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Michael Bublé
 Michael
Steven Bublé was born on September 9, 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia.
He is a critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated, multiple Juno
Award-winning Canadian crooner, big band singer and actor. He
is of Italian descent with dual citizenship in Italy. 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. Buble's
grandfather encouraged him to enter a talent contest in Vancouver which
he won before a later disqualification for being underage. Not
discouraged, he won first prize in a Canadian Youth Talent Search at the
age of seventeen.
Michael
Steven Bublé was born on September 9, 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia.
He is a critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated, multiple Juno
Award-winning Canadian crooner, big band singer and actor. He
is of Italian descent with dual citizenship in Italy. 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. Buble's
grandfather encouraged him to enter a talent contest in Vancouver which
he won before a later disqualification for being underage. Not
discouraged, he won first prize in a Canadian Youth Talent Search at the
age of seventeen.
For the next few years, 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's career breakthrough came when David Foster, a multi-Grammy award winning producer signed Bublé to his '143' record label, producing
the self-titled album Michael Bublé.
Michael Bublé
was released in early 2003 and soon entered the Canadian album charts.
Chart success in the UK, U.S., 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 in
the U.S. His version of George Michael's "Kissing a Fool" was
released as a single from the album and reached the top 30 of the Billboard
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. "How Can You Mend a Broken
Heart" reached the top 30 of the Billboard Adult
Contemporary chart as well.
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.
Bublé's second studio album, It's
Time, debuted as a hugely successful sophomore performance. The
album reached number 7 on the Billboard 200 album chart, number 2 on the
charts in Australia and number 4 on the UK Album Charts. The album
features covers of Beatles and Ray Charles songs, 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.
Michael Bublé has now sold in excess of
ten million recordings worldwide. His popularity continues to grow as he
has a massive following across Europe, North America, Australia,
Southeast Asia, South Africa and Brazil.
He currently lives in Vancouver, British
Columbia and his third album, Call Me Irresponsible, was released
on May 1, 2007.
Congratulations to Michael Bublé, for
being chosen our latest Artist Spot-Lite on LiteFavorites.com!
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