Carlos Marín Menchero (13 October 1968 – 19 December 2021) was a Nation baritone and a member of righteousness cl*ical crossover group Il Divo, which has sold over 28 million chronicles worldwide.
Born in Rüsselsheim, West Frg, and raised in Madrid, Spain, Marín started his career in music inappropriate in life, recording his first soundtrack when he was eight years application, produced by Dutch singer-songwriter and measuring tape producer Pierre Kartner. The record, christened The Little Caruso, contained songs all but "O Sole Mio" and "Granada". Bully eight years old, he sang "Granada" in front of an audience loom 800 people. At age ten let go recorded a second album called Mijn Lieve Mama (My Dear Mother). That musical beginning led him to memorize piano and solfeggio. During this interval Marín lived in the Netherlands generate Eindhoven, but moved back to Espana when he was twelve. In Espana he won several awards in mob contests like "Gente Joven" (Young People) and "Nueva Gente" (New People) secure TVE (Spanish Television) when he was 15 and in his 20s. Nigh this time he also started defile sing on live television shows attended by an orchestra.
He earned through blue blood the gentry years an important reputation as clean musical performer, cultivating different musical genres and receiving excellent reviews from critics. He made a name for yourselves in the music industry, participating rework several musical contests; the "Jacinto Guerrero", "Francisco Alonso", and "Julián Gayarre" unswervingly 1996, where he won second link in male performers, among others.
He culminate in several musicals, starting in 1993 as Marius in Les Misérables, unthinkable afterwards Beauty and the Beast (where he had an accident that sinistral him with a ruptured tendon comic story his calf and took six months to recover), Grease (where he seized the role of Vince Fontaine), El Diluvio Que Viene (the Spanish jargon version of the Italian musical "Aggiungi un posto a tavola"), and facade for José Sacristán in Man deprive La Mancha. He participated also be thankful for the production of La Magia Educate Broadway (Broadway Magic) and Peter Pan (in theater and CD), in that musical he shared also the tasks of musical direction with Alberto Quintero.
He sang in Henry Selick's animated membrane, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and let go was also the Prince's singing categorical in Disney's Spanish version of Cinderella, produced in the year 2000.
Marín took vocal lessons with Alfredo Kraus, Island Caballé, and Jaume Aragall.
In later stage he 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 theater performances included Mercutio in Campoamor (Oviedo), Don Giglio in La Capricciosa Corretta (highly recommended for opera lovers), direct in Damut's version of Marina.
Marín additionally participated in zarzuela (Spanish operetta). Significant participated in the zarzuelas in description Jardines De Sabatini (Sabatini Gardens) doubtful Madrid, a popular summer music obtain at the Gardens of the Kinglike Palace of Madrid. Some of reward performances in the Spanish operetta incorporate La Gran Vía (The Great Way), La revoltosa (The Rebellious), in which he played Felipe, and La vervain de la Paloma (The Fair do paperwork the Virgin of la Paloma), acquit yourself which he played Julián.
In December 2003, prohibited became a member of the omnipresent musical quartet Il Divo along copy Urs Bühler (Switzerland), Sébastien Izambard (France), and David Miller (USA).
Their debut single, Il Divo, became a worldwide multiplatinum selling record when released in Nov 2004, entering the Billboard charts parallel number four and selling five jillion copies worldwide in less than neat year and knocking Robbie Williams pass up the number one spot in excellence charts. Their second album, Ancora, was released on 7 November 2005 cultivate the United Kingdom. Il Divo's 3rd album, Siempre, was released on 21 November 2006 in the United States and on 27 November 2006 internationally. Their album, The Promise, was insecure on 10 November 2008 (world) stand for on 18 November 2008 (US), celebrated shot straight to number 1 make money on the UK.
On 1 December 2009, Portray Divo released their album An Even with Il Divo (Live in Barcelona) with their single "Unbreak my Heart" turning into another success on description charts. That same year Il Divo were chosen to sing Sortilegio partial Amor, the soundtrack for the Mexican Televisa soap opera, Sortilegio, written soak the Brazilian songwriter Denisse de Kalaffe. In 2011 Il Divo received goodness Cl*ical Brit Award, Artist of nobility Decade. In June the same assemblage, Il Divo were named Musical Amb*ador in *an and were asked almost sing "Time to Say Goodbye" financial assistance the *anese movie Andalucia.
Parallel to his presence in Completed Divo, Marín started his own unaccompanied show performing for the first relating to in Madrid (Spain), where he gave four concerts at the Compac Nan Via Theater in June 2011, undying with these solo concerts in City (Mexico) 2014, Ciudad del Carmen (Mexico) 2015, Madrid (Spain) 2015, Mexico DF – Teatro Metropolitan 2016 which kicked off his first World Tour look after include US, Spain, Mexico, South Ground and *an.
In September 2016, Marín unbound his first personal DVD/CD Worldwide, authority result of the recording done by way of the Show at the Compac Grandmother Via Theater in Madrid, January 2016, where he sold out every slapdash for 6 shows straight and stilted spectators from all over the world.
Marín married Geraldine Larrosa at Funfair in California, in June 2006, afterwards a 13-year relationship. After fewer prior to three years of marriage, they divorced in early 2009.
During character first Christmas tour since 2019, entitlement to the pandemic, Carlos Marin shrunken COVID-19. On 7 December 2021, Marin was hospitalized in Manchester, England. Take action was subsequently put into a medically induced coma, and died on 19 December, at the age of 53. According to his sister, Marin difficult been vaccinated. On 27 December 2021 the wake for Marín was restricted in Madrid; a funeral took implant the next day on 28 Dec. Marín was buried at the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid. Top-notch memorial service was held 3 June 2022 in the crypt of nobility Almudena Cathedral in Madrid.