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CD SIGNING AND MORE by Daniela

April 8, 2024 pitterpat0 38 Comments

And here I am at the second event, the CD signing.

It happened on the same day as the launch of the new album..

I hadn’t pre-ordered any CD precisely because I was hoping that there would be an instore event, but then I had lost hope because Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca had shown us the photos while they signed the discs which could therefore be purchased already autographed and so I thought that they wouldn’t have done any instore and then they were very busy with interviews and television appearances. But in the end only two instores were announced and one of these was in the province of Verona, which is really not far from my house, so I said to my husband, let’s go there!!

I inquired at the “Porte dell’Adige” shopping center where the event was held if it was possible to purchase the CDs directly on site and they replied that I could purchase them directly there, but if I already had I could still participate in the signing and this is really a nice thing, because when the event takes place in Milan, if you don’t buy the CD from them (Feltrinelli bookshop), you don’t have the right to entry.

The meeting was scheduled for 5:30 pm so in the early afternoon my husband and I left, there wasn’t a long way to go.

I also took with me my Il Volo 10th anniversary CD, which doesn’t have their signatures so I would have taken the opportunity to get it signed.

As soon as we arrived we saw that the event was taking place in the small internal square inside the shops, where a small stage had been set up and barriers marked a mandatory route for people who had to line up with the CD.

There were already a lot of people waiting and we immediately saw the desk set up for the purchase of discs and we bought ours, I was holding the new AD ASTRA CD in my hand and my husband was holding the 10 YEARS CD.
There was an entertainer who joked with the people making the emotion rise, which was already palpable and the music in the air at full volume were all songs from the new AD ASTRA, beautiful!!

People continued to arrive and shortly after 5:30 pm, here they were, I made a short video, but I propose the video that was made by the organizers of the event, which is obviously better seen.

What a thrill as Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio entered, acclaimed by the people!! ❤️❤️❤️

Click Here to view the video

I took a still image of the video to show you where my husband and I were!!

The guys had to sit at the table and we in the audience had to parade behind them and while the three of them signed the CD, the official photographer took the photo. The time to stay with them was short, but better than nothing.

Before sitting down to start signing, Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca approached all the disabled people who were in the front row in front of the barriers and exchanged a few words with them, took photos and signed their CDs.

Then the signing began for all the people and obviously, as we approached we could take some photos, here are mine.

As I approached the stage, I noticed Torpedine talking assiduously to a man, I came forward, shook his hand and complimented him by saying that the songs were beautiful. He thanked me, I didn’t think to take a photo with him…..damn!!

And now our moment has come. What an emotion!

We positioned ourselves behind the boys, my husband between Piero and Ignazio and me between Ignazio and Gianluca.

We immediately greeted them and I told them: “Congratulations guys, last night we were at the Radio Italia event and you were fantastic, the songs are beautiful. I am part of Flight Crew and I bring you greetings from the whole group that follows you and awaits you next year.” Ignazio and Gianluca thanked me with amazement as they signed, and before passing behind Ignazio I managed to tell him: “Congratulations to you also for Michelle,” and he thanked me.

The photographer had taken the shot and was motioning for us to continue the journey.

My husband told me that he managed to tell Piero and Ignazio that they should have won in Sanremo and Piero thanked him and Ignazio made an expression as if to say that it wasn’t their fault.

That’s all, very little and with all that noise of voices, it’s impossible to say and understand anything else.

And here is our photo together, it’s not beautiful, but that’s enough.

All finished, as we walked away, one more look at the people who continued to sign.

Radio Italia is certainly a very different event, but of course, if you have the chance to go to this one, why give up! 😉

And the next day Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca had the same event in the province of Naples, in short, a completely different place, only two events, one in the north and one in the south of Italy.

Here is the reportage of the event at the “VULCANO BUONO” shopping center.

The public response was excellent.

The event was also covered by local TV which made an excellent report of it where he talks about Il Volo, the new CD and their tour, at the end the director of the shopping center talks about the events and projects that will be held in VULCANO BUONO.

All the Italian news talked about the release of the new CD. There are endless interviews and appearances on TV, some of which I still have to translate for you, but events follow one another so quickly that it is impossible to keep up.

Meanwhile, on the day of the CD’s release, Il Volo published this beautiful photo together with all the authors and producers toasting, a truly beautiful company with many dreams that we hope will come true.

Luca Faraone, one of the authors and exactly the boy with the glasses and the open mouth, in the photo next to Gianluca and Ignazio wrote these words.

You can find me on PER ASPERA, CHIARO DI LUNA and FRAGMENTS OF THE UNIVERSE.

Working on these songs was really cool, because it gave me the opportunity to measure myself with aspects that I rarely deal with in the mainstream.

Great cinematic compositions, complex productions, choral arrangements, orchestrations, I had fun like a child. And the first reason above all why I am grateful for this experience is independent of music, and is the opportunity I had to build new relationships with wonderful people.

Thanks to Il Volo for wanting me so strongly on this album, thanks infinitely to Ernesto, without whom this could not have existed, a person with an immense heart.

Thanks to Stefano Marletta, Michael Tenisci, Patti Carmelo and all those who contributed with their art.

Lastly and not because of the size of the mullet (it’s the boy with the striped shirt next to him in the photo, he has a lot of hair that he keeps collecting) the discovery of the Edwyn Roberts discoveries.

Praise God of songs for bringing us together.

Well…..let me know what you think, come on.

In the photo above Gianluca and Fuca Faraone.

In the photo, Ignazio has fun with the authors Edwyn Roberts and Stefano Marletta. 😂😂

Remember that for this project many very successful young authors were called here in Italy, but they are used to other musical genres, so it was a great challenge for them too and the result is excellent!

The promotion of the CD can also be seen externally, here at the Milan train station, look at that beautiful poster.

And here, Roma train station.

And how beautiful is this video published by Gianluca while he sings FRAMMENTI DI UNIVERSO in his car.

Among the many interviews, the one published by FQ Magazine, written by Andrea Conti, which I translate for you, is very beautiful.

Click Here for the FQ Magazine article

Il Volo to FqMagazine: “Get used to fake news, we will be together for a long time and we hope forever. Prejudices? You can’t please everyone.”

Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble present the new album “Ad Astra”, after having participated in the last Sanremo Festival 2024 with “Capolavoro” and crowning 15 years of career

Fifteen years of career and not hearing them. Despite the outcry caused by an exchange of opinions during a radio interview at the Sanremo Festival, no dissolution is in sight for Il Volo. The proof is the fact that Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble are involved in a thousand projects in Italy and abroad. The trio has released the new album “Ad Astra” to start again on new bases and create a new repertoire to propose on the international tour which will start in April from China, and then continue to Japan and touch the main European capitals in autumn. Il Volo will be the protagonist of “Tutti per uno”, four special concert events at the Verona Arena, all sold out for the first three dates 9, 11, 12 and 13 May. Then 20 summer events between June and September. In short, there is no intention to interrupt professional relationships, on the contrary.

“OPERA” celebrates the resilience and strength of remaining united even in daily difficulties. Who did you dedicate it to?

Ignazio: A suitable song especially in the moment we are experiencing in the world because it encourages people to have strength. The same also comes from listening to music. I would recommend listening to it in moments of weakness.

Piero: I would like to dedicate it to people who are chasing a dream and I invite them to never give up. Being encouraged is very important because sooner or later time gives the answers.

Gianluca: Finally, musically you approach our genre with an eye to the future thanks also to the collaboration with Federica Abbate, Katoo, Cheope and Raige. (authors)

“The world upside down (IL MONDO ALL’INCONTRARIO)” is an invitation to dream big. Is there a dream you would still like to realize?

Ignazio: There are still many unfulfilled dreams. We are first and foremost three guys and then very ambitious artists. We always think about what the next project could be. We must always aim high and try to always want more, remaining focused in the present. Being ambitious is one of the most beautiful things that can exist.

Piero: It’s a song that tells of an ideal world, we sing about happiness. Today in such a hectic life we neglect many things, especially in this historical moment we are experiencing. This song highlights hope.

Gianluca: From the beginning of writing the album we wanted to focus on content that didn’t talk about love in a rhetorical way. So we worked hard to try to give meaning and a varied message from Capolavoro to the discovery of new sounds. Maybe this is our dream, slowly building our repertoire because we have many messages to send.

Ignazio, “SUCCEDE” seems written for you. When did you realize that Michelle had shocked your life like an earthquake?

Ignazio: But no! It is written for everyone in the end. The person you love becomes a bit like home. This is one of my favorite songs obviously because it encapsulates my love life today, but it is a song that everyone can make and feel is their own. Here we collaborated with Michelangelo as producer, something remotely imaginable only until recently. He did an amazing job and we are really happy.

How do you explain the uproar that followed the radio interview done in Sanremo in which Piero and Gianluca teased each other?

Piero: It was created because Ignazio wasn’t there to mediate (laughs)

Ignazio: If you look closely at the full interview (and not the minute that went viral on the Web) you understand very well that these are the usual attitudes we have. After many years and because of the trust that has been created, we respond as we want and often in a fun way.

Gianluca: I think that irony will save the world and that it exists in an ideal world. We are used to fake news. Il Volo will be together for a long time and we hope forever. Full speed ahead!

Four events at the Verona Arena. What can you tell us?

Piero: We will go on tour in China and Japan, but we are already thinking about the future project. We have almost finished the Verona project, which will be broadcast on Canale 5 on Saturday evenings and the concept is the same as last year’s ‘Tutti per Uno’. There are many confirmations from many artists. We like to surprise. There will be no shortage of surprises and there will be unthinkable collaborations.

To date, has Il Volo undermined the prejudice a bit?

Gianluca: Paradoxical that this prejudice has never existed abroad, where we are perceived differently. You have to manage your career differently in every part of the world. A very difficult thing. In South America we sing in Spanish and there is the perception of Italian with a younger audience. In the United States we are seen a bit like Bublè and Bocelli, in Japan there are only Japanese. Sanremo is an Italian fact, but one that also has resonance abroad. We were born here in a talent show for children, abroad they don’t know it and they have never seen us like this. It takes time to eradicate prejudices for those who have only seen us one way. There’s a reason we’ve reached fifteen years of our career. You can’t please everyone but I believe that starting a dialogue with even the most skeptical can open up new perspectives.

Meanwhile, CAPOLAVORO has been certified Gold Record here in Italy!! Nice satisfactions. 👏👏👏

And after a week, the AD ASTRA CD is first in Italy for vinyl sales and fifth in total sales, great guys, full steam ahead!! 👏👏👏

Listen and activate the subtitles to read and see this beautiful and funny interview done by Annalia Venezia, journalist of the weekly GRAZIA. Gianluca is missing from the interview. Annalia did not know Il Volo, nor had she ever interviewed them and at the end, she too remained fascinated by our boys! 🥰

And now laugh with these two short videos… these guys make me die laughing. 🤣🤣🤣

(Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero read some questions, as always they laugh and joke and immediately Ignazio makes a joke to Piero.) 🤣🤣🤣

PIERO= I have to read the first one.

GIANLUCA= Can we read too?

PIERO= (he reads) I have never lied to one of you.

No, I lied! 😁

GIANLUCA= Okay, everyone, white (innocent) lies are told, come on. 😁

PIERO= For the balance of a group, it is sometimes necessary to lie.

GIANLUCA= So it also works in relationships?

PIERO= This is your business!! 😳

GIANLUCA= No, no, I’m telling you, I’m asking you the same question, ours is a relationship.

PIERO= So, I said “a group”, the relationship with the partner is one and one.

GIANLUCA= It’s a dual relationship, ours is a triad.
oh well, you have to lie, come on. 🤪

(now he reads the question) I have never made up an excuse not to take a selfie with a fan.

No, no, in fact we are perhaps too open to that, aren’t we? 😍

IGNAZIO= Yes absolutely, always. 😍

GIANLUCA= It’s true. 😍
(To Piero) See how I’m faster than you?

PIERO= I have never danced alone in my room.

No, of course I danced alone in my room, of course.

IGNAZIO= Always and also in déshabillé, (in underwear, or undressed)

GIANLUCA= With the “glié” (Ignazio pronounces déshabillé incorrectly making the letter G heard and Gianluca makes fun of him)

PIERO= With the “glié” (Piero also makes fun of Ignazio’s pronunciation)

IGNAZIO= I never thought about leaving my trio.

True, absolutely true, I never thought so. 🥰

GIANLUCA= But none ever.🥰

IGNAZIO= With sincerity.🥰

PIERO= This question is incredible….
I have never dreamed of a feat with Ghè.

GIANLUCA= (Piero pronounces Ghè and Gianluca corrects him) Gué, who is Ghé? Gué not Ghé. 🤣🤣

PIERO= I call him Gué Pequeno.😂 (He is a singer)

GIANLUCA= Gué 🤣

PIERO= And I call him Ghé Pequeno.😂

GIANLUCA= Gué, bye Ghé. 🤣

PIERO= Hi Ghé.
No, I have to tell you that I thought about it, sometimes you know when you think of particular, strange duets….

