''Il mare calmo della sera'' is the debut album by
Italian tenor singer
Andrea Bocelli, following his win of the
Sanremo Festival in 1994, singing his first single and the leading single of the album of
the same name.
It was certified Gold in the Netherlands.
It was followed by the release of ''
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 fro ...
'', which topped charts all over
Europe, in 1995.
History
In 1992, Bocelli's first break as a singer came when
Italian rock singer
Zucchero Fornaciari auditioned tenors to record a demo version of "Miserere", which he had written.
Successfully 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
Europe with Zucchero in 1993, Bocelli was then invited to perform at the ''Pavarotti & Friends'', held in
Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
in September 1994.
Bocelli was then signed to
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 Lad ...
by
Caterina Caselli, who persuaded him to participate in the
Sanremo music festival. He eventually won the newcomer section of the competition in 1994, with "Il mare calmo della sera", a song written by Zucchero for him.
After the Festival, Bocelli released his first studio single also titled ''
Il mare calmo della sera''. The single was also included in both of Bocelli's
Greatest hits albums, ''
Romanza'' in 1997, and ''
The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere'' in 2007.
Track listing
#"
Il mare calmo della sera"
#"Ave Maria no morro"
#"Vivere (feat.
Gerardina Trovato)"
#"Rapsodia"
#"La Luna che non c'è"
#"
Caruso"
#"Miserere"
#"
Panis angelicus"
#"Ah, la paterna mano (from
Macbeth
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)"
#"
E lucevan le stelle (from
Tosca)"
#"Le fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from
Carmen
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
)"
#"L'anima ho stanca (from
Adriana Lecouvreur
''Adriana Lecouvreur'' () is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. It was first performed on 6 November 1902 at t ...
)"
#"Sogno"
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
References
External links
Bocelli on Ultratop.be
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Andrea Bocelli albums
1994 debut albums
Classical crossover albums
PolyGram albums