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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Andrea Bocelli

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Andrea Bocelli
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
Composer
Guitarist
Lawyer
Opera Singer
Pianist
Record Producer
Saxophonist
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Tenor
Trumpeter
French
Gogol
Reading
Dostoyevsky
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Woolf
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Tolstoy
Hemingway
Classics
Virginia
Russian
Flaubert

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