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Editorials, Ignazio, Piero

“Sony is our Family…”

April 9, 2018 Jana 35 Comments

First, just let me say a big thank you to Jane and Daniela, who, without them right now, there would likely be no site! As many know, I have been going through a lot of stress in the last several months. I am feeling better, but need to take care of myself a bit better. Just knowing their new album will be coming out soon, is starting to cheer me a bit! 🙂

I remember several weeks ago, when I saw this picture come through on Instagram… how much it really touched me and reminded me of another picture, where Ignazio and Piero had similar positions. Of course I can’t remember where I saw it, but I know it’s out there somewhere! “Sony is our family,” says Ignazio. His gentle hand is on Piero’s shoulder and the serious, yet consoling look on Ignazio’s face, seems to convey so much. The apprehensive and maybe even scared look on Piero’s face, under his Panama hat, also tells us a story. They are there, at Sony studios, likely putting the final touches on the new album. They did what they wanted to do this time. Pop, hip-hop, rap, a duet with Gloria and who knows what else? The look on Piero’s face, says it all… Is it good enough? Will people like it? Will we lose some fans? Will we get some new ones? We’ve put all our trust in Sony, Michele, and the Estefan’s – is it enough? Will we finally get that Grammy we’ve been waiting for, for so long? Piero, being the eldest of the group, looks exhausted and anxious. Does he feel more pressure than the others? Is he fearing his opera career going awry after this album comes out? Even his glasses look a bit precarious, sitting close to the edge of the table.

Whoever took that picture, truly captured a moment in time. That split-second of emotion; the picture that says a thousand words. For all we know they burst into laughter and had a good joke right after that moment, but did they? Did Ignazio reach over and give Piero one of his big, bear hugs? Did Piero respond in kind, with maybe a kiss on the cheek as well? Did they cry? Was Ignazio scared, too, but wanted to reassure Piero? We’ll never know.

“Sony is our family….” When you think of this, it’s also kind of sad, in a way. But you tend to trust your family and your family looks out for you – at least you hope they do. I hope they think their fans are their family, too! We give them the unconditional love that everyone deserves, especially when they are down, or make mistakes. We tend to forget that they are human also and young. And, sometimes as families do, they/we sometimes forget who our families are. In times of need, we often feel we are alone in the world. Like the “Footprints” poem, when the person in the poem is in such despair and feels that God has abandoned him in his time of sorrow, since there is only one set of footprints in the sand. God says, “My son, when you see there are only one set of footprints, it is when I carried you!”

Let us hope that, in the months to come, that the guys always know who their families are. Not only their blood relatives, but their extended families in Sony, the Estefan’s, and of course, their adoring fans! We will always carry Il Volo figuratively in our hearts, and if necessary, literally – to wherever they need to journey!

We love you guys – unconditionally! 🙂

Jana ♥

(A very big credit to whomever took that photo!)

Article or Video Translations, Editorials, General news, Il Volo

~ Italian Video ~ by Daniela

March 19, 2018 Jane 22 Comments

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 ….”).

************

Credit to all owners of videos and photos.

Article or Video Translations, Editorials, Il Volo, Randomness

~ RICOMINCIO DAI TRE ~ by Daniela

March 19, 2018 Jane 132 Comments

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.

Credit to all owners of photos.

Article or Video Translations, Editorials, Il Volo, Randomness

~ LIFE FROM FAN ~ by Daniela

March 15, 2018 Jane 45 Comments

In the newspaper, SOCIETY AND CULTURE, this amusing article written by Mariafrancesca Mary Troisi has been published.

Read it, it’s really funny.

LIFE FROM FAN: leave all hope, you who become!

Concerts, radio, signature – copies, TV show, the life of the fan is very hard.

Yeah, because the real fan (the certified DOC to be clear), is not there to comb the dolls.

Leave all hope you become (fan). And what is it? Dante’s hell? Worse, much worse!

The true fan, to begin with, has in fact qualities that you can not even imagine. First of all: patience!

Yeah, it seems easy to wait weeks, months, or even years, to get news of their “idol”? (Term I do not like to use, but I do mine to simplify).

And when the news does not come, it’s a constant anxiety. Will the single come out? Will there be a concert? Will it go on TV? He will eat? He will sleep? (And other vital functions that I leave out).

When then, finally have the news (hallelujah hallelujah), immediately takes over the other dowry of the fan DOC, ie the “fast race” to get the news in pole position, and put it immediately on its FB status with lots of little hearts to beautify all, doing envy to those who know the news a few hours later. The amateurs in short.

Finally the life of the DOC fan starts to make sense. The idol is coming back.

