Let me tell you about the day I fell in Love. Not with one guy but with three. I turned on my TV and there they were three handsome teenagers stepping on the stage at the Detroit Opera House. I had seen them before on American Idol and Good Morning America but, on this day, I would lose my heart to them.
Every note they sang went straight to my heart! Just amazing! Ever song they sang was wonderful but when they sang El Reloj something happened to me! I knew no other group would ever take their place in my life or my heart. They totally reached me with that song! For me I wanted the CLOCK to stop at that moment in time!
Why this song? They sing so many beautiful songs. What was it that captured me that night? It wasn’t so much about the song as it was about the voices. It was how natural the delivery was. Teenagers with such maturity! Such strength in their voices. Voices that flowed through the air! It was the simplicity of this song and how they delivered it that captured me.
Their voices form a symphony. Gianluca’s voice vibrates and expands to realms I’ve never heard before. Ignazio’s voice makes your heart stop as you journey along his notes that lead to absolute ecstasy. Piero’s voice fills all your senses and brings you to such heights that you have to stop and breathe.
If you want to present a voice, in this case three voices, this is the way you do it. They were together for such a short period of time and yet they were perfect! And it went beyond the voices. It was their personalities, their presentation, their interaction with the audience. They were young but they had it all. They won the people with their voices but, they totally captured them with their charm and personality.
PBS introduced Il Volo to America. You can say Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca grew up on PBS. From their first concert on October 27, 2011 at the Detroit Opera House, they won the admiration of the American people and stole their hearts. PBS has been with the guys for every important event in their lives. You might say it is The Marriage of PBS and Il Volo.
When they began, they introduced America to a new style of music. Operatic pop! A very different kind of music for teenagers. Their aim was to show young people how good this music is. They won over the children, parents and grandparents. They were an immediate sensation. America fell in love with them. But where did it all begin for them. Let’s listen to what the guys had to say about how they were discovered.
Piero will take us back to his grandfather, Pietro Ognibene’s, back yard where he is swinging on a swing that hung from a mulberry tree. His grandfather was sitting on the veranda, as he usually did, at this time of day. His grandfather has been blind for many years and so he always had a tape recorder with him which he used to record music and poetry. Piero’s grandfather is also a singer. On this day he was recording a little Sicilian song which Piero said his grandfather wrote. So, let’s listen to what Piero had to say…
I was swinging on the swing, I was about four or five years old, I was really, very small. I listened to him a little and at a certain point, when he stopped singing, I started: E lu suli, talia, talia, talia. Sopra ‘sta pedra luci ci duna. What can I tell you? It just came out like that.
His grandfather turned off the recorder and called his wife. Rina came out on the terrace and he asked her, “Unni è Piero?” (Where is Piero?)
She replied, “In Altalena” (He is on the swing)
Pietro asked, “Ma cu cantava? Iddu?” (But who was singing? He?)
She replied, “Eh, si.” (yes)
He told Rina to call him.
So, Piero got up and went to his grandfather. Pietro lifted him up and put him on the table next to the recorder and told him to “sing the song again.” Piero sang the song exactly as his grandfather sang it. And so it begins….
Ignazio’s discovery would come about because of Nina’s pianola.
Ignazio remembers, When I was three or four years old – I played with the piano my parents had given my sister, Nina. My mother says I was one years old when I played. Nina taught me to play Happy Birthday with one finger.
Nina’s famous pianola gave Ignazio a passion for music.
Ignazio continues,I do not remember the first day of school, but I certainly did not take long to get noticed. If you’re thinking of scenes of me being put in the middle of the class to sing, forget it. I had a passion for music but, I had an even greater passion for pranks. I tell you, since I started talking and walking, mine was an escalation of agitation.
But as Ignazio explains, this agitation passed and the most important event in his life began to take shape…
With the passage of time, I found something good to do at school, that is, an activity that was able to hold my interest enough to prevent me from slipping into some disaster. I joined the school choir. I always liked to sing, to be ‘in the middle’ of the music. And more and more passionately I began to understand how to make better use of Nina’s famous pianola. I learned how to start the musical bases and flip through them. And that’s when I discovered La Donna È Mobile. I liked it so much that I sang with the base and invented words. I don’t remember the words but, it certainly was a song about Pavarotti. Having seen Pavarotti on TV, I knew he always had a big handkerchief so I would invent text and sing on the air La Donna È Mobile.
