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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 190. Chapters: Andrea Bocelli, Alexandrov Ensemble soloists, Enrico Caruso, Vladimir Rosing, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Marcelo Alvarez, Jose Carreras, Sims Reeves, Jean-Pierre Solie, Mario Lanza, Salvatore Fisichella, Antonio Paoli, Chad Shelton, Francesco Tamagno, Richard Cassilly, Giacomo David, John Coates (tenor), Antonio Giuglini, Michael Kelly (tenor), Juan Diego Florez, Karl Erb, David Hobson (tenor), Brent Barrett, Fernando De Lucia, Thomas Round, Georgi Vinogradov (tenor), Franco Corelli, Roberto Alagna, Italo Gardoni, Italo Campanini, Jean de Reszke, John Stewart (tenor), Steuart Wilson, Anthony Dean Griffey, Marcello Giordani, Andrew McKinley, Nikolay and Medea Figner, John Fryatt, Richard Tauber, Jay Hunter Morris, Ben Davies (tenor), John McCollum, John McCormack (tenor), Ian Bostridge, Heddle Nash, Jan Peerce, Ivan Kozlovsky, Richard Tucker, Jesus Leon, Jussi Bjorling, Julian Gayarre, Jerry Hadley, Sergei Lemeshev, Neil Shicoff, Durward Lely, Edgar Evans (tenor), Kenneth Neate, Fernando del Valle, Ramon Vargas, Ivan Yershov, Gerald English, Matteo Babini, Louis Danto, Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Matteo Mario, Lauritz Melchior, Orville Harrold, Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky, Pyotr Slovtsov, Jon Vickers, Mario Del Monaco. Excerpt: Andrea Bocelli, (Italian pronunciation: born 22 September 1958) is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident. Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994, Bocelli has recorded thirteen solo studio albums, of both pop and classical music, two greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 80 million records worldwide. Thus, he is the biggest-selling solo artist in the history of classical music and has caused core classical repertoire to "cross over" to the top of international pop charts and into previously uncharted territory in popular culture. In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards marked the first, and so far only time a classical artist had been nominated in the category, since Leontyne Price, in 1961. The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the top 3 positions on the US classical albums charts. Six of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, and a record-setting 8, have topped the classical albums charts in the United States. With 5 million units sold worldwide, Sacred Arias became the biggest-selling classical album by a solo artist of all time, and with over 20 million copies sold worldwide, his 1997 pop album, Romanza, became the best-selling album by an Italian artist of any genre in history, as well as the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Canada, and a number of other countries in Europe and Latin America. The album's first single, "Time to Say Goodbye," topped charts all a
