IL VOLO 2010-2014 ~ by Daniela
I started to follow IL VOLO from the final evening of Sanremo, so even though I later saw a lot of old videos, sometimes I like to review some again and I always find some that I have not seen.
2010 TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE
I had never seen this video with the performance of Funiculì Funiculà.
They are guests at “Ti Lascio una canzone” and have the name TRIO.
SEPTEMBER 2011 FRANCE
Also this video I have never seen before, and hearing “Tous les visages de l’amour” always excites me!
JUNE 2012 ARENA DI VERONA
I had already seen this video but the guys are fantastic, so young and so “great.”
Of course you all know that Piero wears the band on his head because he had just been operated on the ears.
AUGUST 2013 I POOH
I had heard about this appearance during the POOH concert. For those who do not know them, POOH is a band of 4 good singers who in 2017 celebrated 50 years of activity.
The singer dressed in white who introduces them (Facchinetti), says that they won an award in America and they are Italians. The video is amateur, taken by the public and you hear the voices of the audience that say “but how they became tall, but how they have changed.” Then Ignazio gives thanks and says it is an honor to be guests in their concert because they have made the history of Italian music.
JULY 2014 LUCCHETTA PRIZE
This is a prize set up to reward the best journalists who are interested in children in particular in countries where there is war. It was called LUCCHETTA PRIZE OUR ANGELS.
A video for every year in which I did not yet know IL VOLO.
Did you already know these videos or some are new to you too?
Credit to all owners of photos and videos.
~ Italian Video ~ by Daniela
A year ago, a broadcast began with Antonella Clerici called STANDING OVATION. Before the transmission Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca were interviewed.
I will translate what they said. You can read the good words of the priest at the end of the interview.
The guys from IL VOLO, the trio discovered by Antonella Clerici, we went to interview them. Listen to what they said. Maybe they will even sing a bit.
What a thrill, I’m with IL VOLO. Hello guys, cheers to STANDING OVATION, right?
I = Absolutely
P = Hurray Antonella
I= The Standing Ovation for an artist is a fundamental thing, that when he sees them, his heart fills.
Can you tell me about your first Standing Ovation?
I = It was right with Antonella, our first standing ovation.
But what does an artist think “are they doing it, really to me?”
G = Do you think we were 14 years old when we sang the first time together, so many years have passed and we have lived many beautiful experiences, and being here, after so many years, returning with our dear friend Antonella, will be a beautiful thing.
P = We touch iron because it’s Friday 17.
G = Come on, nothing happens.
I = goodbye
Really very successful guys, world success for these guys.
Priest = Excellencies indeed.
They are really a beautiful presentation page of our nation abroad. I know because I attend a lot abroad, and I often live there too. They are a beautiful presentation paper clean, exemplary, also artistically very valid, bel canto likes, rewards the nation and also who interprets it.
We really hope a long success for these guys, they are also a good example for those who want to take care of culture and know that in Italy there is so much, so much space.
A good example of young people.
This second video was aired the day after the presence of IL VOLO at the Sanremo Festival this year.
At the base of the images there is the writing:
IL VOLO: PICCO D’ASCOLTO DELLA SECONDA SERATA (Il Volo, peak listening to the second evening).
It was put to inform that at the moment of the presence of IL VOLO at the festival, there was the maximum listening of the whole evening at the time of the performance of the boys. Beautiful satisfaction.
They chose to call themselves IL VOLO as a tribute to the music that took them by the hand, taking them higher and higher.
Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble soon started to put their talents to good use.
They come from Sicily and Abruzzo and began to sing thanks to their grandparents musicians and all three say they have not dreamed of anything but become singers.
Is 2009 when the boys are together on the limelight of the program TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE by Antonella Clerici and then suddenly, the story begins.
Piero, the eldest of the three, has glasses and casual talk.
Ignazio succeeds with great discipline to lose weight.
Gianluca, the youngest of the three, says that with IL VOLO it was like finding another family.
Together they start to conquer the world.
What is certain is that they have become three stars, gathering amazing successes on different theatrical stages and their rise beyond the ocean seems to know no limits.
They are the first Italian artists to have signed with an American major and sang O SOLE MIO as guests of the talent show American Idol, greeted by a riot of applause and standing ovation.
Their debut album, the first day of release entered the tenth place in the list of the best-selling CDs of the U.S.A.
Yesterday evening, the IL VOLO boys returned on the Ariston stage, three years after the victory, of the festival with the song GRANDE AMORE.
