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.
If you would like to share a story with me, please email: susan.flightcrew@yahoo.com
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.
If you would like to share a story with me, please email: susan.flightcrew@yahoo.com
Due to the fragment of the video relating to the Radio Number One interview, where it seemed that Piero and Gianluca had a difference of opinion, a video that we have already published here and we have already talked about, and despite the denials from Stefano Fisico who had interviewed Il Volo at that time and also by one of his colleagues, many Italian journalists and as many newspapers published that Il Volo was disbanding.
So all the newspapers reported the news that Il Volo had reached the end of the line, that the boys would split up and a lot of people believed these words, despite many fans (including me) writing that they didn’t believe these fake messages.
Some newspapers had even looked for the causes of the division, saying that the cause was Piero and for this reason he was already taking opera singing lessons on his own…..others wrote that the cause was Gianluca because his girlfriend (who no longer has ) with his contacts (his grandfather in the cinema field) had pushed him to undertake a career as an actor……others have written that the cause was Ignazio thinking about imminent marriage and that women divide groups.
Some articles even put all the concerts on the tour at risk, advising fans to be careful when buying tickets… Incredible!!
ALL THIS WAS EXTREMELY FALSE BUT THE NEWSPAPERS, FOR DAYS AND DAYS, CONTINUED TO WRITE THIS NEWS.
Only the journalist Alessi, of Novella 2000 a gossip newspaper, had the courage to go against the grain and make this video:
ALESSI= Good news, the guys from Il Volo are not separating, these days all the sites, newspapers etc. after there had been a small fight between two of the guys from Il Volo, they wrote that they are separating, that they will no longer be together, that everyone will go for themselves, reckless lives of soloists etc., among other things, even Rosario Fiorello had intervened to do a public appeal from VIVA RAI 2 (Fiorello’s show) to say not to separate, after 883 and Benji and Fede (groups that separated) don’t separate too.
Well they don’t separate, and not only that, next week I discovered that they will go to Fiorello as guests to reiterate that there are three of them and three of them remain.
And here we are at VIVA RAI, the morning television show (starts at 7.00), a successful comedy show hosted by Fiorello.
This show takes place outdoors in the RAI courtyard, but previously it took place in a street in Rome, precisely in via Asiago and people protested because it was an early morning show (to be broadcast at 7.00 the workers start much earlier ) furthermore people can also go and watch the show, so there was a lot of disturbance for the people who lived in that street and after complaints, the show was moved to the RAI courtyards.
But Fiorello, who is a naughty boy, wanted to spite the inhabitants of Via Asiago yet again, together with Il Volo, who lent himself to this gag that I translated for you. 😂😂😂
FIORELLO= Good morning friends, you see me, I’m alone. I still have to change for the episode. It’s 4.30 am, very early, it’s dark at night.
Now we will connect with Via Asiago, you remember via Asiago, we were there before and they miss us. 😂
Someone told us and then we returned to Via Asiago, at the moment Biggio Fabrizio is there. (Fiorello’s collaborator) Fabrizio are you there? Fabrizio can you hear me? There it is, there, I see you!
BIGGIO= Yes, I’m here, I’m here, I’m in Via Asiago.
FIORELLO= Is everything quiet there?
BIGGIO= There is an incredible silence. You can’t hear a fly.
FIORELLO= Where was Glass once? (their glass station)
BIGGIO= Here, Glass was here (he points to a point on the road)
FIORELLO= Yes, yes. Do we want to go back to the old days and bring some good humor to Via Asiago?
BIGGIO= We are here on purpose! We are here on purpose!
FIORELLO= Who is with you, who is there
BIGGIO= I’m not alone, I’m not alone exactly, there are the guys from Il Volo, look!
Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero imitate the three musketeers by shaking hands and saying: “One for all and all for one” and giving each other the names of the three musketeers.
GIANLUCA= The atom is divisible but we are not.
PIERO= Il Volo united, will never be defeated (paraphrasing a well-known song)
IGNAZIO= There will be no Yoko Ono to divide us!
PIERO= (To Ignazio) You want to be Pooh (a group that split up!)
IGNAZIO= No!
BIGGIO= (to Fiorello) Here, you see, you saw Rosario, they are united….all these voices….they are united.
FIORELLO= Leave the rumors alone, then let’s do that thing over there…
BIGGIO= We are ready.
