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Band History Ill Divo

The idea behind Il Divo's creation came to Cowell after hearing Andrea Bocelli singing Con te partirò while watching The Sopranos. Aware of this new appreciation for lyrical voices and classical music, he decided to form a multinational quartet (the members hail from Spain, Switzerland, France, and the United States, the name being in Italian) that tried to recreate the style of The Three Tenors.

Simon Cowell conducted a worldwide search for young singers who were willing to embark on the Il Divo project, which lasted two years, from 2001 until December 2003, when the fourth member of Il Divo, American tenor David Miller, was signed. The well-established formation of Il Divo comprises a renowned Spanish baritone, Carlos Marín; two classically trained tenors, Swiss Urs Bühler and American David Miller; and a French pop singer, Sébastien Izambard.

Il Divo sings in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and Latin. Il Divo was named the Most Multinational UK No.1 Album Group in the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
On 25 April 2007, Il Divo performed on American Idol in one of the "Idol Gives Back" episodes, which raised money for children in the U.S. and Africa. For every vote cast during that show, Idol sponsors Coca-Cola, AT&T, and others donated money to Charity Projects Entertainment Fund (CPEF) and other groups such as Save the Children and America's Second Harvest.


On 12 December 2008, Il Divo performed their new song at the Swedish Idol 2008 finale in the Globen Arena in Stockholm.


As Barbra Streisand's Guests
Having just completed a six-month tour of America, Australia, and Europe, Il Divo then participated in all 20 concerts by Barbra Streisand in her North American tour as her special guests. "Streisand: The Tour" with Il Divo was ranked second for all tours for 2006, generating $92.5 million in gross sales.


2006 World Cup

On 9 June 2006, Il Divo performed the 2006 FIFA World Cup official song, "The Time of Our Lives," with R&B singer Toni Braxton live, at half-time, during the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica, and again a month later at the 9 July closing ceremony. The song is available exclusively on the Voices from the FIFA World Cup compilation album, and on the European reissue of Braxton's album Libra, but not on any Il Divo album.


Discography
Main article: Il Divo discography


Il Divo (2004)
Main article: Il Divo (album)

Recording started in the first half of 2004 in Sweden, with producers Quiz & Larossi, Per Magnusson & David Kreuger and in the UK with producer Steve Mac. This self-titled album contained the Spanish rendition of Toni Braxton's hit "Unbreak My Heart" (Regresa a Mí), (Braxton had originally released "Regresa a Mi" as a b-side to her 1996 single, "Unbreak My Heart"); their second single and first original song "Mama"; Sinatra's "My Way" (A mi manera); "Nella Fantasia," and 1994's San Remo Festival winner "Passerà."
The album hit the #1 slot on both Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com after a career-defining appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show on 5 April 2005, where they performed "Regresa a Mi".
In the United Kingdom, the Il Divo album knocked Robbie Williams out of the number 1 spot in the UK charts, Williams allegedly said to them at the "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" film premiere, “So you are the four idiots who have forced me off my number one spot!”[6].
This multiplatinum-selling CD became number one in the charts in a total of 13 countries around the world, and achieved top 5 placing in 25 countries.

Ancora (2005)
Main article: Ancora

This was recorded in both Sweden and London with producers Per Magnusson, David Kreuger and Steve Mac, who were also the producers of their first album. Released on 7 November 2005 in the UK, it hit number one both in the UK and Australia within one week. Ancora was released in the US on 24 January 2006. It entered the Billboard albums chart at number 1, selling more than 150,000 copies during its first week of sales.

Highlights include "Isabel," "I Believe In You (Je crois en toi)," a duet with Céline Dion, a Spanish version of Secret Garden's "You Raise Me Up" (Por ti seré), and a Spanish cover of Eric Carmen's "All by Myself." Two of the tracks on the non-American release of this CD, "O Holy Night" and a version of Schubert's "Ave Maria," also appear on 2005's The Christmas Collection.

The Christmas Collection (2005)
Main article: The Christmas Collection

Recorded in 2005, the album is a collection of Christmas and holiday-inspired songs.

