Now Andrea Bocelli, 58, has inspired one of Britain’s leading film directors to tell his extraordinary story on the big screen.
The film takes the story up to the point where Bocelli was “desperate for some sort of success”, Radford added.
The director was initially wary of making a film about a living person, but he said he found Bocelli’s story so inspirational.
This new film, based on Bocelli’s autobiographical novel of the same name, explores the relationship between blindness and hearing, as well as other senses heightened by the loss of sight.