Searching here and there, I found this old video. It is an interview made with Al Rojo Vivo, for the promotion of the CD: IL VOLO.

But how young they were, just kids, but what mature answers they gave.

I understand that even then they were clear, what they wanted to do, and what they wanted to be: IL VOLO.

I translate for you and I remind you that I try to guess the presenter’s questions from their answers.

Enjoy…

PR = Welcome to Miami…… in Italian???

P+I+G = “Benvenuto a Miami”, JORGE, PIERO GIANLUCA IGNAZIO

PR = Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio, Ignacio in Spanish.

I = Nacho

PR = How did you meet, you are young, you have been friends for a long time …

P = We met in an Italian television program: We arrived there singing individually and on the fourth episode, the director decided to combine our voices.

PR = And at that moment did the three voices come together perfectly? Did the three voices mix automatically?

P = Yes, we have three not completely different voices, but Ignazio and I are tenors and Gianluca is baritone. There are three different types of voices that mix, make Il Volo.

PR = Do you prefer to sing in a group or do you prefer to sing separately?

I = This project was born as Il Volo, it was not born as Ignazio Boschetto, Gianluca Ginoble or Piero Barone, it was born as Il Volo!

G = From the beginning.

I = From the beginning, so we prefer to stay together, united.

PR = Your age.

P = 17

G = 16

I = 16

PR = Explain to me why you sing opera and not songs like Justin Bieber.

G = We do not sing opera, our genre is pop-lyrical, because on our CD there is no Nessun Dorma (surely then, they did not imagine that in the future they would also sing the Nessun Dorma), La Boheme, and there are no not even songs like Baby or One Time, for example, by Justin Bieber. Ours are pop-lyric songs, and it is also a novelty, because it is the first time that 16-year-olds have been singing this type of music.

PR = But also sing a song called O SOLE MIO.

I = It is not an opera song.

P = It’s a traditional song.

G = It is a song of the Italian tradition, because on our CD there are various songs, in Spanish, in Italian and in English.

P = Type: Smile, by Charlie Chaplin, is in English.

Which are part of the Italian tradition: O sole Mio, Un Amore così Grande, Il Mondo.

I = Also a traditional song in South America ….

P = Spanish, the Reloj (hints at a small refrain)

G = They are all performed with modern arrangements, with the addition of guitars …

P = Because we are three young boys

G = So that’s the beauty of this new project.

PR = Whose idea was it to bring you to the US from Italy and put Spanish songs on the CD?

G = I’ll explain, we are the first Italian artists who signed a contract directly with an American major, it is the first time.
Ours is an international project, it is a music that is enjoyed all over the world, not only in Italy, in fact we are having excellent results, we are really happy.

P = We decided to do the CD edition in Spanish, because we feel that Spanish is a language that belongs to us. We have fun when we sing in Spanish.

I = We must remember that it is also thanks to our producer.

P = Yes, our producer, Humberto Gatica, thanks to him we recorded the Spanish version, because he speaks Spanish and in the recording studio, he helped us with the correct pronunciation of Reloj.

G = But then you know that he is Lucho Gatica’s nephew.

PR = There is another group called IL DIVO.

G = Yes, let’s say that Josh Groban, Il Divo, Bocelli, our genre is more towards these singers.

PR = Which Italian singer would you like to inspire in the future?

I = Certainly Pavarotti was the Italian singer who had the greatest success also abroad, as regards the opera.

P = In pop-lyric I would say Bocelli.

I = Each of us would like to do the same career as Bocelli

G = Yes, Pavarotti or Bocelli

P = But we hope to make a good career like “IL VOLO”.

PR = You are young, do you see other plans for the future outside of music?

P = No, no, always in music, we always hope to sing together, our dream is to sing all life. In my opinion, we were born to sing.

G = We are three different voices, but one soul and when we sing together, when there are harmonies, we feel all the emotion we put into singing.

P = Three voices and a soul.
Thanks to music, we are able to transmit our emotions.

PR = Do you have a girlfriend?

I = Let’s change the question !!

PR = Why doesn’t this job allow you to have a girlfriend?

G = Yes, it allows, but it is very difficult.

I = Let’s say we don’t want to talk about it, we want privacy about our love life.

PR = I understand, you are reserved for your private life.

P = Perfect, we prefer to talk about music.

Music is our job, they are one thing.

Girlfriend is another thing.

PR = You want to keep the two things separate. Private.
We better talk about music.

But what do you do in life, besides Il Volo and privacy?

I = Piero loves to upgrade cars, to transform them.

P = I make cars faster.

G = I play football.

I = I love planes.

PR = Airplane pilot? But really or remotely?

I = I’d really like to, for now I’m training in a program that is a type of real simulator.

PR = Do you want to say something to your fans, maybe future girlfriends?

G = We hope that all our fans really like this CD, because, as Piero said before, you can feel all the emotion, all that we transmit with our voice, is on our CD.

P = And it is a CD suitable for all people of all ages. We sing in three languages and there are songs for young and old generations, for everyone.

G + I = It is a CD for everyone.

PR = As you say in Italian: no to piracy.

P + I + G = NO ALLA PIRATERIA!!!

Every time I find these old videos, for me it is a reconstruction of some missing moments, as I started following Il Volo after Sanremo 2015, but it is always a confirmation of how big these kids were already, at that time, mature and always well educated.

Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio, you have started the road well and over the 10 years you have not lost or changed your path.

Well done!!

Daniela

Credit to owners of all photos and video.