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. 👏👏👏
How many different ways can you say Masterpiece! Capolavoro by far was the highlight of Sanremo! I know the guys didn’t win but what they brought to Sanremo was a winning team, a winning performance and the best video clip of Sanremo 2024!
It truly deserved the Casa Sanremo ~ Soundies Award 2024! And of course, compliments to Leandro Manuel Emede Director, Nicolo Cerioni Creative Director and Cardigan srl Producer of the video!
Leandro Manuel Emede said, “Thanks to the jury of music and film experts of Casa Sanremo and to the President of the National Syndicate of Italian Cinematic Journalists (Sngci) of the Silver Ribbons for choosing our video clip as Best Video Clip Sanremo2024.”
The award for the best video clip was presented by Vincenzo Russolillo to Il Volo. The idea of this award was born from Russolillo himself and the award represents the first award in Italian history dedicated to the video clips of a song competing at the Sanremo Festival and intended for record companies.
When presenting the award to Il Volo, Russolillo said, “Your work has been selected by a high-quality jury, chaired by Laura Delli Colli, President of the National Union of Italian Film Journalists (SNGCI) of the Nastri d’Argento.”
Russolillo continued, “from the stage of the Lounge of Casa Sanremo, I deliver the Soundies Awards 2024 Award, on behalf of the Municipality of Sanremo from the hands of Councillor Sara Tonegutti, together with a voucher for the production of the next video clip to be made in the territory of the Municipality of Sanremo.
The trio takes music to new heights through video, exploring the stars and the mysteries of infinity. A visual odyssey that combines the musical talent of Il Volo with the grandeur of space, offering a sensory experience that defies the boundaries of imagination.”
It truly was a magnificent video. Even when we didn’t know what the song was about we were enthralled by the video and when we finally saw it, we were totally floored! It went beyond words!
We knew it was the best video and their performance was A Masterpiece, and it should have sent a message to the press.
So let me back up a minute and tell you what we all know and certainly what the guys knew.
I know the guys saw the writing on the wall even before they entered the competition. I’m not saying that they must win because they are Il Volo; what I’m saying is you should be judged fairly.
Il Volo has never been judged fairly by the Italian press! More so than anything else, it hurts the Italian fans because the Italian fans love them! What Il Volo presented this past week was phenomenal. Their performances surpassed every other performance at Sanremo 2024! Their elegance! Their presence on stage! Their never-ending voices! Voices that touch our souls! Voices that give every song meaning because every song they sing comes to life with their voices!
People all over the world love these guys and yet a hand full of press choose prejudice to judge them instead of integrity! It begs the question, what did three teenage boys do to bring down your wrath and cause you to never find a kind word for them in fifteen years? Where is your integrity?
I truly wish Angelina Mango the best of luck. She deserved to win as much as Il Volo deserved to be judged fairly!
Let’s take a look at their first performance at Sanremo 2024 !
There were many interviews last week. In one of those interviews, the guys told us there will be a PBS special taped at the pyramids in Egypt in June. What amazing news! It seems this is what they were saying when they said they were preparing something nice for their American friends.
I thank Daniela for all the beautiful translations she did this last week. You can read all these translations in Daniela Perani’s column on Flight Crew!
I have just a few excerpts of interviews I wanted to bring to your attention.
Immediately after performing Capolavoro for the first time, the guys went to the Radio 2 box to be interviewed by Eva Stokolma and the journalist, Gino Castaldo. In the past, Castaldo has never had a good comment for our guys. One question Castaldo asked the guys summed up the interview and said a lot about their presence at Sanremo 2024.
Castaldo: I have a serious question. You have been international for a long time, you move from one stage to another, crazy performances from New York, the world is your audience. Is it possible that Sanremo is still so exciting for you who now have the world in front of you as spectators?
Ignazio: But you know better than us that around Sanremo there is a whole machine that rotates and it’s crazy, there’s a lot of work this week and if you’re not strong you risk being overwhelmed and sucked in by the anxiety and tension that the week takes its toll on you, after a year and a half of work, as Gianluca said.
Gianluca: It’s an emotional factor, we were born here, so we become children again when we go up on that stage, all those childhood anxieties reemerge as if it were the first time.
Castaldo concluded by saying, “Good work, have a good week.” A compliment from Castaldo. I’m surprised the guys didn’t faint!
Beyond the compliment, the answer to Castaldo’s question really says a lot about their performance at Sanremo. The emotions of singing on the Ariston Stage brings back beautiful memories of their first performance; a performance that also includes the “childhood anxieties,” as Gianluca said! If there were anxieties, I never noticed them!
The second interview with Eve and Castaldo really blew everyone’s mind. Listen to Castaldo’s comments.
Castaldo: I will tell you, and I was commenting on it, that your song grows with every listen.
Ignazio: Come on!! But this is great news.
Gianluca: Coming from Gino Castaldo (who has always been negative against Il Volo)…..thanks, coming from him it’s incredible.
Eva: But it’s the truth.
Ignazio: I have to say one thing, I had a lot of fun tonight. It’s something I immediately said to them (Gian and Piero), we hugged each other, and I told them: ‘Thank you because I had fun.’
So Castaldo is beginning to change his tune. Will other members of the press do the same. Don’t hold your breath!
After the first interview, the guy’s left Radio 2 and immediately went to meet Fiorello. You had to know this would be fun.
Of course, Fiorello said they had to sing. And what do they sing? What they sing every time they meet Fiorello. Their old go to Sicilian song ~ Tirichitolla.
