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Il Divo celebrate 20 years: 'It started as a musical experiment but audiences kept responding'

Source: Mario Schmolka

Il Divo are celebrating 20 years as a group this year and say they are the first to admit that they only expected to last a couple of years let alone two decades.

The multi-platinum selling classical crossover progenitors - Urs Bühler (Swiss tenor), Sébastien Izambard (French tenor), David Miller (US tenor) and the late Carlos Marin (Spanish tenor) - were originally put together in 2004 by music mogul Simon Cowell following a global talent search.

Between selling out tours on multiple continents, their many

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