TOnnalisa Minetti he has now completely lost his sight. She told it herself in an interview with The truthexplaining that while he could once see shadows and silhouettes, now it is “total black” around her. The singer-songwriter, who is 46, discovered nearly thirty years ago that she was suffering from retinitis pigmentosaan inherited genetic disorder that causes progressive vision loss.
Annalisa Minetti and worsening eyesight
A news, that of the worsening, which has effectively canceled the progress in the fight against the disease made in recent years. In fact, two years ago, Annalisa Minetti told the weekly Grand Hotel which, thanks to a special technological device (consisting of cameras mounted on the temples of the glasses that helped her recognize faces, read texts, identify objects), her quality of life had clearly improved.
But technology has failed to stop the advance of the disease, and now the singer’s vision is gone.
Total black
«A bit rosy, that I can’t see myself anymore», Annalisa Minetti said in the interview. «I am how I feel: today in overalls, and when I go on TV dressed as a hottie», he continued, however admitting that now he can’t see anymore: «Total black».
And he explained that the ophthalmologist “told me a short time ago that I’m getting worse anatomically too, but I don’t even notice it at this point”. But she holds on: «My father always told me: you will be the light. I do what I can».
The career of Annalisa Minetti
In the long interview, the singer also talked about her career, from the beginning in 1994 at Fiorello’s Karaoke up to Miss Italy 1997 with the title of Miss Azira Girl in Gambissime 1997and in the same year the victory of Sanremo Giovani with The hero that you arecovers of Hero by Mariah Carey. And then, in 1998, the great success in Sanremo with Without you or with you.
Minetti is also a great sports lover paralympic athlete: middle-distance runner, long-distance runner and sprinter, she has set several national and European records, and for this she obtained two silver medals for athletic valor (in 2012 and 2015), and in 2013 she was nominated Knight of the Order of Merit of the Republic Italian.
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