Chords for Andrea Bocelli Interview

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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ Along with Andre Rieu, [Eb] opera singer Andrea Bicelli has [F] helped make the classics [Bb] accessible,
selling 65 million albums worldwide, _ [Gm] _
even more [Bb] than that other great Italian tenor,
[F] Luciano Pavarotti.
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_ Andrea loves to sing and it's lovely to be sung _ to. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [N] _ _ This _ _ great artist is blind [E] but prefers not to talk about it.
[B] _ _ Your [G] mother has said [C]
that life [B] has not spared [Gb] my son [Em] from joy or [B] pain.
Every mother thinks the same thing I think. _
[Em] _ No, [N] I'm a lucky man _ above all because I had the affection _ by the family, by the friends, _
by the girlfriends and that's the most [D] important thing.
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[A] Andrea lives life [D] as if he has full sight and with his beautiful fiancée [A] Veronica by
his side, nothing is impossible.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ They live [Em] near Pisa on [A] the Italian coast in [D] Tuscany [G] where the adventurous [A] Andrea likes
to scuba [D] dive, water ski [N] and windsurf. _ _
Do you go windsurfing as well?
I try but I can go just in one direction, I can't turn so Andrea can come back exactly
in the same point when he starts but I can't.
How do you know which direction you're going in, is it just through the wind?
Through the wind, yes.
Wind. _
Musically, Andrea's main love is opera but his phenomenal success has been through [G] more
popular songs [C] like the one that launched his career, [Am] Time [G] to Say Goodbye. _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [G] Next month, Andrea will be [Am] performing in Australia.
He's [G] bringing Veronica and his two sons from his previous marriage.
[N] And I was wondering if there are plans for more children in the Bicelli household? Who knows?
If I don't forget the way. _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm sure that is impossible.
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_ [F] _ [D] _ _ To _ _
_ _ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ put himself through opera [Gb] singing classes, [D] Andrea Bicelli worked in a piano [B] bar, singing
those songs we [D] all know.
Something like this _
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[Gm] Andrea was in his 30s before he was [Eb] discovered but [Fm] he'd memorised and was [Bb] practising full
operas by the age [A] of 9. _
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_ _ What did your school [Gb] friends think [A] when you were going around singing opera as a young [Bm] boy?
[Dm] At school [N] my friends said that it was boring, of course.
_ _ Come on, stop singing these _ [G] stupid things they told me.
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But later they understood.
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_ _ [Em] _ _ [F] _ Back in Italy, Andrea [Dm] Bicelli [Em] is also [C] having fun. _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ Whether it's [Am] classical or contemporary, [G] as long as there's music, Andrea [C] is happy.
_ _ _ [E] I love music in general, anyway.
Music [A] is my life.
[Ab] But the most important thing for me is to be remembered like a voice.
A very good voice.
_ I don't know, I hope.
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