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MICHAEL BUBLE

Michael Bublé, who was born on the 9^th of September 1975 in Burnaby, British Columbia, is an Italian-born Canadian pop, soul and especially jazz singer, but also an actor. With his 2003 album Michael Bublé reached the top 10 in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. In 2004, a live album and video called Come Fly with Me (2004) enrolled in the Billboard Music Video and reached the top 40 selling albums in Australia. He obtained a commercial success in the U.S. with It's Time.

On his website, he stressed the importance of his grandfather in his musical tastes. "My grandfather was really my best friend. It was he who introduced me to the world of Jazz music that seems to have disappeared during my generation. Although I like rock and roll and modern music. The first time my grandfather played me the Mills Brothers, something magical happened. The lyrics were so romantic, so real ... as if the song was made for me. It was like seeing my future as a flash. I wanted to be a singer and I knew that this was the music I wanted to sing. "

He recorded three independent albums, one as a gift to his grandfather. Michael Bublé has won two Genie Award nominations in 2000 for two songs he had written for the film Here's to Life.

Michael Bublé's career began to break through after a meeting with an associate of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Michael McSweeney. McSweeney had enjoyed a performance of Michael Bublé who then presented a new album. McSweeney, in turn, gave the album to Mulroney and his wife. Thus Bublé was invited to sing at the wedding of the couple's daughter, Caroline Mulroney in 2000, where he sang Mack the Knife by Kurt Weill. At the ceremony, Brian Mulroney introduced Bublé to David Foster, a producer and member of the executive of Warner Brothers who'd worked with Josh Groban. Foster and Bublé concluded to an agreement with the label '143 'for the production of the self-titled album Michael Bublé in 2000. The album contains a variety of songs, including Fever, The Way You Look Tonight, For Once In My Life, Moondance and You'll Never Find other Love Like Mine.

Michael Bublé received the award for "New Artist of the Year" at the Juno Awards in 2004, when his self-titled album was named "Album of the Year" but it was eventually won by Sam Roberts.
Michael Bublé released a Christmas EP entitled Let It Snow! at the end of 2003. The title track of the album reached the top 40 singles in Australia, ironically in the middle of summer in this country. He released a live album and a DVD, in April 2004, reaching the top 10 of the Billboard video charts. The album also reached the top 50 of the Australian charts at the end of April and the Billboard 200 album charts. Let It Snow! was rescanned in the United States on October 9^th , 2007.
On September 20^th , 2011, the crooner Tony Bennett's Duets II, an album of duets with title Do not Get Around Much Anymore was co-interpreted with Michael Bublé.

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