Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli visits MIT in support of assistive technology and global poverty reduction

"Imagine a 6-year-old kid about to start school. The kid has only known his local village, the local fields," Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli said at MIT on Friday. "This is a place that kid would have imagined was close to the stars. That kid, of course, was me." Bocelli, who became blind after a childhood accident, visited MIT in support of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation's (ABF) funding of research on assistive technologies for the blind and for reducing global poverty.