As always the guys had fun with Fiorello!
Ignazio: I would say let’s spin the wheel and see what comes out.
Piero: Tell us about a Horror date.
Gianluca: When I met them for the first time in my life. Alright guys, let’s move on.
Piero: Dance….nooooo
Gianluca: But we don’t know how to dance.
Ignazio: I’ll show you.
Gianluca: Well done, well done, better if you sing!
Gianluca: Tell us about a surprise you loved giving or receiving.
Unexpectedly at the station, as soon as she gets off the train, you wait for her there with a rose in your hand…nice.
Piero: I don’t like surprises, neither giving them nor receiving them.
Gianluca: Can you tell us the worst joke you’ve ever suffered?
Piero: In Bologna I faked a burglary at home, I called my brother, he left work, came home and it was a joke. I’ll let you imagine what happened.
Ignazio: You’re an asshole!
Gianluca: How you love to show affection to others.
Ignazio: Gianluca bothering me.
Gianluca: Yes, I hug, pinch, kiss, I’m very carnal.
PIero: I dedicate the song Capolavoro.
Ignazio: He dedicates it and I sing it.
Piero: Can I do the last one? Tell us about a trip you loved taking. Guys, everyone go to Japan, it’s the best trip you can do in your life.
Ignazio: It will also be a little strange for those who go for the first time because the sushi tastes completely different from what we are used to.
The first time I thought the people had fallen asleep at the concert, but instead they were attentive.
Someone backstage says he’s going to Japan in March.
Piero: In March? We’re going in March too.
You saw, he said he’s changing the date.
Gianluca: If there’s a flight I won’t go!
But getting back to their performance. They followed Capolavoro with Who Wants to Live Forever.
Talk about a phenomenal performance. Together with guitarist, Stef Burns, the guys gave a version of Who Wants to Live Forever that even Queen would envy! When I heard what they were going to sing I had visions of a performance that would bring the house down! I was right to some degree! It certainly brought my house down!
When they performed Who Wants to Live Forever, it was flawlessly executed. They were being evaluated for their performance. These are the words of one of the journalist…
Il Volo’s “Who Wants To Live Forever” with Stef Burns: on the singing level they are, as always, impeccable. But there always remains that musical feel that doesn’t fit well with the tastes of the contemporary world. They always seem out of time. Rating 6.5.
So, I must raise the question, did the journalists and radio stations fail to recognize the mastery displayed in their performance? And, in the case of televoting, some switchboards did not meet the evening’s demands, leading to the unfortunate scenario where the votes of numerous fans were not accurately represented.
If the switchboard didn’t fail, would there have been a different result! I certainly think so! As to the press, the above comment says it all. You’re great but you’re not getting our vote! I think that sums up the press!
Their performance of Capolavoro and Who Want to live Forever certainly were the highlight of Sanremo even if the journalist refuse to recognize it!
For me Sanremo 2024 was all about Il Volo. As I said in the beginning it doesn’t mean you win because of you are Il Volo but, in truth, Il Volo was the winner for so many people! Their performance was unsurpassed. They were the highlight of Sanremo 2024 and that’s why they are A Masterpiece!
As to my feeling about last week. I think every performance, every interview, every photo taken was A Masterpiece! They brought joy to our lives and gave us moments that will live in our hearts forever. They were Sanremo 2024!
Before I close, let me quote from Capolavoro!
Truly! You were the only light to make sense And this life with you It’s a Masterpiece!
You are our Masterpiece!
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.
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Sanremo, on the first evening, all thirty singers competed including Il Volo.
All songs are heard live for the first time (only journalists and orchestra players first).
The race is very long, Il Volo performs after midnight (the sequence is drawn randomly).
And finally they arrive… they come down the stairs, beautiful, elegantly different, dressed in Armani.
CAPOLAVORO
The final reception from the public was good, although I would have thought better.
The song is beautiful, quite catchy, I liked it .
I’m so excited for them, they’ve been waiting for media exposure like this for a long time and their performance of the beautiful song was the icing on the cake.
The more I listen to it, the more I like it and it gets into my head, it’s a true masterpiece.
I attach to you some comments published by a vocal coach who is really hard on some singers, he classifies them based on how the song is performed.
Il Volo are a cut above ALL! Tonight less set and managed entries with 10 and praise!
Immediately after performing the song, the boys entered the Radio 2 box.
At Radio 2 there are two hosts, the man is a journalist, his name is Gino Castaldo and he has never had good comments for Il Volo.
The presenter/journalist is EVA STOKOLMA, she saw the video of the BSMT interview and also commented……thanks Eva!!
I translated the video.
EVA= The guys from Il Volo have entered, stand where you want.
GIANLUCA= I’ll stand next to you.
EVA= It seems right to me, because next to Gino he really doesn’t deserve it.
PIERO= Gino stays close to us, so if he makes something wrong (he means his comments) he knows that we are not merciful here.
EVA= Crazy, (in the sense of very good) you were crazy, how did it go? How did you find each other?
PIERO= Well Ariston is always a confirmation, that is, you experience unprecedented emotions when you go on that stage.
EVA= And what is this emotion today?
GIANLUCA= It’s an emotion that is contained in three minutes of song after a year and a half of work, everything fades like this.
EVA= But the song remains.
GIANLUCA= The chorus, in our opinion, is singable and it’s the main thing, regardless of the genre, that we tried to do something more contemporary, but the important thing is to bring songs that people can sing.
