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Bocelli felt ‘humiliated’ by lockdown
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID-19, said the pandemic lockdown made him feel “humiliated and offended” by depriving him of his freedom to come and go as he wanted.
Bocelli spoke at a panel Monday in a Senate conference room in Italy.
The singer’s announcement in May that he had recovered from the virus came weeks after his
Easter Sunday performance in Milan’s empty cathedral. At the time, Bocelli said that when he learned on March 10 that he had tested positive, just as the nation was going into lockdown, “I jumped into the pool, I felt well” and had only a slight fever. He apparently was referring to a private pool at his residence.
Bocelli told the conference at the Senate that he resented not being able to leave his home even though he “committed no crime” and revealed, without providing details, that he violated that restriction.
Bocelli told the conference that his children told him to be careful about the virus when he first started having doubts about its severity, “but as time passed, I know lots of people, but I didn’t know anyone who went into intensive care.”
Rapper describes shooting: Rapper Megan Thee Stallion said Monday that she had gunshot wounds in both feet and gave new details about the shooting earlier this month that she called “the worst experience of my life” in an emotional online video.
“I was shot in both of my feet, and I had to get surgery to get the bullets taken out, and it was super scary,” said the hip-hop star, 25, whose real name is Megan Pete, as she wiped away tears in the Instagram Live video.
She did not name the person who shot her, as she also declined to do when she first said she was shot in a July 15 Instagram post. She also lashed out at those she says have spread misinformation about the shooting, downplayed it or mocked her for it.
“It was nothing for y’all to start going and making up fake stories about,” she said. “I didn’t put my hands on nobody. I didn’t deserve to get shot.”
Giddens to lead
Silkroad: Grammy-winning folk singer and instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens is the new artistic director of Silkroad — the acclaimed international musical collective with a social conscience — taking the baton from renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who founded the group, Silkroad said Tuesday.
The North Carolina native is the first woman and first multiracial artist to lead Silkroad. The Boston-based organization is known not just for its touring ensemble of worldclass musicians from all over the globe, but also for its efforts to use the arts to bridge differences across races, countries and cultures.
“My keenest desire for Silkroad is a sharpening and reinterpretation of what it means for the ‘right now,’ ” Giddens, 43, said in a statement. “What is more American than the gathering of influences from disparate areas of the globe to create something unique and fantastic?”
July 29 birthdays: Actor Robert Fuller is 87. Actor David Warner is 79. Singerbassist Geddy Lee is 67. Filmmaker Ken Burns is
67. TV personality Tim Gunn is 67. Singer Martina McBride is 54. Actor Wil Wheaton is 48. Singer Wanya Morris is 47. Actor Josh Radnor is 46. Musician Danger Mouse is 43. Actor Cait Fairbanks is 27.