Voices (2006)
Main article: Voices (2006)
Is a collection of songs released at the time of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Siempre (2006)

Main article: Siempre
Released on 21 November 2006 in the United States and one week later in the rest of the world.

The Promise (2008)
Main article: The Promise (Il Divo album)

The album was released globally on 10 November 2008, except in the US and Canada, where it was released on 18 November 2008, Ireland where it was released on 7 November 2008, and Japan, on 26 November 2008. The album reached the No.1 spot in the UK on 16 November 2008. The album was produced by Steve Mac. According to the credits on the DVDs, the bagpipes in Amazing Grace, both on this album and in the performance in the In the Coliseum DVD, are played by Robert White.
DVDs

Mama
The Il Divo release "Mama" – The Video, which includes exclusive footage of the "Making of the Video," a live recording of "Mama – Live In New York," plus a photo gallery.
Encore / Ancora


Cover of the DVD Encore

An open air "live" concert filmed at the Teatro Romano (aka World Heritage site "Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida") in Mérida, Spain, 2005 and was released as DVD on 24 January 2006. The DVD features 8 tracks, including:
Concert
• Si Tu Me Amas
• Isabel
• O Holy Night
• Heroe
• All By Myself (Solo Otra Vez)
Extras
• Il Divo Revealed (documentary interspersed with concert songs)
• Regresa A Mi (Unbreak My Heart) (Music video)
                                    • Mama (Music video)

Live at the Greek Theater

The second official DVD release of Il Divo, this contains the full live concert performed on 27 June 2006 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California as part of their World Tour 2006. This recording captures all the songs that have established the group's popularity, such as their breakthrough hit "Regresa A Mi" through to their original songs such as "Mama," "Si Tu Me Amas," and the only song taken from their Christmas album, "Rejoice." They also performed a previously unreleased rendition of the iconic song "Somewhere" as featured in the musical West Side Story. Most releases in the United States of America do not have "Everytime I Look At You" on it as a major music distributor bought the rights to it in order to promote this song as a bonus track on their release of the DVD, despite the tracklisting on the back-covers still listing the track.

Setlist (in order)
• Regresa a mi
• All by myself (Solo otra vez)
• Passerà
• Isabel
• Nella fantasia
• Rejoice
• Pour que tu m'aimes encore
• I Believe In You (Je crois en toi)
• Unchained Melody (Senza catene)
• Every Time I Look At You
• Si tú me amas
• Feelings
• Mama
• Somewhere
• Hero
• My Way (A mi manera)

Extras
• The Time of our Lives video - performed with Toni Braxton as the official 2006 FIFA World Cup     song. It features three versions in English, German and the International one.
• Up-close and personal interview - focuses on the group's reflections of their success so far.

Live at the Coliseum (2008)
The DVD was released in the UK on 1 December 2008.
It features performances of:
• Amazing Grace
• The Power Of Love (La Fuerza Mayor)
• Hallelujah (Alleluia)
• The Winner Takes It All (Va Todo Al Ganador)
• Adagio

With an in-depth 30 minute interview entitled 'The Promise – Il Divo In Conversation.'
An Evening With Il Divo - Live In Barcelona (2009)
While partaking in their largest worldwide tour, Il Divo recorded and released An Evening With Il Divo – Live In Barcelona, a live DVD with an accompanying 10-track CD with songs from the concert. It was recorded at Il Divo’s largest capacity performance in Europe and took place at Palau Sant Jordi on 3rd April 2009 with attendance of 20 000 people. Added to the setlist are two previously unrecorded songs by the band, Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Impossible Dream. Extras include a "behind the scenes footage/making of the tour" interview with Il Divo. Il Divo turned to the famous choreographer William Baker for a fresh look and feel, as his most famour work is for vastly different music and performers, mainly Kylie Minogue.

