Il Volo The New Now Yahoo Interview

For the most part, teen singers get a bad rap, especially if they perform pop music. But I have a feeling the new teen Italian classical trio Il Volo won t have this problem. Thursday night, the powerful young, opera singers amazed the American Idol audience when they performed on the U. S. singing competition. Though they were there to promote the American release of their selftitled debut out this week they can actually relate to the contestants. Seventeenyearold Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, 16, and Gianluca Ginoble, 16, started singing in school and church when they were toddlers. In 2009, they ended up on Ti Lascio Una Canzone, a televised Italian talent show for kids 7 to 15. The producers decided to put our voices together, Gianluca said when the group recently visited Yahoo Music. Tony Renis, one of their current producers, actually discovered the group after seeing them on the program. After assembling a team of manager br, br,