Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli is a soul who shines by being useful, and few have been more useful to the world than a man who returned classical singing to the top of the pop charts. Born on 22 September 1958, he carries the Sun in Virgo, the archetype of the craftsman who expresses vitality not through spectacle but through devotion to a job done perfectly. With that Sun rising in the first house behind a Virgo Ascendant, the maiden's clean, self-effacing mask meets a solar disposition that cannot help but be seen; the light he brings is the light of mastery, of a voice tended with the discipline of a scholar. Blinded completely at twelve after a football accident, he sang in piano bars before his 1994 Sanremo triumph opened the way to Romanza, "Con te partiro" and over seventy-five million records. His Moon sits in Capricorn in the fifth house: the tender feeling-body forged into stoic strength, a child who grew up early, pouring that hard-won emotion into every creation. Duty became beauty, and beauty became a gift the world keeps unwrapping.