These days,Telemundohas published a wonderful interview with IL VOLO, made this summer, for the television program Don Francisco.
When I saw it, I laughed a lot, the boys were simply adorable and nice.
The interview is in Spanish. I do not know this language, but being similar to Italian, I understand everything that is said, so I will make a rough translation of what is said.
The first video is a complete collage, the following videos are fragments of the piece I’m translating.
Let’s start with a trio of young Italians. They already hold 10 years of international success and are:GIANLUCA,IGNAZIOandPIERO, a loud applause,IL VOLO.
DF = By the way, you are doing 10 years of business and are promoting new material. G = Everything started in 2009, next year will be 10 years. DF = Next year, we met seven years ago. G = It was 2011 I = 35 Kg ago (77 pounds!) G = (pointing to Ignatius) He was fatter. DF = A nice difference 35 kg less. (Piero dishevels the hair of Ignatius) G = These guys are spiteful, maybe because they are Sicilian. DF = And you are not? G = Not me, I live near Rome. I = (to Gianluca) Hey Roman, be careful how you speak. P = How is your Italian? (asks Don Francisco) DF = Very smashing …… Once, while we were shooting a singing video, grace and breathing are important (and he intones with his deep voice) “Where’s IL VOLO ????” G = (intoning IL MONDO), “and the day will come ….” GIP = “Tonight love I have not thought of you anymore ……. to you !!!!” (applause) DF = You Piero studies lyrical singing. P = YES, I study every day, because my passion is the opera and my dream is to be able to sing one day at La Scala in Milan or at the Metropolitan in New York, a whole opera. I = And have us in the first row. DF = He holds talent, because he comes from a humble family, Piero’s father was a car mechanic, his grandfather made him taste the music, Piero imitated Pavarotti P = Always, even my motorcycle was called Pavarotti.
But I have the same voice as my grandfather, identical.
DF = You are promoting a new record, which will be published when? G = For now we publish a single, because it differs a little from our usual genre, turns to Latin music, is a tribute to Latin music, we made this record with Emilio Estefan, who is the producer of this album. DF = You will sing this Spanish record with Estefan. I= No, Emilio Estefan is the producer. DF = Of course, Emilio does not sing anything, that sings is his wife.
G = Yes, of course, she is Gloria. DF = And are you happy with the work and the result? G = Yes, we are young and we wanted to do something different, the duet is with Gente De Zona, IL VOLO and GENTE DE ZONA. DF = (asks Ignazio) do you have problems with the microphone? I = No, is that I thought it was cold but now I feel very hot. (and he takes off the denim jacket and then asks Don Francisco)
“I saw that here are all women” (the band that plays is all women and then Ignazio begins to sing) …. Don Francisco like women !!!!! (and Don Francisco responds by singing) DF = The flutist is not engaged …… I = Hello flutist, I’m not engaged too ….. (Ignazio says always singing) DF = And now it’s time to play !!
At this point a nice game begins that involves the boys and the public. The public will have to answer some questions about the boys and if they guess, they will have a cash prize.
DF = Our Jessica receives a kiss from Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca because she has to go.
I explain the game, we will ask questions about Gianluca Piero and Ignazio, we will ask one person the answer, another person can give a different answer, which of the two will have guessed, will win money (500 dollars?). The person who has won will also be able to answer the next question. Do you agree?
Who wants to win money?
Let’s start with you, stand up, what’s your name?
Salia. Well Salia, the first question for $500 dollars.
Which one of them worked on the ears to make them smaller: was he Gianluca, was Ignazio or was he Piero? (Salia replied Piero, another woman answers Gianluca.)
Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero, who of you was operated on the ears? P = It’s me. DF = Meanwhile, I give the money, explain why you did the operation to the ears? I = (addressed to Salia) but Don Francisco explained to you that you owe us 10% to us? DF = And why not, look, I’m giving her $500 money. So why did you operate your ears? P = At the age of five I kept them like that (he opens his hands like Dumbo) and riding a motorbike, the wind attacked them. DF = A applause to Piero. P = Bella, keep the money that we then go to dinner.