The true fan DOC then, is almost always also written to the fc (Fan club) of the artist who follows, and for the fc of an artist, often there are events reserved only for members, such as the meeting, where the songs are presented preview. And even if the meet happened on the moon, the real fan will buy his spaceship and … greetings to all! Nobody stops him!

Then follow the signature – copies (for those who do) or interviews on the radio, to promote the new album.

You must know, in fact, that at these events you have the opportunity to meet the artist you are following. And what do you do? Are not you going? But let’s not joke!

And here they are there in the morning, perfumed and combed with great care (so to speak, there are those who arrive, for example on the radio, always not exactly “polished”), to challenge any weather conditions, make kilometers, and wait for hours, hoping for a selfie and / or an autograph.

During these hours they start throwing malicious glances at those around you, because, especially for radio interviews, the more people there are, the less chance you have of getting to your favorite artist. And they think, “Did that person even come here?”… mentally hoping that she will get an attack of … dysentery, and leave the camp.

Oh this is a war, you do not look at anyone!

But if all goes well, and you can embrace your idol for a few minutes, and in the lucky cases, when there are very few people to chat, the hours that have passed under the sun or in the rain, make sense. It makes your day!

The true fan obviously knows by heart every detail of the artist, his songs (he suggests them to the singer if he were to forget), even the less famous, that even the artist remembers to have written or sung. The true fan never misses an interview with him, TV intervention. It is not possible.

Finally the concert dates come out, and here too the DOC fan, trained to throw himself on ticketone and … away, to get the best seats for the dates he prefers. Sometimes, however, the tickets end too quickly even for the DOC fan; then comes hope – another talent of the fan, mixed with despair – to find the “savior” who sells the ticket.

Concert time.

What does the fan do? But obviously, he sleeps outside the stadium / building, or goes there at dawn. AT LEAST. The first row should be conquered with the nails and teeth (then do not say that it is almost not a job that of the fan). Rain, heat, cold, wind. He does not move from there. The front row must be defended at the cost of living.

So you will think … then there is no solidarity between fans?

Of course there is. When there are no signature – copies, radios, concerts, TV … in short, when the artist “hibernates”, they are all friends.

For the true fan the friend is the one who holds you the place in the hurdle next to him: who finds a friend in hurdle, finds a treasure.

But you … what do you know !?

************************************

Tell us about the crazy things you did for the guys from IL VOLO.

I begin, I have NEVER been to a concert, NEVER been to a signature-copy, I have NEVER had any friendships on the other side of the world, and who do not speak my language ……. all this before IL VOLO!!

Credit to all owners of photos.

Editorials, Our Stories, Piero

~ CHICCA ~ by Daniela

March 13, 2018 Jane 70 Comments

The group “Torino Aspetta il Volo e poi” shared a nice post that published a beautiful question:

WHAT SONG

HAS CHANGED

YOUR LIFE ???

In the various answers, one has attracted me a lot, this one.

L’AMORE SI MUOVE has changed my daughter’s life, and consequently, also mine. With this piece she won the gold medal at the Italian Fisdir Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.

She is a girl with Down Syndrome.

In 2017, however, in Rimini, a bronze medal with PER TE CI SARO’.

So her mother has attached the video of the bronze medal.

Here she is:

I found some news on this girl. Her name is Francesca Giovelli (for friends, Chicca). She is from Salerno and is a fan of IL VOLO, especially Piero.

Here she is in her gymnastic dress.

Watch the video of happiness when, at Christmas, she received the book as a gift: IL VOLO UN’AVVENUTA STRAORDINARIA.

Really moving, and now here she is with the pass for the concert.

…… and with her beloved Piero !!!

Here is a beautiful image of the guys taken from her Facebook page.

Really good Chicca! We wish her much happiness and we send her much love!

And you, what is the song that changed your life?

We love you guys – unconditionally! 🙂

Jana ♥

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 ….”).

************

Credit to all owners of videos and photos.

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.

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.

Credit to all owners of photos.

In the newspaper, SOCIETY AND CULTURE, this amusing article written by Mariafrancesca Mary Troisi has been published.

Read it, it’s really funny.

LIFE FROM FAN: leave all hope, you who become!

Concerts, radio, signature – copies, TV show, the life of the fan is very hard.

Yeah, because the real fan (the certified DOC to be clear), is not there to comb the dolls.

Leave all hope you become (fan). And what is it? Dante’s hell? Worse, much worse!

The true fan, to begin with, has in fact qualities that you can not even imagine. First of all: patience!

Yeah, it seems easy to wait weeks, months, or even years, to get news of their “idol”? (Term I do not like to use, but I do mine to simplify).

And when the news does not come, it’s a constant anxiety. Will the single come out? Will there be a concert? Will it go on TV? He will eat? He will sleep? (And other vital functions that I leave out).

Finally the life of the DOC fan starts to make sense. The idol is coming back.

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.