Andrea Bocelli sang Ave Maria for Pope John Paul II simply hours after father died | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Andrea Bocelli has carried out reside for the final three popes, together with Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005.

Today marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the Italian tenor singing for the Head of the Roman Catholic Church on May 1, 2000.

The occasion was an enormous outside present in Rome known as the Great Jubilee Concert for a Debt-Free World, used to learn the world’s poorest international locations and attract half one million followers.

Lou Reed and Eurythmics carried out on the present alongside Bocelli, who sang Ave Maria and different spiritual anthems simply hours after the sudden loss of life of his father, Alessandro Bocelli.

Having been flown in specifically from Pisa hospital, the Italian tenor additionally approached the pontiff to kiss his ring.