Yakima wrote:When Andrea wrote his book The Silence Of Music, he opened up and told the most most intimate parts of his life growing up . Something most people cannot do. I admire him for this. His vulnerability, and honesty and his loyalty came thru like a ray of sunshine . This endeared him to me and I thought he was the bravest man I had ever known. He is my hero.he faces life and beats it everyday.And we love him even more.
Thank you Yakima. Certainly is a pleasure to dialogue with another person besides Amélia da Glória, a Sociologist from my town, that we are at the moment dedicating our time, in exchanging not only music, but at the moment she could get the first book of Andrea Bocelli, written by him, and I do not know exactly where I did heard, another one is to come out, I do not forsee in advance how Andrea is going to continua a Story, the Story of a Child "himself", but not being excessive, neither lacking to the reader the proper child, its development and also, its approach to the future, to life, to goals and achievements.
In "The Music of Silence", according to my readings, as no two persons read the same book", due to the culture and university (high level one ) degree as a Doctor in Law, something very different of most countries in many aspects, one of the subjects Andrea Bocelli had there, was Philosophy of Law, in whcih one has to have the "sapience of the use of the word, and not only, how one exposes in brief, the exact measure". In my assumption as a reader, of vast themes, that does not matter to the this board, but re-directed to many aspect of Social, Anthropologic, and others ... let's put my words on a simple basis, one that reads, as I read about any subject, any author, any philosopher, any Sociologist, any Anthropologist, any Historial and non-historical writer, a Doctor, perhaps, a nobel prize in South Africa ... the great Americain writers, and from South America, from all the countries, in a brief resumé... I am confronted with the issues that Andrea Bocelli leaves to his children, as The Silence of Music was not publish with the intention to become a public book, but, if one wants to read in Italian, Okey, otherwise, Andrea Bocelli did not made to print the book to acquire more persons to understand him, but just a "memoir" at a specific moment of his life, which he was confronted from all sides of his professional and personal life, with aggressions beyond one's power of acceptance, which is the Bel Canto Society, the Organizations that interfer and not only, the war's that in 1999 almost led Andrea Bocelli to leave the world of music, a world, which became as a dream, before being a reality.
Indeed, is a book, for me... of sapience... of a person with an enourmous culture in himself, to write, some passages as he did, and not only, to tell and speak to himself, (than to leave for his childreen, who was Amos Bardi... himself, in a very difficult period of his life).
Difficult why? Because Andrea Bocelli not speaking much in the final in his diary, he leaves a small note... of how he had to confront the coming events, from Records Companies and so on, something he would not understand, and something he did not want, and in the worse case, he had already enough money to carry on and feed his childreen to the rest of his life, as the position that he achieved up to that date, would allow him, more than anyonelse, to invest his own money and make it last, to the confort of his family.
When I do come to these words..... these final words, I can imagine the battle, the enourmous effort one has to do, to accept others opinion without pronouncing oneself, about the things one likes and one dislikes.
Andrea in that period of years, had the possibility, as according to stats, the ratio of sales, in Between Andrea Bocelli and Luciano Pavarotti, was levelled in all the world, and also, at that time, when he wrote that book, he did not know that his album the Sacred Arias, would become, more sold in last century and in this century by any Solist in the World.
Translating these words, in my perspective, Andrea Bocelli, sold more in a Classic, and what a Classic Album, more that anyone in one's life, no matter if he is a man or a women. Well, to me, if an artist, in which he has all the world on top of him, with all the criticism of the world of Bel Canto, achieves such a level, it means, either, he is very good in Classics or the others very bad.
When I buy myself a record of Andrea, I do it out of pleasure and not out of the name of Andrea Bocelli. I listen, I liked it ... and I buy it.
So, returning again to the brief notes of the Silence of Music, Andrea Bocelli wants to tell his childreen how those years were hard and important to his career, but also to advise them that not all that is gold, in reality is made of gold. So Difficulties do come, upon one's life, with the perspective of career and live performances, in which so much is in judgement, besides a concert, an orchestra, a maestro, it involves to many agents, associations, to much is done, contra the way Andrea perspectives the facts, and that of course displeases oneself.
But Andrea, had the kindness not to offend anyone in the Show Biz... in which he had to perform, and so, his notes are very brief, and little he says of his own feelings, besides the one's that the reader can sense out of it. And he has two or three chapters of knowledge of life, high knowledge if one observes in the sense of reading with the eyes of reading.
The Silence of Music, it is not a one reader time book, but a book, that gives us a value, and by the third or fifth time, you have all the dimension of it.
I believe, that Andrea Bocelli, did not want to forsee the outcoming of his life, at the time, even if inside his being, he did know about it. And one, when one has deep feelings, as Andrea, of the coming events, one finds onself more... ????? I leave this in open, I do not comment it know, because Amélia da Glória is reading the book, so a good review, or another perspective of facts, I wish her to say to me, in Portuguese, for us to continue the conversation of how to know and how to get to Andrea Bocelli, when here in Lisbon, so many, to whom we do speak do not like Andrea Bocelli... loves do come, as they go.... winds do blow, as they are quite.... for me it is completly indifferent, in the sense, if one does not value what I value, makes no difference, but.... there is a difference, is when my country, because of the marketing of the Recording Companies do not present Andrea Bocelli properly, or when I do not forsee the Operas of Andrea in display.... That is another issue, that perhaps I will speak as once I did, at a later stage... things have to be in phases... and so... my perspective of facts... you may agree or disagree... but in talking in being highly civilized, in being highly motivated to have a very good cónversation of the work in the world of Andrea Bocelli, my level of esteem for him is very high, I can antecipate his words, before he does say it, and I wish, that I would not be an ignorant, and stay after long hours of waiting and performing, and meet Andrea Bocelli for dinner, in which I would like to speak to him... either in English or in French, about so many things, that I see on my side, but he perceives it, but no one tells him, exactly what I or you could tell him.
I am sure Andrea Bocelli would not be pleased, but at list honest eyes, would say to him, things that he would have to revise with organizations, because the impact of an artist anywhere in the world, it is very important.
I still have the concert in my mind, I still have the audience with me, even if I went to see not long ago, Andrea here in Lisbon, but I did not went to speak to him, to compliment him, after the concert, because I understood, that everything has a moment and a place, and for me, that was not the moment and the place.
Things that we regret.
Thank you for your kindness.
I believe in a better world... in integrity and verticallity... I believe, that Andrea Bocelli music, will make a better world for many.... that only need a smile at the end of the day.