Amos Bocelli Biography, Age, Height, Parents, and More

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Amos Bocelli as we all know is the first son of Andrea Bocelli and Enrica Censatti. His father Andrea Bocelli OMRI OMDSM is an Italian tenor who was born visually impaired, with congenital glaucoma, and at the age of 12, became completely blind following a brain hemorrhage resulting from a football accident. He rose to fame in 1994, winning the newcomer’s section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing “Il mare calmo della sera”.

He has had success as a crossover performer, bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts. He duetted with Celine Dion on the song “The Prayer” for the animated film Quest for Camelot, which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

In 1999, he was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. He captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records with the release of his classical album Sacred Arias, as he simultaneously held the top three positions on the US Classical Albums charts.

Andrea Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2006, and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 2 March 2010 for his contribution to Live Theater, and he was awarded a gold medal for Merit in Serbia in 2022.

His mother Enrica Cenzatti is an Italian businesswoman who gained recognition primarily due to her marriage to Andrea Bocelli. After her divorce from Andrea Bocelli, she devoted her life to raising her children and as of today, she lives in Forte dei Marmi, in Tuscany, not far from her former husband’s villa.

Amos Bocelli has two siblings, a biological brother named Matteo, who was born on October 8, 1997, and a half-sister from his father’s second marriage to his manager named Virginia who was born on March 21, 2012.