EVA= But when can someone sing your song? Secretly, not in front of people (she means their songs have great high notes that few can do)
PIERO= I’ll tell you something, I bet that at least once in his life Gino hums it in the shower.
GINO= (he laughs) but this new one?
PIERO= No, not even the past one.
GIANLUCA= Let’s let Gino do this (Gianluca sings the chorus of Capolavoro….but Gino doesn’t finish it)
GINO= No, no, I would do it but…..
GIANLUCA= Gino would have sung a song from Il Volo!!!
GINO= I would do it right away but I’m as tone deaf. I have a very strong ear, if you drop half a tone I can hear it immediately, but not on me, because I’m out of tune.
GIANLUCA= Listeners, for those who are watching us on Radio 2, excuse me, let me tell you something……. we promise you that sooner or later we will make Gino sing with us. It’s a promise.
GINO= I have a serious question. You have been international for a long time, you move from one stage to another, crazy performances from New York, the world is your audience.
Is it possible that Sanremo is still so exciting for you who now have the world in front of you as spectators?
IGNAZIO = But you know better than us that around Sanremo there is a whole machine that rotates and it’s crazy, there’s a lot of work this week and if you’re not strong you risk being overwhelmed and sucked in by the anxiety and tension that the week takes its toll on you, after a year and a half of work as Gianluca said.
GIANLUCA= But it’s an emotional factor, we were born here, so we become children again when we go up on that stage, all those childhood anxieties re-emerge as if it were the first time.
EVA= Anyway guys I saw an interview with you where you talk about the crazy things that have happened to you around the world and the VIP folder. (the photo folder)
PIERO= Ah, the VIP folder, you saw the interview (BSMT)
EVA= You have so many stories, I would keep you talking for hours…
GINO= But they will come every evening, do you want….
EVA= We are waiting for you tomorrow too, who knows, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow (because the names of the singers who have to perform are drawn by lot on the very morning of the performance)
PIERO= Fortunately the police didn’t arrive the next day, after having told that (Piero refers to the BSMT interview)
GIANLUCA= We’ll be back. We will return here most evenings.
EVA= Is it a threat?
GIANLUCA= See you tomorrow or the day after.
EVA= True, you will only find out this tomorrow morning after the extraction. We give you a “lipo lip service” and we wait for you here at the microphones of Rai Radio2.
GINO= Good work, have a good week.
IGNAZIO= Thanks, bye everyone.
Then they go out to be interviewed by Fiorello.
Fiorello is waiting for them outside the Ariston Theatre, I think it is at least 03.00 in the morning. Piero, Ignazio and GIanluca haven’t gone to bed yet.
As usual Fiorello is very funny, I’ll translate for you.
Fiorello goes to meet them and hugs them tightly.
FIORELLO= Gentlemen, Il Volo, look at them.
P+I+G= Good evening
FIORELLO= Can I say that you are cooler?
PIERO= Thanks!
IGNAZIO= Well, let’s say handsome, he seems like a godfather (referring to Piero)
FIORELLO= No, no, he’s a guy. But you’re becoming like the Phantom of the Opera.
A curiosity, I followed you tonight, you (Gianluca), because when you sing you look up to the left.
IGNAZIO= I’ll tell you why.
FIORELLO= Why?
IGNAZIO= Because it’s his best side.
FIORELLO= Oh, really?
GIANLUCA= Do you know that I don’t know why? I don’t know, maybe I was looking at the sky.
FIORELLO= Do you feel cold?
GIANLUCA= A little.
FIORELLO= Listen, I challenge you to do something I’ll fly, so without trying, Grande Amore, only the final verse, he makes the chord (the pianist), only the ending.
PIERO= Do you have an F minor? (sing the final chorus of Grande Amore – applause)
FIORELLO= Gentlemen, we have woken up Bordighera. (city far from Sanremo)
IGNAZIO= But doesn’t anyone sleep here? (because everything happens in thestreets of Sanremo and people should sleep)
FIORELLO= Look who’s here, directly from TG2 Manuela Morino (a RAI journalist on the balcony)
GIANLUCA= Hello TG2
FIORELLO= Manuela Morino, if I throw you a ball will you take it? (he throws the ball)
So, now we’ll turn this way, if you give me a microphone, because what we would like to do is one of our strong points.
PIERO= OK
FIORELLO= It’s a song that brings good luck.
PIERO= In French?
FIORELLO = In Sicilian. He is from Abruzzo (Gianluca) but adapts (Piero, Ignazio and Fiorello are Sicilian)
GIANLUCA = I’m Sicilian too (he says it in Sicilian dialect)
FIORELLO= The song is titled……
PIERO= Excuse me.
FIORELLO= Go
PIERO= Don’t do the classic version, good, use bows, go slower.
FIORELLO = The song is titled TIRICHITOLLA
IGNAZIO= I’ll start. (they start singing Tirichitolla which is a song in Sicilian dialect with double meanings in the words, and which every time they meet Fiorello makes them sing it)
FIORELLO= Gentlemen Il Volo! Thanks guys, good luck.
GIANLUCA= Hello to all the guys inside the box.
FIORELLO= Thanks, thanks to Il Volo. An applause!
Naturally, I had already warned you that on the first evening only the Press Room jury votes and therefore the votes would not have been in favor of Il Volo, in fact only the top 5 classified are communicated, here they are:
This is how the first evening ends, but tomorrow we start again, only 15 singers perform, including Il Volo, here’s how they were drawn. Il Volo will perform fifth, and this time there is 50% vote from home and 50% from the radio jury.
