Ancora Preview!!! Il Divo sings Céline...

[VinnyT.]

I did listen their version of Celine's songs I must say they are so talented they seem also real gentlemen but nothing comparing to Celine's versions!Celine is unique!so brilliant PQTME is a great piece of Celine's life/carreer only Celine can sing it!

 

Thanks God they are good looking guys so it helps them very much....in my opinion only good "tenor" voices cant go so far...the world already has Pavarotti,Bocelli,Groban and so on.

 

The only thing I dont understand it's when il divo fans say they dont like celine's music or her voice or her way to sing.....that's very strange to me.....coz i should say what Il Divo does is the extreme form of what Celine is...Dont forget that she is almost a soprano if we talk in terms of kind of voice..that's why they match so good together and Celine's voice can join any tenor/bariton voice as we have seen in the past!

 

One more thing....I really admire their fans they are so happy for their idols they dont care about cover songs or recycled songs.."Ancora"has only 2 inedit tracks and an adaptation the rest are covers and recycled songs......But I didnt see anybody complaing about that!I really appreciate the way they are.

 

BRAVO Il Divo BRAVO their fans!

[mangust]

Il DIVO fans don't get albums with recycled songs years after years. If they are they will blame it too :

 

They have voices. As I said it's too sweet for my taste but it's ok for some kind of music. But Celine's song is just her. I don't know but not everyone can make good cover of her songs. It can be sung technicaly perfect by others but still they don't have something, something very important is use to be missed

[Krys]

no one does it like our Celine does it

[Bellamy]

Il Divo sing cover songs since their first album, so their fans are very used to it.

personally, I don't like Il Divo very much. I think the idea of creat the group and their songs are not original.

[VinnyT.]

Il Divo sing cover songs since their first album, so their fans are very used to it.

personally, I don't like Il Divo very much. I think the idea of creat the group and their songs are not original.

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Well I know but wanna talk about how many tracks the album has? just 11

I'm sure a celine's fan would complain about a 11 tracks album...she did a 13(miracle) tracks album and many of us didnt agree!

and I really dont think that celine always did recycled songs albums all started since OH and Miracle..that's all! but it seemed like no one could "forgive"her for that! and in my opinion il Divo will do cover songs album till the end of time and no one of their fan will be disappointed

[Clari]

Very true Vinny!

[Krys]

Il Divo fans will not be dissappointed cuz all they need are great vocals from those four hot guys

[Krys]

the local newspaper made a huge mistake!!! they put PQTME under one of Il Divo's original songs! F*** the newspaper

[isurrender]

Ancora - il divo's new album is no1 in the uk!

[Ronny83]

Ancora - il divo's new album is no1 in the uk!

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...#1 in Australia and #3 in the Netherlands.

 

[Krys]

ooo...i must get that album!!

[Un Rêve]

Ugh! I hate how PQTME sounds! They turned it in to a slow song, which isn't how it's supposed to be at ALL! I saw All By Myself on a dutch tv show and I didn't like that one either. Guess their music really isn't my taste, huh..

[celinefanonline]

their album is no1 here in New Zealand...

 

anyway do u want me to upload a little part of PQTME by il divo for you people to listen?

Edited November 16, 2005 at 09:42 AM by celinefanonline

[Krys]

hm..PQTME Il Divo version is a bit too slow already...

 

hey celinefanonline, who's that kid with Celine in your siggy?

[Ronny83]

For US citizens:

 

Il Divo will appear

- Nov., 29th on Good Morning America

- Nov., 30th on the Annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting

- Dec., 07th on Regis & Kelly

- Dec., 14th on the Martha Stewart Show

 

Please, take a look at these TV appearances, maybe they will show the full english version of IBIY recorded during Vivemente Dimanche. They said it was for an american TV show.

 

[Mozinha]

I loved All by myself, Ave Maria and Oh Holy night

But PQTME was brutaly slaughtered. I wanted to cry after I listened to it. I thought it was absolutely awful.