GIANLUCA= Ghé….
(Gian insists with the wrong pronunciation and Ignazio dies laughing) 😂😂😂

PIERO= And with Ghé I thought so (I think it would be a truly absurd duet and perhaps Ignazio laughs at that too)…😂😂😂

GIANLUCA= Gué let’s do something together, the time has come, come on! (here in Italy Gué is doing duets with several singers)

IGNAZIO= I apologize to you, deeply.

PIERO= You go (to Gianluca)

GIANLUCA= Amuninni! (Sicilian dialect word meaning: let’s go)

I have never ghosted a girl.
(everyone laughs because this question actually happened to Gianluca who is considered the conqueror of the group) 😂😂😂

No it is not true!

PIERO= What, isn’t it? So we have to…

GIANLUCA= No, I said it’s not true that I’ve never done it.🤪

PIERO= Ahhhh ok! 😁

GIANLUCA= But not with malice, always with education!

PIERO= But you can’t ghost with politeness…..

GIANLUCA= No, I have never ghosted.

I never thought that anyone had fallen asleep at one of our concerts.

The most beautiful scene was Ignazio who saw someone sleeping and with the microphone he said, in an arena of 10 thousand people: PEM. And see, this one (jump) there was an incredible scene I don’t remember where, this one who had fallen asleep poor guy, after a while he had heard the two of them (Ignazio and Piero) singing he said, I have to fall asleep. It’s at a certain point it was he (Ignazio) who let out a scream and this (fright) 😂

IGNAZIO= I have never done something crazy for love.

PIERO= Just him! 🤣

GIANLUCA= He is madness for love par excellence. 😂

IGNAZIO= I have never done something crazy for love.

PIERO= Just him!

GIANLUCA= He is madness for love par excellence.

IGNAZIO= I am the…

PIERO= He is the feeling.

IGNAZIO= I have never snitched a bro.

PIERO= What does it mean? 😳

IGNAZIO= And what does snitched mean, sorry?? 😳

VOICE= That you snitched.

GIANLUCA= Derived from snitch.

PIERO= I have never snitched, what does this mean?

IGNAZIO= That you have never cheated or betrayed a friend.

PIERO= Ah, no never.

GIANLUCA= In any case, we’re really in our thirties, eh, there’s nothing we can do…

PIERO= But if you are thirty…

GIANLUCA= It’s a vocabulary that doesn’t belong to you, to me yes, to you no. 😁

IGNAZIO= So you want to know something?….

PIERO= Yes, because we have three generations of difference….🤣

IGNAZIO= As long as I had company (that means hanging out with a company), friends from Call of Duty, from “gioco”, from gaming, I knew how: to show off, to snitch, all these things, now the era is over….

PIERO= But I say, if we are in Italy, let’s talk, use the terms in Italian, not these snitch, snatch…😁

IGNAZIO= Say hotel, (in Italian albergo), don’t say hotel! 😁

This video needs no translation, the three of them sing LA DONNA È MOBILE in three different ways: lyrical, pop, rock, they have fun and they joke. At the end Ignazio doesn’t stop making high notes and Gianluca asks:

“Where does it turn off?” 😂😂😂

And now this beautiful review of HALLELUJAH made by vocal coach Giacomo Rossi who analyzed their performance from a technical point of view, activates the subtitles.

I love these reviews and they’re on you tube, go and comment too, I asked Giacomo to review the new songs.

And finally this last gem.

A short video of CAPOLAVORO played by Valentino Alessandrini with the violin. 🥰

I hope you enjoyed the story of my two direct experiences with Il Volo, certainly the concert at Radio Italia was the best!!! But even seeing them sign your CD is priceless. I remind everyone that both events were absolutely free.

And what about the results of the new CD, very good and I hope the race continues!

By the way, in the next article I will show you all the lyrics of the new songs and we will talk about these new songs together, I can tell you that I liked them very much at the first listen.

Until next time!!

Daniela 🤗

Credit to owners of all photos and videos.

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AD ASTRA – RADIO ITALIA – I WAS THERE by Daniela

April 5, 2024 pitterpat0 78 Comments

And so their first CD of unreleased songs was released.🥰

For Il Volo it was an exhausting week for the launch of the CD, interviews and appearances everywhere and we were also in the pre-Easter week, in short, intense days.

I was very lucky that two events were taking place not far from where I live and with great joy I participated in both together with my husband!!

The first event was Thursday 28th in Cologno Monzese, home of Canale 5 and also of Radio Italia where the meeting took place.

The second, the next day, March 29, was the signing of the CD at the Bussolengo shopping center in the province of Verona.

Both events were about 100 km (62 miles) towards Milan for Cologno Monzese and the other towards Verona, in short Brescia remains right in the middle of these two places, how lucky!! 😉🤪

I didn’t go to Radio Italia through the Fan club, but I asked Radio Italia directly to be able to participate as an audience in the event and after a couple of days Radio Italia responded to me confirming entry for me and another person, therefore my husband was also admitted, naturally we had to send all our personal data. We had to show up at the entrance of Radio Italia at 7:00 pm and therefore we left on time and arrived at our destination without problems. There was already a queue of people waiting, entry was slow, because everyone had to fill out an authorization to use their image, given that the program was recorded and was broadcast on TV.

We had also been warned that there were no seats, but we already knew this having already been to a similar event, again with Il Volo in 2019.

When we all entered, an entertainer explained to us how the filming worked, once Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca entered, they would sit on the edge of the small stage and be interviewed by the two presenters: Manola Moslei and Daniela Cappelletti, the short interviews they would have been one after the other, but then edited at different times in the video.

They also asked us if any of us had never attended an Il Volo concert and about ten people raised their hands.

And then they came in, beautiful as the sun, smiling, dressed casually and they smiled at everyone. 😍😍😍

I knew that their new CD was officially released the next day but I was hoping, since the show would be broadcast the next evening, that they would let us hear the new songs.

And in fact it was like this, they told us we could take photos and videos, but they recommended not to release the videos of the new songs until midnight.

I took several photos that I will publish starting with these:

As you can see we were really close to the stage, a few meters separated us from them and after the interviews, they went up on stage and allowed us in the audience to get closer to the edge of the stage itself.

What can I say, we witnessed a real mini-concert. Ignazio Piero and Gianluca didn’t hold back, they immediately sang seven new songs, starting with Capolavoro and then, at the end, they sang another four songs that we know very well, namely Il Mondo, Se Telefonando, Musica che Resta, Grande Amore.

Ernesto Ginoble and all the authors and producers were also present in the room.

Gianluca Piero and Ignazio were calm but, by their admission, very excited because it was the first time they sang the new songs in public and they really wanted to see our reaction.

And what about the new songs…. WONDERFUL!!!! ❤️

I assure you that if you listen live they are beautiful, the lyrics are very beautiful, and the music is fantastic, very well orchestrated, certainly not ridiculous and repetitive songs with some basic chords done on the computer!!!

Congratulations, a job done really well, this is my opinion, of course, and I am very happy to note that Il Volo did not let itself be carried away by the pop and rap songs that are now in fashion here in Italy, songs that are super popular with kids, but which they have no artistic value, on the contrary, the more they are full of false notes and autotune, the more they are admired. Il Volo is not this and it shows in this production of theirs. Il Volo has not changed its nature, it has become more pop, but always remaining true to itself. Of course we don’t think we’ll find singing virtuosity, which they know how to do very well, but which they will always offer us in their concerts. 😉

Now I’ll tell you a couple of things that you won’t see during the official video.

The boys were singing and it was hot, at the end of a song, while Piero was talking, Ignazio in a corner, not in the frame, took off his jacket and when they were about to start the song, the technicians stopped and told Ignazio to put his jacket back on because otherwise the people on the video would have seen that first he was wearing the jacket and then after the jacket had disappeared . Ignazio said: “But I’m dying of heat,” and so they told him he had to put it back on and let them see him undress it. So in the video you will see that as soon as one of the songs starts, Ignazio immediately takes off his jacket and throws it in the air!! 😂😂

Another moment that you won’t see: at the end of the recording, the boys said goodbye to everyone, but before getting off the stage, the direction checked that everything was ok, but they saw that a song hadn’t come out well due to technical problems, so the guys told us if we were sorry they had to redo a song……but NOOOOOO. 🤪🤣🤣🤣

Then, after having redone the song, and with the cameras off, Gianluca said: “Let’s do Capolavoro again,” and so it was and we were all singing at the top of our lungs. Gianluca noticed a child in the audience who was singing loudly and invited him to go on stage, all three boys tried to convince him, but the child didn’t want to go up, he sent them a kiss and that was it.

But I must say that Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca were really very kind and nice, and their voices did not betray us, fantastic as always.

Overall it was a beautiful mini concert, indeed, an intimate mini concert, because we were about 200 people, and completely free!! 👏👏👏

None of the audience was able to have direct contact with them, because in the end Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca went to the back stage, but I would say that we can be happy like that.

And now I’ll give you the entire official Radio Italia video, enjoy!!

Click Here for the Radio Italia video

MANOLA= Isy Bank Music Place packed for a new episode of Radio Italia live. These very young boys started and it seems incredible 15 years ago, they were three kids and it is already a great indication.

DANIELA= Yes, yes, but then they toured the whole world with their music, they filled arenas and arenas I think on every continent .

MANOLA= My goodness!

DANIELA = This summer they will be everywhere in the world again, but this evening we have them right here on Radio Italia live, soon we will have a chat with them, we are Manola Moslehi and Daniela Cappelletti, but first let’s find out who they are with our card. Later!
(the presentation sheet starts)

Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca enter the stage, Capolavoro begins! ❤️❤️❤️

(my husband and I are in the audience, on the far right of the stage, just starting the right wall. We know where we were and therefore we were able to see each other but for you, it is very difficult to recognize us)

PIERO= And now we will sing our album of unreleased songs for the first time, here at Radio Italia.
We will sing some songs, most of the songs from the CD, we will start with CHIARO DI LUNA. It’s exciting for us, being able to sing songs for the first time, it’s the litmus test…(a girl lets out a little scream)

IGNAZIO= I would like to understand why you scream if you don’t know the song..😂😂…. (the song begins)

Click Here for CHIARO DI LUNA

GIANLUCA= Grazie.

IGNAZIO= Grazie mille.

PIERO= Grazie a tutti.

GIANLUCA= Luca Faraone (one of the authors and producers) has just arrived, a round of applause to the producer and great musician, to the great Edwyn who has just arrived (Edwyn Roberts, another author and producer) and we also want to thank Cheope who wrote this song with Stefano Marletta and Michael Tenisci (they are all authors).

IGNAZIO= This next song….

PIERO= However one thing is important, sorry (to Ignazio). Often we must not fall for social consensus, we live a daily life in which we always need to have the consent of others. Tonight, like never before, we need your consent , did you like it? (loud applause from the audience).

IGNAZIO= So we started well. The next song, personally it is one of my favorites on the album, is one of those songs where you have to put your headphones on, and dedicate it to the person you love and so if you have someone you love, dedicate it to them.
L’INFINITO.

PIERO= I dedicate it to you, Ignazio. 😂😂

IGNAZIO= Thanks! 🤣🤣
(Song begins)

Click Here for L’INFINITO

DANIELA= Their album AD ASTRA was released today and this evening they are making us feel, like a gift, to play the songs from this new album. At the Isy Bank Music Play of Radio Italia , there is Il Volo!!

IGNAZIO= We talked about the producers and this next song was written and produced in part by a great Italian producer who if a few months ago his name was associated with ours they told us: “you are crazy”, and we are talking about Michelangelo (producer)

PIERO= (he hums a song by Michelangelo)

IGNAZIO= The song talks about an elegant love, therefore: SUCCEDE

Click Here for SUCCEDE

GIANLUCA= Thank you.

PIERO= Thank you.

GIANLUCA= Thank you.

PIERO= It’s a very strange feeling tonight. This year, as you know, we are celebrating 15 years of our career and we have experienced……. (applause)..thank you…we have experienced many sensations, many emotions.
Tonight is a new, very strange feeling, because we had never sung all these unreleased songs for the first time, we have always been used to singing well-known songs, we have based our career on bel canto, on the cultural heritage that we have all inherited. Really in life, never say never, this album has arrived and we are really.. I am moved, excited….😍

GIANLUCA= You know why, this is beautiful….. it’s beautiful because the beauty of our work is that we can convey emotions with our voices and this album talks a bit about us, about what we’ve experienced in the last year and a half, and our relationship has also strengthened, because 15 years is a long time but we are like a family and it is important to try to send this positive message too, it is important to do what you like most and express yourself, to be you yourself and convey authentic emotions to the audience that listens to you, so we would like to thank you for all the support you have given us over all these years, and it is exciting to sing these songs that speak about us deeply, for the first time to you this evening .

FRAMMENTI DI UNIVERSO

Click here for FRAMMENTI DI UNIVERSO

IGNAZIO= Thank you.