DF = Second question, which of them three to five years gave their first kiss, under a sofa? (Salia answers Ignazio, another woman answers Gianluca). Who was three? I = It was me. DF= Ignazio, but really at 5 years? I = Yes, I had 5 but it was a very tall sofa, otherwise I did not pass under it. DF = Under the sofa, and how old was the girl. I = Two years older than me, she was 7 years old, I enjoy women older than me ……. hello flautist (he greets the woman playing the flute)
DF = Another 500 dollars to Salia.
Third question: which one of them has the shortest foot? Look at the feet, which of them three has shorter feet? (Salia answers Gianluca), what do you say, will he? G = It’s me. P = What a fool. G = Why ?? I did not have to tell him ??? (Gianluca has not given the time to another person to give an alternative answer, for this Piero verbally takes it, but Gianluca did not understand that he had to wait to confirm …….. Ignatius amused, he throws himself into the ground and laughs out loud !!!!) P = You did not give the second option !! DF = What Italian shoe size do you wear? G = 41 DF = And you Ignazio? I = I hold the Titanic, 46 P = Yes, but only foot, keep 46 DF = And you Piero? P = I lost my bill. DF = What number do you wear? P = 42
DF = Salia wins 1500 dollars !! Fourth question: which of them burned his father’s car, when he was 4 years old, and sent her against a wall? (Salia responds Ignazio, then changes and says Piero, another woman answers Ignazio ….. the boys, create a little suspense.) I = It was me!
DF = Two hundred dollars for you (the woman who said Ignazio) and now who wants to answer for the last question? Jennifer, here’s the last question for $ 300.
Which of them has realized his dream of making love on the plane? (The woman answers Gianluca, a man answers Piero.) I = Wait a second, I do not hold the face of one who could do this thing? You all said Piero or Gianluca ……. flutist … vamos … (everyone laughs) DF = Sit down, so who created this fantasy? (Suspense) P= It was me. DF = Well, $ 200 for you (to the man, and then to Piero), now you have to tell me quickly how the experience was. P = Very rapid! (laughter) I = Was the Rabbit Airlines. (laughter) DF = A big applause, for the sympathy to Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero.
Change scene, Don Francisco is interviewing a young singer and IL VOLO.
DF = I wanted to ask you something, why do not you do a tribute to a singer, would you do it? G = Yes, now? DF = Could you sing EL TRISTE? Josè Josè, is watching this program, this song is for you. (start this beautiful song) G = It all started when we were 14, we thought we were singing and we met in this contest, the first time we sang together was April 25th 2009, and we sang O SOLE MIO, the strength of the three of us was incredible because you imagine three children singing with the voice of adults. DF = And who won the competition? G = Me. DF = You won the competition. And now what are you going to sing? P = Now let’s sing NOCHE SIN DIA, which is our last single.
Produced by Emilio Estefan, we will sing alone here, but in the first version we sang it with Gente de Zona. DF= A big applause for IL VOLO: Noche Sin Dia. (start Noche Sin Dia)
DF = Here is our next guest Stephania Duque. I was talking here with this singer and IL VOLO. G= Hi Stephania. DF = Do you like Stephania? But she has a husband. I = Like how, do you have a husband? Flautist, ……. I did not want to betray you. P = Stephania, ask if I can sing a song to your ear. DF = Now IL VOLO must fly to Rome, Italy, because tomorrow they will have a concert. P= yes tomorrow we’ll have a concert and now we’ll say hello (they sing O Sole Mio). DF = I hope you enjoyed this program. I= We like you a lot, because you have always been good to us, we love you, it is a pleasure for us to be here, greet you and tell you, that when we want we come here, for you, because you are the best of all. DF = I do not believe, even if I like it very much, to be the best of all. I = For us yes. DF = Yes? G = Yes, of course. DF = I greet IL VOLO, a big applause, you are always welcome. G = See you in Italy. DF = Thank you all.
And here’s a short video taken during the shooting of the show.
I had a lot of fun watching these videos, first of all because the guys were amazing, they had fun and they enjoyed the audience. Their singing performances were perfect as usual, they were polite but also a little easygoing without overdoing too much. I saw them pleasantly relaxed, at ease, which is difficult when they are interviewed in Italy, because here every moment is controlled, for fear of the inevitable criticism of the day after.
