The Italian is the debut album of Italian baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

 Patrizio Buanne

Patrizio Buanne

Patrizio is an Italian singer baritone, songwriter, producer. He was previously signed with Globe Records, a division of Universal Music, but has recently signed a global record deal with Warner Music Entertainment.-Biography:Early lifePatrizio Buanne spent his childhood living and traveling from...

. It was released in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 on February 28, 2005, and in the United States

United States

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 on March 7, 2006.

The album is composed of romantic Italian tunes, influenced by the songs of Italian and Italian-American singers (such as Sergio Bruni and Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

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) that Buanne heard played as a youth in his father's Italian restaurant. Buanne strives to re-invent the classics of that era with this new album of traditional songs arranged in a fresh style and sung in both Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 and English

English language

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.

The album has sold over a million copies worldwide, and has reached platinum status in the UK, South Africa

South Africa

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, Asia

Asia

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, and New Zealand

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, and triple platinum in Australia

Australia

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. At its peak, it also charted at number five on Billboard's

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"Top World Music Albums" chart.

UK edition

1. "Il Mondo"
2. "Amore Scusami (My Love, Forgive Me)"
3. "Parla Piu Piano"
4. "A Man Without Love"
5. "Che Sara"
6. "Come Prima (For the First Time)"
7. "L'Italiano"
8. "Home to Mamma"
9. "Luna Mezz'o Mare"
10. "Alta Marea"
11. "Soli"
12. "On an Evening in Roma"
13. "Credi In Te"
14. "'Na Sera 'E Maggio" (bouns track)
15. "A Man Without Love" (English version) (bonus track)

US edition

1. "Il Mondo"
2. "Amore Scusami (My Love, Forgive Me)"
3. "Parla Piu Piano"
4. "A Man Without Love"
5. "Che Sara"
6. "Come Prima (For the First Time)"
7. "L'Italiano"
8. "Home to Mamma"
9. "On an Evening in Roma"
10. "Alta Marea"
11. "Credi In Te"