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    Michael Bublé is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor born in 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia. He became passionate about jazz music from a young age due to his grandfather's record collection. After working as a commercial fisherman in his teens, Bublé began pursuing a career in music professionally in his late teens and early 20s, building experience performing in clubs, cruise ships, and other venues. He has since found worldwide success with his jazz, big band, and pop-influenced style, selling over 55 million albums globally and winning several awards including four Grammys.

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    Michael Bublé is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor born in 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia. He became passionate about jazz music from a young age due to his grandfather's record collection. After working as a commercial fisherman in his teens, Bublé began pursuing a career in music professionally in his late teens and early 20s, building experience performing in clubs, cruise ships, and other venues. He has since found worldwide success with his jazz, big band, and pop-influenced style, selling over 55 million albums globally and winning several awards including four Grammys.

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    Michael Bublé is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor born in 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia. He became passionate about jazz music from a young age due to his grandfather's record collection. After working as a commercial fisherman in his teens, Bublé began pursuing a career in music professionally in his late teens and early 20s, building experience performing in clubs, cruise ships, and other venues. He has since found worldwide success with his jazz, big band, and pop-influenced style, selling over 55 million albums globally and winning several awards including four Grammys.

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    Michael Bubl

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    This article is about the singer. For his self-titled album, see Michael Bubl (album).

    Michael Bubl

    Bubl in February 2011


    Born

    Michael Steven Bubl


    9 September 1975 (age 41)
    Burnaby, British Columbia,
    Canada[1]

    Occupation

    Singer
    songwriter
    cabaret singer
    actor

    Years active

    1996present

    Salary

    $45.5 million (2015) [2]

    Spouse(s)

    Luisana Lopilato (m. 2011)

    Children

    2
    Musical career

    Genres

    Traditional pop
    easy listening
    jazz
    pop rock
    vocal jazz
    cabaret
    show tunes
    swing
    big band
    blue-eyed soul

    Instruments

    vocals

    Labels

    143/Reprise

    Associated

    acts

    Website

    Naturally 7
    Jann Arden
    Laura Pausini
    Chris Botti
    Leon Jackson
    Nelly Furtado
    Thala
    Stacey Solomon
    michaelbuble.com

    Michael Steven Bubl (/buble/ boo-BLAY; born 9 September 1975) is a Canadian singer,
    songwriter and actor. He became a naturalized Italian citizen in 2005.[3] He has won several awards,
    including four Grammy Awards[4][5] and multiple Juno Awards.[6]
    His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found a worldwide audience with his
    2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible which reached number one on
    the Canadian Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200 albums chart, the
    Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts.
    Bubl's 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the US Billboard200 after three days of
    sales, and remained there for two weeks. It was also his fourth number one album on Billboard's Top
    Jazz Albums chart. His 2011 holiday album, Christmas, was in first place on the Billboard 200 for the
    final four weeks of 2011 and the first week of 2012, totalling five weeks atop the chart, it also made
    the Top 5 in the United Kingdom. With this, Christmasbecame his third-consecutive number-one
    album on the chart. To Be Lovedwas released in April 2013.
    As of 2013, Bubl has sold over 55 million albums worldwide.

    Contents

    [hide]