My husband and I will be ready with our cell phones and will vote the maximum allowed, that is, 5 votes per cell phone.
And here we are finally at the second evening, where only 15 singers perform, including IL VOLO.
They arrive in almost casual clothes, different, simple, I like them a lot.
They sing very well, always perfect, but much more relaxed, you can see that they are having fun.
The more you listen to the song, the more it gets into your head.
I really liked them and the audience really appreciated them a lot.
What can I say: WONDERFUL, they truly are a MASTERPIECE!! 🎉🎉👏👏👏
At the end of the performance, Gianluca took the bouquet of flowers that they were given and ran into the audience to give it to his mother and he hugged his brother .. how sweet!! ❤️❤️❤️
Immediately afterwards they reached the Rai Radio2 station for the interview, Eva Stokolma and Gino Castaldo were waiting for them.
Greetings and hugs from everyone.
EVA= We can tune your song (you mean they can sing it even if they’re out of tune). Do you give us permission?
IGNAZIO= This song is either sung out of tune or not.
GINO= Then I have some chances.
IGNAZIO= It’s one of those songs you sing in the shower. It’s one of those songs that you have to sing out of tune and I was thinking about it last night, because yesterday you said that you don’t sing because you have a good musical ear, but…..
GINO= I’m out of tune.
IGNAZIO= And I imagined you in the shower singing it out of tune.
GINO= And it works the same!
IGNAZIO= Yes, it’s one of those songs you sing in the shower…
PIERO= Igna, what a bad image….
EVA= But why do you think about Gino singing in the shower, while returning home….
GIANLUCA= He imagines him relaxed in the shower...(because Gino is usually biting with his comments)
GINO= I will tell you, and I was commenting on it, that your song grows with every listen….
IGNAZIO= Come on!! But this is great news.
GIANLUCA= Coming from Gino Castaldo (who has always been negative against Il Volo)…..thanks, coming from him it’s incredible.
EVA= But it’s the truth.
IGNAZIO= I have to say one thing, I had a lot of fun tonight. It’s something I immediately said to them (Gian and Piero), we hugged each other and I told them: “Thank you because I had fun.”
EVA= How beautiful!
PIERO= It was nice.
IGNAZIO= To die for!
GINO= And when this happens, it gets to the public.
GIANLUCA= But in fact we are pleased to follow our path and to arrive with a new unreleased song, because for us it is very important to build a new repertoire, little by little, we are approaching something that for us anyway is……
GINO= So it will have a sequel.
GIANLUCA= It will have a sequel, so a record will be released where there will be 12 songs, among the most famous Italian producers: Luca Faraone, Michelangelo (Italian producers)…..
GINO= Every song….
IGNAZIO= There is also a duet that we cannot spoil….
GIANLUCA= Wait, we can only say that it’s a duet with one of the artists competing this evening!!
EVA= Wow, tonight….
GINO= So among these fifteen singers….
PIERO= We can’t say….
GIANLUCA= It’s an incredible piece!
GINO= So he’s among the fifteen tomorrow
IGNAZIO= I really don’t know!
PIERO= It’s true, we don’t know…
EVA= They don’t know…. (she laughs)
GIANLUCA= (turning to Gino) But are you coming to the album presentation??
EVA= Guys, why do you invite Gino when I’m your fan….
GIANLUCA= But you are already invited.
IGNAZIO= But it’s a given that you’re coming.
GIANLUCA= Never take Eva Stokolma for granted.
EVA= I’m taken for granted, oh well ok.
GIANLUCA= It is understood that you are invited.
EVA= Thank you, thank you.
What is the experience like being introduced by other singers competing this evening?
PIERO= Nice!
IGNAZIO= It’s beautiful, but thank goodness we weren’t introduced by Negramaro (they are a group of 5) otherwise we would have been a football team.
PIERO= But with Rose (Rose Villain who introduced them) there is a beautiful alchemy.
EVA= So it’s her. (the one from the duet)
PIERO= No, it’s not her.
IGNAZIO= I’ll tell you something nice that perhaps other artists have already told you.
This year there is an alchemy….it’s beautiful….and even with those we didn’t know.
For example, Alfa or Gazzelle (two singers from Sanremo), are wonderful guys.
GIANLUCA= Do you know how we will end this festival? The final evening is my birthday, we’ll have fun, come on.
EVA= But really? I bring you a gift.
GIANLUCA= Your presence.
EVA= How kind.
GINO= We have to listen to the song during the race.
EVA= We look forward to hearing from you on Friday. (duet evening)
GIANLUCA= Friday?
EVA= You will do something crazy.
GIANLUCA= Castaldo will fall in love with Il Volo on Friday! (Castaldo loves rock)
EVA= But who doesn’t love you guys!
Greetings and Hugs
At least this time Castaldo managed to pay some compliments to the boys who are always very kind.
It’s clear that Eva likes Il Volo!! 🥰
At the end of the race, the ranking of the evening. Naturally I gave all my possible votes to Il Volo (10), I was hoping a lot for this vote from home but I knew well that the radio jury would have been another cold shower and in fact Il Volo is not included in the evening’s ranking of the top 5 . What can I say, a big disappointment.
These are the top 5 ranked singers from last night.
And to really make you understand that Il Volo is always boycotted by journalists and radio stations, here is this comment posted by RAI.
I translated for you.
