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Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli (; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor and multi-instrumentalist. He was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of 12, Bocelli became completely blind, following a brain hemorrhage resulting from a football accident. After performing evenings in piano bars and competing in local singing contests, Bocelli signed his first recording contract with the Sugar Music label. He rose to fame in 1994, winning the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera". Since 1994, Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 75 million records worldwide. He has had success as a crossover performer, bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts. His album ''Romanza'' is one of the best-selling albums of all time, while '' Sacred Arias'' is the biggest selling classical album by any solo artist in history. '' My Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Christmas
''My Christmas'' is the thirteenth studio album and first Christmas album released by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The album is a compilation of seasonal holiday favorites, mainly in English, with a few selections in Italian, German, and French, produced by multiple Grammy Award winner David Foster, containing duets with Mary J. Blige, Natalie Cole, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and The Muppets. It also includes "God Bless Us Everyone", the only original song of the album, which Bocelli recorded for the closing of the 2009 film, ''A Christmas Carol''. A Spanish version of the album, called ''Mi Navidad'', was released November 23, 2009, and a PBS Christmas special of the album, filmed in the Kodak Theatre, was released on DVD December 8, 2010, after airing on PBS stations nationwide. With over 2.2 million copies sold in the last two months of 2009 in the United States alone, the album was the best-selling holiday album of the year, and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanza
''Romanza'' is the first compilation album by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, released internationally in 1997. Although a compilation, ''Romanza'' is considered Bocelli's breakthrough album and remains his most commercially successful to date, topping charts all across Europe and Latin America. With over 17 million copies sold worldwide, it is the best-selling Italian album of all-time, and also one of the best-selling albums by a recording artist in the 1990s. Background The album is a compilation of Bocelli's two previous pop albums, ''Il Mare Calmo della Sera'', released in 1994, and '' Bocelli'', released in 1995. Promotion North America Being Bocelli's first album released in the United States and Canada, the album and Bocelli himself, were heavily promoted. This included Bocelli being featured in Hotel Bellagio's commercials in North America, as well as his voice being heard on its Fountain show. PBS also played a big part in Bocelli' early success in the States, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Con Te Partirò
"Con te partirò" (; "With You I Shall Depart") is an Italian song written by Francesco Sartori (music) and Lucio Quarantotto (lyrics). It was first performed by Andrea Bocelli at the 1995 Sanremo Music Festival and recorded on his album of the same year, '' Bocelli''. The single was first released as an A-side single with " Vivere" in 1995, topping the charts, first in France, where it became one of the best-selling singles of all-time, and then in Belgium, breaking the all-time record sales there. A second version of the song, sung partly in English, released in 1996 as "Time to Say Goodbye", paired Bocelli with British soprano Sarah Brightman, and achieved even greater success, topping charts all across Europe, including Germany, where it became the biggest-selling single in history. Brightman and Bocelli produced a version with Brightman singing in German and Bocelli in Italian, with this version being available on the CD ''Time to Say Goodbye''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sì (Andrea Bocelli Album)
''Sì'' is the sixteenth studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, released on 26 October 2018. It is Bocelli's first album of original material in 14 years, his last being ''Andrea'' (2004). Bocelli duets with his son Matteo Bocelli on " Fall on Me", and Ed Sheeran provides vocals on and also co-wrote "Amo soltanto te", which marks the second collaboration between Bocelli and Sheeran after the latter's "Perfect Symphony" in 2017. Dua Lipa and Josh Groban also appear on the album. The deluxe edition of the album includes several bonus tracks, while another deluxe edition adds a bonus disc featuring mostly Spanish versions of the main tracks, as well as a French version of "Ali di libertà" and a Mandarin version of "If Only" with Taiwanese singer A-Mei. The album was BBC Radio 2's Album of the Week, with several of the tracks making their world premieres on the network. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and US ''Billboard'' 200, becoming Bocelli's first n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocelli (album)
''Bocelli'' is the second studio album by Andrea Bocelli, released in 1995 on the Polydor GmbH label. This album is the follow-up to his debut album, ''Il mare calmo della sera''. In Germany, the album was certified 4× Platinum for shipping two million units, making it one of the best-selling albums ever in the country. It was also certified 4× Platinum in Switzerland, 2× Platinum in the Netherlands, and Platinum in Austria. Track listing #"Con te partirò" #"Per amore" #"Macchine da guerra" #"E chiove" #"Romanza" #" The Power of Love" #"Vivo per lei" (with Giorgia) #"Le tue parole" #"Sempre sempre" #"Voglio restare così" #"Vivo per lei" (Bonus track, with Judy Weiss) See Chart performance Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications and sales See also * List of best-selling albums in Germany Germany is the third largest music market in the world, and the largest in Europe. This is a list of the best-selling albums in Germany that have been certi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli Album)
