Sébastien Izambard
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Sébastien Izambard (born March 7, 1973) is a French tenor and member of the operatic pop musical quartet, Il Divo. Izambard is the only member of the group who is not classically trained so, although he is a tenor, his voice is classified as vox populi. Before joining in Il Divo, he had a career as a pop musician in France, releasing a solo album called Libre. Besides a singer, Izambard is also an accomplished music composer and a piano and guitar player. In Paris he has written music for many French artists. Izambard has said that he has two dreams while being in Il Divo: composing a song for the quartet and singing songs in French. In fact, Ancora, the second album of the band, contains two songs in French: Je Crois En Toi (a duet with Céline Dion) and Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore.
In 2001, he performed with Johnny Halliday as a guest in the Olympia Theater, Paris. His music, greatly influenced by Jeff Buckley, earns him the acknowledgement of French and Canadian audiences.
He recorded two videoclips and collaborated in solidarity projects like the Noël Ensemble, a record in which more than one hundred artists participated in order to raise funds for the fight against AIDS. As a member of Il Divo, he continues working with a charity called Assistance Médicale Toit du Monde (AMTM) that helps poor children, even organizing a fund raising raffle last September for AMTM among his fans to win one of his Armani suits.
Izambard performed in February 2002 in Richard Cocciante’s musical “Le Petit Prince”, where he played the role of the Business Man. Before being a member of Il Divo he also performed in several theater plays as part of the group “La Troupe”.
He was preparing his second album with Francis Madjouli and Lionel Florence when he got involved with Il Divo in 2003. For more information regarding Sébastien Izambard's career in this musical endeavor, please see Il Divo.
