Cosechando dinero de los árboles

...And their “Grand Amore”
HERB MONCIBAIS
“Cosechando dinero de los árboles”
IL VOLO
Three hearts and their “Grande Amore”
By: Belén Franco
Photography by: Ignacio Peraldí
Translated by Suzana Gutierrez,
Martina Maggi and Maria Teresa Lupi –
All About Il Volo.
I
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t was a beautiful day in New
York City, at that time of the
year in which the cold begins
to walk the streets, and I was
sitting in front of one of the
Italian musical groups with
more international success
nowadays, they are IL VOLO,
who kindly conceded an
exclusive interview to the
Revista Habitual, during their
visit to the country for the
promotion of their new album
Grande Amore.
They are three young singers,
Gianluca
Ginoble,
Ignazio
Boschetto and Piero Barone,
with an innate talent, a
charisma
that
overflows
around the room, a great
physical attractiveness, and
an excellent perception about
fashion what seems to be a
perfect mix for the success,
and it is what without any
doubt is coming on the way
of the pop lyric group IL
VOLO; and I am not the only
one to praise them, if even
Plácido Domingo, who has
been a great Maestro, a mentor
and supporter for the group,
recently in an interview to a
prestigious Italian media said
“IL VOLO are three guys that all
the world need to know about,
the sound of three tenors in a
fresh and innovative way.
In 2015 they were the winners of
Piero Barone
tto
Ignazio Bosche
the Sanremo Festival, the most
important music festival in Italy,
the best award that an Italian
artist can achieve; allowing
them to represent Italy at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2015,
where they gained the 3rd place.
We began the interview talking
about their Grande Amore, the
first album that they release with
their own repertoire, unlike the
foregoing in which they mainly
performed Italian covers like ‘O
Sole Mio” and “Il Mondo”. They
told us that it was a year of hard
work in selecting the songs for
the new album, and because of
the endless hours spent in the
recording studio. It was a long
production process in which they
had actively participated.
Their new album has three versions:
the first is a version that was
released only in Italy; the second
is an international version in which
they sing mostly in Italian, because
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it is more classic, and it is focused
on the American and European
markets; and the third version in
which they sing the same Italian
songs but in Spanish to make
it more pop. We can enjoy the
songs “Grande Amore”, “L’Amore
si muove” and also songs like
“Volare”, “Piove”, “L’immensità”
among others.
In the recent Latin American Music
Awards 2015 they interpreted the
song Grande Amore in Spanish
for the first time for the Latin
American audience, song that
was impressively welcomed, so
much that they were the only
artists who received a standing
ovation.
During the interview, I experienced
the brotherhood between them,
so I asked: “Considering the great
qualities as singers that each one
of you owns and what happens
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with members of other groups
who are seeking to launch their
solo careers What’s your secret
to stay together as a group?”
and they responded without
hesitation: the power they have
when they sing together, each one
has his own talent and different
voices that create a melodic
harmony when together, and this
is the reason why the audience
wants to see them together on
stage. They recognized the great
value that represents the team
that accompanies them, their
manager and their families, the
people who believes in them and
in their talent, they do not treat
them as a business but as three
guys who are struggling to fulfill
their dreams.
Their concerts tour will begin
in January 2016 in Italy; then in
the US in February and March,
particularly in Texas on March
17th, 18th and 19th in Austin,
San Antonio and Dallas; South
America in April and May; and in
June in the rest of Europe.
As a thank to our Revista Habitual
and a farewell they invited us to
share a wonderful dinner with
them, and without imagining I
was walking on the 5th. Avenue
with these three guys that with
their simplicity, power and art
filled the streets of New York
with songs and joy, drawing the
attention of people that stopped
to congratulate them, and others
who with tears of emotion, took
the opportunity to take a photo
with their idols.
With no doubts one of the best
experiences I’ve had, the kind you
never forget and worth sharing;
definitely the world should know
about IL VOLO.
Translated by
Suzana Gutierrez, Martina Maggi and Maria Teresa Lupi