Eros Ramazzotti was born on October 28, 1963 in Cinecittà, Rome, "dove è più facile sognare che guardare in faccia la realtà". As a child, he worked occasionally as an extra on film sets and dreamed of a dazzling career as a singer, encouraged by his father Rodolfo, who worked as a house painter but also recorded a few songs. When he finished middle school, Ramazzotti wanted to enter the music conservatory, but according to the admissions exam, he was not "suitable"....He signed up to study bookkeeping, but his academic career was a short one: music was the only thing he had in mind and he dropped out of school during his second year... (follow on ramazzotti.com )