CD/DVD Track Listing:
Disc 1: The CD
1. Regresa A Mi (Unbreak My Heart)
2. Unchained Melody (Senza Catene)
3. La Promessa
4. Adagio
5. Somewhere
6. Nights in White Satin (Notte Di Luce)
7. Without You
8. Aleluya
9. Amazing Grace
10. My Way (A Mi Manera)

Disc 2: The DVD
1. Somewhere
2. Unbreak My Heart (Regresa A Mi)
3. La Promessa
4. Angelina
5. Isabel
6. Bridge Over Troubled Water
7. She
8. Passera
9. Unchained Melody (Senza Catene)
10. Mama
11. Nights In White Satin (Notte Di Luce)
12. The Winner Takes It All (Va Toda Al Ganador)
13. Without You (Desde El Dia Que Te Fuiste)
14. Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore
15. Everytime I Look At You
16. Hallelujah (Aleluya)
17. Adagio
18. La Vida Sin Amor
19. Caruso
20. The Power Of Love (La Fuerza Mayor)
21. My Way (A Mi Manera)
22. Amazing Grace
23. The Impossible Dream
DVD Bonus: On Tour With Il Divo

Bibliography
Romancing The World (2005)
Author: Allegra Rossi
Format: Hardback 128 pages
Date of publication: 10 November 2005
Publisher: Orion
ISBN 9780752875194

Our Music, Our Journey, Our Words (2007)
Author: Il Divo
Format: Paperback 192 pages
Data of publication: 6 September 2007
Editor: Headline Book Publishing
ISBN 9780755316571

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Changing Mindsets

by Donna Willams
Reprinted by written permission of the author
Visit Donna Williams' Website
Special Thanks to Serge Conein!


Children are people too, no matter what labels they have. They have chemistry, which can be imbalanced and hence can have mood disorders. They can have neurotransmittal imbalances making them more or less compulsive, impulsive, fixated, depressed, manic, fluctuating, miles away or full on and in your face. They are just people. Like people can develop mindsets that work for them or are self-defeating. We don't always need verbal language to get a sense of someone's possible mindsets. There is still the language of behaviour. Environments can unintentionally and unwittingly respond to their child's experiences/mindset in ways that just justify or compound the current self defeating mindset or chemistry issues, or that turn them around.

If one have mood disorder, such as depression/bipolar with or without OCD, underlying one's social, emotional, communication, behaviour stuff, combinations of diet/supplementation/natural medicine/medication can often address that stuff.

If what one's stuff is part of a personality mindset, these interventions are limited in their ability to do the trick because one would be simply driven to re-manifest the old mindset (with its old 'rewards'/ defenses/ excuses/ hiding palces, etc.) So addressing this would take a change of that entire mindset, perhaps with plenty of help from hypotherapy (as you know counseling won't do it if one is driven to just re-manifest that old familiar, even chemically addictive pattern of the mindset) and if that's not possible, orchestrating the environment's responses to turn around self

defeating patterns in an indirectly confrontational way can work in a similar, subtle, way. Sure, for some, dietary interventions/medication may help that process but unless the environment is altered dramatically to trigger that change of mindset and unless the person themselves wants to let go the old patterns, it can be a tough thing to change

So in case this is of your interest... here's a little blurb I wrote for someone else that may help some people.

MINDSETS
There are lots of mindsets people can get stuck in and "non-verbal" people are not imune to these very human dynamics that can affect any person. Many mindsets can help us, others can be self defeating

Sometimes we get stuck in a perfectionist mindset and we judge ourselves so harshly we end up unable to dare try anything we can't be perfect at straight away.

Sometimes we get stuck in an obsessional mindset, going over and over the things that scare us till we build up our terror till it is much larger than ourselves till we shut down, certain that all is doomed.

There is the pessimist mindset, certain that we are somehow cursed, that no matter how hard we try only bad things will come our way and unable to see or care much about our successes because we choose to focus instead on our failure

Sometimes we get stuck in a dependant mindset, desperate to break free, but also feeling their desperation to save us, certain this is why they love us, afraid we will lose the intensely close merging relationship we have built up with our greatest supporters and caregivers, desiring independence, yet deeply insecure too that if we didn't need them, they'd abandon us.

