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Hey Everyone!
Hope you’re having a great weekend!
Il Volo has been nominated for the 2015 Caruso Award by Raffaele Lauro, a politician in the Italian Senate (Raffaele Lauro Wikipedia Page).
According to Commune di Sorrento (Commune di Sorrento Article),”the Caruso Award is a recognition given to a personality of the artistic world of Italian culture that has particularly helped to spread the art and Italian culture in the world. A prize, Caruso, which in previous years has gone to giants of the art scene, as Andrea Bocelli, Lucio Dalla, Claudio Mattone, Massimo Ranieri and Carlo Fracci.”
Congratulations, Piero, Gianluca, and Ignazio! We’ll be waiting to hear the official word–but of course we always knew that you belonged in the company of these artists. 😉
According to Piero, the time for vacation is now over, and it looks like they are getting ready to hit the road running. Il Volo is heading the China before they go to the San Remo Festival. They will be guests in a Chinese national music festival on January 26 which will be televised live on Chinese National TV. You can read the article in Italian or All About Il Volo’s summation by clicking the links below.
New Album News
The Guys are still recording–a process that obviously takes waaaayyyy more time than I ever thought. But it seems like the release date for the long awaited album will be sometime after San Remo, giving me hope that my hunch was correct: that the song they will be singing at San Remo will be on the album. It is talked about a bit in the above article as does Ignazio in an interview that was released recently. Stay tuned for a transcript of his interview.
Happy Sunday, everyone!
~~ Kelly
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As Gianluca has said, they are officially participating in the 2015 Sanremo Music Festival:
This is quite an honor for Il Volo as they had to apply and be chosen to appear at this festival. They will be singing a song written by Francesco Boccia, “Grande Amore”, and he seems quite excited about it:
Some more details about the upcoming competition can be read here —> Italy Rai Reveals Twenty Sanremo Campioni Candidates from Eurovision Italy (thanks, LiJoy)
and here —> San Remo 2015 Special Commission Members Revealed (Eurovision Italy; LiJoy),
and finally, here —> Sanremo 2015: Everything You Need to Know (Oikotimes.com; LiJoy)
The Sanremo Music Festival is the oldest music festival in the world, the place where the Italian music was born and spread its notes all over the world (Italian Prestige Tour).
According to the Italy World Club website, “The Festival of Sanremo is a singing event held annually in Sanremo, Italy during the winter season. It is the most famous pop music event in Italy and a major media event on Italian television.
It currently takes place at the Teatro Ariston between late February and early March. Originally it was held in the ballroom of the San Remo Casino near the end of January. The festival is essentially a singing competition among performers presenting original songs in premiere, never performed publicly before, composed by Italian authors, and voted by juries and/or by popular vote.”
The rules are as follows (loose interpretation provided by LiJoy)
To learn more about the festival’s history and see past winners, visit Italy World Club <— here.
San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy, best known as a tourist spot on the Italian Riviera. Click here for the entire Wikipedia article — > San Remo Article.
Per the well known Trip Advisor website: “With a comfortable climate that varies little throughout the year, Sanremo has been a favored tourist destination since the mid-1700s, attracting visitors from all over Europe, including heavy contingents of Russian and British aristocracy. For many, the long stretch of beach is the main attraction, but don’t miss the impressive casino or the hillside medieval section of town called La Pigna.”
Sounds like a place I need to add to my Bucket List; what about you? You can begin planning your dream trip with Italian Prestige Tour Website, or Trip Advisor , both websites which were used to gain information for this article.
Congraulations, Guys! 2015 hasn’t even arrived, and you’re off to an awesome start! We can’t wait to hear, “Grande Amore”!
~~ Kelly