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Michael Buble Profile |
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Birth Date: September 9, 1975
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Birth Place: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Birth
Name: Michael Buble
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Height: 6'0"
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Biography |
Michael Bublé was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
He grew up listening to his grandfather's collection of jazz
records. On his website, Bublé highlights the importance of
his grandfather in encouraging his musical tastes. "My
grandfather was really my best friend growing up. He was the
one who opened me up to a whole world of music that seemed
to have been passed over by my generation. Although I like
rock & roll and modern music, the first time my granddad
played me the Mills Brothers, something magical happened.
The lyrics were so romantic, so real... the way a song
should be for me. It was like seeing my future flash before
me. I wanted to be a singer and I knew that this was the
music that I wanted to sing."
Bublé's grandfather encouraged him to learn the standards
that he loved and to enter a talent contest in Vancouver
which he won before a later disqualification for being
underage. Not discouraged, Bublé won first prize in a
Canadian Youth Talent Search at the age of 17.
For the next few years, Michael Bublé pursued a musical
career without great success. He appeared as Elvis in a Red
Rock Diner road show and sung as a star of a musical revue
called Forever Swing. He also appeared in an episode of
Death Game in 1996. He recorded a couple of independent
albums, one as a present to his grandfather. Bublé received
two Genie Awards in 2000 for songs he wrote for the film
Here's To Life starring Eric McCormack.
Michael Bublé's career breakthrough came when he sang Kurt
Weill's "Mack the Knife" at the wedding of Brian Mulroney's
daughter Caroline in 2000. Mulroney introduced Bublé to
David Foster, a multi-Grammy awarding producer and a Warner
Brothers record executive who had worked with Josh Groban
previously. Foster signed Bublé to his '143' record label
and he started recording a self-titled album 2001 with
Foster as producer. The album features a range of standards
from various eras including "Fever", "The Way You Look
Tonight", "For Once In My Life", Van Morrison's "Moondance"
and Lou Rawls's "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine".
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees sang back up vocals on Bublé's
version of the group's "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart".
Michael Bublé was released in early 2003 and soon entered
the Canadian album charts. Chart success in the UK, US,
Australia and elsewhere soon followed with the album going
platinum and reaching the top ten of the album charts in the
UK and Canada and going all the way to #1 in Australia. The
album has reached the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album
charts. His version of "Kissing a Fool" by George Michael
was released as a single from the album and reached the top
30 of the Billboard adult contemporary chart. "How Can You
Mend A Broken Heart" reached the top 30 of the Billboard
adult contemporary chart as well. His third single "Sway",
originally performed by Dean Martin also reached the top 30
of the adult contemporary chart while a Junkie XL remix of
the song reached the top 20 in Australia in May 2004.
Bublé won the "Best New Talent" award at the Juno Awards of
2004 and his self-titled album was nominated for "Album of
the Year" losing out to Sam Roberts.
Bublé released a Christmas EP Let It Snow in late 2003. The
title track reached the Australian top 40 in the singles
charts, ironically in mid-summer in that country. He
released a live album and video in April 2004 with the video
reaching the top 10 of the Billboard video charts. The album
also reached the Australian top 50 of the album charts as at
the end of April and the Billboard 200 album charts.
Bublé has also appeared in a variety of films in the past
few years including his appearance as a karaoke singer in
Duets opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis. He also has
appeared in Totally Blonde in 2001 and in The Snow Walker in
2003.
Songs from Bublé's debut album ("For Once in My Life,"
"Kissing a Fool") were released on the soundtrack for the
Ewan McGregor/Renée Zellweger movie Down With Love, but the
soundtrack also included a previously unreleased duet with
Holly Palmer on the movie's title theme. The Junkie XL remix
of "Spider-Man" from Bublé's Babalu album was played during
the closing credits of Spider-Man 2 and this version was
also released as a single.
Michael Bublé's second studio album, It's Time, debuted as a
hugely successful sophomore performance. The album reached
No. 7 on the Billboard Album Charts and No. 2 on the ARIA
Album Charts in Australia. It's Time also debuted at No. 4
on the UK Album Charts. The album features covers of Beatles
and Ray Charles songs, as well as a collaboration with
Stevie Wonder and the hit single "Home".
Bublé can be seen in Starbucks commercials singing his cover
of the Jimmy Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn swing standard, "Come Fly
With Me," from his debut album, and more recently, ESPN has
used "Feeling Good" in commercials for poker tournaments. |
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Other
Information |
Won Best New Artist at the Canadian Juno Awards (April,
2004)
Older brother of Crystal Buble.
Last name is pronounced "Boob-lay".
In September 2003, sang at "Blue Note" Jazz Club, in
Manhattan's Greenwich Village, New York City. |
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