Among the uptempos the challenge is open, among the ballads Il Volo wins and has a victory song.
We know that they don’t make inroads into social media and that the press and radio are prejudiced against them, but that’s another matter.
And now a nice roundup of photos of our loved ones during the singers’ parade the day before starting Sanremo.
And at the party before Sanremo
and on the Vanity Fair cover!
This is how the first two evenings of Sanremo ended. This evening (Thursday) Il Volo doesn’t sing, they present a singer, and Friday will be the evening of duets, I can’t wait!!!
See you very soon!!
Daniela 🤗
P.S.
Our boys today at noon (8 February) had great satisfaction, meeting the first fans in an instore in Sanremo for whom they signed autographs on their CDs.
And hearing CAPOLAVORO sung by those people, I think, is their greatest satisfaction.
Here I am again with the updates, and I must say that every day, every moment there are things to read and see, so I hope you don’t miss anything!!
I’ll start with what Il Volo said about Capolavoro, interviewed by the weekly magazine OGGI.
GIANLUCA= Capolavoro also tells a little about our lives and how we experience these strong feelings that sometimes overwhelm us. It also speaks to our artistic growth, above all.
PIERO= The description of the lyrics talks about that feeling that is innate inside you, without you knowing it and the moment comes when you need to express it.
IGNAZIO= We definitely returned to Sanremo to celebrate 15 years together and send this message of union, that nowadays, it’s not easy to spend 15 years together, and then because Sanremo, we were born on the Sanremo stage in 2009, so what better way to celebrate 15 years.
Luca Maggitti, who we remember writes on Roseto.com, published this beautiful message:
GOOD LUCK FOR THE SANREMO FESTIVAL, GIANLUCA GINOBLE.
A few days ago, in Roseto degli Abruzzi, I saw Gianluca Ginoble again, walking on the seaside together with his beloved Grandfather Ernesto.
We drank a coffee and had a threesome chat, mentioning several times the ideal fourth at the table: Ernesto Junior, Gianluca’s younger brother.
Sanremo is approaching and Gianluca will return to the competition at the Festival dei Fiori (so it is said of the Sanremo Festival), with Il Volo.
This will be the third participation, after the debut with victory in 2015 (65th edition, singing “Grande amore”) and the third place in 2019 (69th edition, singing “Musica che resta”).
The song that the trio will present is entitled “Capolavoro”. My best wishes to Gianluca Ginoble and Il Volo, remembering the emotions of the 2015 victory – when he turned 20 exactly on the day of his debut as a contestant at the Festival.
Many interviews or articles are being published in various newspapers, some are just “copies and pastes” of others, or they don’t say anything new, but this one from IL MESSAGGERO reveals some beautiful responses from our young men.
Il Volo in Sanremo: “Snobbery towards us, but we also do pranks. Now forget the good guys.”
The more rock look, an album of unreleased songs, the desire to change the image a bit. Il Volo speaks, in Sanremo with “Capolavoro”: We will sing a pop ballad.
They now prefer tank tops and leather jackets to “plastered” suits: for the “restyling” they called in the same stylist as Maneskin, Achille Lauro and Paola and Chiara (all Italian singers), Nick Cerioni.
The objective? To refresh a bit that image of an adolescent pop version of the historic trio Placido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti that had characterized the trio until today.
An evolution that goes hand in hand with the musical turning point represented by CAPOLAVORO, the song that they will present in competition at the Sanremo Festival from 6 to 10 February, 15 years after the debut of “Ti Lascio Una Canzone”, the baby talent show that lim launched in 2009, hosted by Antonella Clerici, nine years after winning the event with Grande Amore and five years after third place with Musica che Resta. Piero Barone 30 years old, Ignazio Boschetto 29 and Gianluca Ginoble 28, aka Il Volo, have a mission: “At Ariston we want to show that we are not just “three tenors”, but singers each with a well-defined personality”.
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE IL VOLO HOUSE?
Nothing special, let’s clarify straight away. Simply, until today we had a unique identity: all three of us sang more or less the same way. When we started singing together we were children and we have always carried on like this. Now, however, we are going for thirty years. And we have different vocals. We value them more.
WASN’T IT EASIER TO BREAK UP THE GROUP?
And why? We never thought so. We are an example. In an era where individualism dominates, we celebrate the strength of being a team.
SO WHAT WILL YOU DO IN PRACTICE? WILL YOU DIVIDE THE PIECES TO SING?
No, the opposite. The challenge was to keep the group cohesive, while trying to get the three vocals to come. When the public listens to CAPOLAVORO, they will understand that it represents a bridge between our past and our future.
It’s a pop ballad to dedicate to someone you love and which can appeal to both girls and mothers.
We demonstrate that beyond the “three little tenors” there is more. It’s no coincidence that we wanted to record an album of unreleased songs, the first in our fifteen-year career. It will be released in the spring.
WHO DID YOU WORK WITH?
A masterpiece was arranged by Federico Nardelli, already alongside Gazzelle, Colapesce Dimartino (Italian singers). Today, the more you sing, the older you are, the less you sing, the more modern you are. Our goal is to make the singing contemporary.
“THERE IS A LOT OF SNOBBISM TOWARDS US, THE RADIO DOESN’T PLAY OUR PIECES EVEN WITH THE GUN TO THE TEMPLE” YOU SAID. THE REASON?
