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
Time works against you in this kind of career - there's someone sitting on the bench who's a little better, a little faster. If you do take care of your voice, and you have the good fortune of having enough success for a certain period of time, you can continue doing what you love to do.
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.
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.
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.
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by 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 I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.
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.
This has been five or six years of the most difficult experience of my entire life.
I have to be happy in the here and now because I've seen that every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment, you're basically presuming too much by even using the word legacy - that someone is going to care, that someone is going to look and to listen.
I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to
The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you