Oh, Tiziano

I was scrolling aimlessly through my friend’s Amazon Prime when I found I name I thought I'd recognized. I knew I kind of recognized the name but could not place the face.  After a few seconds, it clicked. Because of course it did. It was a face and a name that I have seen and heard many times before. It was Tiziano Ferro, one of my pop crushes back in the day, when I bought CDs by the handful, had posters on the walls of my dorm room and traveled with my unmistakable boombox everywhere I went. 

Oh, how my friend and I fangirled about him! He had the voice, he had the moves, he had the clothes! Italian boys, am I right? Intense, sexy, sultry, all swagger and smiles. We had all his CDs and I had a huge poster of him behind my door. I think it was a still from the 'Xdono' video . Or maybe from 'Rosso Relativo'. I don't remember. What I do remember is that he was in my bedroom every night. If you don't know who Tiziano Ferro is, imagine a cross between Josh Groban and Shawn Mendes. That voice! That badonkadonk! I have  a weakness for men with nice, deep voices, what can I say? 

So the thing was, after I lost my CD collection to a flooded basement, I kind of forgot about him. Funny, how futile we boys are with our music crushes, no? There were Savage Garden, InSync and the Backstreet Boys to fill that void. I had literally forgotten about Tiziano until I was browsing my friend's Amazon Prime and his face popped up. Was it definitely the same Tiziano I remembered? Maybe not. He's older, buffer. But it was  the same smile, the same voice, the same eyes and the same grin. And he was... happier? So I sat down to watch.

You see, we used to read all the magazines and the online blogs and apparently there were rumors that Tiziano Ferro was gay. The same way they talk about Shawn Mendes or Harry Styles now. But we thought those were only rumors, and we didn't believe them. Well, we better had believed them. Tiziano is gay and has married his American boyfriend. I know, right? I was floored. So Tiziano, at forty, has apparently found happiness and the perfect balance between being an Italian superstar in Europe and  being just another guy going to the supermarket in America. Talk about having the best of both worlds, and staying true to himself. 

If you have Amazon, I think you should give the documentary a watch. It will be worth your time, I think. You'll learn about his struggles with his weight, his alcoholism (the closet is destructive, honey) and his coming out and finally finding the man of his dreams. Who knew you could have it all? And I'm including some of his music here, in case you don't have Amazon Prime. I know he sings in Italian and in Spanish, but I don't know if he sings in English. But to tell you the truth, I'd rather listen to him singing in his mother tongue. When he sings in Italian or Spanish I wanna just.... unf. 

XOXO

FERRO