Sébastien Izambard Izambard is also an accomplished music composer, pianist, and guitar player In Paris he has written music for many French artists. In 2001, he performed with Johnny Hallyday as a guest in the Olympia Theater in Paris. His music, greatly influenced by Jeff Buckley, earns him the acknowledgement of French and Canadian audiences. French singer Florent Pagny is his musical godfather. Sébastien says that composing and writing songs is his passion, writing for the pleasure of writing. Before joining Il Divo wrote and produced songs for other French artists. In parallel with Il Divo, Izambard continued writing songs with pop
Operatic pop Vaudeville, musical comedies, jazz and operettas, examples include Irving Berlin's "That Opera Rag", Billy Murray's "My Cousin Caruso" and Louis Armstrong's riffs on "Rigoletto" and "Pagliacci". The subgenre subsequently dwindled after the 1920s but revived during the rock music era with albums such as The Who's "Tommy" and Queen's "A Night at The Opera". In 1986, operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti had a hit with the Lucio Dalla song "Caruso", which helped to spark a recent flourishing of operatic pop. Other singers, including Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, and Katherine Jenkins, also recorded the number. Bocelli, in particular, soon became a leading