Il Volo (English: The Flight) is a trio of Italian pop-opera teenage singers, consisting of Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, and Gianluca Ginoble.
Gianluca Ginoble was born on February 11, 1995 in Roseto degli Abruzzi (province of Teramo), in the Abruzzo region of central Italy; Piero Barone was born on June 24, 1993, in Agrigento (Sicily), while Ignazio Boschetto was born in Sicily on October 4, 1994, but grew up in Bologna (northern Italy).
The three pop-opera singers started their career in 2009, when they met on the second edition of the Italian RAI TV music competition show Ti lascio una canzone, held in Sanremo. On May 2, 2009, Gianluca Ginoble won the competition, singing Andrea Bocelli's "Il mare calmo della sera".[1]
During the competition, the 3 singers were chosen to perform as a trio the Neapolitan evergreen "'O Sole Mio".[2] After the competition, they continued to perform together under the names The Tryo, Il Trio, and finally Il Volo.
In 2010 the trio participated in the charity single "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", remake of the 1985 hit song "We Are the World". In February 2010 they performed the songs "Granda" and "Un amore così grande" during the 60th Sanremo Festival.[3]
On 31 Jul 2011 the trio performed "'O Sole Mio" and "This Time" for the President's Star Charity show in Singapore to help raise funds for the handicapped.
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