"Mille Lune Mille Onde" is the second single from Italian

Italian people

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 pop tenor

Operatic pop

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 Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....

's 2001 album, Cieli di Toscana

Cieli di Toscana

Cieli di Toscana is Andrea Bocelli's eighth studio album, released in 2001.Released only a month after the September 11 attacks, the album spent a total of two weeks at No...

. The song was written by Francesco Sartori

Francesco Sartori

Francesco Sartori is an Italian composer and piano and trumpet player best known for composing "Con te partirò" with Lucio Quarantotto for Andrea Bocelli. The song was also recorded as a duet entitled "Time to Say Goodbye" with Bocelli and Sarah Brightman...

, Claudio Corradini and Lucio Quarantotto

Lucio Quarantotto

Lucio Quarantotto is an Italian songwriter best known for writing the lyrics for "Con te partirò" with music composed by Francesco Sartori for Andrea Bocelli...

, the writers of Bocelli's "Con te partirò

Con te Partiró

- History :The song's original single release by Polydor Records was not commercially successful in Italy, and received little radio airplay there. Elsewhere, however, it was a massive hit. In France and Switzerland, the single topped the charts for 6 weeks, earning a triple Gold sales award. In...

" and "Canto della Terra

Canto della Terra

"Canto della Terra" is the second single from Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli's 1999 album, Sogno. The song was written by Francesco Sartori and Lucio Quarantotto, the same writers of Bocelli's biggest hit "Con te partirò", and is among Bocelli's most popular and well-known songs.Like "Con te...

", and by multiple Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 winner David Foster

David Foster

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, and is among Bocelli's most popular and well-known songs. The song is used in all of Barilla's pasta

Pasta

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 commercials.

The song was later included in Bocelli's 2007 greatest hits

Greatest hits

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 album, The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere

The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere

The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere is the second greatest hits album released by Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli. It includes five new studio recordings and was internationally released, by Sugar, October 22, 2007. The song "Vive Ya", was nominated for Record of the Year at the Latin Grammy...

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External links

• "Mille Lune Mille Onde", on Ultratop
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