Andrea Bocelli Tour Information
Blind Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli was born in 1958. He lost his sight due to a soccer accident at age 12. The blindness was accelerated by a congential glaucoma condition. Not much else has been published about Andrea's early life before his career.
In 1992, Italian rock star Zucchero first auditioned Bocelli while searching for tenors to duet with him in the song "Miserere"; after hearing this recording, famous opera singer Luciano Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Bocelli instead of himself and saying that there was no one finer for the song. The song was later recorded with Pavarotti, but Bocelli accompanied Zucchero on his European tour. In 1994, Bocelli performed the winning entry at the Sanremo Festival, which led to his first gold record. That year, he also debuted as Macduff in Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth," sang at Pavarotti's benefit concert in Modena, and performed for Pope John Paul II at Christmas.
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