It seems at three years old Ignazio was already composing wonderful music!
As we all know eventually, Piero and Ignazio performed La Donna È Mobile.
Gianluca tells us that his life was different from Ignazio but, in many ways like Piero’s.
My life as a child seems so far away. I remember very little of my childhood! I’m not like Ignazio I was born and raised in Montepagano. I was traveling only with dreams. What made me dream? Music naturally. Dad and mom realized that I had something special in my voice when I started to sing at the age of three or four years.
My parents tell me when I was three years old, I sang ’O Sole Mio’ in the town square in front of all the elderly gentlemen friends of my grandfather who, sitting around the bar table, were listening to this little boy with such a particular voice.
Each boy has now been set on the road to PBS so where did they go from here?
Over the years, each boy approached his musical education in a different way.
After his discovery in the garden, Piero embarked on a classical music education. He began piano lessons at the age of 8. At 10 years old he joined the Little Singers of the Philharmonic Association – Santa Cecilia of Agrigento. And then he began the competitions around Sicily.
In Marsala, Ignazio sang with his first singing teacher Lilliana Andreanò. He continued his singing lessons moving on to other teachers as he progressed. He took three years of piano lessons. He also participated in competitions around Sicily. Even after moving on to other teachers, Ignazio continued his relationship with Lilliana Andreanò. She advised him every step of the way right up to his audition at Ti Lascio Una Canzone which she convinced him to do.
Gianluca, unlike Piero and Ignazio, never had a singing lesson or piano lesson. He joined the Piccolo Choir of Roses. At one of their events, he was discovered.
As you know they all won on Ti Lascio una Canzone. But their biggest win was becoming Il Volo.
After American Idol, they did many shows but the one show that really set them “in flight” in America, was the PBS special “Il Volo Takes Flight.”
Their concert was shown on PBS stations across the US and Canada.
There’s no question that PBS played a major role in the career of Il Volo in America.
Most recently, in their first Raiuno live for TV concert in Verona, we noticed that the guys had matured in body and mind and their voices have gone to another level of magnificence!
We watched them grow but this is different. There’s a beautiful presence about them now. A certain elegance! After fifteen years they haven’t waned, they’ve increased in strength and intensity! There is a certain power in their voices that grabs you from the first note of the concert to the last.
Each guy has grown into his voice and is showing a maturity and style the likes of which men who are approaching the end of their careers can only have imagined! Fifteen years of a lifetime! I use that expression a lot because each year is like a lifetime with them. They never seem to stop. Like in their last Latin American Tour. Not only were there concerts but there were also late-night recording sessions. Thanks to the genius of Ignazio who turned his hotel rooms into recording studios. And when the tour was over, it still wasn’t over. It’s called bringing your work home. There were still the recordings to deal with. Yes, it’s a lifetime full of wonders. One can hardly imagine what goes on. The tour takes on a life of its own. It’s an experience which most entertainers will never know. Or should I say “have the honor of knowing.” For our guys, work is honor!
I’ve worked in this industry, and I’ve seen young people achieve fame and throw it all away on foolishness! Many have achieved fame but what they do with it makes the difference. These men have shared the fruits of their fame. They didn’t take their fame and run with, they cherished it and used it to help others. They could have gone home to their families until the next tour but no they shared their good fortune. This is what makes them so great. This is what makes them incredible. For this reason, these entertainers are loved by their fans in the most incredible way!
Over the last year I have met with many fans at the various concerts I attended. I asked the fans what it is that they love about the guys on a more personal level. Many said their openness and generosity with the fans. They consider them like family. Some said they are the son they never had or the grandson they admire. Much like the fans who write to me each week. There is a beauty about the relationship between the fans and Il Volo. Il Volo is family!