We didn’t say it. Often in the titles of the interviews the hand is forced a little. We are calm. IF you make a tribute album to Morricone, can you think about aiming for high rotation? (they mean that if you make a tribute album to Morricone, you certainly don’t expect to be listened to much in streaming by young people).
SO THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SNOBBISM ON THE PART OF THE EMPLOYEES TOWARDS IL VOLO?
There was some snobbery, we don’t deny it. But we left it all behind. We believe that when you drive, you should look at the road ahead and not at the rearview mirror.
WHAT RELATIONSHIP DO YOU HAVE WITH THE CRITICS?
Good. You can’t please everyone. Patience.
WOULD YOU DO A DANCE PIECE?
Bob Sinclair style? (he’s a disc jockey)
No, we would be aping something we are not.
A REGGAETON? Ask Maluma (Latin music superstar) to sing a song from Il Volo.
“WE ARE THE CHILDREN THAT EVERYONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE”, YOU SAID. THOSE WHO HAVE EARLY SUCCESS OFTEN END UP. YOU?
We didn’t say this either: every now and then journalists want to give us the image of good guys.
AND INSTEAD? If you come on tour with us, you go home pale. (they laugh)
REALLY? It’s to say that we have done and done our nonsense, but we are responsible. We owe it to the 50 people who work with us on tour. Those who give in are because they have emotional voids that they must fill in some way. We are solved. (i.e. responsible and with strong convictions)
Even our very nice Fiorello makes fun of the title of the newspaper IL MESSAGGERO because reading only the title, it seems that our boys will become bad boys. 😱😱😂😂
He also remembers that every time he meets Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, they all sing the song TIRICHITOLLA together!! 😂😂😂
I remind you that Fiorello will participate as co-host in Sanremo on the final evening.
And here are our young men in Sanremo, arriving for rehearsals.
And here in the photo with Leonardo Metalli, RAI1 special correspondent and editor-in-chief.
And what about the beautiful image posted by Stef Burns, the guitarist who will perform with Il Volo? 😱😂😂
For those who don’t recognize it, this image is an icon, because it is the cover of a Beatles album: Abbey Road, and it is them who cross the road.
The single CAPOLAVORO is already in pre-order and the Il Volo staff communicates that it can already be ordered.
And here is the newspaperSORRISI E CANZONI TV,what can I say, a nice cast.
And how beautiful is this version by @la_frami_art .
As promised, SORRISI E CANZONI TV, has published the lyrics of the songs.
Ladies and gentlemen, here you are:
CAPOLAVORO
Io seduto all’interno di un cinema Sognare un po’ l’America e un po’ la propria casa E mi chiedo sempre quanto durerà Questo amore infinito che infinito non è Mi sentivo perso Una vela in mare aperto E all’improvviso tu, tu Caduta dal cielo come un capolavoro Prima di te non c’era niente di buono Come se Eri l’unica luce ad avere un senso E questa vita con te È un capolavoro Guarda come piove Ma è meraviglioso averti qui Maledetto tempo che ti concede E poi ti porta via Mi sentivo perso Come un fiore nel deserto E all’improvviso arrivi tu, tu Caduta dal cielo come un capolavoro Prima di te non c’era niente di buono Come se Eri l’unica luce ad avere un senso E questa vita con te È un capolavoro
Caduta dal cielo come un capolavoro Prima di te non c’era niente di buono Come se Eri l’unica luce ad avere un senso E questa vita con te Sì, la mia vita con te È un capolavoro.
MASTERPIECE
Me sitting inside a cinema To dream a little of America and a little of your home And I always wonder how long it will last This infinite love that is not infinite I felt lost A sail on the open sea And suddenly you, you Fall from the sky like a masterpiece Before you there was nothing good As if You were the only light to make sense And this life with you It’s a masterpiece Look how it’s raining But it’s wonderful to have you here Damn time he gives you And then it takes you away I felt lost Like a flower in the desert And suddenly you arrive, you Fall from the sky like a masterpiece Before you there was nothing good As if You were the only light to make sense And this life with you It’s a masterpiece
Fall from the sky like a masterpiece Before you there was nothing good As if You were the only light to make sense And this life with you Yes, my life with you It’s a masterpiece.
And as you can read from the names of the authors, in the editions there is also the name of Ernesto Ginoble……congratulations Ernesto!!
And this is the article dedicated by SORRISI E CANZONI TV to Il Volo.
UNIVERSAL LOVE IN MUSIC
After a victory (in 2015) and a third place (in 2019), Il Volo returns to the Festival.
“We have a lot to tell”, explains Gianluca Ginoble “and the Sanremo stage, which saw us born 15 years ago, is the best place to do it.”
Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto met very young, right at the Ariston in the program “Ti lascio una canzone” in 2009: Il Volo was born on that occasion. “In such an individualistic period,” continues Piero “still being together after so many years, being a team player, listening to and respecting those around you is a great achievement and a great professional message, and not only that. I think it’s a sign of maturity.”
The trio has ready its first album of unreleased songs: “It’s a great opportunity to be able to present the new project on that stage,” adds Ignazio.
The song they are bringing to the competition CAPOLAVORO, “It talks about a universal love, about that feeling that grows inside each of us without knowing it. And then the moment comes when you want to shout it to the world. At the first listen you already know who you would like to dedicate it to,” says Piero.
“It’s an overwhelming and emotional piece,” adds Gianluca. The watchword of this Festival?
“Let’s have fun! Let’s enjoy this Sanremo with a smile,” concludes Ignazio.
