Andrea Bocelli’s New Album Cinema

International superstar Andrea Bocelli returns with his new eagerly awaited album Cinema. Cinema celebrates the greatest movie songs of all time and reunites a team of musical legends including David Foster, Humberto Gatica and Tony Renis who worked together on the trailblazing success of Bocelli’s Amore. Cinema marks Bocelli’s first new studio recording in two years and is released globally by Sugar Music/Universal Music Group.

Cinema features a collection of movie songs etched in the culture and hearts of several generations including epic theme songs featured in films such as DoctorZhivago, Love Story, The Godfather, Life is Beautiful, Gladiator, The Postman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and many more, as well as popular songs from stage musicals, immortalized by their film versions, such as West Side Story and Evita.

Bocelli’s stunning new music video for the track “Nelle Tue Mani (Now We Are Free)” from the film Gladiator is now live. Exquistely filmed in the mojave desert, the video captures the cinematic feel of the new album and features a cameo by two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner John Travolta.

Bocelli’s legendary voice partnered with fantastic new arrangements and state-of-the-art recording technologies brings new life to some of the greatest musical masterpieces for film by composers who made both film and music history during the 20^th century, from Leonard Bernstein to the legendary Ennio Morricone.

True to his status as a truly international artist, Andrea has recorded songs in five different languages (Italian, French, Spanish, English and Sicilian) and has partnered with global superstar Ariana Grande on the heart wrenching duet “E PiuTiPenso” from Once Upon A Time in America/Malena and NicoleScherzinger on the epic musical anthem “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” from Evita.

Bocelli said the following: “With the album Cinema, I’m fulfilling a wish that I’ve harboured for decades. I’ve never made a secret of my dream of bringing to life a recording project associated with soundtracks, as I truly believe that it’s an exceptional artistic treasure trove. It’s an area that has always fascinated me: the scores written for films are very free and potentially very creative. A vast grassland where the composer can roam as he pleases, whatever his inspiration, where he can experiment without having to submit to the norms of the classical song (based on the sequence requiring two strophes, one short instrumental passage, one strophe, one short instrumental passage), or to a theme that is necessarily the conventional one, relating to love. If films are a “dream factory”, the music that supports them embraces these dreams and heightens all of the magic and emotional vitality. My invitation, my token is for these immortal “classics” to merge with the experiences, with the most precious memories, with the emotions of every listener, to become the inimitable soundtrack to their life.”

Furthermore, Andrea Bocelli has become the first ever classical artist to have 10 Top 10 Albums in the UK pop charts, cementing his position as the biggest selling solo classical artist of all time.

Cinema has entered the Official UK Album Charts at No.3, ahead of Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith, and just behind 5 Seconds of Summer and Bryan Adams. It is Bocelli’s highest chart position in over a decade, since 2001’s Cieli di Toscana.

Andrea Bocelli has also enabled pop stars Ariana Grande and Nicole Scherzinger to have their first classical hits, as he duets with them on “E PiuTiPenso” and “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” respectively.  The video for “E PiuTiPenso” has amassed over 5.5 million views in a fortnight.

Andrea Bocelli said: “I’m thrilled that audiences are enjoying my new album Cinema. I’ve never made a secret of my dream of bringing to life a recording project associated with soundtracks, as I truly believe that it’s an exceptional artistic treasure trove.”

“Cinema” the brand new album from Andrea Bocelli is now available in CDs at Astroplus/Astrovision.

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