The fans were the ones who got them through it all when they were young, and they never forget to say thank you! They attribute their fame not to their talent but to the fans who come back time after time, year after year to be with them. No, the fans are not followers in a sense that most fans are! No, they are family that always want to be there for their boys!
It wasn’t always easy for the guys but when they had a goal, they went for it! I remember Ignazio saying in a video when they first came to New York. “This is Radio City! We hope, I hope, everyone hopes to go there to do a big concert for the American people.”
What a dream! Who could possibly have thought that three Italian teenagers could have achieved this dream and stepped on to the stage at Radio City Music Hall and brought us all to absolute ecstasy with their voices!
Most entertainers want to perform at Radio City once in their lifetime! It’s a dream, it’s every entertainer’s dream! Our guys have done it year after year to sold out audiences! And every time is better than the last.
But now I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me just say, all that followed in America was possible because of their concert on PBS. The Marriage of PBS and Il Volo was a marriage made in heaven.
Now let me turn my attention to a member of the Il Volo family who we are really missing today.
Vito Boschetto
Three years ago we all heard the news about the sudden passing of Ignazio’s father, Vito Boschetto. Each of us stopped to think about Ignazio and, how he must be feeling. There were no words we could expressed to comfort the family. We just kept them all in our hearts and in our prayers!
Over the years, as we watched Ignazio grow into a fine young man, we grew to understand that it was his parents’ guidance that made him who he is. They are a very proud family. Hard working people. This is a trait we see in Ignazio.
They gave Ignazio such exceptional values that it only made sense he would become the good, kind and compassionate person he is.
When Ignazio speaks about his family he speaks with a passion. The deep bond this family has is exceptional. Even as a very young child Ignazio said his family shared everything. No matter what happened it was discussed with the whole family. Ignazio has said that he admires his parents for their openness with him and Nina.
I write about Ignazio so often that I feel a special closeness to him and, today my heart aches for him. But Ignazio said something recently that touched my heart and the hearts of others. He said his mother told him, “Amore non finisce mai!” (Love never ends!) And this is true. Even when we are separated from the one’s we love that love doesn’t go away. It stays with you forever. It remains in our hearts.
In the past, Ignazio has said about his parents. Is it the same if the images that I will never forget are …. the memories of my parents? It’s not that I’m crazy or strange, it’s right that my story would never have existed without my parents …. Of sacrifices they have made many and, big for me and for my sister but, more so for me. I do not spend days when I do not think about how proud I am of them. He said this when his father was still with them.
Vito Boschetto was a man who worked very hard for his family. He was a mason, a brick layer. He worked at this job right up to the last days of his life.
Vito we all miss you at the concerts and by Ignazio’s side. There is a big void but the love lives on because amore non finisce mai. Our hearts are with your family today!
For your Listening pleasure, I leave you with the PBS/Rai concert in Verona.
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.
Capolavoro is available on all digital platforms including Spotify and Amazon Music
Who Wants to Live Forever is 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
This is a duplicate post. The first one would not allow comments to be made on the blog site. We are still trying to figure out why that happened.
Today I really want to shine the spotlight on Ignazio and Michelle, the beautiful loving couple who are also taking our hearts.
We left them happy after Ignazio’s marriage proposal and a little lost sight of or followed marginally given the numerous commitments of Sanremo.
Michelle accompanied Ignazio to Sanremo.
Here they are together on the final evening of Sanremo and Michelle writes “Proud of you my love ❤️. I LOVE YOU!!!!!”
Here in the room with friends, and Caterina and Nina while they wait for the performance of Il Volo.
And we saw them together during Gianluca’s birthday party.
During the various interviews, to those who asked about the date of the wedding, Ignazio was evasive, but made it clear that it could be more imminent than what had been said at the beginning, that is, not next year, but this summer.
But then there was a photo shoot posted by the two lovers and signed by a wedding photo agency…….it’s true that these pre-wedding shoots are done to photograph the couple’s life before the upcoming wedding and they can even be done months before the event date.
But here they are, beautiful in some shots. ❤️❤️
But how beautiful they are together. 😍😍
Of course, everything was so fast that it didn’t even give us time to get used to the idea that one of the members of Il Volo would get married soon.
