Italian classical singer Andrea Bocelli is set to croon the timeless love songs of his latest release Amore over the World Wide Web. Every day from the week starting April 19 the Tuscan star will sample the hit album on XM Satellite Radio.
Meanwhile web listeners can also tune in to Italian radio RAI Radiouno on Monday to hear Bocelli present his tenth international release to his home audience.
Amore was released in many countries just in time for Valentine's Day and shot up the charts, making his best-ever US Billboard debut at No.3.
In Amore, the opera-crossover tenor turns to an international array of standards sung in Italian, French, Spanish and English.
Gliding from Besame Mucho to Can't Help Falling in Love, Bocelli shows off his signature sweet and light-toned voice, framed this time by lush and dreamy strings that recall Nelson Riddle's arrangements from the 1950s.
Joined by guest artists like Stevie Wonder (Canzoni Stonate), Kenny G (Mi Manchi) and Christina Aguilera (Somos Novios), the chart-smasher delivers a real lovers' swoon. An all-Spanish version, Amor, will hit Latin markets March 22.
Bocelli, 47, is probably Italy's most bankable music star after pop idol Laura Pausini, who recently became the first Italian women to win a Grammy. After blasting to international fame in the mid-1990s with his signature number Con Te Partiro' - sometimes in English duets as Time to Say Goodbye with the likes of Sarah Brightman and Celine Dion - Bocelli performed at the Vatican, the White House, the Kennedy Center and a host of world music shrines.
He completed a second triumphant American tour in 2002 and picked up two World Music Awards. Since then he has performed at the NBA's 2006 All-Star Weekend in Houston and at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
One of his upcoming tours will take him to Ireland, where he is hugely popular, for the second time.