MANOLA= The Isy Bank this evening is truly a place full of energy and warmth because the occasion is special, there are three guys we know, three incredible artists: Il Volo!!

IGNAZIO= Hello, hello everyone.

MANOLA= Welcome back, this is your home by now you know it, but it’s always a pleasure to meet you.
What a beautiful day today! It’s special because it was released – AD ASTRA.

IGNAZIO= Today AD ASTRA was released, we have been working on it for a while, many monts if not a year and a half and we are very happy because in any case after 15 years we are working on a totally unreleased project, we have matured and reached an artistic maturity and it gave us the opportunity to have very concrete content in each song. In fact, with the songs we address themes that we feel are very close to us, such as love but also doubt, life, why we are in the world and also a little about the world as it is going at the moment in these years, that’s it.

MANOLA= How do you decide the songs to include in your first album of unreleased songs, I imagine you’ve done a skimming…

IGNAZIO= Making punches…😂😂😂

PIERO= It’s the first time and we are proud of this album, because we have put together a team of authors who have somehow coexisted with us, they listened…

MANOLA= Shall we name some names?

PIERO= Yes, then.. we have Stefano Marletta, Edwyn Roberts, Michael Tenisci, the applause also started..

IGNAZIO= Federica Abbate …

MANOLA= In short, a good team.

GIANLUCA= Yes, but then the beauty is that we are interpreters, we have never worked on an album entirely of unreleased songs, always making projects that have led us to become who we are today. We have to thank these people who gave us the opportunity to make our thoughts and emotions tangible, not by writing ourselves in the first place, so we made friends and thanks to them we can be ourselves with our songs, so thank you…….🥰

PIERO= So now that the album is out the friendship is over. 🤣

MANOLA= It’s not true, it’s impossible not to be your friends 😍

GIANLUCA= So we really want to thank them, they are here, please give a round of applause to these wonderful guys and artists first and foremost.

MANOLA= This thing is very beautiful because we are used to seeing the final result, so the album and the work behind it is often and willingly, I won’t say is underestimated, but put a little in the shade, so the fact that you underline how far you have come together, as a team effort, it is very beautiful, very very beautiful. 🥰 There is also a featuring with Irama, the first and only featuring in this new album, in SATURNO E VENERE, how did this collaboration come about?

PIERO= We had already collaborated with Irama last year in the concert we did at the Arena. This year we were in the recording studio, we felt the need for a duet and I must tell you that it is one of our objectives to play a bit with the possibilities that music gives us, to bring together these opposite worlds, and with Irama, perhaps it is also unthinkable to combine a voice like Irama in a duet with Il Volo and I must tell you that the strength of the music…

IGNAZIO= A quartet..

PIERO= A quartet, I have to tell you that the strength of the music allowed us to live an experience in the studio together with Filippo (Irama), his way of working, of recording, of writing music which is all his, is truly incredible , I wish you one day to be able to see Filippo in the recording studio while he writes the songs, he is truly fascinating, and we thank him for participating and accepting the collaboration.

MANOLA= In fact on paper, given Filippo’s vocality, it was particular to imagine as a duet, and instead the final result is truly extraordinary.

IGNAZIO= Did you hear it?

MANOLA= Yes. I did, of course, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to talk to you tonight, right? 😁
What questions are you asking me, Ignazio?.🙄.. he’s still him anyway…🤪

PIERO= He wants to put you in difficulty..😁

MANOLA= Of course, by now, I know that guy like the back of my hand! 😉

Piero, before, spoke about the Verona Arena, you want to talk about it again, because there is something very important that will happen soon at the Arena.

IGNAZIO= Breaking news is that out of four dates, three are already sold out.

MANOLA= Wow.
Four concerts at the Verona Arena, you have actually already performed there, but bringing your work, your album of unreleased songs will be something else.

GIANLUCA= Already singing them live for the first time tonight is exciting, not only for some of you, but also for us because obviously listening to them in headphones and singing them is totally different, so we will give our best and we can’t wait to bring it to tour because it will be quite long, we will start from China and Japan, then we will go to the Arena and then until next year, until mid-2025, so it will be a trip to ASTRA, exactly.

MANOLA= You said 4 dates, three sold out, one is missing, in my opinion the other will be sold out very soon too, I’ll tell you.

IGNAZIO= Yes, they’re running out.

MANOLA= I’ll tell you, we at Radio Italia bring luck.👍

IGNAZIO= Oh yes?

MANOLA= Yes.

IGNAZIO= Good.

MANOLA= So we thank you because, in short, it is the first time that you are performing with your unreleased songs here at Isy Bank Music Place. Show it Piero (Manola is holding an AD ASTRA vinyl)

PIERO= Ah, the one with the most beautiful colour.

MANOLA= It’s blue.

PIERO= Look how beautiful!

GIANLUCA= It’s an object to keep at home, beautiful, it’s a piece of furniture, look, it’s wonderful.

MANOLA= Let’s say for those who are listening to us on the radio that you have just shown the color of the vinyl which is blue.

PIERO= Where is the camera? It’s here, look how beautiful it is.

MANOLA= Cobalt blue is this.

GIANLUCA= Even those who are not fans of Il Volo can take this, just for objects.

MANOLA= For objects…..it’s a bit of a fetish if you want…

GIANLUCA= A fetish, yes…

MANOLA= So guys I want to continue…

PIERO= This is Ignazio’s hand (he is looking at the back of the vinyl cover) “who continues to hope… close that window!”

MANOLA= Again for those who are listening on the radio, we are talking about the B side of the vinyl…

IGNAZIO= In what sense?

MANOLA = The cover, side B, practically has the hand of Ignazio.

IGNAZIO= They took it while I was running away and I said HELP….

GIANLUCA= In reality they chose Ignazio’s hand because it is the most beautiful of the three…😁

MANOLA= Oh well….

GIANLUCA= I won’t show you mine because you’d run away.

IGNAZIO= But Piero’s is nice too, just nice…😁

MANOLA= Guys, all three of you are beautiful, in any position, as you put on you are beautiful and you stay beautiful. 🥰

PIERO= I injured myself this morning in the walk-in closet (he has a plaster on his finger), I was about to put on a jacket and there was a sheet metal edge….

IGNAZIO=…….and we don’t care..😂😂😂…Were you saying? (to Manola)

MANOLA= Too many things, you have to make a selection. No, let’s close, I want to hear you sing again, okay? (to the audience) – YES – and so I’ll leave the stage to you.
This evening in the Isy Bank Music Place three extraordinary voices: Il Volo!

IGNAZIO= This next song is bel canto 2.0, we can say.

PIERO= So, there was a dear journalist who commented on this song saying after listening to it: “You have made bel canto more contemporary”. I think it was one of the best compliments we received and it was also our goal, and it’s also difficult to sing it.

IGNAZIO= It’s difficult to sing it, but above all we are happy with the message it sends, because with this album we wanted to send messages that talk about great themes and there is a song that we will sing after which is called IL MONDO ALL’INCONTRARIO which talks about the desire to hope, to dream, in a better way…

PIERO= Ideal..

IGNAZIO= Ideal, and this song instead invites you to enjoy life, enjoy every moment of life, because life, in the end, is as beautiful as a work which is not intended as just a work of music, but can be anything, a work of art, anything, so we wanted to say this to all the guys of our age, but of all ages, to take advantage of every second, every moment of life, because no one gives it back to us and then “Today won’t come back anymore”. 👏👏👏

This is OPERA.

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IGNAZIO= Thank you.
Thank you.

GIANLUCA= Thank you.

PIERO= Thank you, thank you all. The next one is the last unreleased song we will sing, but not the last of the evening.

We can’t leave you like this! 😍

IL MONDO ALL’INCONTRARIO, the lyrics of this song, imagine an ideal world, imagine this stage and each of us inside this stage shouting this desire, it is truly a utopian text, but hope is the last to die.

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DANIELA= Not only the successes of the last album but also those that made them famous all over the world, this evening at the Isy Bank Music Place, again for us: Il Volo!

IGNAZIO= Now let’s go into the world that has accompanied us until today.

GIANLUCA= This is a song that we wrote about ten days ago and we decided to add it to the repertoire the day before yesterday. 😂😂😂

PIERO= I wrote the lyrics and the refrain goes: “Gira il mondo gira nello spazio senza fine”… I was inspired. 🤣🤣🤣

GIANLUCA= You know this one well, so let’s all sing together at the top of our lungs: IL MONDO!

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PIERO= I heard a beautiful joke these days, did you hear that joke (addressing Ignazio)

IGNAZIO= No, it depends on which one?

PIERO= Il Volo is separating!!! 😂😂😂

IGNAZIO= Ahhhhh
I have certain jokes….

PIERO= But my son, alone, I say, one two three (Gianluca Ignazio Piero), alone, we don’t even get to Monza..😂😂😂.. (Monza is the closest city to Radio Italia and Piero means to say that alone their success wouldn’t even reach Monza), I’m not saying Switzerland 🤣 (which isn’t very far away), but we won’t even get to Monza.

What’s next? Ah, this is nice, with this song we participated in Sanremo 2019.

MUSICA CHE RESTA

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PIERO= We would like to remember that the lyrics of “Musica che resta” were written by the great Gianna Nannini.

DANIELA= Welcome back here to the Isy Bank Music Place, evening at Radio Italia live together with Il Volo. Hello lads .

I+P+G= Hi, hi.

IGNAZIO= How are you?

DANIELA= I’m fine, and how are you?

I+G+P= Good, good.

DANIELA= Are you ready for some questions, you are always around, I already told you, I envy you so much, because you see so many wonderful places in the world.

IGNAZIO= Well, whenever you want we’ll wait for you and take you with us.

DANIELA= I’m on my fourth Volo, but I can’t sing.

IGNAZIO= Don’t worry, let’s do a radio tour…

GIANLUCA= Radio Volo.

DANIELA= I’m in!

PIERO= We will do a tour with interviews in between.

DANIELA= Oh, are you calling me?

PIERO= Yes, of course.

DANIELA= Promise! Ok, then I’m good to go.

PIERO= You have to learn Chinese, Japanese…😁

DANIELA= But I know!!

PIERO= Look, she’s thrilled….😁

DANIELA= I do.

IGNAZIO= From tomorrow he will start studying all the menus of the Japanese restaurants in Milan.

DANIELA= I already know, I think so.😁
Let’s talk about travel, how does your life on tour work? Do you also have some time to enjoy the trip or is it just work?

IGNAZIO= It depends, for example now in mid-April we leave for China and we have seven days of promotion first, then on the 20th we will do the concert in Shanghai therefore we will have the opportunity to visit it, also because it often happens that many promotional activities are carried out in the cities themselves, not only within an office or a studio, or a hotel, so in that case, we have an opportunity to see. In Japan we have seen a lot because we were lucky enough last year to be the first artists after the renovation of this very famous temple, a UNESCO heritage site, Kiyomizu-dera. We are the only artists who have given a concert there, they chose us as the inauguration of the temple and it is a magical place there, very exclusive….

PIERO= From now the Temple is called Il Volo…😁

DANIELA= What was her name before??

IGNAZIO= Kiyomizu-dera.

DANIELA = Kiyomizu-dera ….now Il Volo, you’ve combined the names, beautiful.😁 So every now and then you enjoy it a little.

PIERO= But then do you know what they call Il Volo in Japan? Il Vro.

DANIELA= Really?

PIERO= I swear…

IGNAZIO= Il Vro, Il Vro …

DANIELA= It’s so cute! 🥰

PIERO= Too cute!

DANIELA= It’s particular.
I want to give you a little quiz, a little game, are you up for it?

GIANLUCA= Go.

DANIELA= So, we always talk about travel, let’s stay on this topic, I would like to understand what type of travelers you are, therefore: who is the one who goes on adventures and who instead wants to be served and revered?

PIERO= So, served and revered: him (Gianluca)😁

DANIELA= Gianlu…

GIANLUCA= A prince….

PIERO= On adventure: him (Ignazio) 😁

DANIELA= Ah Ignazio, let’s go on an adventure…

PIERO= Everything planned: me.😁

DANIELA= Ok, so you’re all scheduled…

PIERO= I have to know where I should eat…

GIANLUCA= So in the end he too is served and revered, obviously..

DANIELA= You just have to have your references.

IGNAZIO= I’m honest, I like the idea of taking an adventure holiday, but in the end I always end up served and revered….

DANIELA= Me too, because I’m lazy..

IGNAZIO= Me too, like a cat and more!

PIERO= Do you know what happened once? We have finished this two month tour and we decide to all return to our home. I had organized five days in a hotel in Sicily with my brother and sister. I arrive at this hotel, I get ready, I put on my swimsuit, I arrive at the swimming pool… guess who I find at the swimming pool in the same hotel? -Ignazio- He, who used to take a bath, after the jun tour I also found him on holiday. 😂

DANIELA= Ah ah ah, you can see it’s the charm….well let’s move on. Who is the one who also tastes insects, and who also brings pasta in their suitcase?

