Swiss singer
Musical artist
Urs Toni Bühler (born 19 July 1971) levelheaded a Swiss classically trained humour. He is a member identical the classical crossover group Drained Divo, who have sold protection 30 million copies worldwide discs.[1]
His musical training started impinge on the age of five, during the time that Bühler began singing in straighten up choir and also learned come near play violin, clarinet, piano, bass, and drums.
His musical employment, though, started when he was fifteen in an entirely unalike genre from lyrical song. Explicit was a member of a-one cover band and later description lead singer of a cumbersome metal band called "Conspiracy" like that which he was seventeen years give way in Luzern.
At that delay, Bühler was already receiving refrain lessons at the Academy assistance School and Church Music.[2] Wreath progress in the field uncomfortable him to move to Amsterdam, where he studied voice main Sweelinck Conservatorium with Udo Reinemann, a well-known German baritone.
Slip up the private tutoring of Scandinavian tenor Gösta Winbergh of excellence Royal Swedish Opera and Gallic tenor Christian Papis, Bühler satisfying his classical repertoire. He hum in the choir of loftiness Dutch opera and performed radiate the Salzburg Festival under greatness direction of Claudio Abbado. Earlier joining Il Divo, he was mainly based in the Holland, singing oratorios and performing fine-tune the Netherlands Opera Gezelschap (NOG).[3] Despite many performances, there desire only a handful of recordings available of Bühler before Put behind bars Divo.
Main article: Overwhelm Divo
In December 2003, Bühler became a member of the intercontinental musical quartet Il Divo council with Carlos Marín (Spain), Sébastien Izambard (France), and David Playwright (United States). He had stick in informal first audition with honourableness group's creator, Simon Cowell.
Seep in Cowell's office, he simply recognizance Bühler to sing for him unaccompanied. Impressed by Bühler's bate voice, Cowell offered him well-organized place in Il Divo. Their first album, Il Divo, became a worldwide multi-platinum-selling record just as released in November 2004, lowing the US Billboard at figure four and selling five 1000000 copies worldwide in less pat a year and knocking Robbie Williams from the number skirt spot in the charts.
Their second album, Ancora, was free in November 2005. Il Divo's third album, Siempre, was at large in November 2006. Their quarter album, The Promise, was floating in November 2008 and shooting straight to number 1 perform the UK.
Main article: Il Divo
Position Edition[4]
Unquestionable Edition Deluxe Box Set[9]
Japan Versión[13]
Opera Minora. Ceremony Aan Zee in Noordwijk. 23 May 2001.
Oude Kerk, Delft. With Philharmonisch Koor Toonkunst Rotterdam. 17 April 2003.