Andrea Bocelli on daughter Virginia’s musical talent ‘Her competitive artistic gymnastics’

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Back in 2020, Andrea Bocelli put on a live-streamed performance called Believe in Christmas at the Theatre Regio of Parma. The special event also marked the professional debut of his then 8-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli. She joined her father on stage, bringing along an acoustic guitar for him before they sang a duet of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah together.

The sensational performance has since be watched over 18.5 million times on YouTube and Virginia has sung the track with her father numerous times around the world in the year since.

Most recently they performed this past Christmas before President Biden at the White House with Andrea’s son Matteo Bocelli, who is releasing his debut album later this year.

But what about Virginia? Will she follow in her father and brother’s footsteps and become a professional singer as an adult too?

Does she even want to? Express.co.uk spoke exclusively with the Italian tenor himself to find out.

Andrea said: “Virginia is nine-years-old. She loves music. She likes to sing. She studies piano. She does artistic gymnastics at a competitive level. She is in tune and naturally grew up on ‘bread and music’, just like her brothers. For the moment, sharing the stage with her father is little more than a game for her, as it should be, since she is still a child. Studying music is always useful in any case. But I think that it is fundamental that children realise their aspirations, putting their talents to good use, regardless of their parents’ ambitions.”

The 63-year-old also shared how incredibly special the first time he sang with Virginia really was at the Believe in Christmas concert.

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Andrea told us: “It was Virginia’s Christmas gift to me. It was more fun than a professional debut. I wouldn’t say it was a surprise, but almost: the idea came about almost as a joke and then it was included in the setlist only right before the concert. Although I’m an apprehensive father, in this case, I was not: I concentrated on the beauty of that moment, so intimate and sweet… Us sitting on the stage, a guitar, the silence around us, her voice intermingled with mine. It is a moment that I carry in my heart.”

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