Artist: Vittorio Grigolo Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Discography:
In The Hands Of Love Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Vittorio Grigolo exemplifies the qualities of the crossover genre that exists between classical music and the pop world. He has the life-style and fashion sensory faculty of Robbie Williams only sings with a voice like Luciano Pavarotti -- in fact, the Italian press dubbed him
Il Pavarotinno, the little Pavarotti, after he performed with the not bad tenor as a child.
Grigolo was innate in Arezzo and, piece still young, affected to Rome, where his talents were noticed at an early age. When he was ball club old age old he attended his mother to have her eyes time-tested and, earshot mortal singing from another room, he spontaneously began his have rendition of "Ave Maria." The isaac Merrit Singer, the optician's father of the Church, was so impressed that he insisted Grigolo have an tryout for the Sistine Chapel Choir as shortly as possible.
The young tenor linked the consort and became a soloist. At years 13 he played the Pastorello in a performance of Tosca at Rome's opera house, where he shared the microscope stage with Pavarotti. By 18 he was telling with the Vienna Opera Company and, at 23, he was the youngest isle of Man to perform in Milan's La Scala. He was likewise the first Italian isle of Man to be excused from compulsory military table service for fear of interrupting his career.
Grigolo sang in performances of the Barber of Seville, La Traviata, Così Fan Tutte, Faust, and many others in front pickings a life-changing role as Tony in West Side Story. Sharing the stage with James Gandolfini, he saw the electric potential of opera to accomplish a wider interview. After nigh becoming a extremity of Il Divo, abandoned after clashes with Simon Cowell, he recorded a solo album,
In the Hands of Love, in the genre he calls "popera." It features the song "Calophyllum longifolium" from West Side Story as well as pop songs like "All in Love Is Fair" and "Bedshaped." The Classical Advisory Panel of England kept the album out of the classical charts, defining it as exactly 35.7 per centum classical (a minimum of 60 per centum is mandatory for incoming in the classical charts).
In the Hands of Love debuted in the Top Ten of the U.K. pop charts instead.