FIORELLO= Those of Via Asiago will be happy, whenever you want, go.
BIGGIO= So guys (call Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca) let’s sing your great success.
IGNAZIO= 3×2 six
PIERO= Why are you 3×2?
GIANLUCA= Again??
BIGGIO= Yes, Big Love, but keep your voices down guys….
PIERO= If they wake up they will kick us out…..
BIGIO= Here we go…
GIANLUCA= (he intones in a low voice) Tell me why when I think, I only think of you….
PIERO= (also, in a low voice) Tell me why when I see, I only see you….
IGNAZIO= (also him, in a low voice) Tell me why when I live, I live only in you….
I+P+G= (all very loudly) Big Loveeeee
IGNAZIO= Sleepyheads!!!!
FIORELLO= Run away, run away!!
IGNAZIO= Don’t sleep!!!
FIORELLO= Stop, stop, throw everything away!! See you later, theme song, what’s up, I don’t know what’s up. Sssshhhhh!!! 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Fiorello, you are truly unstoppable and those kids Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero who listen to you!! What a laugh!! 😂😂
And now, here we are now in the internal square of RAI. The performance of Il Volo begins outside with the song Capolavoro. Unfortunately the day is not hot and it is drizzling.
Wow, how wonderful, shame about the weather. Well done Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca and the two dancers are also very good, but what a very hot dance!!! 🔥🔥 But weren’t they cold? The water in the pool was warm, but what courage and what hot kisses!!
A very beautiful performance, technically, but perhaps not exactly ideal for the day, but with music like this, with voices like this, a masterpiece was needed.
The performance continues inside the Glass Box with a succession of gags that I will translate for you.
FIORELLO= More united than ever, truly more united than ever, you know that rumors are chasing each other over a small spat…. guys, how many times, how many squabbles, I and you (to Biggio) but we don’t break up (and they sing a song that says…but we will never leave each other, we have too many things together, if we get angry then we will find ourselves with three body and a soul) 😂😂😂 if we prepared it, we would never have done it so well!
Gentlemen, here we are. First, however, I present to you something incredible, because there is something that no one knows, because as you know these guys now, they weren’t like this before. Just think, before they were a rap-trap group (laughter).
What, did you laugh? I know, they were called La Dark Volo Gang, look (and there’s a video of a Fiorello show from 2019 where Il Volo imitated rap singers and sing Caruso in rap mode….🤣🤣🤣 then they start Capolavoro)
Il Volo, I Voli, so here we are, here we are finally, I couldn’t wait for you to arrive…(Gianluca continues to hug Piero and Ignazio)
PIERO= Please, will you remove it from back here? (Gianluca)
GIANLUCA= No, I have to stay among you, because we are a united, cohesive group, we won’t break up like the others!!
PIERO= Well done Gianluca!
IGNAZIO= (starts singing the song…..we will NEVER break up….)
FIORELLO= Look at the record company how happy they are (happy that they aren’t separating). In the meantime, look at how beautiful this is (photo by All for One, then he shows the tour dates, ) it’s incredible guys.
GIANLUCA= But we didn’t come to promote the tour…… but our tour will start in May at the Verona Arena.
FIORELLO= And will we be there from May?
PIERO= Did you buy the ticket?
FIORELLO= No! I will never pay for one of your concerts…..(laughter).…but you think I pay, they invite me…I’ve already seen them.
Seeing a show is refreshing for me, because I sit down and see the talent, these wonderful voices that intertwine. I would like to be the fourth of Il Volo, (he tries a high note), without instead doing (he intones Tirichitolla), this is our hit that sooner or later we will do.
Before starting everything, give me the books, do you have them?? (Every time there is a guest, Fiorello shows off books with ridiculous labels). They not only make music, but they also have a publishing activity and here it is their new book (Fiorello shows the book written by Fabio Volo, on which they removed the name Fabio with a sign and wrote IL so that you read IL Volo ), you see it’s their book!
How long did it take you to write this book?
IGNAZIO= Two days.
FIORELLO = Did you write it with three hands? But you were wrong, you wrote Fabio … and then there are the other books, travel books, obviously one each: TAKEOFF (with the photo of Gianluca) 🤣 HIGH ALTITUDE (with the photo of Ignazio)😂 LANDING (with Piero’s photo)🤣 and then the small one, you see: LOW COST (laughter) 🤣😂🤣
GIANLUCA= But I see it has a preface by Fabio Volo! 😂
FIORELLO= We don’t miss anything, we are quite didactic. But technology has also taken care of you, and I have allowed myself to ask a question to our artificial ignorance. 😂
PIERO= Ignorance??😂
FIORELLO= Yes, we have artificial ignorance.🤣 So, Ignorance: Il Volo.