GIANLUCA= I eat, I chop everything.

PIERO= In fact, look how thin he is.

IGNAZIO= Indeed…

GIANLUCA= Then unfortunately I feel my stomach…

DANIELA= You too, eat, taste….(to Piero and Ignazio)

IGNAZIO= Yes, everything, everything, perhaps he (Piero) is much more traditional.

GIANLUCA= No, it’s you (Ignazio) who didn’t eat the head of the fish in Japan….

IGNAZIO= But how do you eat the head of a Sardinian??? Excuse me, poor thing… there was the Sardinian who looked at me like that 😂😂

DANIELA= Because it’s not the food, but how he looks at you… I agree 😁

PIERO= I ate the spicy jellyfish, good, it seems like a softer squid. 😳

DANIELA= You throw yourself into the kitchen quite a bit. Go on. Who is the one who launches into languages he doesn’t know and the one who stops at English at most? (put that way it seems like a slightly mischievous phrase)

PIERO= Wait, wait, formulate this sentence better…😂😂😂

DANIELA= Wait, I didn’t understand it either….

GIANLUCA= So it’s a bit ambiguous…🤣🤣

DANIELA = No come on!!
Guys, who even speaks languages they don’t know?

PIERO= Well, it’s better…😁

GIANLUCA= Well…..it’s hard for us mischievous people…😂😂

DANIELA= Really mischievous…🙄

IGNAZIO= Gianluca is the one who holds back, that is, he learns immediately but if he then has to speak a language he doesn’t know he holds back… Piero and I gesture and make ourselves understood in all possible ways…😁

DANIELA= Ignazio our Italian gesticulation, we only understand it in Italy.

IGNAZIO= No, no you’re wrong.

DANIELA= Oh yes?

PIERO= Even the temples in Greece understood it.😁

GIANLUCA= Think about one time, once for a sandwich, we didn’t speak English the first few times and we said “un panin prosc.cott” (a sandwich with cooked ham, but all said truncated) 🤣🤣

DANIELA= You got it!!

IGNAZIO= That was my father in Los Angeles, I asked him for a turkey sandwich and he arrived with cooked ham and I tell him: “Dad, how did you tell him cooked ham?” and he: “And what do I know, I asked for a panin prosc.cott…..and they gave it to me”😂

DANIELA= They understood it! Miraculously it was understood. 😁

Okay, then: who goes from one disco to another and who goes to sleep after dinner because they have to get up at dawn, perhaps to play sports?

GIANLUCA= Disco….what? Disco hmmm…

DANIELA= No, well, I mean to be late…

IGNAZIO= Gianlu!

GIANLUCA= No, not me, not me…

IGNAZIO= Come on, when you go to Milan you go to all the parties more than for work…😁😁
Finish it..😉

GIANLUCA= What are you saying….

PIERO= Look how white you are….😁

GIANLUCA= They made me pale???

DANIELA= No, they’re making fun of you, Gianlu, it’s not true!!😁

Ok, let’s do something, we did the travel quiz….

PIERO= Do you know what time I went to sleep last night?

DANIELA= Tell me..

PIERO= At 9.40pm.

DANIELA= Not like that though…

PIERO= Yesterday I was tired, I wanted to watch television and I fell asleep.

DANIELA= Okay, come on, but stay awake tonight, because we still have to play here.

GIANLUCA= No, he switches off at 9.40pm, while he sings he does this look..(Gianluca lies down) 🤣

PIERO= 5 minutes left (in fact it’s really around 9.40pm)

DANIELA= We have to hurry.

GIANLUCA= He has the switch, then it turns off.😂

DANIELA= Thanks guys, come back to the stage of the Isy Bank Music Place, because this evening there are these three extraordinary artists with us: Il Volo!

IGNAZIO= Listen to this song. (SE TELEFONANDO)

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IGNAZIO= Thanks.

GIANLUCA= This last song, after Capolavoro…. no, it is the most important of our career, you know very well what it is because it is our first unreleased song, among other things, of 2015 and we had the great privilege and honor of winning the Sanremo festival, nine years have already passed….

PIERO= And since that day, since we sang that melody (he sings Hey Jude)

GIANLUCA= Are you also like Troisi? (an Italian actor)

PIERO= We have to say goodbye.
So we say goodbye, we have to say goodbye guys.
First of all we thank all of you (Ignazio disturbs), we would like to thank….enough Igna….

GIANLUCA= Enough Igna, come on, come on…1-2-3.

PIERO= Serious moment……we would like to first of all thank all of you this evening for being here on such an important evening for us…

GIANLUCA= And if I may, thanks to Radio Italia for all the support (Gianluca is unable to say the word and makes a raspberry)….🤣😂

IGNAZIO= The ciupporto (Ignazio also says it by distorting the pronunciation)🤣

GIANLUCA= It happens even to the best, it happens even to the best…..let’s do it again!!

PIERO= And then let us thank our record company, Sony Music for the support, the support they give us every day.

GIANLUCA= Thanks again to all the authors who contributed so that this album could be….

IGNAZIO= We don’t know, but do you pay for it? Because he always says he thanks you, but you pay him a lot a month (to say thank you), I want a percentage too!! 😂🤣

GIANLUCA= Let’s end all thanks.

PIERO= We close by thanking our entire team, all the structures that collaborate with us, our manager Michele Torpedine, Barbara, everyone, everyone who with us there are no holidays, they also work on Sundays, thank you, thank you for dedicating your time, your support and above all your seriousness to us.

GIANLUCA= And thanks also to my brother Ernesto who was also part of the direction of this project, thank you for everything, we love you! 😍

IGNAZIO= And we wanted to say a big THANK YOU to you who listen to us from home, but above all to you who came here this evening dedicating GRANDE AMORE to you. ❤️

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PIERO= Thanks everyone!

MANOLA= They have performed on the most important stages all over the world and tonight we had them here in the Isy Bank Music Place protagonists of a live Radio Italia wow, incredible.

DANIELA= Did we sing?

MANOLA= But I no longer have a voice…at a certain point I felt like the fourth member of Il Volo…

DANIELA= Yes, you sing so well….Daniela Cappelletti and Manola Moslehy will meet you at the next Radio Italia live, again here in the Isy Bank Music Place, so goodnight to everyone.

MANOLA= Bye.

(some photos published by Radio Italia)

What a fantastic evening, what emotion, how beautiful the new songs, how friendly our boys, everything was beautiful.

I won’t add anything else, I’m waiting for your comments!!

See you soon to tell you about another live event!!

Daniela 🤗

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IL VOLO ON THE ROAD by Daniela

March 29, 2024 pitterpat0 57 Comments

Among the many interviews they gave themselves to, Il Volo was also interviewed by Don Walter Insero, a wonderful interview for the program “ON THE ROAD awaiting the 2025 Jubilee”.

Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca are expected by Don Water in front of the basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. A very informal meeting where Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero opened their hearts without any problem, talking about life, faith, and religion.

I translate for you..

DWI= Welcome back to ON THE ROAD. We are in Trastevere (Rome area) in front of the basilica of S. Cecilia, patron saint of music and musicians.

This young Roman woman, from a noble family, learned the message of Jesus, became a Christian and, in order not to betray her faith in Jesus Christ, she was martyred in the third century.

Since then this has become a place of silence, prayer, which has welcomed millions of pilgrims who have come to pray at the tomb of St. Cecilia, and this place will welcome the pilgrims of the next jubilee, who will find here an oasis of contemplation and peace.

PIERO= Don Walter good morning.

DWI= Hey hello!

Hi Piero, hello Ignazio, hello Gianluca.

IGNAZIO= A magnificent place.

DWI= How nice to meet you here..

GIANLUCA= It’s a great pleasure!

DWI= …in front of the Basilica of Santa Cecilia, we are on our way ON THE ROAD towards the 2025 jubilee.

I welcome you to this which is your home, because it is the home of Cecilia, who is the patroness of music, of musicians, of singers, of singers, (at this moment Barbara and Torpedine can be seen behind them) so I have the pleasure to accompany you on this journey.

GIANLUCA= It’s an honor!

IGNAZIO= Thank you, thank you very much.

DWI= It’s music that brought you together, right?

GIANLUCA= Yes, let’s say that music is what gives meaning to our lives, let’s say that everyone uses different tools to discover their own mystery, so we used this great tool that allowed us to dig inside ourselves and make sense to life. We are what we are through the voice and certainly together the strength is greater to convey emotions to the public and excite everyone here.

DWI= When you were very young, true, you discovered this artistic vocation.

PIERO= I believe that recognizing one’s vocation when young is a great privilege. We immediately recognized it thanks also to the support and support of our families, it was they who introduced this musical genre, which is Bel Canto, the genre that we sing, and therefore we owe everything to music.

DWI= And did the families support you in this?

IGNAZIO= Absolutely, I think that especially at the beginning, they were a fundamental part of our growth and, to put it simply (he means simply), I like to say “to keep our feet on the ground”, and they continue to do so today , so we really have to say thank you to our families because they taught us the true value of being a family, what it means to be a family.

DWI= Well, let’s go in then.
Look how wonderful. (he points to the painting of the vault)

They prayed and asked Cecilia to pray for us.

GIANLUCA= With singing, which is the best prayer.

DWI= Yes, Bach says that music is a privileged path because it brings the soul closer to God. Is this true for you too?

GIANLUCA= It is the soundtrack of one’s emotions, like the poets who in their madness, like Leopardi (Italian poet) spoke to the moon waiting for him to respond. And it’s a bit like touching the sky with your emotions I think.

PIERO= Whoever sings prays twice, right?

DWI= Saint Augustine says so.

PIERO= And we do it often, singing on stage, almost every day and I think I recognize that we are three hyper-privileged people because what we feel on stage I think is an emotion that cannot be described. It’s not really easy to describe and make concrete, so I think three of us share the same sensations, an advantage for the three of us.

DWI= But can we say that music has brought you closer to God in your journey?

IGNAZIO= In a certain sense yes, also because we started from three small towns, where perhaps we know in small towns there are many more people inclined to believe, to find a foothold in what could be help from a saint, especially in music, like Saint Cecilia, so for us, our parents always prayed to God that their children could one day find their own path with their own talent, so absolutely yes.

PIERO= Personally my first approach to music was thanks to the church.

DWI= Oh yes?

PIERO= Because as a child I always went to church, so I sang in the choir, without inhibitions…

IGNAZIO= I was also part of the choir.

PIERO= I was an altar boy, I sang, so I know all the sacred songs. For us it would also be a great desire to be able to contribute during the jubilee with this magnificent art: music.

WOMAN’S VOICE = Rome, Trastevere district, it is in its beating heart, among its narrow streets, that a jewel full of charm and mystery stands: the basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. It is here that almost 1800 years ago the young Cecilia, considered the patron saint of musicians, was martyred.

DWI= You sang in the presence of the Holy Father, of Pope Francis, in a meeting with young people and a global family meeting, with your families. What did it represent for you?

IGNAZIO= Look, the first time was in Panama.

DWI= Yes!

PIERO= World Day..

IGNAZIO= World Youth Day and having a million young people in front of us……I remember that after singing we commented on this, that there was an energy, that it was an altar, it wasn’t a stage….

DWI= Sure, sure.

IGNAZIO= A gigantic altar and you could feel this energy, I don’t know, it seemed magnetic…

PIERO= A deafening silence…

IGNAZIO= It was a deafening silence, it’s one of those experiences that really happen a few times in your life and that is given by energy, because in the end I think that people are energy, life is energy, and seeing a million people , in the same place, for the same reason, an energy was created that is truly unforgettable for us.

PIERO= And then, on 22 June (2022), being witnesses during the World Family Day, I think it was one of the great objectives of these 15 years together, because from the first day we have always tried to reach those who listen to us and also to those who don’t listen to us, this message of unity but above all this strength that are values, families, because sometimes, perhaps due to the frenzy that we experience during daily life, we forget about certain values, that is, a call with mother, maybe hear the grandparents….

DWI= Sure, sure.

PIERO= And in the end you realize that this important value that is family has arrived.

DWI= What do you remember about the meeting with Pope Francis, Gianluca?

GIANLUCA= Obviously the greatness of a person is demonstrated by his humility, I think, right? And therefore his humility is an example for all of us, many young people who are still experiencing a difficult moment in our era, seeing themselves in a person who can truly be like a family member, asking for advice, admiring him from afar in all parts of the world , I believe that this, however, is the main thing for us artists too, because then music is like a eulogy to madness, if you think about it, because there is no rationality, nothing is created from rationality. All this (looks at the basilica), artists who have been inspired by a spiritual journey, because only through spirituality can something wonderful be created and that’s a bit what we are doing with our music, our creativity takes hold from our madness, from our almost childish madness, if you think about it.

DWI= This masterpiece by Stefano Maderno (Italian sculptor) which describes what he saw when the body was observed and surprisingly, when they opened Cecilia’s tomb, they found her body in exactly that shape you see.

PIERO= Which year are you talking about?

