Tiziano Ferro is a singer, author of music and lyrics, known both in his homeland, in Italy, and around the world, including Russia. Tiziano Ferro performs pop, soul and R&B compositions. After releasing his debut album in 2001, after 9 years he became the best-selling Italian artist.
Childhood and youth
Tiziano was born on February 21, 1980 in Latino, Italy. His father worked as a surveyor, and his mother was engaged in housekeeping. Tiziano also has a brother named Flavio, who is 11 years younger than him.
The very first musical instrument of the boy is a toy keyboard, which was presented to him for Christmas - Tiziano was then 5 years old. Love for music woke up in him very early, his first songs, albeit very short, he wrote at the age of seven. The musician will later include two of them in the album "Nessuno e solo".
From an early age, Tiziano was a fairly well-fed boy, which in adolescence turned into serious complexes and bouts of bulimia. He eventually finds an outlet in music and begins taking guitar and drum courses, as well as singing and piano lessons. At sixteen he entered the gospel choir of his city, where he was imbued with the atmosphere and mood of "black" American music.
Career and creativity
Since 1996, Tiziano Ferro has been taking a course in dubbing and also works as an announcer for local radio stations. He also participates in the TV show "Caccia alla Frase", where, however, he gets a contemptuous joke from the conductor Peppe Quintal about his singing talent. Despite this, Tiziano enters the Accademia della canzone in Sanremo, hoping to participate in the local song festival, but the qualifying round does not pass. Tiziano does not give up and tries his hand next year, becomes one of the 12 finalists, but does not make it into the top three.
The future still seems uncertain to Tiziano, so he is going to enter the engineering department of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". However, producers Mara Mayonchi and Alberto Salerno, who knew the musician after the San Remo festival, persuade EMI to pay attention to the young Italian artist.
After the contract was signed in the summer of 2001, the debut single "Xdono" was released, which gradually reached the top of the charts, and a little later, in October, the full-length album "Rosso Relativo". In the summer of 2002, Tiziano Ferro embarked on his first tour and also recorded the hit "Xdono" in several languages, including English and French. Thus, the song is in the top three best-selling singles in Europe (right after Eminem and Shakira).
In November 2003, a new autobiographical album was released with the unusual title "111", which alludes to the weight of the singer in the old days, when Tiziano suffered from bulimia. The album will sell over a million copies. In 2004, Tiziano Ferro, together with the singer Jamelia, performed the song "Universal Prayer" - the official anthem of the Athens Olympics. At the moment, the discography of the famous artist has 6 full studio albums, the last of which, "Il mestiere della vita", was released in 2016.
Personal life
Rumors about the singer's homosexual inclinations circulated for many years, but Tiziano stubbornly rejected them. However, in 2010, he nevertheless admitted in an interview with Vanity Fair that he was gay. And after a while he even released a biography book entitled "Thirty Years and a Conversation with Dad", but he did not disclose the name of his boyfriend, it is only known that he is a modest and completely non-public person.
