I couldn’t be more proud of my girls on the board and all of you!
We ALL started this blog on August 8th. Here are a few stats so far:
Total number of views – 5,410 !!!
Total number of comments – 545
Comments originated from the U.S., Canada, Israel, Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
I like this stat – most popular topic written about: Il Volo (what a surprise!)
Not bad for a first week! Thanks all of you!
~Marie
Let’s play 20 questions, Il Volo style:
1) Who always “mouths” the words of the other two when singing?
2) Which one plays drums?
3) His heart-throb,movie star is Angelina Jolie.
4) He is a soccer nut.
5) Who has my name tattooed over his heart? (duh)
6) This one wants to be an airplane pilot.
7) Who plans on studying languages?
8) His brother’s name is Ernesto.
9) Which guy wants to drive a Formula One race car?
10) This little guy sang “Miserere” at an Italian music festival when he was only 13.
11) He was so shy that when he was younger, he faced the wall to sing.
12) Who cooks? OK, they all “cook” but, who cooks food?
13) He had his ears surgically altered.
14) This one claims to never have had an embarrassing moment.
15) His grandfather sang opera.
16) Whose birthday is February 7th?
17) Who, according to Myron, has perfect pitch?
18) This baby was born in Bologna, Italy.
19) His grandfather is blind.
20) Before they adopted the name Il Volo, what were they called?
~Marie
ANSWERS 1-I, 2-P, 3-P, 4-G, 5-I, yes he does (*wink*), 6-I, 7-G, 8-G, 9-P, 10-I, 11-G, 12-I, 13-P, 14-G, 15-P & G, 16-My nephew (However Gianluca was born on Feb. 11th), 17-G, 18-I, 19-P, 20-The Trio (Il Trio).
Scoring: # correct
1 – 3 They’re Il Volo, 3 Italian guys who sing – Go away!
4 – 7 You’re on the wrong site – Goggle muppets
8 – 11 You need more YouTube videos
12 – 15 You’re just a little sick, but its ok because you know it.
16-19 Sorry! There’s no hope for you. You’re hooked!
20 Just why do you know all this stuff?
Hi Everyone,
1)Everyone is still talking about Il Volo’s appearance on the Talk yesterday. Everyone agrees they were spectacular!! To watch again go to Mundial Facebook to see the video. You can go to ilvolotumblr to see some very handsome individual closeups of all the Guys.
2) A reminder Il Volo will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight at 11:30pm on NBC. It is a repeat performance, but worth seeing again.
3) Check out Piero’s Twitter page for a picture of his water park ride with his sister. There is also a keek of their performance of “Surrender” as guests of The Pooh.
4) Take a look at Gianluca’s Twitter page to see his adorable Keek of “swinging”, of course there are also some of his great pictures.
5) Ignazio has not tweeted much, but there is a picture of him with one of his friends on Mundial.
6) They have such a good time being home with families and friends it will be hard to tear themselves away to start their tour.
We are currently exploring copyright laws. We ask that until we get a solid grasp of those laws, you leave a description of where to find pictures and videos instead of posting the actual link. Thank You!
~Marie
Hi Everyone! We have a new feature here on the blog! Most of you know Myron, but for those that don’t, he is a voice teacher and recently took some of his students to see Il Volo perform in Chicago. He has sometimes served as a regional judge for music competitions over the years, and has mentioned before that he loves to discuss the music.
We thought he would add a different aspect to our little home, and he will be talking about music: the boys’, performances, history, etc. We hope everyone will find it interesting if you don’t know much about music, and will engage in discussion and share your opinions as well. So, please enjoy his first piece! Kelly
Il Volo appears on “The Talk” Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Review:
The guys were in fine and, may I say, well rested singing voices. We Il Volo fans have all become used to very high vocal standards, and this was no exception. Wonderful. If I were to be a little, tiny bit “picky”, I felt Piero had a really special and excellent day. Gianluca and Ignazio were superb but this song works well for Piero.
Backup: I always wish for live orchestra – the Toinght Show does it, The Talk does not.
On this show the instrumental computer track was started a bit early as the group was just being announced. Thank goodness Gianluca (who starts the song) was on the ball and got it perfect. Having seen them live in Chicago to sing this exact song, I can tell you that the opening on the instrumental track is tricky. More proof of the high quality of musicians they are.
The entire segment ? I loved it. They were more relaxed and engaging than ever. They had fun with the ladies. My big thing about these talk shows is giving the guys more time to show their natural personality. This show has gotten better and better at doing that and today was warm and funny (Gianluca joking about Selena Gomez being his guest in Italy when she comes to take a cooking class and Ignazio joking about the eyes of one of the ladies) — one of the best Il Volo chat segments on network tv so far. I only wish Jay Leno would do that on the Tonight Show – have them over to the desk in the prior segment and chat with them and then have them sing in the next segment.
The TALK is always special because it was the very first American network show they ever did when they were 16 years old ! Back in fall of 2011.
Thank you, Myron!