I don’t know about you but seeing Ignazio and Michelle so happy embraced gives me a sense of joy, of great love, it’s certainly the first impression, but then it will be time that will tell us if we got it right!
Then they got a tattoo together, writing EXISTE❤️ on their forearms and here they are together with the person who made the tattoo.
But then, on Sunday 18th, Ignazio published this beautiful photo with the words -7 I LOVE YOU ❤️❤️
This message shocked the fandom because everyone thought of an imminent wedding???
According to Italian bureaucracy, for civil marriage it takes at least 30 days after the banns have been displayed and for religious marriage even more time.
So we don’t know what to expect, but in any case it will be great news!!😍😍
Therefore, with all the affection of us fans who love Il Volo and who see happiness in Ignazio’s eyes and attitudes, we join the chorus of voices to wish Ignazio and Michelle a splendid journey as a couple in love!
Today I really want to shine the spotlight on Ignazio and Michelle, the beautiful loving couple who are also taking our hearts.
We left them happy after Ignazio’s marriage proposal and a little lost sight of or followed marginally given the numerous commitments of Sanremo.
Michelle accompanied Ignazio to Sanremo.
Here they are together on the final evening of Sanremo and Michelle writes “Proud of you my love ❤️. I LOVE YOU!!!!!”
Here in the room with friends, and Caterina and Nina while they wait for the performance of Il Volo.
And we saw them together during Gianluca’s birthday party.
During the various interviews, to those who asked about the date of the wedding, Ignazio was evasive, but made it clear that it could be more imminent than what had been said at the beginning, that is, not next year, but this summer.
But then there was a photo shoot posted by the two lovers and signed by a wedding photo agency…….it’s true that these pre-wedding shoots are done to photograph the couple’s life before the upcoming wedding and they can even be done months before the event date.
But here they are, beautiful in some shots. ❤️❤️
But how beautiful they are together. 😍😍
Of course, everything was so fast that it didn’t even give us time to get used to the idea that one of the members of Il Volo would get married soon.
I don’t know about you but seeing Ignazio and Michelle so happy embraced gives me a sense of joy, of great love, it’s certainly the first impression, but then it will be time that will tell us if we got it right!
Then they got a tattoo together, writing EXISTE❤️ on their forearms and here they are together with the person who made the tattoo.
But then, on Sunday 18th, Ignazio published this beautiful photo with the words -7 I LOVE YOU ❤️❤️
This message shocked the fandom because everyone thought of an imminent wedding???
According to Italian bureaucracy, for civil marriage it takes at least 30 days after the banns have been displayed and for religious marriage even more time.
So we don’t know what to expect, but in any case it will be great news!!😍😍
Therefore, with all the affection of us fans who love Il Volo and who see happiness in Ignazio’s eyes and attitudes, we join the chorus of voices to wish Ignazio and Michelle a splendid journey as a couple in love!
It’s time for the guys to take a well-deserved break following their fantastic performance at Sanremo. Their performances of Capolavoro and Who Wants to Live Forever, were phenomenal. Our journey with them through town, attending interviews, and witnessing amazing moments was truly exhilarating.
The beginning of this remarkable journey didn’t begin a year and a half ago when the song was written, and the decision to participate in Sanremo was made. It began15 years ago April 25, 2009.
I know everyone who knows Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca knows that their story really begins in episode four of Ti Lascio Una Canzone. So, I will just briefly tell you what happened for those who don’t know.
It is the fourth episode of Ti Lascio Una Canzone the boys are given the music for O Sole Mio. They walked out on the stage, sang O Sole Mio and walked off stars!
Alone in his apartment, Michele Torpedine was sitting on his sofa with the volume off on his TV. The show he was watching was Ti Lascio Una Canzone. He keeps looking at the screen and he suddenly thinks Ignazio reminds him of Luciano Pavaroti, Gianluca seemed similar to Jose Carreras and Piero is similar to Placido Domingo. He still had not heard them sing. Out of curiosity, he raised the volume and Michele says, “Here I am aware of another element, that is even more important than the first. The three casually put together to sing a song of the program possess an incredible vocality for their age.”