IGNORANCE= (in an artificial voice) Thanks for the question Rosario Fiorello, because I have always liked Il Volo, even if they could have chosen a name that you could immediately understand that there are three.
Il Volo have been together since they were children, since Ti Lascio Una Canzone, when they were still in nursery school.
Even though they are beautiful, do you ask the tall one if he is single? 😂
FIORELLO= Are you single? (to Ignazio)
IGNAZIO= No.
IGNORANCE= The tall one, (doesn’t know the name) I’ll leave you my cell number, which is: 12##13.😂😂
FIORELLO= But what number is it? What number is that, sorry Ignorance?
IGNORANCE= And they sang with Barbra Streisand and Placido Domingo, not like you three (Fiorello and his two friends), who do the job of making jokes (the comedians), I would send you to dig.
This time I really studied the guests, did you know that Il Volo has sold, to be precise, a number of millions of records, even gold and even platinum, like even in Venezuela. Sorry if I’m too precise, but I wanted to, now Rosario Fiorello, I have to leave you because I have an audition to join an all-female artificial musical band, we thought we’d call ourselves The Three Ignorances, or The Very Ignorant, what do you think?
FIORELLO= The three ignorances.😂
IGNORANCE = Happy extinction to everyone, that is, I was saying, a big hug to everyone.
FIORELLO= No, you have extinction, you said happy extinction to everyone, you said it! We salute our artificial ignorance. (applause)
So, dear Volo, you have fun when these rumors are going around, look at them here how beautiful they are, let’s hug them, come here.
GIANLUCA= But then they said everything, that Piero takes lessons on his own…🤬
FIORELLO= Who takes lessons alone???
PIERO= Me
FIORELLO= But why there is a singing school to be a soloist, I don’t understand, it seems to me…..
GIANLUCA= But then they are mean, they say that Gianluca is going to America, because there are girls who ruin groups…. don’t spread rumors that aren’t true!! 🤬
IGNAZIO= John Lennon calm down.
GIANLUCA= Everything you read IS NOT TRUE!! 👏👏👏
IGNAZIO= Unfortunately it’s fake news!!😂
FIORELLO= Guys, I’ll take care of it, don’t worry, I’ll take care of it. 😂
PIERO= But how many distractions, my goodness. (Ignazio starts the song Capolavoro)
Do we want to play a game? You have done everything and we have to renovate you, give me a lyric of the song, for example one of your lyrics….
IGNAZIO= You seem like my hairdresser..” we need to renovate”…
FIORELLO= So they tell you… do we have to renovate?…
PIERO= Yes and then you always come out bald! 😂
FIORELLO= Are you ready? Guys, here we have the lyrics of Nessun Dorma, but we have to restructure it, let’s see if we can do it.
PIERO= The orchestra???
FIORELLO= The orchestra is there! (there is only the pianist) 😁 For the first time I will have Il Volo who will be my backing singers with a cheerful samba….(a samba starts to the beat of which Fiorello and Il Volo sing the lyrics of Nessun Dorma) 😂😂😂😂
It is being renovated and this is Il Volo low cost!!
Look, Sanremo went well, though!
IGNAZIO= Yes, we had fun.
FIORELLO= Is it the third Sanremo or the fourth?
IGNAZIO= It’s the third Sanremo, it went well, it depends on what point of view you look at it.
FIORELLO= But what have you done: first once, you came first once.
GIANLUCA= Once third and once eighth.
PIERO= We miss finishing last!
FIORELLO= No, it’s good, you won’t be there next time because you’ll be traveling around the world.
PIERO= Yes
FIORELLO = Gentlemen, now to seal the love, at 8.02 am, there is a song, a duet, the duet of duets which is “Non Amarmi” (it is a beautiful song that won Sanremo New Proposals 1992)
PIERO= Who is Alessandro Baldi? (The song was sung by Alessandro Baldi, a young blind man and by Francesca Alotta)
FIORELLO= I play Baldi and you play Alotta and we translate the song into the plural, we pluralize it.
