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Learn 50 interesting things about charming Michael Bublé.
1. Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer, songwriter and occasional actor.
2. Michael Bublé became a naturalized Italian citizen in 2005.
3. Michael Bublé has won several awards, including four Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards.
4. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK.
5. Michael Bublé 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 U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts.
6. Bublé's 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the U.S. 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.
7. 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, totaling five weeks atop the chart, it also made the Top 5 in the United Kingdom.
8. Christmas became his third-consecutive number-one album on the chart.
9. To Be Loved, released in April 2013, was preceded by the release of the lead single and original composition "It's a Beautiful Day". "Close Your Eyes" followed, and "After All" featuring Bryan Adams was performed by him as a UK exclusive and posted on YouTube in late September 2013.
10. Michael Bublé was born in Burnaby, British Columbia to Lewis Bublé, a salmon fisherman, and Amber (née Santaga).
11. Michael Bublé has two younger sisters, Brandee, a children's book author, and Crystal, an actress.
12. The siblings were raised in the Roman Catholic faith.
13. Michael Bublé attended Seaforth Elementary School and Cariboo Hill Secondary School.
14. According to an Oprah interview on 9 October 2009, Bublé dreamed of becoming a famous singer since he was two years old.
15. When he was a teenager, he slept with his Bible and prayed to become a singer.
16. Bublé's interest in jazz music began around age five when his family played Bing Crosby's White Christmas album at Christmastime.
17. The first time his family noticed his singing talent was at Christmastime 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.
18. Bublé had 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 at it, 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. Michael Bublé 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."
20. Michael Bublé shared his hockey interest with his grandfather.
21. From age 14, Bublé spent six years working during the summer as a commercial fisherman with his father and crewmates. Buble described his work experience as "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."
22. His first singing engagements were in nightclubs at the age of 16 and were facilitated by his Italian grandfather Demetrio Santagà, a plumber originally from the small town of Preganziol, in the district of Treviso, who offered his plumbing services in exchange for stage time for his grandson.
23. Bublé's grandfather paid for his singing lessons.
24. One of his vocal instructors was Joseph Shore, the opera baritone.
25. His maternal grandfather never stopped believing that he would become a star.
26. Bublé's maternal grandmother, Iolanda (née Moscone), was also Italian, from Carrufo, Villa Santa Lucia degli Abruzzi, Italy.
27. His father is also of Italian descent.
28. Michael Bublé 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."
29. Michael Bublé 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 Bublé was going to be "an opening act for somebody in Las Vegas".
30. Michael Bublé stated he never learned to read and write music, using only emotion to drive his songwriting ability.
31. At the age of 18, Bublé entered a local talent contest and won. But after winning, he was disqualified by organizer Bev Delich because he was underage.
32. After that, Delich entered Bublé in the Canadian Youth Talent Search, which he won. Following that win, Bublé asked Delich to be his manager.
33. According to Delich, Bublé 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.
34. In 1996, Bublé appeared in TV's Death Game (aka Mortal Challenge) as a Drome Groupie.
35. Also in 1996, he appeared (uncredited) in two episodes of The X-Files as a member of a submarine crew.
36. Bublé's first national TV performance was on a 1997 award-winning Bravo! documentary titled Big Band Boom!, directed by Mark Glover Masterson.
37. Beginning in 1997, he became a frequent guest on Vicki Gabereau's national talk show on the CTV network. During its first season, the Vancouver-based program aired live, which ultimately worked in Bublé's favour.
38. The Gabereau appearances provided Bublé 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, Bublé appeared on the final Gabereau show in 2005, along with Jann Arden and Elvis Costello.
39. Michael Bublé 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").
40. He recorded three independent albums (First Dance, 1996; Babalu, 2001; Dream, 2002).
41. Bublé's career breakthrough came in 2000 from a surprising chain of events. Michael McSweeney, an aide to former Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, saw Bublé's performance at a business party and received a copy of Bublé's self-financed independent album. McSweeney showed the album to Mulroney and his wife. Bublé subsequently was invited to sing at the wedding of Mulroney's daughter, Caroline, where he sang Kurt Weill's "Mack the Knife".
42. At the wedding Bublé was introduced to David Foster, a multi-Grammy Award-winning producer and record executive who previously had worked with artists such as Madonna, Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Céline Dion, Barbra Streisand, Kenny G., Cher, Josh Groban, and Andrea Bocelli.
43. Bublé's self-titled debut album, was released 11 February 2003 by 143 Records/Reprise Records. The album features a range of standards from various eras including "Fever", "The Way You Look Tonight", "For Once in My Life", "Moondance" and "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine".
44. In November 2003, Bublé released a Christmas EP Let it Snow, containing five previously unreleased tracks, that peaked at 56 on the Billboard 200.
45. Michael Bublé won the "New Artist of the Year" award at the 2004 Juno Awards, and his album was nominated for "Album of the Year", but lost out to Sam Roberts.
46. Michael Bublé appeared in the 2003 film The Snow Walker.
47. Also in 2003 he portrayed a lounge performer on an episode of Days of Our Lives.
48. Bublé and Lopilato became engaged in November 2009, and married in March 2011 in Buenos Aires.
49. On 27 August 2013 Lopilato gave birth to their son Noah. In July 2015, the couple announced they are expecting their second child.
50. He co-wrote the hit single "Haven't Met You Yet" for Lopilato while they were dating, and she appeared in his music video.
Source: Wikipedia.org