At this point Michele’s head is spinning. He’s thinking these guys are good and again repeats it to himself, they’re good! He thinks, “What if I try to put them together seriously? A trio, he tells himself.”
The rest is history!
So, let’s step off the stage of Ti Lascio Una Canzone and follow The Long and Winding Road to Sanremo 2024.
After winning Ti Lascio Una Canzone, their parents negotiated a contract with Universal Studios which Piero commented about saying, “yesterday I was working at my uncle’s body shop and the following day I signed a millionaire’s contract with Universal.” Can we even begin to imagine what Jimmy Iovine was thinking? All he heard was a recording of O Sole Mio and he gave them a million-dollar contract!
This is how amazing they were and still are. This was so unique because the American music industry opened its door to three, unknown, Italian teenage boys. They were the first Italian artists in history to sign a contract directly with a major American music label. Unheard of!
Following the signing of the contract with Universal, a musical journey began!
Their music was Operatic pop or popera. What was this new movement? It’s singing Opera in a more classical style. While opera is very strict and regimented, popera is more ethereal it has a lighter feeling, and it moves freely. It takes away the hard edges of opera and replaces it with a more ethereal feel while still presenting the drama and the high notes of the opera.
This along with the classical Neapolitan songs became a big draw. Why did it work? One reason is three amazing voices! If the voice wasn’t there, the song wasn’t going to sell.
I think a lot about this today, as the guys are going through a transition with their music, they still realize that the reason they were and still are so successful with their concerts is their bel canto. Times change they change but bel canto lives on! Only now, they give us so much more with their individual personalities and songs! Can’t wait for the new album!
Going back to the beginning, as I’m writing this piece, I’m thinking about where I came into the picture.
For me, the magic began one morning when I was walking to work on the west side of New York. ABC Studios was a few blocks from my office on 47th. On this particular morning there was a large crowd standing outside and in the middle of the group were three teenage boys. I stopped to listen; I was amazed. Who are they and how do I get to see them perform. Well over the next few days they were everywhere! On all the day shows! On all the night shows! And then the real magic began when, about six months later, I turned on PBS and there they were! And I fell in LOVE!
Back to the guy’s journey through America.
Coming to America was exciting for them. It was new it was different they couldn’t believe their eyes. They couldn’t believe this other world that they were in. A world so different from Italy!
In 2010, they joined Quincy Jones’ “We are The World for Haiti” a charity event. They performed alongside 80 other international artists including Celine Dion, Bono, Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Usher, Natalie Cole, and more. Il Volo were the only Italian artists to be invited. The three voices from the background caused such a sensation that everyone was asking, “Who was that?” They couldn’t believe what they were hearing but, “Who were they?” Soon they would find out!
In May 2010 their first album was released.
Their first album was self-titled Il Volo. It received platinum certification in Italy and the Spanish edition of the album received a nomination for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 12th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2011. The album also debuted at number 1 on the US Top Classical Albums Chart.
And so, the awards begin!
In April 2013 they released a Spanish version of We Are Love, titled Más Que Amor, which includes a duet with Mexican singer Belinda. The album débuted at number 1 on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums. Más Que Amor was certified “Gold” in Mexico and Argentina. And this catapulted them into the Latin market. From that day on they took the Latin market by storm. This is unheard of! Three Italian kids taking over the Latin market!
In February 2014, they receive two nominations at the 2014 Latin Billboard Music Awards, as “Top Latin Albums Artist of the Year, Duo or Group” and “Latin Pop Albums Artist of the Year, Duo or Group.” At the awards show they were awarded as “Best Group of the Year in the Latin Pop Album” category and they won “El Pulso Social Award,” as the artist who dominated interactions on social networking sites during the Billboard Awards.
On February 14, 2015, they won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015 with Grande Amore winning 39.05% of the total vote over the 2 leading challengers. This is the top award in the Music Industry in Italy. With this win the guys really came home. They were finally recognized by the Italian people.
