The X Factor's Il Divo on bandmate's tragic death: 'We'll never move on’
ok.co.ukIt’s been 20 years since Simon Cowell set out on a mission to put together his own popular version of The Three Tenors and “operatic boy band” Il Divo were the result.
His team at what was then Syco Music scoured music halls around the world before bringing together California native David Miller, Frenchman Sébastien Izambard, Urs Bühler from Sweden, and the late Carlos Marin, from Spain.
As the original Il Divo, the foursome pioneered a new classical-meets-pop sound, earning a No1 in the UK charts with their first release, followed by a further 30 million album sales worldwide.
But at the very beginning, as they exclusively tell OK !, even they didn’t really know what was being asked of them. “The four of us were put in a room by Simon and he said, ‘These are the songs I want, what can you do with them?’” David, 50, says. “It took us four months to figure out what our sound was, what our dynamic was, and what the point of Il Divo was in this emerging genre called “classical crossover”.
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