Much loved and celebrated tenor, Andrea Bocelli, is famously blind but perhaps less-known is that Bocelli suffered from congenital glaucoma from a very young age. Already at great risk for vision loss because of his glaucoma, the Italian opera singer went totally blind at 12 years old after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
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