Ignazio was very strong, funny and disrespectful, but with sympathy, also good Gianluca and Piero who were able to get involved with even a little embarrassing questions.
I hope the translation has served you and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
As you all have already read IL VOLO has had different commitments …… but where will they find their strength?? I will summarize in order.
Last week they flew to Kazakhstan for a private engagement of which we know nothing, the only clue a picture with the singer Vlad Sytnik.
Then they returned to Italy for another private event in Milan, the presentation of the new Patek Phillipe watch collection.
So the guys rush to Rome.
They are ready for a performance at the Palalottomatica in Rome, for the private event Dream Night, organized by Jeunesse for its members.
This next video, in my opinion, represents a great point of pride.
This event was a surprise for Jeunesse affiliates, who are not explicitly fans of IL VOLO. It was also an international gathering, so people came from various parts of the world.
At the end of the exhibition there was a standing ovation, absolutely spontaneous, surely people have recognized the guys’ great talent and professionalism.
Vedete il pubblico con la pelle d'oca che fa una standing ovation? Bene!
Quelle persone non sono mai state ad un concerto de @ilvolo, e non sono loro fan, erano solo dei dipendenti di #jeunesse convocati dall'azienda.
A few days ago, we read the gossip about Piero and Valentina. Sightings continue and the newspapers talk about them. I will translate this sweet article that speaks of their love story. The article was published in the gossip newspaperOGGI.
Valentina Allegri and Piero Barone meet at Linate airport where he has just landed arriving from Catania and they let themselves go to kisses and tenderness …
The Juventus coach’s daughter runs to pick up her boyfriend at the airport. And he does not even give him the time to give her a red rose: he clings to him and does not give him up (almost) anymore …
Valentina Allegri, and Piero Barone, tenor of Volo, are the living demonstration that when two people love each other they do not want to steal their story, not even for a moment and every moment is good for being together, talking, exchanging tenderness and kisses.
Reduced from a tour in Sicily, Piero Barone landed in Linate with a red rose in his hand. As if there were not a moment to lose, his girlfriend Valentina Allegri did not even give him the time to deliver the flower and in a tangle of legs she stuck him to a bench in the arrivals area for an out of plan of intimacy and affection.
After twenty minutes of languid caresses between Valentina and Piero it was already over. The singer received a call, left the Linate hall and got on a taxi with an unknown destination. She went to the parking lot, got into the car and all alone left. But lying on the seat next to her, she had a red rose.
What is certain, is that Piero and Valentina, do not hide, indeed, after these photos, stolen by the paparazzi, they themselves have published a photo of them, united, have made public their love story.
Unfortunately, Piero has also disabled the comments under their picture, because many people have posted very bad comments.
Here’s the picture.
I do not know what effect these pictures do to you, but to me, fill my heart, I am a romantic and think that Piero may have found the girl of his dreams, makes me very happy and certainly Piero is feeling moments of pure happiness.
Will the romance continue? It will be the time that will tell us.
Surely all of you, these days, have seen photos of the boys in Spain, and exactly on the island of Formentera, but perhaps not everyone knows the reason for their trip to Spain.
But let’s start in order. On October 5th, Ignazio published this video.
I= First of all I want to thank all those who made my birthday wishes to me and have had the thought for me yesterday.
Now we are heading for Formentera, we are in Ibiza and we are going to Formentera.
Hello everybody.
P = Guys today go to Formentera, while Ignazio thanks his fans for yesterday’s best wishes.
G = Greetings all, a greeting from the VOLO from Ibiza, we are going to Formentera.
I = Around Formentera.
All these videos have triggered the fans’ questions: “What will they do in Formentera? Why are they in Spain?
Some (among them, me too) have thought that they were there to shoot a music video, the presence of Barbara, meant that they were not on vacation.
Mystery!!!
Here they are while renting a car.
I = When it comes to randomness and you arrive in Formentera and find the car labeled IB (Ignazio Boschetto) ha ha !!
G = We have a car that is not very special. It drives, Ignazio the guide.
P = A little narrow. The Flinstones car. (Laughs)
I = Wait, it turns on like this.
G = Ignazio, what do you think of this car?
I = Superb.
