Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolotin, known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He became better known for his series of pop rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth26 February 1953
CityNew Haven, CT
CountryUnited States of America
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
You know, fans who think we were made for each other and describe it in excruciating detail. You get peculiar things and beautiful things. But either way they're clearly thinking about you, which is nice.
We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit
With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing
You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.
Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
We'll see if we can get (Swayze) up on stage, ... He had a big hit with 'She's Like the Wind.' And we all know he can dance that's for sure.
When Coretta Scott King invited me to come to Atlanta and give a speech and sing at a tribute to her last year, I decided to write a song for her and sing it directly to her. I was studying her words and history, and I wrote 'The Courage in Your Eyes.' I look at those pictures of her standing with Dr. King -- she was a rock.
When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.