DWI= So, the survey was done in 1599 and Stefano Maderno sculpted the marble in 1600.

PIERO= And she was found like this, in this position.

DWI= Yes, in this position, because a first attempt was made to suffocate her, in what was the “calidarium” (spa), it was a noble house because they had heating and they had the spa in the house and they tried to suffocate her there and instead she was beheaded, three shots were planned, can you see? It excites me, because look at his delicate neck, it has the signs of this cut that his body has maintained, so when Maderno commissioned this work, he knew that the intact body had this sign. Then she bled to death, a terrible death, but tradition says that while she was in agony, she had expressed the desire that this, which was her home, become a place of prayer and the Christians came to pray, the faithful then came and there are also Benedictine nuns who pray night and day, so the prayer is constant.

What does this work inspire in you?

GIANLUCA= It’s a manifestation of pain if we think about it, which is the basis of everything, only through pain does a certain growth in life certainly occur. She is a woman who then based her life on art, certainly, such a young woman and therefore an example for all of us, because even from suffering, as I was saying, important growth can be drawn.

PIERO= I really believe in coincidences. During the Sanremo Festival, the last one we did, we were given a holy picture of Santa Cecilia…

DWI= Oh…

PIERO= ….and we put it behind the cover of our cell phone and during that day we talked a lot about Santa Cecilia and today we find ourselves here in the basilica of Santa Cecilia…

DWI= Who guards her body, so it’s there, she’s buried here…

PIERO= What coincidences…

DWI= Yes, they are those gifts of providence.

And for you Ignazio?

IGNAZIO= I think that there are many miracles in life, for example I live in Bologna and there is a church where Saint Catherine is and even there the body remained intact. These are things that I don’t know… returning to the topic of energy, I am always amazed by these things, maybe there are those who believe more, those who believe less, but one cannot help but believe what life tells us. offers: miracles, energies….

GIANLUCA= That the most religious attitude is to cultivate doubt and dig deeper and deeper into oneself.

DWI= Sure.

GIANLUCA= Not just outside, a constant, spiritual search that leads you, at a certain point in life, to have enlightenment from different points of view, which can be a life dedicated to God, why not!

DWI= It’s true, doubts, questions, are part of the journey of life. The Pope wanted this motto for this upcoming jubilee: “Pilgrims of hope”.

Do you feel like pilgrims? Do you feel like you are searching, on your way or have you already arrived? You are very successful, do you feel like you have arrived?

IGNAZIO= We are constantly on the move.

PIERO= It’s a continuous journey with ourselves, in search of ourselves, always trying to show the best side of ourselves and I believe that faith, like great things, is a commitment, a constant, daily commitment. For our part, this commitment has always been there and perhaps in some difficult moments, because perhaps faith is only remembered in difficult moments, whereas we should also remember it in good moments. We try to do it every day, so yes, we consider ourselves pilgrims.

DWI= Sure. Ignazio, you?

IGNAZIO= I agree, perhaps as I said before, there are those who are more attached, he (Piero) is very attached to the church, to religion, I am a little less…

GIANLUCA= You are still looking for the point of this journey…that’s right, we are still young…

IGNAZIO=…..precisely I define it as my path, because I am a person who always tries to be amazed by things, so for me the path is to always remain amazed and hope to find answers in what I experience.

PIERO= Also because each of us has a different experience, a different past, we are three strangers who met 15 years ago, but each of us has experienced moments in our lives that have also marked us.

DWI= Sure and that you agree.

GIANLUCA= In life we have always been empty containers, because we almost had no home, always maintaining our roots and values, but from the age of 14, travelling, learning about different cultures, made us feel, as I was saying, empty containers. Having a personal spiritual journey, not children of our culture, of our society, therefore reading, really reading what is written in the Bible, not believing in a belief, what is there, why do I have to believe, I have to inform myself, I have to understand what really happened and what are the ideals of this great religion that for millennia has guided millions of people of all generations of antiquity. So get informed, read, understand well what the great content of this great story is.

DWI= (they meet the Benedictine mother) How is mother? Nice to meet you, you are the mother Abbess MariaGiovanna: Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio. This year they were in Sanremo and they gave him an image of Saint Cecilia which they kept on their cell phone and so today they were happy to be here praying to their patron saint.

MOTHER= Best wishes, best wishes, may God bless you and guide your path.

I+P+G= Thank you, thank you very much, goodbye.

DWI= How beautiful your cloister is.

MOTHER= Yes.

DWI= The jubilee is in a few months, how are you preparing, how do you want to experience this jubilee?

IGNAZIO= We are 29/30 years old, and this will be our first jubilee that we will actually experience, because the last time we were only 4/5 years old, we didn’t even know what it was, so we will live it with curiosity, hope because in these years we have been cultivating this word – is very much hope, hope for something better, hope that something can really change and there are many people who, in any field, in music, in politics, in religion in their own way are trying to change. Look at Pope Francis, who I have so much admiration for, such a humble person who plays such an important role and it’s not always simple, right?

DWI= Sure.

PIERO= In some way our greatest desire is to be able to contribute with our art, with music, also because in the past we have had the opportunity to live these unique experiences.

I believe that the year of the Jubilee, the opening of the Jubilee is a very important moment for everyone.

IGNAZIO= It was a wonderful experience and we want to thank you.

DWI= Thank you, I thank you, thank you Piero, thank you Ignazio, thank you Gianluca. Thank you because with your art you sow hope in this time that is in some ways so difficult and dark and music is this universal message that reaches all hearts.

Can I ask you to take a selfie so I can immortalize this moment!

IGNAZIO= Sure

PIERO= Wait, like this.

GIANLUCA= Higher, higher..perfect!!

What can I say, I don’t know about you, but I was very touched by the mature and absolutely relevant answers to the topic that our three young men gave.

Messages of hope and love, faith, energy and life.

I am deeply happy to be able to once again see the versatility of Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio who, just as in singing, can move from interviews with “light” topics to interviews with “deep” topics, without any problem.

I also really liked the lowered tone of our kids’ voices as a sign of respect for the place where they were.

Congratulations once again guys!! ❤️

The INFORM newspaper published this page on the event, in four languages, which I attach.

In the interview we talked about two events that occurred with Il Volo in the presence of the Pope and therefore I thought I would attach them and review them together.

Il Volo at the world meeting of families 22 June 2022

Il Volo a Panama, World Youth Day 2019

And after hearing and reading the beautiful words of Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero and listening to their beautiful voices, what better time in view of Easter to wish you all the best wishes from all the Flight Crew staff.

HAPPY EASTER

from the bottom of our hearts and may it bring peace to this troubled world.

Credit to owners of all photos and videos.

General news

IL VOLO TO CATTELAN by Daniela

March 26, 2024 pitterpat0 12 Comments

On March 19, Il Volo was a guest on RAI1 in the television program STASERA C’È CATTELAN.

Alessandro Cattelan is a young presenter, friend of Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero.

The intervention was nice, the kids were relaxed, dressed casually and even adapted to a nice musical game.

Here’s the translation!

CATTELAN= Let’s start with our first three guests this evening, it’s quite clear who will be…..Ilenia, have you understood? Who will be? I said three, who will they be…

ILENIA= Il Volo!

CATTELAN= Il Volo!!!! However, they deserve a triumphal announcement: 15 years of career, 13 albums, the next one coming out on March 29th will be called AD ASTRA and will be their first album of unreleased songs. They are ready to leave for yet another world tour, they will tell us about it shortly, give a big round of applause to Il Volo!!

(Capolavoro begins and Gianluca Piero and Ignazio enter from outside the studio to the notes of the song.)

CATTELAN= What a masterpiece!
Ladies and gentlemen: IL Volo!!
Come guys come, take a seat.
Il Volo a Stasera is Cattelan, welcome back.
(the guys sit but the chairs are high) 😁

GIANLUCA= But you can’t make us do these figures (he doesn’t reach the ground with his feet) 😂🤣

CATTELAN= Too tall?? 😁

PIERO= Could you have put the sofa lower? (he also doesn’t touch the ground with his feet) 🤣😂

CATTELAN= Look how comfortable Ignazio is!! 😂💪

PIERO= Can we take a close-up of our feet??

IGNAZIO= Sorry, I’m too comfortable…

CATTELAN= It’s like when you’re sitting on a plane…

GIANLUCA= How is Ale? (Cattelan’s name is Alessandro)

CATTELAN= Everything is fine and you?

PIERO= Do you know what it looks like? You know that New York photo of the workers (the famous photo eating the sandwich suspended in the air) on the crane, we’re missing the sandwich, the sandwich in our hands.

GIANLUCA= Okay cuts, enough come on.

CATTELAN= Actually he gave me an excellent connection with New York, because the last time we saw each other, it was actually only Piero (the two of them exchanged a clap).

PIERO= Only you and I know (refers to the fact that Piero and Cattelan met at the New York marathon)

IGNAZIO= You don’t know that he invited me…

CATTELAN = That day in New York?

IGNAZIO= Yes, but to do it (the marathon)

PIERO= Look at the wallpaper on my cell phone?

CATTELAN= What are we talking about, oh my, New York, can we show it? What bridge is this?

IGNAZIO= Look at this one (marks a dot on the screen) it’s Piero!

PIERO= Verrazzano Bridge.

CATTELAN= Verrazzano Bridge which is the starting point of the New York marathon, where Piero and I met.

These are the images of Piero at the New York marathon, I must say impeccable style, how far have you come?

PIERO= I did it in 4 hours and 15 minutes instead of 19 thousand, we have a bet…..

CATTELAN= 19 thousand? one step away from the podium 😁, oh well there were a lot of you!

PIERO= 55 thousand participants. We have a bet, one and two gentlemen here (Gianluca and Ignazio) we were in Athens and we made a bet and Ignazio said: “How many participants are there?” and I replied “more than 50 thousand”.

Ignazio said: “If you get under 25 thousand we will offer you dinner.”

Have you ever seen this dinner??🙄😁

CATTELAN= Not us!!

GIANLUCA= But look (Piero) is wasted, he’s dying of hunger..😂

IGNAZIO= You didn’t understand, we were in Athens, when we return to Athens we’ll offer you dinner. 🤣

CATTELAN= Ah, it was only valid there. So, at a certain point I saw a crazy missile go by (Piero), I didn’t have time to understand if it was you, because I was in the audience cheering that day, I was there watching this thing for the first time in my life , I had never seen it, but it is an incredible party, a wonderful atmosphere. .

PIERO= The audience was 2 million people because there are 42 km full of people.

CATTELAN= But when you are there, what emotion do they give you? They help you when… there was a moment when you had visions, you no longer understood anything…

PIERO= No, the greatest emotion was seeing a girl with a poster and it said…..

CATTELAN= The lights came on, but were we in the dark until now? You can see us from home, we’re here! 😁 Tell me…. (to Piero)

PIERO= …a girl with a poster and it said “Jack I’m pregnant”….in my opinion Jack is still running!! 😂

CATTELAN= He crossed the finish line straight ahead!
You run (to Ignazio and Gianluca) No?

IGNAZIO= With the ….. I can’t say (he means the motorbike)

GIANLUCA= Like Forrest Gump we run. 😁

CATTELAN= Like Forrest Gump, he was more I’ll reach you later.

IGNAZIO= He invited me and I said that if they let me come on a motorbike, I’ll come. I do it on my motorbike.

CATTELAN= Yes, is it valid?

PIERO= No, it’s not valid.

CATTELAN= You can’t, you can’t! Listen, how did Sanremo go? We are a bit running out of the long queue at Sanremo, all those who came told us about their Sanremo trauma, spontaneously.

IGNAZIO= But this year or in general?

PIERO= We are among the last (to come to his show)

CATTELAN= Yes, maybe someone will still come…

IGNAZIO= The last one missing is Bugo who is still looking for him. 😁 (a Sanremo singer who left the festival a couple of years ago)

CATTELAN= But it was from a few years ago…

GIANLUCA= He stayed a little behind…

CATTELAN= How did it go for you this year?

GIANLUCA= It went well, we are very satisfied. We presented a slightly different piece, let’s say. Always coherent, but we wanted to show our three personalities, so the group is a single entity but with different voices and different personalities and we are satisfied..

PIERO= In fact the title is self-referential (he’s joking) obviously: Capolavoro (Masterpiece) !

GIANLUCA= Obviously.

CATTELAN= Certainly a masterpiece.

IGNAZIO= Talk about us, yes! Talk about Gianluca’s beauty……😂

CATTELAN= …of Ignazio’s friendliness and Piero’s physical prowess.🤣🤣

IGNAZIO= In what sense? 😳

CATTELAN= In the sense that everyone has their own peculiarity: beauty, friendliness and athleticism.

You are among the Italians most accustomed to the big stages around the world, there is still something that excites you, perhaps when you return here to Italy, paradoxically even things that are a little smaller, but that give you an emotion.

IGNAZIO= Good pasta! 😁

CATTELAN= Ah, eat well!!

