 Michael Bublé Michael Bublé (born 9 September 1975) is a Canadian crooner jazz singer and actor. While achieving modest chart success in the United States, his 2003 self-titled album has reached the top ten in Canada, the UK and Australia. A 2004 live album and video "Come Fly With Me" was listed on the Billboard music video charts and reached the top 40 album charts in Australia. Michael Bublé The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ...
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Early years
Michael Bublé was born in Burnaby, British Columbia in 1975. 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." Burnaby, British Columbia, is a city immediately east of Vancouver. ...
The Mills Brothers were an American jazz and pop vocal group of the 20th century. ...
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. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...
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. Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock and Roll, or as just simply The King, was an American singer who had an effect on world culture rivaled only by The Beatles and Chuck Berry. ...
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The Wedding Singer - career breakthrough 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' "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". Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York, was a German composer active from the 1920s until his death. ...
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See also David Foster (woodchopper) David Foster OC, born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a multi Grammy Award winning musician, producer, and composer. ...
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Michael Bublé is the debut album by Michael Bublé released in 2003 Making of the album Michael Bublés career breakthrough came when he sang Kurt Weills Mack the Knife at the wedding of Brian Mulroneys daughter Caroline in 2000. ...
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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 has reached the top 20 in Australia as at May 2004. Michael Bublé is the debut album by Michael Bublé released in 2003 Making of the album Michael Bublés career breakthrough came when he sang Kurt Weills Mack the Knife at the wedding of Brian Mulroneys daughter Caroline in 2000. ...
George Michael George Michael (born June 25, 1963) is a Greek-British pop singer/songwriter born in East Finchley, London. ...
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Junkie XL (also JXL) is a musician, born Tom Holkenborg in Lichtenvoorde, The Netherlands in 1967. ...
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. The Juno Awards of 2004 were presented on April 4, 2004 in Edmonton, Alberta and were hosted by Alanis Morissette. ...
Sam Roberts is a Canadian rock musician, whose 2001 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history. ...
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. A Karaoke machine Karaoke (Japanese: カラオケ) (空 kara empty, oke orchestra) is a form of entertainment where an amateur singer accompanies recorded music. ...
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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 is the debut album by Michael Bublé released in 2003 Making of the album Michael Bublés career breakthrough came when he sang Kurt Weills Mack the Knife at the wedding of Brian Mulroneys daughter Caroline in 2000. ...
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Down With Love is a 2003 film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake. ...
Holly Palmer is a Californian musician who has created three albums; a self-titled debut, Tender Hooks, and I Confess. ...
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Babalu is a Michael Bublé album released before his studio debut album, Michael Bublé was recorded. ...
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"It's Time" - Buble goes mainstream 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". Its Time is an album by the Canadian jazz crooner Michael Bublé. Its Time was released on February 15, 2005, but had been available to legitimately download since the previous week on the Apple Computer iTunes Music Store digital download service. ...
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Its Time is an album by the Canadian jazz crooner Michael Bublé. Its Time was released on February 15, 2005, but had been available to legitimately download since the previous week on the Apple Computer iTunes Music Store digital download service. ...
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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. For other meanings of the name Starbuck, see Starbuck. ...
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Discography Babalu is a Michael Bublé album released before his studio debut album, Michael Bublé was recorded. ...
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Michael Bublé is the debut album by Michael Bublé released in 2003 Making of the album Michael Bublés career breakthrough came when he sang Kurt Weills Mack the Knife at the wedding of Brian Mulroneys daughter Caroline in 2000. ...
Come Fly With Me is the name of a 2004 album and video of mainly live songs by Canadian crooner Michael Bublé. The title track was originally sung by Frank Sinatra on his 1958 album of the same name. ...
Its Time is an album by the Canadian jazz crooner Michael Bublé. Its Time was released on February 15, 2005, but had been available to legitimately download since the previous week on the Apple Computer iTunes Music Store digital download service. ...
Filmography - Duets (2000)
- Totally Blonde (2001)
- The Snow Walker (2003)
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. ...
External links - Michael Bublé (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117826/) at the Internet Movie Database
- Michael Bublé home page (http://www.michaelbuble.com/home.php/)
- VH1 Michael Bublé artist page (http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/buble_michael/albums.jhtml/)
- CTV article (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1047339541736_98/?hub=Entertainment/)
- JazzyUtopia.com | Michael Bublé (http://www.michaelbuble.jazzyutopia.com/)
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