 

BTW, it's an amazing album, I'm gonna buy it. Especially because of their fantastic version of Unchained Melody.

[Krys]

i couldnt hear the French properly in PQTME...spoils the whole song

[Ronny83]

Il Divo Releases New Album Soon

 

Il Divo will be releasing their eagerly anticipated new album Ancora (meaning "Again" or "Encore"). Ancora will be released in Malaysia on 6 Dec, through SonyBMG Music Entertainment Malaysia.

An exclusive Il Divo 2006 pocket calendar will be included with every purchase of Ancora.

 

Il Divo's self-titled debut album went straight to number one in the UK , selling 1.4 million copies and toppling Robbie Williams from the top spot. The album has sold over 5 million copies worldwide, hitting the number one slot in 13 countries and achieved top five placing in 25 countries.

 

Ancora takes original music and well-known songs, both old and new, and turns them into unique masterpieces via the beautiful and distinctive voices of Il Divo. Modern classics such as Mariah Carey's Hero and the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody are given a refined classical twist with lyrics sung in Spanish and Italian respectively. I Believe in You is a duet performed in English and French with Celine Dion, while classics Ave Maria and En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor are stamped with the inimitable Il Divo signature.

 

Il Divo embarks on a world tour from Feb to July 2006. Details are available soon.

 

[Published: 30-Nov-2005]

Source: http://www.star-ecentral.com/music/sleeve/...date=11/30/2005

[Krys]

Il Divo Releases New Album Soon

 

Il Divo will be releasing their eagerly anticipated new album Ancora (meaning "Again" or "Encore"). Ancora will be released in Malaysia on 6 Dec, through SonyBMG Music Entertainment Malaysia.

An exclusive Il Divo 2006 pocket calendar will be included with every purchase of Ancora.

 

Il Divo's self-titled debut album went straight to number one in the UK , selling 1.4 million copies and toppling Robbie Williams from the top spot. The album has sold over 5 million copies worldwide, hitting the number one slot in 13 countries and achieved top five placing in 25 countries.

 

Ancora takes original music and well-known songs, both old and new, and turns them into unique masterpieces via the beautiful and distinctive voices of Il Divo. Modern classics such as Mariah Carey's Hero and the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody are given a refined classical twist with lyrics sung in Spanish and Italian respectively. I Believe in You is a duet performed in English and French with Celine Dion, while classics Ave Maria and En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor are stamped with the inimitable Il Divo signature.

 

Il Divo embarks on a world tour from Feb to July 2006. Details are available soon.

 

[Published: 30-Nov-2005]

Source: http://www.star-ecentral.com/music/sleeve/...date=11/30/2005

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oh man...so long...

 

whoa Ronny. i didnt know you read Malaysia's newspaper

Edited November 30, 2005 at 02:01 PM by lamourpourCeline

[CSCfan]

Il Divo branch out on 2nd album

 

By VICTORIA AHEARN

 

TORONTO (CP) - The four members of pop/opera crossover group Il Divo are feeling a lot more independent these days.

 

After all, they hardly ever see the man who put them together in the first place: American Idol judge Simon Cowell. "We talk to him sometimes, once, twice a year, really just to sit down," Paris-born group member Sebastien Izambard said during a recent stop in the city to promote Il Divo's second album, Ancora.

 

"He's too busy, we're too busy and the only reason why he's chosen us is because we have this huge experience behind us."

 

That experience has served the "popera" foursome well, ever since they recorded their debut album as virtual strangers.

 

"We had just met each other literally two days before we started working on our first album," Urs Buhler, the long-haired Swiss tenor, said of the band's first meeting, which was orchestrated by Cowell in December 2003.

 

"We went straight into the studio and started working. We had to create Il Divo." 

 

Cowell held international auditions for nearly two years before finding the group, rounded out by baritone Carlos Marin of Madrid and tenor David Miller of San Diego, Calif.

