Portrait of the artist: Andrea Bocelli, tenor

'Listen to what others say. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing in the shower'What got you started?When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.What was your big breakthrough?It's too difficult to say. A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.What h...

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