...“Zurich stirs enthusiasm and always positive memories, both as a tourist and on a professional level, and on Sunday 15 January 2017 I await you at the Hallenstadion in Zurich.”
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On 07 December 2016 Andrea Bocelli collects yet another international recognition: the most beloved Italian tenor in the world lands the nomination at the Grammy Awards for “Best traditional pop vocal album” with his latest recording project “Cinema”. A prestigious nomination (already the fifth of his career), which places the tenor, in the shortlist of five, alongside outstanding names such as Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban and Willie Nelson, and which confirms Bocelli as an esteemed standard-bearer of Italy in the world. “America loved me right away. I remember with a little emotion that my father often told me: you must go to America.”
In his autobiographical novel “La musica del silenzio”, the Tuscan artist offers a powerful testimony of destiny, a moving story of music and love. Like Ray Charles, Andrea Bocelli was not born blind. Nothing had leaked out about the passage from light to darkness: the tenor suffered from glaucoma, which allowed him to live a childhood only in light and colours. “I was always lively and irrepressible. As a boy I loved to play football and one day, during a match, a ball struck me right on the right eye, the only one with which I could make out light and colours. They tried to treat me with various operations, but it was no use.”
Andrea Bocelli was 5 years old when his mother discovered that the only way to console her child from his eye pain was to let him listen to classical music. “A small record player was enough to make me calm.” Music as a cure for the soul.
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