CURIOSITY In his suitcase for Sanremo Gianluca will bring a book “The Baron in the Trees” by Calvino, Piero his shoes for running, Ignazio his computer. 😁😁😁
And now we listen to what our loved ones tell us. 😉
IGNAZIO= Hello everyone, we are Il Volo.
PIERO= Get ready with us for Sanremo 2024.
GIANLUCA= Listen to our playlist.
…………and in this nice game from Radio Italia where all the singers are asked what they would ask Amadeus before starting Sanremo and here is the answer from Il Volo. 😂😂😂
PIERO= Who gave you our phone number to invite us to Sanremo?
IGNAZIO= Good question!
GIANLUCA= Ama (Amadeus) sorry.
And now a look at the beautiful couple Ignazio/Michelle who sends us these sweet shots.
I don’t know about you, but I’m more and more excited, the adrenaline is rising, I can’t wait to hear them!!!
A nice interview with Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio was done by Paolo di Stefano for IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA.
This newspaper dedicated an entire paper page to the interview and it is truly an event because in reality this newspaper has never talked about Il Volo.
Il Volo: “They tell us that we are the children everyone would like to have. But success without initial training risked ruining us.”
The guys from the Il Volo group, Ignazio Boschetto, Piero Barone and Gianluca Ginoble: “Before, only the grandmothers followed us. We tell our peers not to be afraid to cry.”
Who is Il Volo?
Collective singular: trio, trinity, triple alliance. “We don’t even know who we are,” says Gianluca Ginoble, the baritone of the group known throughout the world as an interpreter of Italian “lyrical pop”. Excellent premise from which to start, indeed indispensable given that Il Volo, after almost fifteen years of triumphs, has reached a turning point, a turn from the sky of “bel canto” to something new. And yet if today, almost thirty-year-olds, they still don’t know who they are, they know very well where they come from. Gianluca from Roseto degli Abruzzi, Piero Barone from Naro, province of Agrigento, Ignazio Boschetto, born in Bologna, is also Sicilian, son of the city of Marsala. We are between the deep South and the deep Center. The Deep North is missing, but it does the same. The meeting takes place in Milan with Gianluca and Piero, while Ignazio is connected in shorts from Caracas, where his partner lives. It’s a chat full of surprises. The first is the impressive list of novels read by Gianluca, including those by Faulkner. Then he quotes Murakami’s The Art of Running, when Piero remembers having participated in the New York marathon.
PIERO: We have a past that unites us in many things: for example, the encounter with music for me and Gianluca occurred thanks to our grandparents. For me the music was that of Mario Del Monaco and Claudio Villa. Nobody introduced me to rock. My maternal grandfather drove the truck carrying wheat between one mill and another, but at the age of 45 he lost his sight and spent the rest of his days in an armchair: in total darkness he saved himself with music, today I have his own voice. He felt the need to help me grow and so I did what he couldn’t do, I studied piano, I sang in the town choir….
IGNAZIO:(he laughs): The most beautiful voice in the world…
PIERO: All three of us got to know music like this, in a natural way, without knowing it, without a conservatory.
How do you explain it?
GIANLUCA: It would have to be studied in a psychology faculty. At 14-15 years old, after being discovered on TV, we spent three months in the USA, we were catapulted not into a new world, but into an absurd world, sacrificing adolescence, friends, family.
PIERO: Commitment and talent. But without commitment, talent vanishes, it’s not enough.
GIANLUCA: We live in a world where we want immediate results with minimal effort. Our lives changed so suddenly, without any training, that we didn’t even notice. Then comes commitment and ambition.
How do you grow up with such early success?
GIANLUCA: We spent more time with each other than with our families. We trained each other, it’s as if we were wearing a mask on stage: but the danger is to keep the mask on even when we’re not singing, because we rarely get to be together to have fun. Only now, as we have matured, has our relationship grown in intimacy and discussion.
IGNAZIO: Success is difficult to manage, even with families. Not everything is beautiful, especially if you start young. We are lucky not to have noticed it. Then, sometimes you stop and say: what happened? We are crazy, me first. I think we are lucky in many countries and I say: at this point why should I limit my life and my experiences?
GIANLUCA: We live from our passion and this overcomes tiredness and stress.
PIERO: The fun is still there, and remains the priority. I don’t think I’m famous and inner balance is a constant work for which I also have to thank the people around me: my brother and sister were sacrificed by the attention my parents dedicated to me. For this reason, today what I do on an economic level is also for them.
What do your parents do?
GIANLUCA: My father distributed medicines to pharmacies in Central Italy, but he left this work to follow me. Mum worked in the factory at Perla.
IGNAZIO: My parents moved from Marsala to Bologna, where my mother started working as a cook in a restaurant, then she worked in a pizzeria for a lot of years. When we returned to Sicily, she opened her own pizzeria. Dad was a bricklayer and wood craftsman. He died in 2021.
Three boys who start singing “Nessun dorma” and “Torna a Surriento”. It seems like anachronistic madness.
PIERO: They often tell us: you are the children everyone would like. Perhaps the message arrived in the most natural form.
GIANLUCA: To be nostalgic has been our luck with the adult public, but over time it can be a condemnation. In fact we are working on unreleased songs to move forward over the next twenty years… We are no longer Il Volo from the beginning, when we all sang the same way. We can do many things: Piero is the lyrical soul of the trio, Ignazio can do everything, he can sing opera but also Steve Wonder, Queen, he is genius and reckless, he has the most elastic voice, he is eclectic. Piero, on the other hand, is the lyrical soul.
