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Born in Latina on February 21, 1980, Tiziano Ferro is one of the best known Italian songwriters both in Italy and abroad. He started his career as a very young age and, to date, his path has been a collection of successes. Career, private life, curiosity: do you know everything about him? If something has escaped you, below we tell you everything you need to know.

The family

Tiziano Ferro was born and raised in Latina, but his family is originally from Cavarzere, in Veneto. A family like many others, composed of mom Giuliana, home, by dad Sergio, surveyor, and by Flavio, the smallest little brother.

The first gift

When he was only five years old, Santa Claus left him his first keyboard under the tree: a bontempi who introduced him to music. He started writing songs that was still a child, played and recorded his pieces with a simple recorder. When he was only seven years old, he wrote two songs: The eyes And The sky And, like a tribute by the Titian singer established to the child he had been, both have been inserted as ghost traces in his album Nobody of 2006.

111

After childhood, adolescence began, which for Tiziano Ferro was not a serene and carefree moment. It was so shy that it was often put aside by his classmates. He suffered from eating disorders, specifically of bulimia, and consequent overweight, so much so that they weigh 111 kilos. Not by chance, 111 It will also be the title of his second album, released on November 7, 2003.

The music

Music was saved. Since he was a child he attended guitar courses, battery, singing and piano. At 16 he joined the gospel choir of his city, Big Soul Mama Gospel Choir , where he was passionate about the sound and rhythms of US black music.

Cinema and radio

After attending a distance course as a film voice actor, Tiziano Ferro started working first as a speaker in some local radio of Latina then for Radio Luna , to then lend the voice to Jan in Nello and Patrasche of 1994 and, ten years later, to Oscar in Shark Such .

The school

While chasing the music between choirs and plans and before the real success came, Tiziano Ferro continued to study like all the boys of his age. He graduated from the Scientific High School Ettore Majorana in Latina obtaining a 55/60 vote at the high school exam and continued his studies, first enrolling in the University Engineering Wisdom , to then change the faculties and move on to communication sciences.

The books

On 20 October 2010 his book was published Thirty years and a chat with dad . The book was a real coming out, in which Tiziano Ferro told his relationship sometimes complex with his father and his sexual orientation. Two years later his second book, Love is a simple thing , and in 2023 he published with Mondadori Happiness at the beginning .

The awards

For Tiziano Ferro the real success comes with Xono , a single that in 2002 conquered third place in the ranking of the best -selling individuals in Europe. Since then he has collected a success after another: he has sold over 20 million records all over the world, especially in Europe and Latin America and has obtained numerous prizes and awards at national and international level. Just to name a few, he won Music Awards, Billboard Latin Music Awards, European Border Breakers Awards, G MTV Awards, Onstage Awards, Wind Mtv Europe Music Awards, World Music Award. Since 2021 he has been voting member of the Grammy Awards jury.

Private life

After moving to Puebla de Zaragoza in Mexico in 2004, Tiziano Ferro lived in Manchester and then in Milan. Since 2016 he has lived permanently in Los Angeles. In 2019 he married Victor Allen twice, first at the June 25th and then in Sabaudia on July 13th with civil ceremony. In 2022 he announced that he had become adopted father of Margherita and Andres, but out of respect for their privacy he never told their story. In September last year, however, with a post on Instagram, he announced the divorce from his husband. Rumors say that between the two there was already a certain difference in background and visions, which with the arrival of the children has so accepted even more, making the separation inevitable.