Michael Bublé

Michael Bublé (pronounced Booblay) (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.

Early years

Michael Bublé was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. 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."

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Burnaby - British Columbia - Canada - Mills Brothers

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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.

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Vancouver - Youth Talent Search

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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.

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Elvis - Red Rock Diner - Death Game - Genie Awards - Here's To Life - Eric McCormack

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