We can get in a co-dependent mindset, fixating on "loved" others until they are crippled by being our own life's quest, entire sense of self, life purpose. Now we make them unable to easily dare to change because to do so will rob us, their savior, of our very identity and social worth. We may even simultaneously reinforce their certainty of their own incapability without us or cause them to cringe under the spotlight of our magnified attention and desperation all revolving around a "love" that can be suffocating or invite a crippling and inescapable dependency, leaving them unable to feel lovable as a person rather than a cause, and without feeling lovable self love is not existent and the "object" of such love is not existent and the "objects" of such "love" cannot save themselves

We can get stuck in a self-hatred / self-abusive mindset, dis-empowering those who might bring us down by bringing ourselves down first, defensively stopping ourselves from reaching out by compulsively reinforcing how dangerous or toxic we would be if we reached out.

Sometimes we get stuck in a bureaucratic/dogmatic mindset, insistent rigidly that everything must follow the rules as if we in some kind of superiority can somehow assume we always know best.

There are good constructive mindsets too.

We can choose the mindset of the eternal optimist, choosing to believe that all things are possible even if it takes hard step by step work, we will conquer the mountains.

We can choose the mindset of the realist, choosing to turn away from our blown up magnified fears and negativity and instead look at the mere unemotional facts and then make a plan, if necessary, a new plan, step by step, believing we have achievable goals.

We can all choose the Taoist mindset, believing that black and white are not all good or all bad, that bad can can work best in the right situation, that too much good can sometimes harm, that walking the middle path, without knee jerk reactions, without fierce fire that burns itself out, is the best way to achieve our goals with calm satisfaction and acceptance instead of resentment or fear, a mindset in which the only moment we have to worry about is the one we are in each second, each minute, right now, not yesterday, not tomorrow, and all steps are possible if we don't down and don't look so far ahead we become terrified and then assume we will fail when in fact living in each moment, we could well succeed.

We could choose the independent mindset, freeing ourselves of over-concern of the feelings of others and thereby freeing them too, where we all become fully responsible for exercising our own potential step by step at our own pace, for our own sake, without guilt, shame, burden or accumulated debt.

We have a choice at any time to change our mindset for one which will help instead of hinder us

A self-defeating mindset can be changed for one which will better work toward achieving the goals of empowerment, self forgiveness, independence, self expression and purposefulness.


By Donna Williams: www.donnawilliams.net

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This page is generously sponsored by the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation (IALF)

Based on the Malay trade dialect, Bahasa Indonesia is the national language of the Republic of Indonesia. It unites the over 242 million people (2005 estimate) of Indonesia, whose native tongue may be one of the over 300 distinct languages or regional dialects. Older people......

Based on the Malay trade dialect, Bahasa Indonesia is the national language of the Republic of Indonesia. It unites the over 242 million people (2005 estimate) of Indonesia, whose native tongue may be one of the over 300 distinct languages or regional dialects. Older people may speak some Dutch and English is the foreign language of choice for business, tourism and study.
While it may be technically possible for foreigners to live in Jakarta without learning/speaking Bahasa Indonesia, it is highly recommended that you obtain a working knowledge of the Indonesian national language. An inability to communicate in Bahasa Indonesia will cut you off from the mainstream of society, and dealing with those Indonesians who don't speak your foreign language will be very difficult. By not learning the language, you also deny yourself the rich cultural experience of fully communicating with those from another culture.
To get you started and introduce you to the Indonesian national language, are some basic phrases in Bahasa Indonesia.
Click on the link to the Indonesian phrase below to hear the phrases in Indonesian:
Greetings:
Good morning Selamat Pagi

Good mid-day Selamat siang

Good evening Selamat malam

Good-bye Selamat tinggal (if you're leaving)

Selamat jalan (to someone who is leaving you)

Thank you Terima kasih

You're welcome Kembali or sama-sama

How are you? Apa kabar?