IGNAZIO= Ok
PIERO= (music begins) But this is THE SHOW MUST GO ON by Queen!!
(they start singing the song, and of course the words of the chorus have been changed to adapt them to Il Volo’s situation with the Italian journalists)
IL VOLO = “Don’t love us for the sake of something different”
FIORELLO = “But do you think it’s right to spend time together”
IL VOLO = “Don’t love us and we realize how true a lie is, if your love is not worth it, don’t love us but don’t send us away.”
FIORELLO= It couldn’t have come out better!! Gentlemen, now and forever. IL VOLO.
Two selfies with Il Volo!! 🥰🥰🥰
A few words with Il Volo 😍😍😍
MAN= Good morning guys, good morning, Il Volo to Viva Rai 2, how was this morning.
PIERO= It’s finally stopped raining.
MAN= Are you happy that it stopped raining?
PIERO= Very happy.
MAN= I saw you this morning a little worried about the rain.
PIERO= But that’s two drops of water.
GIANLUCA= But why is Fiorello there to put you in a good mood!!
IGNAZIO= Two small drops of water…..the umbrella, the umbrella!! (imitates Piero)
GIANLUCA= We had fun, thanks to everyone as always.
MAN = Beautiful Capolavoro!
PIERO= Thanks!
MAN= Now the world tour awaits you.
IGNAZIO= In May at the Verona Arena, see you there.
GIANLUCA= And Caracalla in Rome.
IGNAZIO= Yes, Caracalla in Rome.
PIERO= At the Baths of Caracalla, but first let’s go to Japan.
MAN= First in Japan and then Rome, but which is the stage you are most looking forward to?
PIERO= Rome.
GIANLUCA= We are in Rome and we say Rome.
MAN= Ah ah, of course, it depends on where you are. Thanks guys, bye, bye.
Do you remember the ballet performed at the beginning to the music of Capolavoro?
The choreographer of that ballet is Luca Tommassini, a famous Italian choreographer who also worked with Madonna.
At the beginning of Il Volo’s career, when they were little and in America, he was the one who instructed them on how to move on stage, I also seem to remember that he appears in a PBS video while giving the kids some advice on stage.
However, the video of the performance on Capolavoro was interrupted at the end of the song but live, our boys complimented the choreography, remembering that it is by Luca Tommassini and he, who was present, published this comment on his Instagram page:
I’m so proud of these three guys, I’ve never talked about my experience with them, the first American tour that I directed… They were so small and so phenomenal that it was an honor to personally accompany them on many of the North American stops… I still remember the first ones hosted on the most important shows in America… The first messages from the biggest music stars…. In a few months the world fell in love with them… I did everything to support them. I also bought him outfits for the first shows, I cut his hair😅… In short, I loved them and I still love them❤️❤️❤️ Thanks again to the whole #vivarai2 team and again to our wonderful dancers Giulia and Cristian ❤️❤️🙌 (the water was hot😅) Long live Rosario Fiorello!!
And do you remember Stefano Fisico, the one who interviewed them on Radio Number One and who had made a video against the journalists who wrote about Gianluca and Piero’s argument?
After Fiorello’s show he posted this:
“My compliments to all the pseudo-journalists who, in order to click on the newspapers or pseudo-newspapers with which they collaborate, invented this fake news on the dissolution of Il Volo taken from an interview of mine. In fact, we can see that they are close to doing so 🤣🤣🤣
As Emilio Fede (Italian journalist) would say:
What a figure of shit.”
Eleonora Venturini Storaro also had to make a statement that put an end to this false news, and so we definitively read, as we suspected, that she and Gianluca are no longer a couple.
It’s not my business to publish this type of story and I’ve tried to stay out of it as much as possible, but given the circumstances I feel I have to protect myself.
I wanted to communicate that all the news that has come out in recent days regarding my involvement and that of my grandfather Vittorio Storaro regarding the dissolution of “IL Volo” for a possible career of Gianluca Ginoble as an actor in Hollywood are totally false.
Furthermore, the love story between me and Gianluca ended 4 months ago for reasons that have nothing to do with our respective professional activities.
Eleonora Venturini Storaro.
Of course, after this Fiorello show, all the newspapers are publishing that Il Volo will never split, that it was just false news!!
I still can’t understand the Italian press and I don’t think I will ever understand it, but there is one positive thing, in this period the news on Il Volo, even if false, have invaded all types of newspapers and I must say there have been many comments begging Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca not to split up.
