The trio of young Italian tenors called Il Volo (the Flight), made up with Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble, were originally three independent participants in the Eurovision talent contest. The singers, at that time fifteen years old, were presented as soloists. Il Volo was born in May of the same year when the producers decided to have the trio record the song "O Sole Mio" together. Their first album was recorded in London, Los Angeles and Rome with producer Humberto Gatica and included a mix of standard, classic Italian songs and songs written by contemporary authors such as Diane Warren. The Il Volo CD/DVD Takes Flight: Live from the Detroit Opera House came out in 2012.
Mi Votu E Mi Rivotu (I Turn and Turn)
performed by Manunura This is one of the most beautiful love songs of Sicilian folk music. Famously known after the rendition by Sicilian singer Rosa Balistreri, she claimed to have heard this song sing for the first time inside the prison of Palermo, and has attributed to a prisoner the composition. In reality the lyrics of this song are very old and arise in many traditional Sicilian songs. It appeared in the collection that Lionardo Vigo Calanna, Marquis of Gallodoro, published in 1870 under the title "Raccolta Amplissima di Canti Siciliani", produced after a 20-year-long work of research and collection. English lyrics: I turn and turn again sighing I spend whole nights awake I admire your beauty and see the whole night pass until dawn Because of you now I no longer sleep My aching heart has no more peace Do you know when I'll leave you? When my life ends and I'll die O dove, walking along the seashore, stop that I must ask you a couple words stop so I can take a plume off your wings to write letters to my love. I write you letters, two, three But never a reply from you I receive Have you not paper to write or you cannot write? I turn and turn again sighing I spend whole nights without sleeping |
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