His days as prime minister of Italy are coming to an end, but Silvio Berlusconi isn’t fading away quietly. On Tuesday, his fourth album of love songs will be released to the public. Titled “Il Vero Amore” (True Love), the album features 11 ballads, which are performed with the help of his long-time collaborator Mariano Apicella. But Berlusconi is hardly the only politician with musical aspirations. Here in the States, political figures from Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy to Orrin Hatch and Condoleezza Rice have tried their hands at music. Eric Lach wrote about this phenomena for The New Yorker.
Check out former Attorney General John Ashcroft singing his original composition, “Let the Eagle Soar.”
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