PIERO= We received the greatest emotion a few days ago, we announced three concerts at the Verona Arena that we will now do in May and now we have opened the fourth date because they were sold out. This is not a compliment we pay ourselves, this is a way to thank the public who allow us to hold concerts, to fill magical places, we have many in Italy, but above all who have allowed us to celebrate 15 years of our careers , because without them, seriously, we couldn’t have done anything.

GIANLUCA= There is a topic that is close to my heart, because it is often known that when you expose yourself and do our job, including you, there was also an episode with Ale (He mean that this thing Cattelan also suffered), like us who said we were separating…

CATTELAN= Ah, yes…

GIANLUCA= Now we know that people need gossip, everyone wants to know but…..

IGNAZIO= But it wasn’t fake that we were together, that we have to continue…

CATTELAN= The only request is if by any chance you really have to split up, can you do it here now, so you can give us a bit of…🤣🤣

GIANLUCA= A shot in popularity.

CATTELAN= Of course, the important thing is that you don’t do it tomorrow by someone else. If you want to do it, it’s now or never! 😂

PIERO= Unfortunately we announce that Il Volo will be together for many years. 🥰🥰🥰

CATTELAN= Okay, you still gave some news!!
I must say that it made an impression on me when I was preparing the interview, but even now, when you think about 15 years of career, that’s a long time.

GIANLUCA= There are many, eh!!

CATTELAN= Also because you are young anyway, 15 years is a long time.

You also participated in a charity operation in 2010 where there were some incredible names and you were obviously 14 years younger than you are now.

PIERO= Wait…

GIANLUCA= There are some photos that testify to the embarrassing period of our career but, it was the beginning...(he means embarrassing because they were kids)

PIERO= But we have to tell it…

GIANLUCA= Yes, I was telling…

PIERO= Do you know that now on Netflix, can we say Netflix on Rai2?

CATTELAN= Yes, yes of course, there is also “Salutava Sempre” if you want to see it, a wonderful show. (Cattelan’s program on Netflix). 😁

PIERO= Very beautiful.

CATTELAN= Did you see it?

PIERO= Since February 26th, can you see that I am informed? It came out on February 26th, right?

CATTELAN= March 15th, okay it doesn’t matter, the important thing is that you saw it and that you liked it.

PIERO= However, you know there is the documentary on Netflix.

CATTELAN= On We Are The Word? Yes.

PIERO= About We Are The WorLd, I watched it a few days ago, while I was at home on the sofa, I was moved because those studies, Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, we lived them, we were there and somehow I had a blast from the past why in 2011????

CATTELAN= 2010

GIANLUCA= When there was the earthquake in Haiti, the second one was organized after the first 25 years of We Are The World, with all the artists, there was Justin Bieber, there was Beyoncé…

CATTELAN= Miley Cyrus??

GIANLUCA= Miley Cyrus was there..

CATTELAN = Celine Dion…

GIANLUCA= Yes, the problem was that we were at the beginning of our career, we were children…

PIERO= ….with scarves bought at the flea market I don’t know where???

CATTELAN= In fact I ask you: “Can I show you the photos?”

PIERO= Nooooo.

GIANLUCA= YES

CATTELAN= Oh well, you were little, guys!

IGNAZIO= They were the embarrassing ones (Piero and Gianluca)

CATTELAN= This route, we have one with Myles Cyrus, who is also very young anyway.

PIERO= But look at the scarf? 😂

CATTELAN= Here they are, Miley Cyrus and Il Volo! Approximately how old were you?

PIERO= 15/16 years
(he goes towards the photo) I don’t understand, but these two scarves here….(his and Ignazio’s)

CATTELAN= You can see there was some air..

PIERO= (indicating Gianluca) Look at him with the French scarf….he was already ahead. 🤣

IGNAZIO= You too were in transition between whipped cream and Myles Cyrus, understand?

CATTELAN= Yes, whipped cream.

GIANLUCA= In fact we had to call ourselves “The Miracle” then we thought Il Volo. 😂

CATTELAN= Il Volo is fine. There is also a photo with Celion Dion I saw, really incredible names. Here it is wow!

PIERO= We never left our scarves behind.😁

GIANLUCA= Guys, Celine also wore a scarf.

CATTELAN= Of course because you had launched a trend, no one was immune now!

PIERO= But do you have another one?

CATTELAN= Maybe, wait there’s Will I Am..

PIERO= Ah, the one from the Black Eyed Peas

CATTELAN= Will I Am, oh, there are always scarves.

GIANLUCA= But these were the elegant white scarves in the evening. 😂

IGNAZIO= Guys, I don’t know if you remember where we were here?

PIERO= At Jimmy Iovine’s house

CATTELAN= Jimmy Iovine of course, my goodness!

PIERO= The founder of the beats.

IGNAZIO= It was a crazy party and everyone was there: Cindy Crawford, Lady Gaga, Puff Daddy…everyone!

CATTELAN= As 15-year-old kids, how do you react to an evening like that? That is, were you the ones who stayed in the corner, did you try to interact with the others?

GIANLUCA= In reality we didn’t recognize many of them, we said: “but who is this?” – It’s Puff Daddy….

CATTELAN= You were too young.

GIANLUCA= Yes, too young.

IGNAZIO= At that time Gianluca had a habit (he touches his ear) he looked at everyone like that.😂

CATTELAN= Were you scratching your ears?

GIANLUCA= It was nervousness, I was there watching…. sorry but, forgive me, from school to that one, in five months…

CATTELAN= Madness, it’s madness!

GIANLUCA= …it’s normal for you to stay there, biting your nails….

IGNAZIO= Did you see Gianluca like this. (he scratches his hand with wide eyes) 😂

GIANLUCA= Yes, completely!

CATTELAN= It’s okay, it’s okay.

IGNAZIO= The callus came after some time.

PIERO= Jimmy Iovine organized these parties to introduce Il Volo, who was a new artist who was part of Interscope Records..

CATTELAN= Yes…

PIERO= …..to all these artists..

CATTELAN= Sure.

PIERO= So in some way we were the protagonists of the evening, but we didn’t know anyone, and that nobody is all the artists: Beyoncé etc.

GIANLUCA= Imagine, the first performance of the first album, then the first songs and we also sang IL MONDO, think about you…. and there is a gentleman in his forties, who goes on stage, pats us on the shoulder: “Welcome to our family”….and who was he??? Did you ask Piero who is he? And he told me it was Puff Daddy!

CATTELAN= In short, it went well for you!

GIANLUCA= There is this scene here, which are things that remain indelible, it’s clear.

IGNAZIO= Well, that was the period of fireplaces, wasn’t it? At first we did all the showcases, which was this five song intro show and coincidentally they were all in front of the fireplace.

CATTELAN= Ah, why was it cold?

IGNAZIO= In the fireplaces at home…incredible.

CATTELAN= Beautiful, intimate… you were very young there, but over the years you have taken on a bit of a star attitude, I always read about crazy requests from artists in the dressing rooms. When I presented Eurovision, there was a legend that I asked for strawberries in the dressing room.

PIERO= Who, us?

CATTELAN= No, no me.

PIERO= Oh you?

CATTELAN= I don’t even know if I like strawberries!

PIERO= So, there is a truth that Il Volo in the quick change, which is that cubicle behind the stage….but you have never asked yourself: “But will someone who sings for two hours pee or not?”😂😂😂

CATTELAN= I’ve actually never asked myself that.

PIERO= One day a promoter friend of ours comes to us and asks: “Guys, I’m curious, but why are you asking for cat sand? Who has a cat?” None of the three have cats! 😂🐈‍⬛

GIANLUCA= We are the cats! I swear. 🤣🤣🤣

CATTELAN= I don’t want to know!

PIERO= It’s us, because this thing is intelligent, this request was made by Alessio Guerrieri, our back linear, hello Alessio Guerrieri…

IGNAZIO= Besides being a masterpiece, you are also intelligent….

PIERO= Alessio requested cat sand, because we behind the stage, while Ignazio or Gianluca sings, I go behind and pee in the cat sand. 😂

CATTELAN= On the sand for cats! 😳

PIERO= Of course, sorry! 😂

CATTELAN= Then, you don’t do it directly but there will be someone who arrives with a sandbag behind the stage…..😁

GIANLUCA= Obviously there is also the cat bowl.. 😂😂

CATTELAN= To drink if you are thirsty!!! I don’t know if they wanted to know this!!! It was still very beautiful.

PIERO= However when you see Il Volo singing, imagine what happens behind it….

GIANLUCA= We are back there with the sand….😂

IGNAZIO= We are waiting for you…

CATTELAN= I don’t know if I will be able to look at you with the same eyes!!

So, we went through it quickly before, there was this interview on the radio in which you had a bit of an argument and from there it created an avalanche….

IGNAZIO= I wasn’t there!!!🙄

CATTELAN= Weren’t you there????

IGNAZIO= No, I wasn’t there, I had fallen asleep that morning.

CATTELAN= But do you fall asleep every time you go to see someone? You have a problem!

IGNAZIO = Sometimes…

GIANLUCA= But he arrives on time like 8:30 down…. but basically the next day, so you’re there waiting….😂

IGNAZIO= I have my time zone! 😁

CATTELAN= You need to rest.

GIANLUCA= Look, everything was exploited there, then we didn’t immediately deny it.

CATTELAN= But did it have anything to do with the different vision of music?

PIERO= No, no, I said.

GIANLUCA= No, you have to stop, now I’m pissed (he’s re-enacting the scene from then)

PIERO= I only told the truth guys…

GIANLUCA= I simply said that it’s nice to return to Sanremo and sing Queen and show that we can be something else too.

PIERO= And I said: “Excuse me, if you want to be someone else, speak for yourself, I know who I am….”

GIANLUCA= But you can’t answer me like that in front of everyone!

CATTELAN= Stay calm, or beat yourself up.

PIERO= (to Gianluca) But I can tell you..(Piero hugs Gianluca) 🥰

IGNAZIO= I was sleeping. 😁

GIANLUCA= He was sleeping.

CATTELAN= Ah ah ah, certainly!

CATTELAN= However, we thought of exploiting the topic of the discussion….

GIANLUCA= Enough, enough, break away. (to Piero who continues to hold Gianluca)

CATTELAN= ….we wanted to try to make you play a little game. Each of you sings a different song at the same time as the others, three songs in time, but everyone is singing their own.

PIERO= You know you seem more Marzullo than Cattelan. (Marzullo always does complicated things)

CATTELAN= Maybe it stirs something in your conscience, I don’t know.

PIERO= Each of us sings a song together with the others, but isn’t it the same song?

CATTELAN= Put it this way it seems difficult, but now you’ll see what happens, it’s a game we’re about to play called “I understand it on the fly” (it means I understand it immediately)
Come, come!

CATTELAN= Ok, each member of Il Volo is about to sing a song. Everyone will sing their own but they will do it at the same time.

The competitor who will play with me and I will have to guess the three songs. The only custodian of the correct answers is our Ilenia, can you confirm that you have them there Ilenia?

ILENIA= Yes.

CATTELAN= Perfect, then you will be the one to give us the right or wrong answer. The competitor who is about to play with us must have particular characteristics, he must be as similar to me as possible, also have blue eyes, support Inter, have a surname that ends in N, give a huge round of applause to Pier Paolo Spollon. (an italian actor)

SPOLLON= Good evening, I see they are looking at me strangely.

GIANLUCA= I want to give a round of applause to the Street Clerks (the band) because without them this program would be a film without a soundtrack.

BAND= Did you see? Other than Coachella, Coachella. 😁😁 Thanks Gianluca!

CATTELAN= It would be a bad film without the soundtrack.

SPOLLON= Can I get out of the embarrassment for a second? I saw them (Il Volo) looking at me and thinking….but who the hell is this?

But you must not know anything about me.. (he means that the game is not on his person)

PIERO= But did I see you in Doc or not? (Italian television series)

SPOLLON= More or less.

CATTELAN= That’s right, yes!

SPOLLON= The only thing you need to know is that I’m the one who works with Luca Argentero (Italian actor), the one over there.

CATTELAN= He’s a fake doctor. (he impersonates a doctor in the TV series)

SPOLLON= Exactly!

CATTELAN= So, the guys from Il Volo are about to sing. I’ll give a quick recap of the rules, they each sing a song, but at the same time, it will be up to us to try to understand the three titles of the songs. We have a small blackboard that we will have to write on.

SPOLLON= And you called this game for me?

CATTELAN= Because I like to win. Are you ready guys?

PIERO= Wait, I’ll fix this (ear microphone)

SPOLLON= And what is this for? (one button)

CATTELAN= They put this but it’s useless, we crush it but it’s useless!
Ready, go!

(the three songs start, difficult to recognize them)

CATTELAN= Damn I miss the first one! At that time…

GIANLUCA= But did you in the audience understand? – Yes-

CATTELAN= Really? So I’ll play mine, I’ll show them here. Mine are:
LOVE ME TENDER but I didn’t understand it, I just know that Gianluca likes it and so I tried, then SEI BELLISSIMA and UN AMORE COSÌ GRANDE.

