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Urs Bühler
Swiss singer
Musical artist
Urs Toni Bühler (born 19 July 1971) is a Swiss classically trained tenor. He is a member of the classical crossover group Il Divo, who have sold over 30 million copies worldwide discs.[1]
Early life
[edit]His musical training started at the age of five, when Bühler began singing in a choir and also learned to play violin, clarinet, piano, guitar, and drums. His musical career, though, started when he was fifteen in an entirely different genre from lyrical song. He was a member of a cover band and later the lead singer of a heavy metal band called "Conspiracy" when he was seventeen years old in Luzern.
Career
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[edit]At that time, Bühler was already receiving music lessons at the Academy for School and Church Music.[2] His progress in the field led him to move to Amsterdam, where he studied voice at Sweelinck Conservatorium with Udo Reinemann, a well-known German baritone. Under the private tutoring of Swedish tenor Gösta Winbergh of the Royal Swedish Opera and French tenor Christian Papis, Bühler enriched his classical repertoire. He sang in the choir of the Dutch opera and performed in the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Before joining Il Divo, he was mainly base
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INTERVIEW: Urs Buhler
Urs Buhler, one quarter of the classical group Il Divo, chats with Kevin Cooper about riding his Harley Davidson, being a perfectionist, his leap from Heavy Metal to Classical music and the current tour featuring The Musical Affair album.
Urs Toni Buhler (pictured left of the group), born in Lucerne Switzerland, is a classically trained tenor and member of the operatic pop musical quartet, Il Divo.
Able to play the violin, clarinet, piano, guitar and drums, it was his initial love of music that led him to join a heavy metal band called Conspiracy.
But his calling was towards classical music and in 2003 he became a member of the international quartet Il Divo, whose self-titled album released in 2004 became a worldwide multi-platinum selling record, knocking Robbie Williams from the number one spot in the charts.
Now on tour to promote their latest album: Il Divo: A Musical Affair, Kevin Cooper caught up with him in Amsterdam and this is what he had to say:
Urs good morning, how are you?
I’m good thank you Kevin, how are you?
I’m very well and let me just thank you for taking the time to speak to me today.
That’s fine Kevin, it’s absolutely perfect.
I was fortunate to photograph you here in Nottingham the last time that you toure