Matteo Bocelli, the only Italian artist at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding, performed on the island of San Giorgio in Venice. The 27-year-old singer and son of tenor Andrea Bocelli sang during key moments of the festive evening. As the bride and groom made their entrance, he sang Anime imperfette, a song whose lyrics echoed the beginning of the newlyweds’ love story: “When I think of us, it was meant to be, that I would meet you here, never to say goodbye again. To get here, across oceans, I follow your heart to find my way home.” Soon after, he crooned Elvis Presley’s 1961 classic, I Can’t Help Falling in Love.
Bocelli, who arrived in Venice accompanied by his manager Francesco Pasquero, serenaded the couple and their elite guest list with ten additional songs during a cocktail reception at the Cini Foundation’s Teatro Verde, continuing the celebration of love between the Amazon founder and the former journalist and helicopter pilot. The singer opted for a central yet quiet and private hotel, the Nani Mocenigo Palace, which has recently become a 5-star luxury hotel, featuring a beautiful hidden garden.
Absent was his father, who was performing in a double concert at the Scavi Amphitheater in Pompeii, accompanied by the Orchestra I Filarmonici di Napoli and the That’s Napoli Choir. Matteo’s new album, Falling in Love, will be released on Sept. 12. Meanwhile, on July 24, he will star in his first Theater of Silence, and starting Sept. 11, he will embark on a world tour that begins in New York.
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