G = Bella, is not it?
I = Other than Formula 1
(they sing and laugh)
P = Today you go around with the Flinstone’s car.
I = But if you do not put me GOOGLE MAPS, where the hell we go ???
P = Maximum speed?
I = 50 km per hour (31 mph)
Certainly they are having fun, but the reason for their trip to Formentera is not yet revealed, but in the evening, the clouds of doubt are thinning out.
A party?? Will they be invited to sing at a private party? In the photos we recognize so many famous people in Italy and in the last video, the person with the black jacket is Cenci, the one who had the idea of uniting Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio.
Still mystery! Also appears a picture of Piero that seems to clarify something ……. she is the bride, all the people are dressed in white, a party for a wedding ?? But, whose? Some fans have misunderstood, seeing Piero hugging the bride, she is blonde, but she’s NOT VALENTINA !!!
Here is the mystery revealed.
In the evening, in a television program, wishes are given for the wedding of Ferdinando Salzano who is the CEO of F & P Group.
The F & P Group is an Italian company belonging to the Warner Music group, that specializes in organizing, promoting and producing shows and events in the field of music (live) and entertainment. The F & P Group deals with various activities, such as concerts, sponsorships, events, multimedia and TV productions, using a team of professionals of great and proven experience.
Here are some photos of the wedding.
Piero with the groom.
Gianluca with Nek.
Ignazio is looking at the ball game on the phone.
The bride arrives.
Here is revealed the mystery of the presence of many well-known faces of Italian artists, including Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca.
OK, guys, it was almost a short vacation and you had fun, but now, back immediately to Italy, there is a recording studio waiting for you and countless fans waiting for the fruit of your work !!
Daniela
PS = Greetings to Salzano for the wedding ……….. please organize beautiful and numerous concerts of IL VOLO for their decennial !!
A few days ago was Ignazio’s birthday and my friend Valeria Bosch wrote a beautiful post.
Once again Valeria interpreted our thoughts and managed to analyze some of the attitudes of our dear Ignatius, who certainly did not escape those who love him.
I translate for you, with great pleasure: Daniela
What makes us feel so much fondness, so much affection, so much continuous interest for a public figure, be it actor, singer, writer or other? Of course, first of all is the emotion that he knows how to communicate to us with his art, the feeling of enchantment and uniqueness that he creates around him, and, of course, also what means a lot is his physical appearance, his way of posing himself, what in short is commonly called “body language”.
But what do we really know about these characters? If we want to know them in depth, we must not rely on the tamed, plasticized official biographies or even the news we read in newspapers and mass media, always affected by interested intentions, positive or negative, but we must rely only on our eyes, on our ability to observe, especially small details, signs that can act as a litmus test to define with confidence the personality of our darling.
So I did for Ignazio, intending to pay him a tribute for his 24th birthday: I closed my eyes and I tried to review, among many images that crowded in my mind, some moments, some gesture that could work as a mirror or introspector for understanding his feelings, his intimate reactions. And I share them here with you, chronologically rearranged, although obviously this is not the sequence with which they resurface to my memory.
1. The embarrassment of the boy – 2009
We are at “TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE”, the guys (future “IL VOLO”), from soloists who were, have recently been composed in a trio that debuted with “ ’O sole mio”. Antonella Clerici, who admires the three teenagers , says to them with great affection: “In short, they already call you ‘the three tenors’ – which of you is Pavarotti?” The three little boys, frightened and awkward in their little clothes, remain silent. Only Ignazio, the most plump, manages to murmur with a voice that barely comes out, almost choked: “We do not know ……” A boy a more grown up would have responded with a joke or a brilliant answer. He takes seriously that strange question, still unaware of the incredible future that fate was preparing them.
2. The childish joy of Sanremo – 2015
It is the evening of 11 February 2015 and the trio Il Volo has performed for the first time on the stage of the festival with “Grande Amore”. As soon as the performance is finished, the audience snaps up and gives to the very young singers a resounding and interminable “standing ovation”. An applause never seen in Sanremo at the first performance, a round of applause that leaves them breathless: Piero is annihilated, cannot even grumble thanks, Gian (who turns 20 that day) breaks out in tears and takes refuge on the shoulders of Carlo Conti, Ignazio tries in every way to cope with the situation, thanks the audience, but, just like a happy child, he cannot help but let slip a smile, which he covers childishly with his hand. It is a gesture of infinite tenderness, which I will never forget.