PIERO= Wait, who sang “Sei Bellissima”…..

CATTELAN= “Sei Bellissima”: Ignazio, “Un Amore Così Grande”: Piero and Gianluca : “Love me Tender.”

PIERO= Well done!!

SPOLLON= I’d say you did a really good job, congratulations…

CATTELAN= But what did you write?

SPOLLON= You guessed them all, well done, we have a winner…so I wrote in abbreviation:
You’re Belliss+++ and that was it, I wrote Presley because I felt it but I’m not convinced it’s Love Me Tender, maybe it’s Falling in Love….

GIANLUCA= Great, he got it! Great!

SPOLLON= I didn’t understand the last one and I wrote: Caruso!

CATTELAN= So, because a Caruso is always good! Ilenia?

ILENIA= You were wrong, you and him too.

CATTELAN= But what is the way to deliver results? Which are the right ones? Read there.

ILENIA= Piero: “Un Amore Così Grande”,
Ignazio: “ Sei Bellissima”,
Gianluca: “Can’t help falling in love”.

CATTELAN= Damn, but you got it right.
Okay, 2 to 1.

SPOLLON= No, I also understood “Sei Bellissima” and Presley.

CATTELAN= Are you ready (to the public) – Yes-

You can also help us if you think of something, we can cheat easily, don’t worry!
Guys….Ignazio the headphones…

IGNAZIO= Go…

CATTELAN= Whenever you want….(three more songs begin…difficult to understand some…Gianluca gives help to Spollon)….But come on…

SPOLLON= Is there a jury?

CATTELAN= No, it’s me.
So for this round, as far as I’m concerned it is made up of:
MERAVIGLIOSA CREATURA
ALMENO TU NELL’UNIVERSO
ROCKET MAN by Elthon John.

PIERO= Applause, applause!!

SPOLLON= I start from the bottom: ROCKET MAN and I guessed it before you (Gianluca) said Rocket Man, then I wrote DIVERSO (He wanted to write Universo), and then I wrote Nannini. (he means Meravigliosa Creatura)

CATTELAN= It doesn’t apply and I would say that this is mine too…

SPOLLON= Ilenia, can we say that Nannini is fine?

ILENIA= Yes, it’s fine.

IGNAZIO= Sorry, it would be like saying: What show do you like by Alessandro Cattelan? Cattelan! But what does it mean?

CATTELAN= Ignazio is right, it’s not worth saying Nannini. Oh well, last round, whoever wins this one wins it all.

SPOLLON= Are we tied?

CATTELAN= I would be ahead but I’ll leave you tied. Guys, let’s do the last one, whenever you want! (last three songs begin)

So, what did you write?

SPOLLON= You go first, you have a clean face but you continue to spy.

CATTELAN= I have a long eye. 😁

IGNAZIO= Yes, he spied!

SPOLLON= But it’s bad for you, because I was the last one in the class, so if you copy from me….😁

CATTELAN= Go, what did you write?

SPOLLON= I wrote: IL MONDO, I understood it, then I wrote E POI…
So, what did you write?

CATTELAN= Me too.

SPOLLON= And then I (Gianluca) didn’t understand.

CATTELAN= I wrote TI PENSO but it was IL MONDO, you’re right, so E POI and then I wrote A WONDERFUL WORLD.

GIANLUCA= Ah, did you hear it?

CATTELAN = Of course! Piero you were disturbed by the other two, that’s how it went. Guys now let’s do the math to see who won, the important thing is that you give a big round of applause for Il Volo!!

Thank you so much for being with us, guys, it’s always a great pleasure to see you, Gianlu, come here (and hug Gianluca). Happy world tour, where are you going now?

GIANLUCA= China, Japan, then the Arena of Verona and we will tour our new album which is AD ASTRA.

PIERO= First album of unreleased songs.

CATTELAN= I’m in China and Japan, I don’t know if I can come, but I’ll see you at the Verona Arena. Best wishes (for Easter).

Best wishes ladies and gentlemen, Il Volo!!

And here are some short videos of the rehearsals for our guys’ entrance.

A special guitarist: Ignazio.

And three songs at the same time!!

Happiness 🥰🥰

This presence from Cattelan is also nice, but these guys are unstoppable, a new date has been announced on their Asian tour which will start soon and therefore SHANGHAI in China has been added.

Also two instore dates have also been given, one in Verona (which I will participate in) and one in Naples!!

But then there will be participation in the program On The Road Verso il Giubileo, and Domenica In da Mara Venier, and then Radio Italia live, so stay with us, there will still be a lot to read.

See you soon: Daniela 🤗

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IGNAZIO+MICHELLE AND MORE by Daniela

March 24, 2024 pitterpat0 30 Comments

We left Ignazio and Michelle tenderly in love and with the promise of marriage, but how are things progressing between them?

I’m sure you are already aware of everything, but since not everyone has news on Facebook I want to update those who haven’t had any.

Things between them seem to be going swimmingly ❤️❤️❤️❤️

❤️❤️❤️ and then Michelle published this short video which I will translate for you:

Click Here to watch the Facebook reel

MICHELLE= Love??

IGNAZIO= My love!

MICHELLE= A good news!

IGNAZIO= What happened?

MICHELLE = I’ve chosen who will make my wedding dress!

IGNAZIO= Nooooo

MICHELLE= Yes, Elisabetta Garuffi (stylist) of Tosca (atelier in Bologna)

IGNAZIO= of Tosca!!!

MICHELLE= And I’m going now…

IGNAZIO= That is now, in this moment? …and I can’t come???

MICHELLE= You can’t, you can’t!

In the following video, published on Instagram by Tosca spose, at the beginning we see part of the video with Michelle with Ignazio and then continues with Michelle’s visit to the atelier.

What an emotion!!

Click Here to view the Instagram story

And this photo was posted by Michelle and there are these two special comments. ❤️❤️

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MICHELLE = I didn’t imagine that a dress could excite so much! Thanks to Tosca Spose❤️

IGNAZIO= It’s all starting to take shape! I LOVE YOU

So their beautiful story is progressing well and the preparations for the wedding are also progressing, the date of which is not yet known but I assume it could be this summer…..I can already smell orange blossoms!!

And Ignazio also received great satisfaction:

Giacomo Rossi, a young Italian vocal coach who approached listening to Il Volo by reviewing the covers of Sanremo evening and saying that Il Volo deserved the first prize, declared that he liked them a lot and would review them again and therefore he did so by analyzing MY IMMORTAL that Ignazio sang during the TUTTI PER UNO (ALL FOR ONE) concerts in the Arena. What can I say, big compliments to Ignazio from Giacomo Rossi, but you can read for yourself by activating the subtitles.

For me, I am doubly proud of what Giacomo says, who although Italian did not know Il Volo well but only because of how it had always been presented by the Italian press, furthermore Giacomo Rossi’s usual genre of music is Heavy Metal and therefore a completely different genre from pop – lyrical of our boys, but still as a good and serious vocal coach he recognizes the skill and study of our boys.

Thanks Giacomo Rossi and many compliments to Ignazio. 👏👏👏

Truly beautiful compliments for Ignazio, but he is not the only one who has been the subject of review these days, in fact another Italian vocal coach: Salvatore Cilia, has reviewed Gianluca while he sings Capolavoro alone and here is the final result which I will translate for you!!

Gianluca in 2024 showed off vocal control above the average of Italian singers.

Starting from a half voice, in chest voice (M1), perfectly intoning every single sound.

To then masterfully connect it to a breath-controlled falsetto….
With a voice always forward.

Singing the G3 (a challenging note for a baritone) successively in the Mix without showing any vocal effort.

Maintaining perfect phrasing, changing the dynamics of the sound naturally and confidently…..
Without ever disconnecting the breath from the diaphragm.

Really a big difference compared to his beginnings when he was still looking for his vocal identity.
RATING 10 AND PRAISE

👏👏👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Wow, what can I say, magnificent and well-deserved review for Gianluca. 👏👏👏

I believe that this is also one of the immediate effects of Sanremo, the greater attention of Italian vocal coaches and I must say that their reviews are beautiful!!

Meanwhile, the release date of the new AD ASTRA CD is approaching and Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca showed us that they are busy signing autographs for the new album.

Click Here to view the Facebook video

We hope that sales are high and above all that people like the album, there is a lot of expectation.

The newspapers that published numerous articles and interviews on Il Volo during the Sanremo period continue to publish new interviews and I would like to point out that of the weekly GRAZIA which dedicated its front page to Il Volo.

I’ll translate the interview for you.

Even the radios frequently broadcast Capolavoro!

Click Here for the Grazia newspaper article

IL VOLO: Music unites us. Every day we work to be a trio.

Protagonists of the digital cover of Grazia, Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca told us about the 15 years of their career, from the luck of the first meeting to the daily work to keep the trio together.

They met as little more than children and today the three guys from Il Volo, Piero Barone, 30, Ignazio Boschetto, 29, and Gianluca Ginoble, 29, celebrate their 15 years of artistic collaboration. It was 2009 when they presented themselves as soloists at the singing talent show for children hosted by Antonella Clerici Ti lascio una canzone on Rai Uno. They didn’t know each other, but the program’s authors thought that a trio of talented little tenors like them could work. And that was their luck.

After the rumors of the last few days that they were in crisis, we met them to create this digital cover and they told us how to live in a trio having different personalities.

The three musicians were the only Italian artists invited by Quincy Jones to We are the World for Haiti in 2010, they sang in front of Pope Francis and sold millions of records. We saw them on stage during the last Sanremo Festival, a competition they won in 2015, and on March 29th they will present their first album of unreleased songs, entitled Ad Astra.

The World Tour will start at the end of April which will also take them to China and Japan, in May they will be protagonists of Tutti Per Uno on Canale 5, four evenings at the Verona Arena with numerous guests. Then from June to September they will be engaged in a 20-date tour in the most spectacular locations in Italy and in autumn they will perform in the main European capitals. When they are not on stage, they live in different places: Gianluca in Abruzzo, Piero divides his time between Bologna and Agrigento and Ignazio in Bologna. And connected via zoom from their respective homes, they tell their stories.

You started singing together at just over 14 years old and are still close, a rarity for a successful group. What’s your secret?

Ignazio: The passion for music and for our work.

Gianluca: Ours was an arranged marriage, like those that were used in the past, with the luck that we then truly fell in love. Because you can only continue if you feel love and passion for the people around you and if you really believe in the project. Aside from historical groups, many bands have actually broken up. We are different, but there is always dialogue between us. Each of us has our own personality: in difference and contrast there is growth.

Piero: When I walk down the street with my friends I often hear people whispering, “Look, it’s the guy from Volo”. Usually they don’t even remember our last name. But that’s right, it doesn’t matter, because our goal was and is to be the Volo trio. And every morning we work for this. Living together is different, requires commitment and involves a certain maturity. Aside from a few misunderstandings, when there is a lot of confidence we can tell each other frankly what we think. We have always been used to open dialogue and have never held grudges, we are satisfied with our path together and we will continue for many years in the future. I always say that, if one day I meet my soulmate, I already know the rules for a lasting relationship: respect, listening and compromise.

How would you describe yourself?

Ignazio: Piero is perspicacious, stubborn, ambitious and altruistic, all strengths that can also become flaws. Gianluca is the perfectionist of the group, very attentive to details and stubborn at industrial levels. All these characteristics unite us, because I am like that too, only for me I would add that I am a little touchy. We had the great fortune of recognizing our talents very early and of being in the same place, at the same time on that show. And after leaving the talent show we had a film life.

You have become very popular all over the world, including in China and Japan. What is the thing that struck you most about Japanese culture?

Ignazio: Great respect for people. During the first concert in Tokyo, on stage I said to Piero: “Look, they’re asleep”. Instead they had their eyes closed, absorbed by the music, and at the end of the song they applauded.”

Piero: We went to China in 2015 and sang for their New Year’s Eve, we went to Japan several times and that country changed me.

Gianluca: Abroad they really like our music. In Japan they also love a certain type of Italian elegance, like that of many artists who have made history, from Luciano Pavarotti to Frank Sinatra. Now Italian music is moving in opposite directions and even we, who are only 30 years old, have decided to take some risks by putting ourselves out there and trying to do what we have never done. In the last album there is a duet with Irama, one of the most beautiful pieces on the album, which contains all unreleased songs.

Where did the title Ad Astra come from?

Gianluca: As in the Latin saying “Per aspera ad astra”, through sacrifice you reach the stars and all your goals. It was a message we wanted to send to the younger ones. We also talk about life, how we have built the sense of the group in these 15 years of career and our personal growth.

Piero: Today we think that we can achieve a lot very easily and we think more about money. When I was little I don’t remember any numbers, our dream was to sing. I’m not saying that everyone should sacrifice themselves to reach a goal, but it’s right to know.

Have you always been so wise?

Ignazio: The education we received at home certainly helped us, but it was also the life we have led up to here, traveling and getting to know the world in its thousand facets, that made us grow faster.

