Mourning for Andrea Bocelli.
On Friday evening her mother Edi Aringhieri , 84, originally from Ponsacco (Pisa), died in the Pontedera hospital , where she had been hospitalized for days due to the deterioration of her health.
It was the artist's collaborators who made the announcement on social media: "It is with great regret - we read in the post - that our staff announces the death of Mrs. Edi Aringhieri Bocelli, Andrea's mother. all of us. She left her earthly home after a long and extraordinary life to join her beloved husband, Sandro, in Heaven. All our hearts are with Andrea and Veronica, Alberto and Cinzia, and the entire Bocelli family right now ".
Edi Aringhieri Bocelli on Domenica In had talked about the disability of his blind son. "They suggested that I have an abortion - he remembered - because the pregnancy was difficult, I arrived at the hospital with severe pain and the doctors told me that Andrea would be born with congenital glaucoma that would have made him blind a few years later. But I didn't want to know" .
Tomorrow in La Sterza, a town near Lajatico, the Pisan village in the Val d'Era from which Bocelli took off becoming a planetary star of music, the funeral will be celebrated in the church of San Leonardo Abate, the same as for all the ceremonies of family : from Andrea's first wedding, to the baptisms of his children, to the funeral of his father Alessandro who died 22 years ago.
(Unioneonline / D)