3. The tears of “Alleria” – 2016
During the concert at the Forum Mediolanum of Assago, 29 January 2016, Ignazio performs as a soloist the wonderful song by Pino Daniele, “Alleria” – a cry that rises from a sad soul, who suffers a lot for love and continues to suffer, despite the passing of time. Ignazio is in symbiosis with Pino, it is as if he had tattooed it on the heart, in the head, on the skin: he interprets the song with such force, such an identification that, at the end of the execution, he cannot hold back the tears. The intensity of the interpretation has overwhelmed him, his emotion is true and profound. Tears are the testimony.
4. The wonder for the beauty of Florence – 2016
A date that will remain a milestone in the history of IL VOLO: 1 July 2016, the joke of the words of Antonella Clerici has become incredibly real. With great humility and without wanting to compare themselves to the Three Tenors in the slightest, but as an act of homage and remembrance, the three boys who became incredibly beautiful and elegant, perform an unforgettable concert in the presence, and partly direct, just from one of the three celebrated tenors of the last century, Placido Domingo. The concert is a sum of excellences: the beauty of music, the skill of the boys, but above all the beauty of Florence. It takes place in Piazza Santa Croce, dominated by one of the most beautiful churches of our Renaissance, an inestimable example of art, culture and Italian genius. The church stands out against the backdrop of the square in the dim light of the evening, a square full of people, the lights are turning on, the show is breathtaking: Ignazio, on the stage with the master Domingo and his companions, cannot restrain himself from saying, “Look how beautiful Piazza Santa Croce is!” and joins hands, raising his eyes to the sky in a gesture moved and full of amazement. Master Domingo uses the right adjective to answer him: “Divine!”
5. The disarming sincerity in the Red Ronnie study -2018
On 3 May, in a long 4-hour interview, the boys met with Red Ronnie. An evening of positive sign, jokes, joy, interaction with fans of all the continents. The old musician was amazed in the face of fame and the international success of the three boys, and of course, also confidences, revelations, work projects. Ignazio as usual is the fool, jokes, not standing still for a minute, makes Red desperate because it causes a small failure to a precious jukebox that stands in the studio. But to specific questions of Red, responds to questions with an unexpected and disarming sincerity.
The person Ignazio most loves in the world?His sister, who acted as stand-in mother and a reference point in the sad period when his mother was forced to long absences to cure a serious illness.
Relationships of love?To be taken with great seriousness, to be men also means to prove to be able to resist temptations, a principle that he never failed during an engagement lasting more than two years, even if now that bond is over “Because we grow, we change, and there are new demands that life inevitably puts in front of you.”
An Ignazio, in short, who is very mature and very sincere.
The portrait of Ignazio that emerges from the small episodes recalled here is that of a boy with disarming sincerity, not yet counterfeited or “corrupt” from the environment in which he is forced to live for work. Contrary to what is his outward attitude, especially on the stage where he is lively and restless, often comedian and joker, is a serious and concrete boy. He once said, “The first thing for me is to stay down to earth.” But Ignazio is also very emotional, strong and fragile at the same time. His particular sensitivity leads him to live emotions in a profound way, with an intensity that puts everything in his song, and it is precisely for this reason that he manages to establish a special pathos with the audience. For him, music is everything. When he closes his eyes and sings he seems to leave for distant lands, of which only he possesses the key of access; music is his second skin, and it is perhaps also for this that he has made contact with Gian and Piero, who are certainly not less, a perfect artistic and professional alliance!
My friend Valeria Bosch wrote a beautiful parallel between the song de IL VOLO, “Si Me Falta Tu Mirada” and the poem of the famous Italian poet Eugenio Montale (Nobel Prize 1975) “LA CASA DEI DOGANIERI”, I translate it for you.