Gianluca: We’re also a little crazy. We have been traveling since we were 14, we eat everything without problems, we have been to Rio De Janeiro at least 15 times, to America 50 times. At 30 we have already lived a hundred lives.

Piero: For this reason we could live anywhere and traveling has taught us to be open to other cultures. The traveler is always ready to accept what a place, a people, a culture offers you. But in the East I will struggle to eat jellyfish again: they are my terror when I dive into the water.

And now I propose this short video of Il Volo with Alexa (voice assistant), very nice, Ignazio Piero and Gianluca spoke with Alexa and now they listen to their messages recorded in all the Alexas in Italy.

For one day, anyone in Italy who has Alexa can listen to the voices of Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca directly in their home, I have Alexa and I did it, it was exciting. 🥰

Click Here to watch the Facebook reel

IGNAZIO= Alexa good morning.

ALEXA= Good morning, today is a truly incredible day, the three guys from Il Volo came to visit me in my cloudy sky.
I’ll leave the microphone to you, the stage is all yours!

IGNAZIO= Good morning everyone, we wanted to thank you for all the support and love you sent us during the festival.

PIERO= We came by to say hello and to tell you that our new Sanremo single, Capolavoro, is contained in our first new album of unreleased songs entitled AD ASTRA

GIANLUCA= And it will be released on March 29th. We can’t wait for you to listen to it. We’ll talk to you very soon, but in the meantime you can continue listening to Capolavoro.

ALEXA= Legendary!!
If you want to listen to it, ask me: Play Capolavoro!

Little thing, while yet another car advertisement was scrolling on TV, something caught my attention…..but of course, the background music is Capolavoro!!

And now this final gem, when Il Volo was at Iene, recorded this reading of comments on Il Volo. This video was published by Le Iene now and it is truly hilarious. I think Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio had no idea what they were supposed to read, because their reaction is really big laughter, and it’s nice to see them so self-deprecating. There’s a lot to laugh about!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

I translate for you!!

Click Here to see the Mediaset video

1) GIANLUCA= Great those of Il Volo who carry the name of Italy high in the world. My favorite is Ethan, but Damiano isn’t bad either…. (these are the names of two of Maneskin’s singers) 🤣🤣🤣

We also have Victoria (the female guitarist of Maneskin…. but it’s Ignazio), look how she has changed! 😂😂😂

PIERO= Our version of Victoria 😂🤣

2) IGNAZIO= **One thing in four, with those of Il Volo…..can it be done or VOLO (flight) with the imagination??** 😂😂😂

No! Fly (in Italian: vola) away, no, no…..😂😂😂

3) PIERO= But since Il Volo is so popular abroad…..why do we want it back??🤣🤣🤣

We have an Italian passport!🤣🤣🤣

4) GIANLUCA=

Gianluca the handsome 😍
Piero the good 🥰
Ignazio the bastard 😱
When I see them I need the defibrillator. 🤣😂🤣

PIERO= No, you need an ophthalmologist 😂🤣😂

5) PIERO= Can I get engaged to Il Volo?
In the sense that I get engaged to each of the three in turn? Are you jealous?😍😂

IGNAZIO= I would be busy, so no. 😉

GIANLUCA= I’m here in the summer (in the sense that he’s available in the summer) 😂

PIERO= Me all year round. 🤣

6) I+P= My favorite band? IL Volo
My favorite writer? Fabio Volo (an Italian writer)
My biggest fear? The flight (Il volo in Italian)
Are you saying I have a problem?

PIERO= Yes. 😂

GIANLUCA= I would say yes.😂

7) IGNAZIO= Il Volo is about to disband…..?I want to hear a loud NO from the chest!

PIERO= This thing has come out that Il Volo is breaking up, I don’t know who spread it, but it’s not true. 🙄 Where are we going alone? 👏

IGNAZIO= I’m just telling you that the wind takes words away, the facts remain. The facts: we are together. 👏👏👏

GIANLUCA= And we are not facts. (play on the pun) 😂😂😂

8) GIANLUCA= But do you think Il Volo was annoyed by Angelina Mango’s victory? (lei è la vincitrice di Sanremo) In my opinion, yes! 😁😤😤

PIERO= He nods his head. 😁

IGNAZIO= We didn’t get angry because she won, but because someone else won and not us! 🤪😤

GIANLUCA= No it’s not true, it’s not true, it’s not true, because otherwise people think: “presumptuous, they always want to win” 😂😂

IGNAZIO= Yes, yes yes!! 😂

PIERO= But if you wanted to win…(to Gianluca) 😁

GIANLUCA= It’s not true! 🙄

IGNAZIO= We argue again, so then they say we broke up!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

There are many appointments in the next few days for Il Volo, intense days of commitments and therefore there will be many posts to read.

And here I am at the second event, the CD signing.

It happened on the same day as the launch of the new album..

The meeting was scheduled for 5:30 pm so in the early afternoon my husband and I left, there wasn’t a long way to go.

I also took with me my Il Volo 10th anniversary CD, which doesn’t have their signatures so I would have taken the opportunity to get it signed.

As soon as we arrived we saw that the event was taking place in the small internal square inside the shops, where a small stage had been set up and barriers marked a mandatory route for people who had to line up with the CD.

People continued to arrive and shortly after 5:30 pm, here they were, I made a short video, but I propose the video that was made by the organizers of the event, which is obviously better seen.

What a thrill as Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio entered, acclaimed by the people!! ❤️❤️❤️

Click Here to view the video

I took a still image of the video to show you where my husband and I were!!

The guys had to sit at the table and we in the audience had to parade behind them and while the three of them signed the CD, the official photographer took the photo. The time to stay with them was short, but better than nothing.

Before sitting down to start signing, Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca approached all the disabled people who were in the front row in front of the barriers and exchanged a few words with them, took photos and signed their CDs.

Then the signing began for all the people and obviously, as we approached we could take some photos, here are mine.

As I approached the stage, I noticed Torpedine talking assiduously to a man, I came forward, shook his hand and complimented him by saying that the songs were beautiful. He thanked me, I didn’t think to take a photo with him…..damn!!

And now our moment has come. What an emotion!

We positioned ourselves behind the boys, my husband between Piero and Ignazio and me between Ignazio and Gianluca.

The photographer had taken the shot and was motioning for us to continue the journey.

My husband told me that he managed to tell Piero and Ignazio that they should have won in Sanremo and Piero thanked him and Ignazio made an expression as if to say that it wasn’t their fault.

That’s all, very little and with all that noise of voices, it’s impossible to say and understand anything else.

And here is our photo together, it’s not beautiful, but that’s enough.

All finished, as we walked away, one more look at the people who continued to sign.

Radio Italia is certainly a very different event, but of course, if you have the chance to go to this one, why give up! 😉

And the next day Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca had the same event in the province of Naples, in short, a completely different place, only two events, one in the north and one in the south of Italy.

Here is the reportage of the event at the “VULCANO BUONO” shopping center.

The public response was excellent.

The event was also covered by local TV which made an excellent report of it where he talks about Il Volo, the new CD and their tour, at the end the director of the shopping center talks about the events and projects that will be held in VULCANO BUONO.

All the Italian news talked about the release of the new CD. There are endless interviews and appearances on TV, some of which I still have to translate for you, but events follow one another so quickly that it is impossible to keep up.

Meanwhile, on the day of the CD’s release, Il Volo published this beautiful photo together with all the authors and producers toasting, a truly beautiful company with many dreams that we hope will come true.

Luca Faraone, one of the authors and exactly the boy with the glasses and the open mouth, in the photo next to Gianluca and Ignazio wrote these words.

You can find me on PER ASPERA, CHIARO DI LUNA and FRAGMENTS OF THE UNIVERSE.

Working on these songs was really cool, because it gave me the opportunity to measure myself with aspects that I rarely deal with in the mainstream.

Great cinematic compositions, complex productions, choral arrangements, orchestrations, I had fun like a child. And the first reason above all why I am grateful for this experience is independent of music, and is the opportunity I had to build new relationships with wonderful people.

Thanks to Il Volo for wanting me so strongly on this album, thanks infinitely to Ernesto, without whom this could not have existed, a person with an immense heart.

Thanks to Stefano Marletta, Michael Tenisci, Patti Carmelo and all those who contributed with their art.

Lastly and not because of the size of the mullet (it’s the boy with the striped shirt next to him in the photo, he has a lot of hair that he keeps collecting) the discovery of the Edwyn Roberts discoveries.

Praise God of songs for bringing us together.

Well…..let me know what you think, come on.

In the photo above Gianluca and Fuca Faraone.

In the photo, Ignazio has fun with the authors Edwyn Roberts and Stefano Marletta. 😂😂

Remember that for this project many very successful young authors were called here in Italy, but they are used to other musical genres, so it was a great challenge for them too and the result is excellent!

The promotion of the CD can also be seen externally, here at the Milan train station, look at that beautiful poster.

And here, Roma train station.

And how beautiful is this video published by Gianluca while he sings FRAMMENTI DI UNIVERSO in his car.

Among the many interviews, the one published by FQ Magazine, written by Andrea Conti, which I translate for you, is very beautiful.

Click Here for the FQ Magazine article

Il Volo to FqMagazine: “Get used to fake news, we will be together for a long time and we hope forever. Prejudices? You can’t please everyone.”

Meanwhile, CAPOLAVORO has been certified Gold Record here in Italy!! Nice satisfactions. 👏👏👏

And after a week, the AD ASTRA CD is first in Italy for vinyl sales and fifth in total sales, great guys, full steam ahead!! 👏👏👏

And now laugh with these two short videos… these guys make me die laughing. 🤣🤣🤣

(Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero read some questions, as always they laugh and joke and immediately Ignazio makes a joke to Piero.) 🤣🤣🤣

PIERO= I have to read the first one.

GIANLUCA= Can we read too?

PIERO= (he reads) I have never lied to one of you. No, I lied! 😁

GIANLUCA= Okay, everyone, white (innocent) lies are told, come on. 😁

PIERO= For the balance of a group, it is sometimes necessary to lie.

GIANLUCA= So it also works in relationships?

PIERO= This is your business!! 😳

GIANLUCA= No, no, I’m telling you, I’m asking you the same question, ours is a relationship.

PIERO= So, I said “a group”, the relationship with the partner is one and one.

GIANLUCA= It’s a dual relationship, ours is a triad. oh well, you have to lie, come on. 🤪

(now he reads the question) I have never made up an excuse not to take a selfie with a fan.

No, no, in fact we are perhaps too open to that, aren’t we? 😍

IGNAZIO= Yes absolutely, always. 😍

GIANLUCA= It’s true. 😍 (To Piero) See how I’m faster than you?

PIERO= I have never danced alone in my room.

No, of course I danced alone in my room, of course.

IGNAZIO= Always and also in déshabillé, (in underwear, or undressed)

GIANLUCA= With the “glié” (Ignazio pronounces déshabillé incorrectly making the letter G heard and Gianluca makes fun of him)

PIERO= With the “glié” (Piero also makes fun of Ignazio’s pronunciation)

IGNAZIO= I never thought about leaving my trio.

True, absolutely true, I never thought so. 🥰

GIANLUCA= But none ever.🥰

IGNAZIO= With sincerity.🥰

PIERO= This question is incredible…. I have never dreamed of a feat with Ghè.

GIANLUCA= (Piero pronounces Ghè and Gianluca corrects him) Gué, who is Ghé? Gué not Ghé. 🤣🤣

PIERO= I call him Gué Pequeno.😂 (He is a singer)

GIANLUCA= Gué 🤣

PIERO= And I call him Ghé Pequeno.😂

GIANLUCA= Gué, bye Ghé. 🤣

PIERO= Hi Ghé. No, I have to tell you that I thought about it, sometimes you know when you think of particular, strange duets….

GIANLUCA= Ghé…. (Gian insists with the wrong pronunciation and Ignazio dies laughing) 😂😂😂 PIERO= And with Ghé I thought so (I think it would be a truly absurd duet and perhaps Ignazio laughs at that too)…😂😂😂

PIERO= (he reads) I have never lied to one of you.

No, I lied! 😁

GIANLUCA= It’s a dual relationship, ours is a triad.
oh well, you have to lie, come on. 🤪

GIANLUCA= It’s true. 😍
(To Piero) See how I’m faster than you?

PIERO= This question is incredible….
I have never dreamed of a feat with Ghè.

PIERO= Hi Ghé.
No, I have to tell you that I thought about it, sometimes you know when you think of particular, strange duets….

GIANLUCA= Ghé….
(Gian insists with the wrong pronunciation and Ignazio dies laughing) 😂😂😂

PIERO= And with Ghé I thought so (I think it would be a truly absurd duet and perhaps Ignazio laughs at that too)…😂😂😂

GIANLUCA= Gué let’s do something together, the time has come, come on! (here in Italy Gué is doing duets with several singers)

IGNAZIO= I apologize to you, deeply.

I have never ghosted a girl.
(everyone laughs because this question actually happened to Gianluca who is considered the conqueror of the group) 😂😂😂