ANDREA BOCELLI
Andrea Bocelli, (Born 22 September 1958) is
an Italian classical crossover tenor, recording artist,
and singer-songwriter. Born with poor eyesight, Bocelli became
permanently blind at the age of 12, following a football accident.
Bocelli has recorded fifteen solo studio albums,
of both pop and
classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas,
selling over 80 million records worldwide. He has had success as a
crossover performer bringing classical music to the top of international pop
charts.
In 1998, Bocelli was named one of People's 50 Most
Beautiful People. In 1999, Bocelli was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards.
"The Prayer",
his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film Quest for
Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and
was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.
With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli
captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he
simultaneously held the top three positions on the US Classical Albums charts. Seven
of his albums have since reached the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and
a record-setting ten have topped the classical crossover albums charts in the
United States.
With five million units sold worldwide, Sacred Arias became
the biggest-selling classical crossover album by a solo artist of all time, and
with over twenty million copies sold worldwide, his 1997 pop album Romanza became the best-selling album by an Italian
artist of any genre in history, as well as the best-selling album by a
foreign artist in Canada and a number of countries in Europe and Latin
America
The album's first single, "Time to Say
Goodbye", was a duet with Sarah Brightman that
topped charts across Europe, including Germany, where it stayed at the top of
the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks, breaking the all-time sales record,
with over three million copies sold in the country. The single went on to
sell over twelve million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.
Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of
the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in
2006 and, on 2 March 2010, was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his
contribution to Live Theater.
Here are some succesful hits of Andrea Bocelli
BESAME MUCHO
BESAME MUCHO
CUANDO ME ENAMORO
QUIZAS QUIZAS QUIZAS
WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE
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