PIERO: From 2009 to 2015 in Italy only mothers and grandmothers knew us, then with the new song and with the victory in Sanremo everything changed, we also brought young people closer. I would never have listened to someone my age singing O’ Sole Mio. Abroad we have found people who go crazy for bel canto. Non-Italians abroad: there are none in Japan, they are Japanese who love Italy.
IGNAZIO: We managed to keep the tradition alive. Now it’s time to work on new music, always maintaining that bit of tradition.
GIANLUCA: I have never listened to Del Monaco, I preferred De André or Gaber to virtuosity, who teach me to doubt, to be an empty container and to look at the world.
What does the world seem like to you?
PIERO:Instinctively they say: these people from Volo are always around, they are rich, famous… But we don’t live outside the world, we know that today more than ever we need discipline, responsibility and determination. What unfortunately many of our peers lack. The men then…
GIANLUCA:Males tend to hide their emotions, low self-esteem leads to anger and violence because they don’t manage their emotions and fragility, they don’t ask for help at the right time.
IGNAZIO: It’s as if fragility were a defect for man. The male cannot cry… More and more, to move me, all I need is a film or a nice evening with friends or with my girlfriend.
PIERO:I hear many things said, but for me the discussion must be reversed. It is not the woman who must defend herself from the man, it is the man who must change.
GIANLUCA: Before working on education we must work on education and sensitivity, but often the first to need it are parents. And who educates adults?
And here is the beautiful paper page of the newspaper.
After this article came out, Fiorello (a well-known Italia entertainer of whom Il Volo has already been a guest in the past) also mentioned Il Volo in his new broadcast, where we hope to soon see Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero also invited.
FIORELLO = Now let’s talk about our friends, IL VOLO, look how beautiful they are! (then he reads the title) . “They tell us that we are the children that everyone would like to have, but success without training has risked ruining us.”
Who wouldn’t want to have three children like this, think of three children like this, you have them at home in the morning at dawn (and he sings a piece of Nessun Dorma) ….at dawn I will win…..and they wake you up like this. 😂
They are beautiful, cute, because they already sang like that, I don’t know if you remember them when they were at Clerici (at TLUC), they were really crazy and tonight there is THE VOICE KIDS (new program hosted by Antonella Clerici where singing children participate).
But if you have read the beautiful interview above well, you will surely have read that Ignazio was connected from Caracas where his partner lives……so this makes the news official: Ignazio is in love again and his new love is called Michelle!!
“Il Volo: Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone respond to Corriere della Sera, while Ignazio Boschetto connects remotely from Caracas.”
Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone of the musical trio Il Volo participated in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera in Milan, facing the journalist’s questions. However, the third member, Ignazio Boschetto, is physically absent and connected remotely, being in Caracas. The newspaper revealed further details about Boschetto’s private life, revealing the presence of his new partner, Michelle Bertolini, former Miss Venezuela International 2013, who lives in Venezuela.
The gossip that had been circulating in the previous weeks turned out to be true, confirming that the 29-year-old singer has a new flame, with whom he is deeply in love. Ignazio Boschetto visited his girlfriend in Venezuela, thus confirming his relationship with Michelle Bertolini.
Before this relationship, Boschetto was linked to the Brazilian dancer Ana Paula Guedes, but the two would have ended their story in the autumn of 2022. After a period of singleness, Ignazio found love again alongside Michelle Bertolini.
Michelle Bertolini is a well-known figure in Venezuela, born on June 15, 1994. She has had a multifaceted career, having been a professional tennis player, model and beauty queen. After a knee injury that forced her to leave competition in 2012, she has become an established presence in fashion. In 2013 she was elected Miss Venezuela International, representing her country at Miss International 2014.
Currently, Michelle is active in the restaurant industry, having founded Kiko Sake Sushi, and is dedicated to producing wines with her family through Vinos Bertolini. Ignazio Boschetto seems to be deeply involved in the relationship with the 29-year-old, demonstrating his interest and affection for the Venezuelan public figure.
What can I say, the beautiful Michelle is a true “career woman”.
She lives in Caracas but is often in Italy to follow the wine sales.
It seems that the conditions are all there for a “Great Love”, we will see over time, for now we are happy for the two of them! ❤️❤️
Meanwhile, in recent days, Il Volo flew to Germany to participate in Helen Fischer’s show.
The show will naturally be broadcast during the Christmas holidays.
But here is a short video of the participation.
But now here we are at the most important news, which…deep down we’ve all been waiting for…..it’s official:
IL VOLO WILL BE COMPETING IN SANREMO!!!!
Here is the moment on the RAI 1 news when presenter AMADEUS announced the competitors of Sanremo 2024.
And here is the moment in which Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca, flying back from Germany, got the news live.
GIANLUCA= Here we are, here we are….
PIERO= Gentlemen, we’re going to Sanremo!!!
GIANLUCA= Let’s go!
PIERO= Hi guys, see you in Sanremo!
IGNAZIO= Ciao!
What can I say, even if we were waiting for the news we are all amazed.
They always said that they would participate as contestants only if they found the “right” song.
So trust in our three young men and support in everything, also because in the interview they themselves spoke about changes, about turning points, without departing too much from their style.
Surely, given their past with Sanremo and with the Italian press which has always turned the public against them, the three of them will need all our support and all our love. 💗
Let’s sharpen our nails, volovers and get ready to vote for them!
Daniela 🤗
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