This win gave them the opportunity to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. As Italy is a member of the Big Five, the group went straight into the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held in Vienna on May 23, 2015. Grande Amore came in 3rd with 292 points but, they won the televote with 366 points and won the Marcel Bezencon Press Award, as best song according to the collective voting of the accredited press. The extended play Sanremo Grande Amore was released in Italy on February 20, 2015, and it was certified triple platinum by FIMI.
At the Latin Billboard Awards, they dominated the social networking sites, and they won the televote and the best song according to collective voting by the accredited press. The people speak!
This was their first try at Sanremo and they won! Phenomenal.
They did return to Sanremo in 2019 and this time they won third place with Musica che resta.
This is just to mention a few of their achievements. There are so many more achievements, but they are too numerous to mention.
Moving along the journey let’s stop at the Back to Brooklyn Tour with Barbara Streisand.
In 2012, Barbara Streisand invited them to join her “Back to Brooklyn Tour,” which included twelve performances in the United States and Canada. They were not an opening act, no, they shared the stage with Barbara. To the guys this was a dream come true!
With each step that they took along the journey they became more and more popular.
The Christmas Concert at the Italian Senate December 21, 2014, was a highlight in their career. Ignazio wrote in their book: “We want to talk about the thrill of singing in front of the highest offices of state! What twenty-year-old boy has something like that happen? It happened to us, and it seems to me a beautiful result, an honor. You cannot imagine the emotional feeling to be called “guests of honor” inside the Senate. We were accompanied by the fantastic Filarmonia Orchestra Veneta conducted by Diego Basso. Half the beauty of the song is in the orchestra.
The most exciting moments? Everyone! But the hymn of Mameli was the heart-pounding one, the first song, singing in that place, with everyone singing along with us, including Giorgio Napolitano, (President) and Pietro Grasso (President of the Senate). It is one thing that I cannot explain.
And then, of course, the pleasure of shaking hands with the President of the Republic and of feeling that he knows Marsala, he has been there.”
Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, July 1, 2016 “Notte Magica” – 2016-2017 were the years dedicated to the “Notte Magica” project, the tribute to the 1990 event where the Three Tenors, Josè Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, enchanted the whole world from the stage of the Baths of Caracalla. On July 1st in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence Il Volo presented on stage “Notte Magica – A Tribute to the Three Tenors,” which was broadcast in prime time on Canale 5. The guys were joined by Placido Domingo who conducted the orchestra. This marked the beginning of the world tour of “Notte Magica – A Tribute to The Three Tenors” which debuted on March 4, 2017 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. The show was sold out. After 15 stops in the United States, all sold out, the tour is extended to Europe from May 5, 2017 for 29 performances and from September it extended to Latin America. The concert “Notte Magica – Tribute to the Three Tenors” was filmed and broadcast in the United States by the national television network PBS, and in Italy by Canale 5 and, starting in June, it was broadcast in over 500 cinemas in Italy and around the world.
World Youth Day Jan 27, 2019 – If you ask the guys after winning Sanremo, which truly brought them home, “What was your greatest performance,” they would probably answer, there were two. Singing for the Holy Father at World Youth Day was one of the most amazing events in their life!
So much has happened since World Youth Day. But the most important event going forward was the guys presenting their individuality.
So, let’s see how they express this Individuality….
Elton Johns’ lyrics to Your Song expresses the romantic thoughts of an innocent person. Gianluca brings the song to another dimension. He is very romantic and everything he sings turns into a love song. His warm beautiful voice expresses the thoughts behind Elton John’s words.
The beautiful words of this song certainly express Gianluca’s feelings for his mother, Eleonora, who he is singing too and who has been at his side throughout his career.
His beautiful rendition of this song would make Elton John praise his performance. Gianluca got a well-deserved standing ovation! Just phenomenal!
What can I say about Piero singing No Puede Ser? It’s my favorite aria that Piero sings. He takes my breath away. No one, and I have heard many tenors sing No Puede Ser, no one sings it like Piero.
Always a showstopper, always a highlight, a splendid moment in the concert. I wait for you at La Scala! A Phenomenal performance!
Ignazio sings Beyonce’s beautiful song Listen. It’s a song that expresses how many people are feeling.
