{"id":66018,"date":"2015-04-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/12-year-old-boy-in-duet-with-andrea-bocelli\/"},"modified":"2015-04-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T01:43:56","slug":"12-year-old-boy-in-duet-with-andrea-bocelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/04\/14\/12-year-old-boy-in-duet-with-andrea-bocelli\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year old boy in duet with Andrea Bocelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A 12-year old Dominican boy, Michael Merlino, saw his dreams come true after a video of his singing went viral. The video, which has now been viewed by 14 million people, was shared in an attempt to draw Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli&#8217;s attention to his singing. On Easter Saturday, 4 April 2015, the 12-year old boy sang in a duet with Bocelli at the Altos de Chavon amphitheater in La Romana.<\/p>\n<p> His mother, Miguelina Escana, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s an indescribable feeling. It&#8217;s something that I never dreamed of,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I knew he had talent, but for him to reach this level at only 12 years old is something that I cannot express in words. It&#8217;s an unforgettable emotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/entertainment\/2015\/04\/09\/dream-come-true-12-year-old-boy-shares-stage-with-andrea-bocelli\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year old Dominican boy, Michael Merlino, saw his dreams come true after a video of his singing went viral. The video, which has now been viewed by 14 million people, was shared in an attempt to draw Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli&#8217;s attention to his singing. On Easter Saturday, 4 April 2015, the 12-year old &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/04\/14\/12-year-old-boy-in-duet-with-andrea-bocelli\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}