It took Simon Cowell, the infamous personality of American Idol, nearly two years to find these guys and yet, it took them less than a year to record a success. Yes, it was Simon Cowell’s Il Divo project that found the members of the current Il Divo band - Carlos Marín, Urs Bühler, David Miller, and Sébastien Izambard, all hails from different countries. Carlos Marín hails from Spain while Urs Bühler is a Swiss. Sébastien Izambard is from France and the last founding member, David Miller is an American.

Having different band members from different part of the world instantly spell success. Il Divo sings in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Latin. As a result, Il Divo was named the Most Multinational UK No.1 Album Group in the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Il Divo, talented musicians or Armani models?

Il Divo has so many number ones in the charts worldwide, they have knocked off so many artists including the likes of Robbie Williams, Beatles, Eminem and U2 off the charts!

Their albums, Il Divo, Ancora and Siempre have all reached multiple platinums. Even their The Christmas Collection has reached platinum in USA and Canada.

Il Divo just ended their six-month tour, playing 76 dates across 30 countries in July 2007. During that duration, they have played their classical music for over 600,000 people. A quite impressive numbers and a really long tour.

Besides the successful multi platinum albums, Il Divo has performed in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, appeared as Barbra Streisand in her tour, an unauthorized autobiography called “Romancing the World: A Biography of Il Divo” and this coming September, they will be publishing their official autobiography named “Il Divo: Our Music, Our Journey, Our Words”.

Is classical music becoming popular again? Or is it just another Simon Cowell’s product? Or maybe Il Divo, which means “divine male performer” in Italian, actually means “success” in plain English.

Only time can tell.

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