biography of Michael Buble

Michael Steven Bublé 

OC OBC (IPA: /buːˈbleɪ/ boo-BLAY; born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Regarded as a pop icon, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide,  and won numerous awards, including five Grammy Awards^[3] and fifteen Juno Awards. 

In 2003, Bublé's first album reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom. 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, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts. His 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 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, Christmas became his third-consecutive number-one album on the chart. To Be Loved was released in April 2013, followed by Nobody but Me in October 2016 and Love in November 2018.

Michael Steven Bublé was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, on September 9, 1975, the son of Lewis Bublé, a fisherman,  and Amber (née Santaga), a homemaker. Bublé's paternal and maternal great-grandparents immigrated to Canada from Italy.  His surname was originally spelled "Bubli", and some of his paternal ancestors came from Istria. Bublé stated: [On the side of the family native to modern-day Croatia] some say we're Yugoslavian, others that we're Italian.  He has two younger sisters,  Brandee, a children's book author, and Crystal, an actress. He and his siblings were raised Roman Catholic. He attended Seaforth Elementary School and Cariboo Hill Secondary School. 

According to an Oprah Winfrey interview on October 10, 2009, Bublé dreamed of becoming a famous singer since he was two. When he was a teenager, he slept with his Bible and prayed to become a singer.  His interest in jazz began at around age five when his family played Bing Crosby's White Christmas album. His musical influences include Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,  Tony Bennett, Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin  and Sam Cooke. 

The first time his family noticed his singing talent was during the Christmas holidays, when Bublé 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. Bublé also has a strong passion for ice hockey and wanted to become a professional hockey player for the Vancouver Canucks growing up, but believed he was not good enough. I wanted so bad to be a hockey player... If I was any good at hockey, I probably wouldn't be singing right now. He often played hockey in his youth, watched Vancouver Canucks games with his father, and said that he went to every single home game as a kid... I remember I wanted to be Gary Lupul, I wanted to be Patrik Sundstrom and Ivan Hlinka. I used to think that being named Michael Bublé was pretty cool because I was close to being called Jiri Bubla.  Bublé shared his hockey interest with his grandfather 

From the age of 14, Bublé spent six years working during the summer as a commercial fisherman with his father and crewmates.  He called the experience the most deadly physical work I'll ever know in my lifetime. We'd 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.

About

Grammy Award-winning jazz singer who has sold over 50 million records and gained international fame for his 2005 album, It's Time.

Before Fame

He was raised Catholic and slept with a Bible. As a young man, he prayed to become a famous singer and developed a taste for jazz music at the age of five.

Trivia

His #1 albums on the Canadian and U.S. charts include: Call Me Irresponsible, Crazy Love, and Christmas.