But do you think that once Fiorello’s show was over the boys had a well-deserved rest??
Absolutely not, because they immediately went to Naples, where the following day they were expected for a private event for FinecoBank at the beautiful San Carlo Theater in Naples.
There was a real mini concert by Il Volo, but here are a few short videos.
I wanted to point out one thing to you, and then I hope not to return to this topic again.
You have noticed that Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio are dressed in their nice suits, this silences the rumors that they did not appreciate their new look, but as I have already told you several times, they adapt to the place and the public. Very good guys!!
At this point the post was finished, but……as usual the news chases each other and therefore the release of the new CD on March 29th was announced, and the title is AD ASTRA!!
And here are the songs that make up the compilation:
The new album will be available in these versions:
Il Volo published this:
Ad Astra is a sound journey composed of 11 tracks with an international flavor that arrives after the participation in the 74th Sanremo Festival with Capolavoro, a real tailor-made suit, sewn on the three distinct and complementary personalities of Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble.
It is a one-of-a-kind recording project, born from intense work shared with an exceptional team made up of some of the most important authors and producers of the moment.
The new songs draw a bridge between the past and the present, with a decisive impulse towards the future: a true cosmic experience without borders, between intimate atmospheres and celestial suggestions, with which the most famous Italian trio in the world combines their talent musical to the grandeur of space and time.
We also remember that there will be a duet song with IRAMA.
As I already told you, Ernesto Ginoble, who was one of the promoters of this CD, is also part of the new recording project.
He is the youngest soul of Il Volo! Ernesto published these beautiful words:
I am proud, happy and satisfied to be part of the Artistic Direction together with Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero of AD ASTRA, the first album of unreleased songs by @ilvolomusic out on March 29th.
It is almost impossible to summarize two years of work in a few lines, two years of passion, friendship, sacrifice, obsession.
In Ad Astra there is everything about us, the love and care that we put into every song, into every single moment that allowed this project to be born and realized.
Thank you Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero for this opportunity.
Thank you @edwynroberts, Thank you @stemarletta, Thank you @michaeltenisci, without you all this would never have happened. Thank you @lucafaraone, pure talent, rare soul. Thank you @______michelangelo, true friend and professional. Thanks to all the authors and producers who were part of this project. Thanks @sonymusicitaly and @epicrecordsitaly for the support and trust. Thank you @enricobrun and @patti_carmelo for taking care of every detail. Thanks Michele Torpedine, lighthouse, guide. We can’t wait for you to be part of this journey too. With all my heart, Ernesto.
Very good Ernesto, you are officially part of the Il Volo staff, congratulations to you and the Ginoble family and fingers crossed for the success of this CD.
Also Studio Aperto, the Italia 1 news program, has already spoken about the new project:
IGNAZIO= It’s been 15 years of union, 15 years of esteem and respect.
PIERO= The beautiful thing is that perhaps our audience has always followed us from day one, assisted us and accompanied us along the way in our growth, which was not only artistically professional, but also personal.
WOMAN’S VOICE= Other than a crisis, the masterpiece of the Il Volo trio comes from this song which celebrates the culmination of 15 years of career.
GIANLUCA= We started when we were 14 or 15 years old, we grew up together and shared the most intense emotions of our lives and that’s what truly unites us in a unique way. This is our relationship.
WOMAN’S VOICE= The album AD ASTRA, composed for the first time entirely of 11 unreleased pieces, will be released on March 29th.
A project born from the collaboration with some of the most important authors and producers of the moment. And then a world tour starting from Japan, the four special evenings at the Verona Arena and sixteen summer events throughout Italy.
PIERO= We want to invite everyone to our concerts.
But because this title AD ASTRA, I must say that it is not Italian, but Latin, and is part of a famous phrase, here it is: PER ASPERA AD ASTRA (For aspera to astra)
It literally means “through difficulties to the stars” and is used to encourage someone, as if to say “you will make it”.💪
And so my dear Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero, we, who love you so much, will always be here for you, to applaud you, to give you all the affection you deserve and we will take you… to astra!!🌟✨💫
With love: Daniela ❤️❤️❤️🤗
One last video that will make you very happy:
What a masterpiece! 2024 Italian Pair Champions Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini perform “Capolavoro” to a full house at the Torino Palavela. 👏👏👏
Credit to owners of all photos and videos.
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