You are right Ignazio, it’s time to find your own voices. Ignazio knocks it out of the box with this song. His voice goes to unreal heights. Not only does he express how we are all feeling but he gives us a beautiful version of the song that fills our souls with emotion. And, little Julian adds to the moment with his phenomenal saxophone accompaniment. As I said before, guys, Julian is all of you at 8 years old. Now you know how people felt when they experienced your voices at such a young age!
So, this was the beginning of a new era for Il Volo. The beginning of expression! Their own expression. Their own feelings. Feelings they wanted to share with us.
We all know what the true magic of Il Volo is. The magic of Il Volo is on the stage, in the concert halls, in Arenas and Amphitheaters, on TV, in videos and CD’s but the true magic of Il Volo is in our hearts.
When we leave the concerts, we don’t leave them behind! No, we take them with us! They’re with us in our homes, in cars, on trains and on planes. How many of you out there can say that you ever felt that way about a singer or a group at any other time in your life? I’ll answer for you! Never! Because no other group in history has ever been so open, so sincere and so forthcoming with their fans.
And these past weeks, the guys shared some remarkable moments with us. They were the shining light at Sanremo 2024. The press can say what they want but we know what we want. We want the guys who have brought us happiness these last 15 years. We followed them along The Long and Winding Road and we enjoyed every minute of it. And, we plan to follow them through their celebrations this year and to continue down this road with them.
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.
Capolavoro is available on all digital platforms including Spotify and Amazon Music.
Who Wants to Live Forever is 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
How wonderful, the guys seem more relaxed, the songs of this little private concert are beautiful.
And how wonderful to see the hugs between our kids, how much tenderness. 😍😍😍
This clashes with what the Italian newspapers are publishing on Il Volo relating to an alleged live radio argument between Piero and Gianluca, a video that I have already published here too, immediately telling you that it was nothing important, a simple exchange of opinions as often happens between brothers but which does not cause their affection to collapse.
Here I propose the video again, which moreover was taken from a much longer interview.
Our “dear” journalists took the cue to write that Il Volo is arguing, is separating and I must say that many fans also believed this.
Yesterday I counted 35 different newspapers that had headlines about this dispute, 🤬🤬🤬 and so Stefano Fisico, the one who was interviewing them in the video and also a great friend of our boys, published this video.
(The headline under his picture says): YOU MAKE ME LAUGH
STEFANO= So guys, I tend to be someone who laughs about everything, because we also need to be light-hearted, especially in the things we deal with, dealing with music and football not only at the highest levels.
I was told…..how sad….two articles from two newspapers which hypothesized a controversy between Gianluca and Piero from Il Volo, during an interview I did with them last week on Radio Number One.
If you watch the entire interview we did, don’t look for the controversy and the clicks that make me laugh, but sign your name, so at least you put your face in the bullshit you write. 👏👏👏
But even this did not stop the journalists and the newspapers went from two to 35.
So yesterday Alvise Salerno, DJ and host of Radio Number One, published this video:
Il Volo argued on the air on Radio Number One. What a stupid joke.
Piero and Gianluca from Il Volo argue on Radio Number One… I woke up this morning and I was doing my research, because now I’m going to the radio to do my program on Radio Number One, coincidentally, and I read on Repubblica, Il Messaggero (headlines of Italian newspapers) and I don’t know about other newspapers, but in Repubblica and Il Messaggero I read this news which concerned Il Volo, which concerned Piero and Gianluca who were guests on our track the week of Sanremo.
My first reaction when I read it was, “what’s going on?”
The second reaction was to write a comment on both the Il Messaggero and Repubblica pages saying that you are ridiculous!! Because objectively they are ridiculous. The news is false. From any point of view the boys have never argued, among other things the full video of this thing that they filmed can be found right here on the Radio Number One profile on Tik Tok, therefore easily available, extremely easy to find. Clearly and obviously I will say it on the radio now, that they were false, that they wrote something stupid, that nothing is true, the boys never argued, they were laughing and joking with each other as they have always done for years and the thing that I’m so sorry, do you know what it is? That in the case of both Il Messaggero and La Repubblica there are no names, it is written by the editorial and entertainment staff, so the director of my radio station cannot even call those directly involved (responsible for the two newspapers) and it really makes me laugh at this thing and I’d like to talk to the author of this…. what can we call it? Well…a joke?? Yes, I would call it a joke in bad taste….but I can’t do it, so amen!!