''Sacred Arias'' (), is the sixth studio album by Andrea Bocelli. Released in 1999, the album, featuring music composed in traditional Christian styles, is not only Bocelli's most commercially successful classical album to date with over 5 million copies sold,"Crossover superstar Andrea Bocelli finds beauty in wide range of music" , November 27, 2011. but also the biggest selling classical album by any solo artist in history. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Mare Calmo Della Sera (song)
"Il mare calmo della sera" is a song written by Zucchero, Zucchero Fornaciari, Giampiero Felisatti and Gloria Nuti, for Andrea Bocelli. Bocelli won the Sanremo Festival in 1994, singing the song, which was later released as his debut single. It is among Bocelli's most popular and well-known songs. The chorus opening phrase is virtually the same as the chorus opening phrase in "She Believes in Me", the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Kenny Rogers released in April 1979 as the second single from his album The Gambler (album), The Gambler. History In 1992, Bocelli's first break as a singer came when Italian rock singer Zucchero, Zucchero Fornaciari auditioned tenors to record a demo version of "Miserere (Zucchero album), Miserere", which he had co-written with U2's Bono. Passing the audition, Bocelli recorded the tune as a duet with Pavarotti, with whom he became very close friends, even singing at his second wedding, and funeral. After touring all over Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level (making it one of the world's longest-running television programmes) and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Unlike other awards in Italy, the Sanremo Music Festival is a competition for new songs, not an award to previous successes (like the for television, the for stage performances, and the Premio David di Donatello for motion pictures). The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, held between 29 and 31 January 1951, was broadcast by RAI's radio station Rete Rossa, and its only three participants were Nilla Pizzi, Achille Togliani, and Duo Fasano. Starting from 1955, all editions of the festival have been broadcast live by the Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajatico
Lajatico is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Pisa. Lajatico sits in mainly hilly terrain at variable elevations from above sea level) and dominates both the end of the Valdera valley and the opening of the valley known as Val di Cecina. La Sterza, one of its hamlets (frazioni), is the natural door between these two geographical areas. The Sterza, Era, and the Ragone rivers form natural borders, placing Lajatico in a very central position to reach Tuscan cities and seaside resorts.Emma Jones. ''Adventure Guide Tuscany & Umbria''. Hunter Publishing, Inc, 2005 Lajatico is, however, best known as the home town of tenor Andrea Bocelli. His annual concerts at the Teatro del Silenzio are attended by people from all around the world, every year. Lajatico has the following hamlets (frazioni) associated with it: Orciatico, an ancient small medieval village; San Giovanni di Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar Music
Sugar Music is a vertically integrated, family owned, independent business, active globally as a record label, music publisher, soundtrack and audio-visual producer. The company is headquartered in Milan, Italy. History Established in 1932 by Ladislao Sugar's insight and entrepreneurial spirit, the company soon made a name for itself as the foremost independent record company in Italy, and is currently among the most prominent Italian music publishers on the European market. It was, until 1974, headquartered in the Galleria del Corso in the historic center of Milan. Currently, the company serves as a creative hub run by Filippo Sugar, President and CEO, representing the third Sugar family generation. Filippo is the only child of Piero Sugar and Caterina Caselli, a key figure in talent scouting and record production in Italy. Sugarmusic’s catalogue include over 80,000 titles and features songwriters and composers like Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovaioli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best-selling Christmas/holiday Albums In The United States
This page shows the best-selling Christmas albums in the United States. It includes artists from all over the world, but it only includes sales in the United States of America. Prior to March 1, 1991, the only means of tracking sales figures for record albums and singles in the United States was via the certification system of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), based specifically on shipments (less potential returns) on a long-term basis. According to the most recent record album certifications, the holiday album title that has shipped the most copies in the United States is Elvis Presley's 1957 LP ''Elvis' Christmas Album'', which is certified by the RIAA for shipment of 17 million copies in the U.S. (3 million copies of the original 1957 release on RCA Victor Records, plus 10 million copies of a "budget" edition first released by RCA Camden in 1970 and then by Pickwick Records in 1975, and 4 million copies of another RCA reissue titled ''It's Christmas Time'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Best-selling Singles
This is a compendium of the best-selling music singles. The criterion for inclusion is to sell at least ten million copies worldwide. The singles listed here were cited by reliable sources from various media, such as digital journalism, newspapers, magazines, and books. According to ''Guinness World Records'', Irving Berlin's " White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies. The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever ''Guinness Book of Records'' (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later". ''Guinness World Records'' also states that double A-side charity single "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (1997) by Elton John (rewritten as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, rat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
