From heart-breaking sorrow to bonkers bombast, Andrea Bocelli packs the full gamut of operatic emotion into “Festa”, the first original song to feature on a John Lewis Christmas advert in years.

Andrea Bocelli was born on September 22, 1958 in Lajatico, a province of Pisa in Italy. Born with glaucoma cong nito, very low vision at the age of twelve suffered an accident playing football, losing ...