• Is of Italian descent. He has dual Italian-Canadian citizenship. He has stated that his last name is actually from his Italian ancestry. Part of his family is from Treviso (in northern Italy), and the other part of his family is from Villa Santa Lucia degli Abruzzi, Italy. His grandfather Demetrio "Mitch" Santagà comes from the village of Preganziol, Italy.
• His self-penned single, "Home" has the distinction of being the most-heard song on Canadian radio in 2005, reaching an audience estimated to exceed 382 million people.
• His grandfather was a plumber who, whenever he fixed something at a nightclub or something like that, did it for free if the owners allowed Bublé to sing there.
• Frequently closes his concerts by singing without a microphone. This all began when his microphone went out during one of his L.A. concerts when he was in the middle of singing "My Funny Valentine", the show's big finishing number. Without missing a beat, Alan Chang, Bublé's pianist, kept playing his piano, and Bublé did an acoustic version of "My Funny Valentine" that brought down the house.
• Worked with his salmon fisherman father for six years. On fishing days, which normally began from 4:30am to 11pm with physically demanding work, he would listen on the boat to music tapes of classic standards made for him not by his father, an ardent Bruce Springsteen fan, but by his Italian-born grandfather.
• Is an international singing sensation. He has gone multi-platinum in over 15 countries. In 2005, he traveled the world over a dozen times, performing sold-out shows throughout the U.S., Europe (including a sold-out performance at the prestigious London's Royal Albert Hall), Asia, and Australia. His self-titled debut went multi-platinum, and his multi-platinum CD, "It's Time" (which included the No. 1 Buble-penned smash single "Home") sold over 5.5 million CDs worldwide. As of October 2006, "It's Time" went 6 times Platinum in Canada, 4 times Platinum in Australia and Italy, double Platinum in Singapore and USA. Platinum in the UK, Austria, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Switzerland, Taiwan and South Africa. Gold status in Belgium, France, Philippines, Sweden and Thailand. As of 2007, "It's Time" remained on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums Charts for a staggering two years and in the No. 1 slot for over 80 weeks, holding the all time record for highest number of weeks at No. 1 by any artist. The internationally acclaimed hit original song "Home" reached No. 1 on charts in more than 10 countries, including Japan, Canada and Italy. "It's Time" was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards and was the Bestselling Traditional Jazz Album of 2005.
• When Michael's 2006 Valentine's Day EP - "With Love, Michael Buble"- was released only for a week, the album reached Gold status selling 500,000 copies. The album also became the biggest selling CD Hallmark has ever released, selling in excess of 3 million copies.
• When the singer was renting a Hollywood property in 2007, he found a sick cat wandering around his garden and took, what he assumed, was the best course of humane action by bringing it to a veterinarian. Ultimately, the cat had to be put down and when neighbor Peggy Moffitt found out she went ballistic. After some explanation Bublé and his neighbor reconciled and Moffitt's husband, renowned photographer William Claxton, went on to shoot the cover of Bublé's 2007 album "Call Me Irresponsible" for free as a gesture of "no hard feelings".
• At 18, Bublé entered a talent contest in a local bar even though the rules stipulated contestants had to be 19. After he won, the organizer, a local publicist and entrepreneur named Beverly Delich, disqualified him but was so impressed by his talent that she later called him at his parents' home and suggested he enter the British Columbia Youth Talent Search. He won, and Delich then helped him record an independent CD.
• During preparation for his daughter's wedding, Brian Mulroney was hesitant to listen to Buble's CD, given by Mulroney's speech writer Michael McSweeney after a corporate gig, because the wedding had a long list of entertainment. However, it was Brian's wife, Mila, who told him to listen to the CD and include Buble in the entertainment list, after which Buble was invited to sing in front of wedding guest David Foster, who later produced Buble's self-titled album.
• According to an "Oprah" interview on October 9, 2009, Bublé had dreamed of becoming famous since age two. When he was a teenager, he slept with his bible and prayed to become a singer. The first time that his family noticed his singing talent was at Christmas time when Bublé was 13 years old, and they heard him singing along with them to the song "White Christmas" during a car ride.
• Husband of Luisana Lopilato. Met her after he performed at a concert in Buenos Aires and started dating in November 2008.
• His debut self-titled CD released in 2003 hit the best-selling charts in more than 15 countries and went Quadruple Platinum in Canada.
• In 1996, he landed a role as Elvis in the Vancouver run of a Rock and Roll musical revue called Red Rock Diner, where he became friends with Debbie Timuss, a stage actress, dancer and singer who taught him the choreography. Two years later they became an item and moved to Toronto as part of the cast of another musical revue, this time a big band musical revue called Forever Swing. The hit single "Home" from the album It's Time was written for Debbie Timuss, whom Bublé has had a near decade long off-again-on-again relationship. Having gotten back together from one of their breakups and away in Italy on tour, he penned "Home" for Timuss, describing his pain from being away from her. She is the song's background vocalist and is featured in the song's music video. He referred the album It's Time as "Debbie's Record", and a few of the tracks on It's Time was recorded while he sang to her as she sat outside the studio. They became formally engaged pre-Christmastime 2004 and called off the engagement November 2005.
• In 2016, his 2-year-old son Noah was diagnosed with cancer.
• His father Lewis is a salmon fisherman and his mother, Amber, raised him and his two younger sisters.
• On March 19 2007, his self-penned single "Everything", from album Call Me Irresponsible, made the highest debut in the history of the BDS AC (adult contemporary) charts. In its first week at Canadian radio, "Everything" debuted at #3 on the BDS Mainstream AC Audience chart, and a week later it reached #1 Airplay. Also in its first week, it was aired over 300 times on 43 Radio Stations, reaching an estimated audience in Canada of over 5.2 million listeners.
• Sold out 11 shows in a single day when he toured Australia in 2005.
• Sang at a wedding for only the second time when he headlined the entertainment at the $6 million wedding of James Packer, Australia's richest man, and Erica Baxter in France on June 2007. The first time he performed at a wedding was for the Canadian Prime Minister's daughter in 2000, where he got a record deal.
• A long-time devoted hockey fan of the Vancouver Canucks. Watches Canucks games on his laptop when he is not in British Columbia; never misses any of the games.
• Won a 2006 MuchMoreMusic Award for "Save The Last Dance For Me".
• Dedicated his song "Haven't Met You Yet" (2009) to then fiancée Luisana Lopilato.
• (March 31, 2011) Married his girlfriend of nearly 3 years Luisana Lopilato in her native Argentina. She got engaged to Bublé in 2009, having appeared in his music video for "Haven't Met You Yet".
• Won 4 Juno Awards (2006) for Best Single of the Year "Home", Best Album of the Year "It's Time", Best Artist of the Year, and Best Pop Album of the Year "It's Time".
• Won 3 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards (2006) for Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year "It's Time", and Best Original Composition "Home".

Family Life

He married Luisana Lopilato in 2011. He has two sons, Noah and Elias, and a daughter, Vida. His son Noah was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2016. On February 22nd 2022, the couple announced that they were expecting their fourth child together. His wife gave birth to their baby girl Cielo in August 2022.

Associated With

He featured Nelly Furtado on his 2005 cover of "Quando, Quando, Quando."

• BaBalu (2001)
• Dream (2002)
• Michael Bublé (2003)
• It's Time (2005)
• Call Me Irresponsible (2007)
• Crazy Love (2009)
• Christmas (2011)
• To Be Loved (2013)
• Nobody but Me (2016)
• Love (2018)
• Higher (2022)

• Michael Bublé: Live in Concert (2004)
• It's Time Tour (2005–2006)
• Call Me Irresponsible Tour (2007–2008)
• Crazy Love Tour (2010–2012)
• To Be Loved Tour (2013–2015)
• An Evening with Michael Bublé (2019–2022)
• Higher Tour (2022–2023)

• A Las Vegas Limited Engagement (2022)

MINI BIO :

Multi-platinum artist Michael Bublé grew up near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was introduced to swing music and old standards by his grandfather, who offered his services for free as a professional plumber to musicians who were willing to let Michael sing a couple of songs with them on stage.

He got his big break in show business after former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney discovered his music. At 10 years of struggling, the discovery came at a time when distraught Michael was considering giving up a career in music and getting a job in media. His performance at a corporate gig in summer 2000 impressed Michael McSweeney, speech writer/right hand man to Brian Mulroney, and told Mcsweeney to feel free to use his independent CD as a coaster if he didn't like it. Mcsweeney gave the CD to Brian & Mila Mulroney, which led to an invitation to sing at their daughter's wedding, where he was introduced to music producer David Foster, who took him under his wing.

His self-titled debut album came out February 12, 2003 and has since won several music awards and incredible worldwide success.

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