VIRGINIA BOCELLI seems to be following in her father’s footsteps by singing Andrea Bocelli songs and even The Greatest Showman tracks on her karaoke machine
Last year, Andrea Bocelli’s eight-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli made her professional singing debut. The father and daughter sang a beautiful duet of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah at the Believe in Christmas concert, promoting the Italian tenor’s new album. It turns out Virginia has been practising singing at home, trying out her father’s songs and The Greatest Showman hits on a karaoke machine.
One home video sees Virginia holding the microphone of her karaoke machine which singing with her father Andrea.
The eight-year-old is filmed performing 2018 single Fall On Me by Andrea and her brother Matteo Bocelli.
She’s also seen with her mother Veronica Berti trying out another of her father’s songs in Return To Love.
Meanwhile, Virginia also sings tracks from Hugh Jackman hit movie musical The Greatest Showman.
The Greatest Showman songs she sings include A Million Dreams and Rewrite The Stars.
While Virginia even has a go at performing Christina Perri’s A Thousand Years.
Last month, Express.co.uk caught up with Andrea and asked about their duet and her singing aspirations.
The 62-year-old said: “The initial idea was born from a bit of fun, and then it came to the concert and the song itself with Virginia featured in the setlist.”
Andrea continued: “Franco Dragone, the director of the live stream, insisted that it be included in the show and judging by the results he was right in entrusting her with such an important part.
“Although Virginia, was practically born and raised on stage and behind the scenes, this was her official debut.”
Asked if his eight-year-old daughter was nervous, the Italian tenor was adamant she was not.
He said: “No, she wasn’t nervous, she is a very determined child, and certainly her piano and dance studies have helped her understand when you need to give your all.”
Andrea added: “In Parma, everything went smoothly and with the greatest of ease. It’s a father and daughter duo singing a song together.
“Virginia has mastered how to forget the cameras and stay focussed. She maintains the right spontaneity – on a song that I’d recently recorded that she has heard so many times. “
Asked if Virginia has singing lessons at home, he replied: “She didn’t take any singing lessons, no. Although, she grew up on a diet of bread and music.
“She has been studying the piano for three years and has been absorbing the art and sounds since she was born.”
Andrea added: “Indeed, from her mother’s womb, Virginia was able to experience daily studio sessions, plays at the theatre and the recording of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette at the opera.”
Asked who Virginia’s favourite singers are, the star said his daughter’s an avid fan of both Michael Jackson and Ed Sheeran.
He shared: “She fell in love with the music of our friend Celine Dion and currently we are re-discovering Abba’s repertoire from Mamma Mia to Dancing Queen.
“Virginia is also a fan of Lang Lang the piano player, and listens to him for hours, with a particular fondness for Paganini-Liszt’s The Bell.”