The Il Divo singer Carlos Marín has died aged 53, the group has introduced.
The baritone’s bandmates – David Miller, Sébastien Izambard and Urs Bühler – paid tribute to him on Sunday. In a press release on Twitter, they mentioned: “It’s with heavy hearts that we’re letting you already know that our buddy and accomplice, Carlos Marín, has handed away.
“He will probably be missed by his pals, household and followers.
“For 17 years the 4 of us have been on this unimaginable journey of Il Divo collectively, and we are going to miss our pricey buddy.”
On 16 December, the group had posted that Marín was in hospital.
The reason for demise was not made clear, although studies in Spanish media urged Marín was intubated after being admitted to an intensive care unit in Manchester.
Il Divo had postponed the remainder of their December UK tour dates by a 12 months “attributable to sickness”. Marín had been on stage performing earlier this month.
The classical crossover group, comprising a world melting pot of singing stars, was fashioned by Simon Cowell in 2003 below his SyCo document label, although they later parted methods with the music mogul. Marín was a Spaniard born in Germany, Miller is from the US, Izambard from France and Bülher is Swiss.
Marín was married to the French-born singer Geraldine Larrosa – higher identified by her stage identify Innocence – till 2009.
Bruno Tonioli, a choose on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, wrote: “Devastated [Marín] handed away.
“We had the perfect time placing collectively the primary Il Divo efficiency 17 years in the past nice voice nice man a real passionate Spirit with depraved humorousness we are going to miss you so unhappy.”