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Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble made their debut in 2009 as individual participants on the talent show “Ti lascio una canzone”, on the Italian TV channel RAI 1, where they were spotted by Michele Torpedine, the manager that launched the careers of Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero, Giorgia and Biagio Antonacci, who decided to work for them and with them on their international artistic journey, counting on their extraordinary vocal talents both individually and as a trio: in an extremely short space of time, they became the first Italian artists in history to sign a contract with a major American record label, Geffen Records.
Their self-titled debut album, “Il Volo” (2010), went platinum and entered the US Billboard Top Ten. They appeared on major European and American television shows, including The Tonight Show, American Idol, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Watten Das in Germany and the MDA Labor DAY Telethon by Jerry Lewis, and were present alongside Unicef at the Venice Film Festival for children in the Horn of Africa.
Selling over a million copies of their “Special Christmas Edition” (2010), along with their first international tour and the broadcast of the first of their television specials, which have been repeated over a thousand
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Il Volo
Italian operatic pop trio
Il Volo (pronounced[ilˈvoːlo]; transl. 'the flight') is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone, and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as "popera".[1] Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, they represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Grande amore", finishing first in the televote and third overall.[2]
History
[edit]Beginning (Ti lascio una canzone) (2009–2010)
[edit]In 2009, Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble were among the teens competing in the Italian televised singing competition Ti lascio una canzone, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo and broadcast by Rai 1.[3] During the first episodes, they performed several songs as solo artists. Among the others, Gianluca Ginoble's rendition of "Il mare calmo della sera", originally by Andrea Bocelli, won the first episode of the show, and later came in first place during the final held on 2 May 2009.[4] Director and creator of the show, Roberto Cenci, had the idea to put them together, with the purpose to create a trio similar to The Three Tenors (Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti).[5] During the fo