The third video, Exclusiva…
Here’s how they were Piero Gianluca and Ignazio, still young and unaware of the success that would have overwhelmed them.
Known all over the world as the guys of IL VOLO, in a few years they really took off flying, winning millions of fans.
But times change, and the voice should be enough to recognize them, because from the classic look that distinguishes them, here they are making poses, very rock in this photo shoot.
Looks of macho, abdominals in sight, sculpted pectorals, for IL VOLO it’s time for a sexy turn.
The festivities are valid for being bare-chested and showing the abdominals.
Bodies that certainly do not go unnoticed, and that make a massacre of hearts.
It had already been a hot summer for Gianluca Ginoble, called the beauty of the group. After extinguishing the summer flames, he was recently paparazzi in Barbados with this beautiful girl with a Latin charm.
With her, he exchanges tenderness and hot kisses.
Here they are, he and Piero together in the gym during a training session and then realize a photo shoot like real “Riace bronzes”.
Even Ignazio has transformed his body, lost the extra pounds, now he dedicates body and soul to physical activity, and the results are seen.
One thing is certain, to stay in flight, you must also have a “beastly physique.” (an Italian song says that “it takes a beastly physique ….”).
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Credit to all owners of videos and photos.
~ RICOMINCIO DAI TRE ~ by Daniela
Perhaps not all of you know that Michele Torpedine, the manager of IL VOLO has written a book, which is titled RICOMINCIO DAI TRE (I start again from the three ). In this book he talks about his career as a manager and all the artists he brought to success, their gratitude but often ingratitude, until he talks about Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio.
This book was withdrawn from bookstores, but one of my Volo-friends had already bought it and so she photocopied it for me.
I will translate for you some passages concerning IL VOLO.
The first time I saw them I was at home sitting on the couch talking on the phone with Tony Renis. I was watching TV, but without volume. I had tuned in on the program by Antonella Clerici in which young performers sang: TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE, broadcast by the Ariston of Sanremo. I only looked, and imagined.
I did not need to listen.
Then these three boys of fourteen or fifteen appear. I see them, I still do not hear the voice, but already they reminded me of the three tenors: Ignazio as huge as Pavarotti, Gianluca a little like Josè Carreras, Piero more difficult to associate with Palcido Domingo, but you could try.
The growing curiosity pushes me to turn up the volume. And here I realize another element, even more important than the first: the three, casually put together to sing a song of the program, possess an incredible vocality for the age they have.
Of course they are good, those guys, I repeat to myself. And if I tried to put them together really? A trio, here’s what I could do.
The next day I am a volcano. I want to talk with everyone: producers, managers, families.
After meeting with Tony Renis I call Roberto Cenci, the artistic director and director of the program – who had the intuition to let them sing a song together – and I ask, the addresses of the three boys.
So another great story started, a new story at a time when it seemed to me there was no future for me: a breath of oxygen in my environment.
After years of disappointments, loss of confidence and lack of gratitude or denial, with Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca I rediscover the values of correctness, gratitude, esteem.
They, the boys of IL VOLO, give me trust, first of all, the administration of a world tour, with important amounts to move, on which I could take what I want if I were dishonest.
Trust is theirs, but also that of the parents, to whom I have committed myself to teach everything, the mechanisms, the things that move, the relationships. All.
Today I do not talk to three guys with incredible voices, I compare with three men of just over twenty years who have made international experiences that 99.99% of our Italian stars do not even imagine, because they have never crossed the borders of Bel Country.
These three “guys” (I continue to call them that), have very clear ideas and I have never seen them impressed in front of audiences that many would shake their wrists.
Never heard a smear of voice or a wrong attack, and if some inconvenience has risked making it happen, wisely have been able to file the problem at the origin: extraordinary, always. Their voices grow with them, mature, take on body and soul.
There is no other team or artistic team so complete.
UN GRANDE AMORE, A GREAT LOVE .
If I had to define the story of IL VOLO with a dominant feeling, I would call it that.
Many have arrogated the merit of the success of the three boys, which is certainly the result of a great teamwork, but it is above all the result of intelligence, humility and generosity of the three families who have not only never hindered my work as manager, but were supportive in the best way: Ercole and Lenora Ginoble parents of Gianluca, Vito and Caterina Boschetto father and mother of Ignazio, and Gaetano and Eleonora Barone who gave life to Piero.