As many Ilvolovers are doing in this period, waiting for IL VOLO to give us a new prodigious production for the celebrations of the tenth anniversary next year, I am also looking for their past interpretations and just yesterday I was reminded of the poem “La casa dei doganieri” by Eugenio Montale. While reading the poem perhaps for the first time with real attention, the text of “Si me falta tu mirada”, the beautiful song, one of my favorites, of which there is also a video clip turned between the ancient walls of the Arena of Verona, my city. Of this song there are both the Spanish and Italian versions, and the authors are two composers and lyricists, Marco Marinangeli and Claudia Brant, well known in the musical world; the first even in 1996 had a nomination for a Grammy.
The theme of the song is the emptiness that is created in a person still in love when it is left: the house suddenly becomes deserted, the coffee takes on a bitter taste, the rain falls and more than a rain, it seems a cry, of the sky. The abandoned lover feels that he no longer has tomorrow, he thought he was on his way to happiness, but as soon as they missed him, the look and the smile of his beloved, the world collapsed on him and now he can no longer tighten nothing, there is nothing left in that hand that previously contained the whole world.
Likewise, Montale’s poem speaks of an abandoned house, since the woman, loved by the poet, beautiful and vivacious, has gone away. The poet has only been left holding the thread of memory that she has instead let fall. Love vanished and the poet can no longer overcome his loneliness.
As is easy to understand, the common elements in the two texts are many: in addition to the underlying theme (abandonment in love and the pain of the person left), they are represented by the house, which becomes a symbol of abandonment, from the objective elements that express all the suffering and the disorientation of those who remain alone (in the text of the song, the coffee that tastes bitter, and the rain that has become crying), from the smile of the woman who in both cases represents the vivid and tormenting memory of herself that she has left, the inability to find the “passage”: “my heart has stopped, I have no more tomorrow if I miss your look”.
Of course, far from the intent of comparing the lyrics of a song with the immortal verses of the poet of the pain of life: I just wanted to highlight a similar inspiration and a similar approach to a theme that affects us all closely, much to close.
~ Valeria Bosch ~
SI ME FALTA TU MIRADA (IF I MISS YOUR LOOK)
This house, now a foreigner
now nothing is as it was
and only the memory remains in place
and it happens every evening
your absence poisons me
like a drop it digs the rock.
and you broke in half
every day of happiness,
of us.
Leave it on pause,
the beat,
of my tired heart
of waiting for you in vain
but do not pass a moment
that your look is missing
in every street every city, everywhere
I go
oooh oohh oohh
in a hurry of a moment,
we did not have the time
to catch us,
to look like you,
and I do not know where I was wrong
if in the end it was enough for us to just turn around,
for, do not find ourselves again
and you broke in half every day of happiness
our
I leave on pause the beat
of my heart tired of waiting you in vain
but do not pass a moment
that your look is missing
in every street every city, wherever I go.
Valeria was really good at making this beautiful parallel.
I do not know how many of you know the Italian poet E. Montale, but I believe that the depth of the reflections made by Valeria has intrigued and interested you.
Today I had nothing to do, so I spent a little time on you tube and, of course, typing IL VOLOimmediately appeared several videos of songs but I was immediately attracted by this.
I’m sure you all know very well this song and this video, but it’s really wonderful to review this song.
It was published in 2013, 5 years ago.
Our boys were really very young and were blossoming into the beautiful men we know today.
MAS QUE AMOR
The video is beautiful, the scenes are shot in Bologna.
Very beautiful scene of the painter who paints under the curious eyes of boys of different ethnic groups, and the final message of the painting is very nice, a message of LOVE.
Our boys are very sweet and the song originally sung in Spanish is simply delicious.
The English version of this song was also made and the title is WE ARE LOVE, very beautiful, but my favorite is still the Spanish version.
I know I’m a romantic woman, and maybe I’m partisan too, but this song always steals my heart. If I compare it with other songs of today for both lyrics, musicality and performance, I cannot but be proud of our boys who have sung such a love song, at their young age, with great skill and passion.
While I was duplicating the video for you, I took a look at the last comments and, to my amazement, I saw that the last comment was two minutes before I duplicated it.
This means that the interest for this song is still very much alive, after five years!
The beautiful things always remain in the heart, because basically, WE ARE LOVE !!
Daniela
Credit to IL VOLO Mundial Oficial for photos and videos.
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