By Carolyn Bamberger
CSMR Correspondent
Madison, WI, USA -- If you can imagine the renowned Italian 3 tenors, in a hip millennial generational mode- then you've got the Italian trio, IL Volo.
These guys have been taking the world by storm.
They won the Italian San Remo music festival in 2015 and represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest, that same year. They only hit 3rd place there - but actually came in 1st in the ESC on-line and telephonic voting.
(This is something that CSMR has addressed earlier as younger contestants - like Italy's IL Volo and Austria's Laura Kamhuber, have been shortchanged by the ESC's Luddite voting methods.)
These guys have been all over the place.
They have been on American Public Broadcasting - they have performed in venues as widely dispersed as Frankfurt, Germany - Vienna, Austria - Chicago, USA - and even sang the US national anthem at Dodgers' Stadium at an American baseball game in Los Angeles.
They sang at the Columbus Day parade in New York City in 2015. In 2011, when very young, they sang a Christmas song on the NBC Tonight Show, with Jay Leno in Hollywood.
They sing predominately in Italian, but sometimes in Spanish (a similar Romance language,) and occasionally in English.
They have wildly powerful voices, (they have accompanied one of the 3 tenors, Placido Domingo) and they have put their own music to some really hip videos.
Who are they?
They are Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto.
Barone and Boschetto are Sicilians and Ginoble is from the Southern mainland of Italy - just east of Rome.
They first got together on an Italian televised talent show in 2009. And they were so wildly acclaimed that, one year later, they were invited to compose their first CD at the Abbey Road recording studios in London (founded and funded by the Beatles.)
There seems no stopping these boys. They are genuinely engaging, incredibly talented - and a really hip addition to the schlager music realm.
Keep an eye on IL Volo.
They're going to be around for a while.
(Rhonda Wyse from Chicago IL, USA, contributed to this article.)
Here is IL Volo in one of their best, recent videos, Grande Amore (Great Love):
Here is IL Volo's release from a bit over a year ago. L'Amore si muove (Love moves on). The video has a passionate, gritty quality that you don't often see in Euro schlager music:
And here, as performed last month at Radio City Music Hall, in New York City, IL Novo reprise the great American/Italian, Frank Sinatra's, My Way:
You can get more on IL Volo, their CDs, downloads and upcoming concert appearances in the USA and Europe, at their official website:
http://www.ilvolomusic.com/
CSMR Correspondent
Madison, WI, USA -- If you can imagine the renowned Italian 3 tenors, in a hip millennial generational mode- then you've got the Italian trio, IL Volo.
These guys have been taking the world by storm.
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| IL Volo |
They won the Italian San Remo music festival in 2015 and represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest, that same year. They only hit 3rd place there - but actually came in 1st in the ESC on-line and telephonic voting.
(This is something that CSMR has addressed earlier as younger contestants - like Italy's IL Volo and Austria's Laura Kamhuber, have been shortchanged by the ESC's Luddite voting methods.)
These guys have been all over the place.
They have been on American Public Broadcasting - they have performed in venues as widely dispersed as Frankfurt, Germany - Vienna, Austria - Chicago, USA - and even sang the US national anthem at Dodgers' Stadium at an American baseball game in Los Angeles.
They sang at the Columbus Day parade in New York City in 2015. In 2011, when very young, they sang a Christmas song on the NBC Tonight Show, with Jay Leno in Hollywood.
They sing predominately in Italian, but sometimes in Spanish (a similar Romance language,) and occasionally in English.
They have wildly powerful voices, (they have accompanied one of the 3 tenors, Placido Domingo) and they have put their own music to some really hip videos.
Who are they?
They are Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto.
Barone and Boschetto are Sicilians and Ginoble is from the Southern mainland of Italy - just east of Rome.
They first got together on an Italian televised talent show in 2009. And they were so wildly acclaimed that, one year later, they were invited to compose their first CD at the Abbey Road recording studios in London (founded and funded by the Beatles.)
There seems no stopping these boys. They are genuinely engaging, incredibly talented - and a really hip addition to the schlager music realm.
Keep an eye on IL Volo.
They're going to be around for a while.
(Rhonda Wyse from Chicago IL, USA, contributed to this article.)
Here is IL Volo's release from a bit over a year ago. L'Amore si muove (Love moves on). The video has a passionate, gritty quality that you don't often see in Euro schlager music:
And here, as performed last month at Radio City Music Hall, in New York City, IL Novo reprise the great American/Italian, Frank Sinatra's, My Way:
You can get more on IL Volo, their CDs, downloads and upcoming concert appearances in the USA and Europe, at their official website:
http://www.ilvolomusic.com/