Andrea Bocelli was a court-appointed lawyer moonlighting in piano bars before a demo tape reached Luciano Pavarotti. Born in 1958 in the Tuscan village of La Sterza to a family that sold farm equipment and made wine, he was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma before birth and lost his sight completely at twelve after a football struck his eye. This episode follows how music became his refuge, how he earned a law degree at Pisa, and how a 1992 audition for Italian rock star Zucchero changed everything when Pavarotti declared the unknown tenor on the tape was the perfect fit.

We trace his record-setting newcomer win at Sanremo in 1994, the 1995 song that an English soprano heard in a restaurant and turned into a bilingual global hit debuted at a German boxer's farewell bout, and his Guinness record for holding the top three US classical chart  ...