    1Early life

    2Music career
    o

    2.1200002: Musical beginnings

    2.2200304: Michael Bubl

    2.3200506: It's Time

    2.4200708: Call Me Irresponsible

    2.520092012: Crazy Love and Christmas

    2.6201315: To Be Loved

    2.72015present: Nobody but Me

    3Personal life
    o

    3.1Relationships

    3.2Interests and charity work

    4Discography

    5Tours

    6Filmography

    7Television and guesting

    8Awards and nominations


    o

    8.1American Music Awards

    8.2BRIT Awards

    8.3Grammy Awards

    8.4Juno Awards

    8.5iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards

    8.6Other awards

    9See also

    10References

    11External links

    Early life[edit]
    Bubl was born in Burnaby, British Columbia to Lewis Bubl, a salmon fisherman,[7] and Amber (ne
    Santaga).[8] He has two younger sisters,[9] Brandee, a children's book author, and Crystal, an
    actress. The siblings were raised in the Roman Catholic faith.[10] He attended Seaforth Elementary
    School and Cariboo Hill Secondary School.[11]
    According to an Oprah interview on 9 October 2009, Bubl dreamed of becoming a famous singer
    since he was two years old. When he was a teenager, he slept with his Bible and prayed to become
    a singer.[12][13] Bubl's interest in jazz music began around age five[14] when his family played Bing
    Crosby's White Christmas album at Christmastime.[14][15][16]
    The first time his family noticed his singing talent was at Christmastime when Bubl was 13 years
    old, and they heard him powerfully sing the phrase "May your days be merry and bright" when the
    family was singing to the song "White Christmas" on a car ride.[12][17]
    Bubl had a strong passion for ice hockey and wanted to become a professional hockey player for
    the Vancouver Canucksgrowing up, but believed he was not good at it,[18] stating: "I wanted so bad
    to be a hockey player... If I was any good at hockey, I probably wouldn't be singing right
    now."[19] Bubl often played hockey in his youth,[20][21] watched Vancouver Canucks games with his
    father,[22] and said that he "went to every single home game as a kid... I remember I wanted to
    beGary Lupul, I wanted to be Patrik Sundstrom and Ivan Hlinka. I used to think that being named
    Michael Bubl was pretty cool because I was close to being called Jiri Bubla."[20] Bubl shared his
    hockey interest with his grandfather.[23]
    From age 14, Bubl spent six years working during the summer as a commercial fisherman with his
    father and crewmates.[7][24] Bubl described his work experience as "The most deadly physical work
    I'll ever know in my lifetime. Wed be gone for two, sometimes three months at a time and the
    experience of living and working among guys over twice my age taught me a lot about responsibility
    and what it means to be a man."[9]
    His first singing engagements were in nightclubs at the age of 16 and were facilitated by
    his Italian grandfather Demetrio Santag,[25] a plumber originally from the small town of Preganziol,

    [26]

    in the district of Treviso, who offered his plumbing services in exchange for stage time for his
    grandson.[9] Bubl's grandfather paid for his singing lessons. One of his vocal instructors
    was Joseph Shore, the opera baritone.[17] His maternal grandfather never stopped believing that he
    would become a star. Bubl's maternal grandmother, Iolanda (ne Moscone), [27] was also Italian,
    from Carrufo,[27] Villa Santa Lucia degli Abruzzi, Italy.[28] His father is also of Italian descent.[29] His
    original brush with entertainment was as a children's entertainer using the name Mickey Bubbles. [30]
    Bubl grew up listening to his grandfather's collection of jazz records and credits his grandfather in
    encouraging his love for jazz music. "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 'n' 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."[31] Bubl never stopped believing he would
    become a star but admitted he was probably the only one who believed in his dream, stating that
    even his maternal grandfather thought Bubl was going to be "an opening act for somebody in Las
    Vegas".[32] He stated he never learned to read and write music, using only emotion to drive his
    songwriting ability.[18][33][34]
    At the age of 18, Bubl entered a local talent contest and won. But after winning, he was disqualified
    by organizer Bev Delich because he was underage. After that, Delich entered Bubl in the Canadian
    Youth Talent Search, which he won. Following that win, Bubl asked Delich to be his manager.
    Delich signed on and represented Bubl for the next seven not-so-fruitful years. According to Delich,
    Bubl would do every gig imaginable, including talent shows, conventions, cruise ships, malls, hotel
    lounges, bars, clubs, corporate gigs, musical revues, singing telegrams, and even the occasional
    singing Santa Claus gig.[17][24][35][36]
    In 1996, Bubl appeared in TV's Death Game (aka Mortal Challenge) as a Drome Groupie. Also in
    1996, he appeared (uncredited) in two episodes of The X-Files as a member of a submarine crew.[37]
    Bubl's first national TV performance was on a 1997 award-winning Bravo! documentary titled Big
    Band Boom!, directed by Mark Glover Masterson. Beginning in 1997, he became a frequent guest
    on Vicki Gabereau's national talk show on the CTVnetwork. During its first season, the Vancouverbased program aired live, which ultimately worked in Bubl's favour. When a scheduled guest was
    forced to cancel, the show's music producer often asked Bubl to fill in at the last minute. The
    Gabereau appearances provided Bubl with great exposure, but they also helped the singer hone
    his television skills as a performer and as an interview guest. In a mutual show of gratitude, Bubl
    appeared on the final Gabereau show in 2005, along with Jann Arden and Elvis Costello.[38]
    Bubl received two Genie Award-nominations in 2000 for two songs he wrote for the film Here's to
    Life! ("I've Never Been in Love Before", "Dumb ol' Heart").[39] He recorded three independent albums
    (First Dance, 1996; Babalu, 2001; Dream, 2002).[40][41]

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