The Music of Silence
 Andrea Bocelli
 (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
 1999 Harper Entertainment
  ISBN: 0066212863


This is the memoir music-lovers have waited for. This liquid golden- voiced Italian tenor from Tuscany, tells of his blindness & how music soothed him; of his struggles as a boy to live a normal life; his studies to become a lawyer & how he found his world-class voice.

Andrea Bocelli chose to tell his life story through the eyes of a boy called Amos: “a charming and unusual device characteristic of this modest man.”

Andrea Bocelli is a refreshingly simple, humble fellow imbued with love, humor & a sense of the Grand Adventure. Nurtured by an adoring family he was determined, from boyhood & the darkening of his sight, to fend for himself in the wide & unknown world. His story of Amos is filled with exuberant recitatives & soaring arias to a life well lived, well loved.

This is the angel who sang Ave Maria for Mayor Guiliani during a Memorial for those who perished in the September 11.

The Music of Silence is an interesting, operatic & gladsome read! My only wish is that there had been a CD of his favorite songs attached to this memoir.

Andrea Bocelli wrote this memoir himself on a special Braille computer, without a ghostwriter & Stanislav Pugliese translated it into English.

His recordings are plentiful & entrancing.
(02/10/02)

Rebecca