In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Andrea Bocelli, the Italian opera singing icon, has broken two of YouTube’s biggest records.
On Easter Sunday (April 12), the five-time Grammy Award nominee put on not only the biggest classical livestream event in the website’s history, but also its biggest musical livestream of all time.
The 61-year-old’s Music For Hope concert at the Duomo di Milano — the cathedral church of Milan, Italy — pulled in more than 2.8 million “peak concurrent viewers” across the globe while it was happening, according to Variety.
Bocelli was invited by the city and the esteemed Christian church to spread a message of positivity, love and hope through the power of music during the COVID-19 outbreak.