And with this, I close the topic and I hope I have allayed all your fears. I listened to the entire interview and Piero and Gianluca laugh and at the end Piero reiterates to Stefano that there is love and respect between the three of them and Stefano confirms. 😉
Instead now I want to offer you this little video clip where our boys say their opinions on some topics.
THE FIRST PERFORMANCE IN SANREMO 2024
GIANLUCA= We shared a unique moment singing that song on stage. Only we can truly understand how it feels. We look at each other and with a look of complicity we understand each other deeply. And this is important. ❤️
CAPOLAVORO
GIANLUCA= We return with the presentation of a song that today represents a bit of our individual personalities that give this song this strength.
PIERO= We are proud of our song, because today Capolavoro talks about a feeling told in a different age. We are thirty years old and our feelings clearly change and mature for each of us.
THE EXPECTATIONS OF SANREMO
IGNAZIO= Let’s say that Sanremo is not an easy week and certainly many people have expectations of artists and we promised ourselves one thing, not to have expectations, to participate in this Sanremo with a smile and with the desire to celebrate 15 years and send this message of unity.
LISTEN TO EACH OTHER AND LOVE EACH OTHER
GIANLUCA= Perhaps to try to build healthy relationships we need to put aside egocentrism and presumption, be willing to listen, so it is the only way in working relationships, but also in relational ones and then ours is truly a marriage if so you can call it right? Then we love each other, I think this is the main thing, there is a boundless affection. ❤️
BEL CANTO IN THE WORLD
IGNAZIO= Bel canto is a genre that certainly attracts the attention of an audience that is more foreign than Italian. They have a different attention to this genre which has chosen us a bit, it wasn’t us who chose it, because since we were little we have always sung bel canto and this song from Sanremo, Capolavoro, we think will be a perfect bridge for the record that will be released soon, a record of unreleased songs, it will be completely different where people can hear our three different personalities.
PIERO= And then to follow a world tour, we will start from China, Japan and directly from Japan we will land at the Verona Arena. After Italy a world tour will follow, United States, Australia, South America. 👏👏👏
The speeches end by talking about the bomb scare that occurred the evening before Sanremo during all the singers’ dinner. Il Volo had just left the area and shortly afterwards everything was evacuated due to the alarm, luckily it was just a false alarm.😱
And now this other short video by Radio Italia.
IS THREE THE PERFECT NUMBER?
The boys’ answer is yes, that is, they very much agree.
Woman= In my opinion three is a lot.
Gianluca= So the three of us, would we be many?
Woman= But because I don’t get along with two people, I can’t.
Piero= Three is the perfect number for only one reason, because there is always a majority.
Ignazio= We are lucky enough to have mutual respect.
Woman= And are there any reasons for the argument? Do you argue?
Ignazio= Always, but thank goodness.
Gianluca= Of course, but paradoxically when it comes to music, because we are totally different. We invite you to spend a day on tour with us.
Woman= Oh god, that’s so cool, I would do it. 🤪
And now a look backstage at their official video for Capolavoro.
And this is good news, although we hope that every week it gets better and better.
Capolavoro by Il Volo was the highest new entry in the airplay chart: position 43. The song, competing in Sanremo 2024, was in 107th place last week.
Here is the link to the earone Facebook post if you would like to make a comment. Click on the photo below to take you there.
And finally a video of the reaction to the first listening to Capolavoro with English subtitles!!
Another video reaction to Capolavoro. (this one you’ll have to activate the English subtites)
Here is a unique version of Capolavoro with the orchestra removed so the guys’ voices are ‘acapella’.
And this time too I hope I have given you interesting news, but I’ll tell you straight away that next time we’ll only talk about our two lovers: Ignazio and Michelle!!❤️❤️
See you soon:
Daniela 🤗
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