Excuse me Permisi or maaf

Communicating:
Do you speak English? Bisa bicara Bahasa Inggris?

I don't speak Indonesian. Saya tidak bisa bicara bahasa Indonesia.

I don't understand. Saya tidak mengerti.

Requesting basic assistance:
Can you help me? Bisa bantu saya?

Where is the bathroom? Di mana kamar kecil?

Where is . . . Di mana . . .

How much is this? Berapa harganya ini?

I want this. Saya mau ini.

I want to eat. Saya mau makan.

Getting home:
My address is ... Alamat saya...

Please take me to ... Tolong, antar saya ke ...

[Download All Sound Clips (514 Kb)] This is a zipped file.

Learning Bahasa Indonesia
The best time to start learning Bahasa Indonesia is before you even make your move to Indonesia, however it may be difficult to find language materials in your home country. Ask your sponsoring company to help you obtain tapes and books several months before you move, so that you can start becoming used to the sound of the language and start familiarizing yourself with its structure and vocabulary.
Formal Courses
Soon after your arrival in Indonesia, make it a priority to register for a Bahasa Indonesia course. There are several excellent schools and community organizations in Jakarta (and other cities) which have comprehensive, structured programs to help you begin learning Indonesian. Learning Indonesian properly from the beginning can not be stressed enough.
Another advantage of signing up for a course is that it's a great place to meet other newcomers and make friends. The people that you will be taking the course with will also be facing many of the settling in and adjustments challenges that you too face as a newcomer.
Several schools offer intensive programs, in Bali or Yogyakarta, where you can study for the full day and have some enjoyable cultural experiences as well.
Tutors
Others opt for private lessons in their home or office from private tutors. This option tends to be the most expensive, and there is little control over the quality of the curriculum and instruction. Even though the tutor may come highly recommended from other expats, that does not ensure the quality of their instruction. You may, however, find it useful to meet with a tutor for a period after you have completed several levels of a formal course. That way they can help you with any special problems or requirements you may have.
Self-Taught Bahasa Indonesia
Some expats opt to learn Bahasa Indonesia on their own. Excellent books to learn Bahasa Indonesia are available in bookstores in the major cities. Once you are in Indonesia, practice your fledgling Indonesian with your household staff, driver, vendors, people you meet in the stores, and social encounters. The diligent will quickly pick up enough Bahasa Indonesia to feel comfortable interacting with Indonesians on a daily basis.
Pen Pals and Indonesian Friends
True fluency in a language requires active use of the language. Many expats find it helpful to get a pen pal or have a "language buddy" relationship with an Indonesian where you help each other to learn a desired language by sharing your skills. This can be as simple as setting up a time to meet once or twice a week where you focus on learning language and developing a friendship over coffee or email each other any questions you have about the language.
Many Indonesians want to learn English, or French, or German ... so if you want to learn Bahasa Indonesia, offer to "trade" skills by investing time in each other's language studies. Obviously you can pay a private tutor to do the same thing, but this type of a relationship is based on mutual benefit and doesn't involve payment. One time you focus on helping the expat to learn Indonesian, and the next time you meet you focus on helping the Indonesian to learn the foreign language.
Two great places to chat with Indonesians wanting to learn English or to find an Indonesian pen pal is on the Living in Indonesia Expat Forum or the Kangguru Radio English Forum.
Other Articles on Learning Indonesian:
• Tips on Effective Ways to Study Bahasa Indonesia
• Faux Pas and other Bahasa Bloopers: Having Fun while Learning Bahasa Indonesia
• Great article which emphasizes the importance of learning Bahasa Indonesia to Build Teamwork between Expatriate and Indonesian business managers
• Questionable Marketing Strategies - Signs in Bahasa Indonesia
• Using the international alphabet to avoid bahasa bloopers
• Indonesian Words and Phrases - an AWA pocket guide to the specific language needed for living in Indonesia as an expatriate
• Fun with Acronyms - some Indonesian and some not!
• Links to Other Sites on Bahasa Indonesia
(Source : http://www.expat.or.id/info/bahasa.html)

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