 

Buhler says Cowell laid out his vision for Il Divo - which means "male diva" in Italian - and let the band figure out the rest.

 

"There was a concept: we wanted to sing pop songs, we wanted to have four classical singers," said Buhler, decked out in trademark Il Divo attire of slick suit and tie.

 

"But then we had to make this thing real, and that's what took us so long - just to figure out what voice fits best in what part of which song, you know, how the voices blend together."

 

After four months of recording in several countries, the singers released their first album, a self-titled disc containing an Italian cover of Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart.

 

Now, a mere eight months later, they're basking in a the glow of a World Music Award nomination, huge album sales and a second record, which contains an Italian cover of Mariah Carey's hit Hero and a collaboration with pop diva Celine Dion.

 

"We were recording some TV shows with (Dion) and she was absolutely fantastic. A very generous, very talented woman, very open to people," said Izambard, the self-taught member of the group who - as a former pop singer - helps write their original tracks, sung in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

 

The bandmates also fondly recall their experience performing for Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Variety Performance earlier this month, even though it went against some of their convictions.

 

"I've lived in Amsterdam for quite a long time and I'm not so sensible to hierarchy," said Buhler. "But if you stand there on that stage and you sing in a beautiful crowded concert hall and Queen Elizabeth sits over there, it does make a big impression on you."

 

With an upcoming world tour and Christmas album set for release, Izambard says the band members spend about "15 hours a day" together.

 

But the handsome quartet also managed to squeeze in some time with the opposite sex.

 

"It is about 80 per cent women," said Buhler of the crowds at their shows.

 

"When I have, like, family dads or husbands come up to me and say, 'really, it's brilliant what you do guys,' I adore it, it's fabulous,' I must say that's a big, big compliment because then you know definitely it's not for the look, it's for the music."

[CSCfan]

They said it was for an american TV show.

 

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Didn't they say it was for countries outside France/for the non-French speaking countries (not specifically the US)?

[Ronny83]

Didn't they say it was for countries outside France/for the non-French speaking countries (not specifically the US)? 

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I read somewhere "for an american show".

 

BTW, it has no sense to promote a full english version of IBIY in Europe, since the european version of the album doesn't contain the full english version.

[IsNothingSacred83]

I don't like La Diva very much.... ehr....Il Divo ....sorry about that ....

[winforlife]

For US citizens:

 

Il Divo will appear

- Nov., 29th on Good Morning America

- Nov., 30th on the Annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting

- Dec., 07th on Regis & Kelly

- Dec., 14th on the Martha Stewart Show

 

Please, take a look at these TV appearances, maybe they will show the full english version of IBIY recorded during Vivemente Dimanche. They said it was for an american TV show.

 

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Thanks for posting the dates I missed the first two,but will try to record Dec 7th and 14th shows.

[Ronny83]

On Il Divo's DVD "Encore", released today in the Netherlands and Germany, there are pieces of IBIY live from Vivement Dimanche.

[Krys]

cool

[Ronny83]

Il Divo's appearance on Regis & Kelly has been postponed to Dec., 12th.

 

[Ronny83]

Il Divo's "The Christmas Collection" has been certified Gold in USA this week.

[celinefanonline]

i got the capture of the dvd of IBIY in another topic check it out http://www.celinedionforum.com/I-Believe-I...nd33-t9905.html

it's at the bottom one..!

 

and i'll upload the mp3 later it's english version !! but only around 40 seconds

[Ronny83]

This is the USA tracklist for "Ancora", due Jan., 31st:

 

1. All By Myself (Solo Otra Vez)

2. Isabel

3. I Believe In You

4. You Raise Me Up

5. Si Tu Me Amas

6. Hasta Mi Final

7. Heroe

8. En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor

9. Esisti Dentro Me

10. Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore

It is different from the european version: it contains an exclusive USA bonus track "You Raise Me Up" (Josh Groban's classic), and "Esisti Dentro Me", that is the UK bonus track.

 

"I Believe In You" could be the FULL english version.