In case you have never heard of IL DIvo, here they arfe at the Roman Collesuem singing, Amazing Grace. Sit back and enjoy!
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[QUOTE=Danno;21227]In case you have never heard of IL DIvo, here they arfe at the Roman Collesuem singing, Amazing Grace. Sit back and enjoy!

Stavo pensando in Amazing Grace in Italiano. Is there such a thing?

I know I lost my faith, but I love that song and I like the group too.

I asked if there was an Italian version of Amazing Grace once. I got the written lyrics in Italian but the actual song was in English.

I just looked up Il Divo on wikipedia and I found out they were created by Simon Cowell. One guy is from America, one is from Switzerland, one is from France, and one is from Germany/Spain. The guy from Germany/Spain made a Dutch album when he was 10.

Carlos Marin the German/Spanish guy is already 40. He looks good for his age.

Marin is a Spanish last name. (mah-REEN)

Born in Rüsselsheim, Germany, but raised in Madrid, Spain, Marín started his career in music early in life,
recording his first album when he was eight years old, produced by Father Abraham aka Pierre Kartner. The
record, named The Little Caruso, contained songs like "O Sole Mio" and "Granada". He even sang "Granada" in
front of an audience of 700 people at that age. At age ten he recorded a second album called Mijn Lieve Mama
(My Dear Mother). This musical beginning led him to study piano and solfeggio.

When he was twelve he moved to Spain, where he won several awards in television contests like "Gente Joven"
(Young People) and "Nueva Gente" (New People) in TVE (Spanish Television) when he was 15 and in his 20s. During
this time he also started to sing in live TV shows accompanied by an orchestra.

He has earned through the years an important reputation as a musical performer, cultivating different musical genres
and receiving excellent reviews by the critics. He made a name for himself in the musical industry, participating in
several musical contests: the "Jacinto Guerrero", "Francisco Alonso" and "Julián Gayarre" in 1996, where he
won second place in male performers, among others.

He has performed in several musicals, starting in 1993 as Marius in Les Misérables, and afterwards The Beauty And The Beast
(where he suffered an accident that left him with a broken leg), Grease (where he played the role of Vince Fontaine) , El
Diluvio Que Viene (The Coming Flood), and covering for José Sacristán in Man From La Mancha. [2]He has also participated in
the production of La Magia De Broadway (Broadway Magic) and Peter Pan (in theater and CD), in this musical he
shared also the tasks of musical direction with Alberto Quintero.

He sang in Tim Burton’s animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and he was also the Prince's singing voice in Disney’s
Spanish version of Cinderella, produced in the year 2000.

Carlos has taken vocal lessons with Alfredo Kraus, Montserrat Caballé and Jaume Aragall.

In these last years he has won acclaim as primo baritono in several operas, including La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, La
Bohème, Lucia Di Lammermoor and Madame Butterfly. Some of his most distinguished opera performances available on record are
Mercutio in Campoamor (Oviedo), Don Giglio in La Capricciosa Corretta (highly recommended for opera lovers), or in Damut’s version of Marina.

Marín has also participated in zarzuela (Spanish operetta). He participated in the zarzuelas in the Jardines De Sabatini (Sabatini Gardens
in Madrid) point of encounter for the music lovers during the summer season at the Gardens of Madrid’s Royal Palace. Some of his performances
in the Spanish operetta can be found in DVD like La Gran Vía (The Great Way), La Revoltosa (The Rebellious), where he plays Felipe, and La
Verbena De La Paloma (The Pigeon’s Festival), where he plays Julián.

That's the same biography I read. lol

When I first just read the names I assumed Carlos Marin was a Spanish guy. It turns out he was born in Germany so I guess that makes him German-Spanish. When I read the Swiss guy's name I thought it sounded German. The Swiss language is form of German and Italian isn't it?

Switzerland has four official languages, traditionally spoken in different regions of the country and they are
German, French, Italian and Rumantsch [sometimes also transcribed as Romansh, Romansch Rhaeto-Romanic or even Romance etc.

Language Public
Use Mother
Tongue
German 74 % 63.7 %
French 21 % 19.6 %
Italian 4 % 6.6 %
Rumantsch 1 % 0.5 %

Romansh (also spelled Romansch, Rumants(c)h, or Romanche) is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, along with German,
Italian and French. It is one of the Rhaeto-Romance languages, believed to have descended from the Vulgar Latin variety spoken by
Roman era occupiers of the region, and, as such, is closely related to French, Occitan and North Italian, as well as other Romance
languages to a lesser extent. As of the 2000 Swiss Census, it is spoken by 35,095[1] residents of the canton of Graubünden (Grisons)
as the language of "best command", and 61,815 in the "best command" plus "most spoken" categories[2]. Spoken now by around 0.9% of
Switzerland's 7.5 million inhabitants, it is Switzerland's least-used national language in terms of number of speakers.

Met some people from Switzerland the last time I was in Italy.
They spoke French, Italian, Spanish and English. Forse German.

My wife's brother is married to a Swiss girl, and lives in Zurich. All are multi-lingual, but in general conversation the wife and two daughters speak in Swiss-German, whilst my brother-in-law answers, and speaks to them in Italian - when we are all round the dinner table it makes for an interesting discussion in Italian, German and English!

Of which you understand very little! Sto scherzando. Just kidding.

What an interesting life you have Markymark.
Tu sei un uomo molto afortunato.

Al altro giorno la mia ragazza mi ha detto che sono un uomo molto interessante e affascinante. LOL!

Thank you for the information.

I've heard Swiss people talking and I heard both Italian and German words so I thought the official language was a form of German and Italian. I guess some of them just like speaking 2, 3, or 4 languages at once.