Michael Bublé: “You discover what a person looks like when things get ugly, and that’s why this album is for Luisana”

Michael Bublé is a true modern crooner, capable of singing pop songs and ballads of his own, as well as standard or Christmas songs. It has been at the top for 20 years, adding new generations of fans and recurring milestones such as reaching #1 in the rankings, as it achieved in higherhis new album.

As he himself told Zoom from London, “It’s crazy to get it, after 20 years of racing. We didn’t expect it! You’re competing with artists who have a billion 12 -year -old fans listening to their albums on all day. ‘Many people didn’t expect this to happen, even those on our staff. “

Throughout the meeting, Michael Bublé was relaxed, sociable and even straightforward. His answers seemed unprepared or repetitive, and he defended the spontaneity of the conversation, wasting honesty in his answers and no doubt mentioning his wife Luisana Lopilato.

He recounted with real joy that people from the record company filled his hotel room with balloons to celebrate his #1 victory, and he laughed at the thought of breathing a little helium and answering the following report in his limited voice.

about the album higher

-With the beautiful voice you have, what is the biggest challenge when making a new album: to record a quiet ballad, a song with strings or a pop-rock like “Higher”?

-The problem is I don’t compose for myself, because I want to hear the modulations in a song, and the dramatic effect of climbing an octave. But the result is hard to sing them! This is exactly what I usually talk about with colleagues like Ed Sheeran and Bryan Adams, who told me, “You compose so many octaves! You have to make things simpler and easier, in a single octave. “

-You are demanding a lot.

-Note that even a song like “I’ll Never Not Love You” is a very difficult song that starts very low (he sings it) and skyrockets. It’s always hard for me to find the path of least resistance and find the way that suits my voice. Because I’m not the best singer. I am a soul singer. I always see myself as a soul singer who is passionate and passionate about classic songs from the Great American Songbook.

-It never occurred to me to define you as a soul singer, but it could be.

-The truth is I live in a strange place in the world of music, a strange place where I am an interpreter of those standards, but my greatest success is the songs I have composed and the sound on pop FM radio. It’s hard to pigeonhole myself into a style, and that’s something that can hurt me but has probably also helped me in other ways.

-You are laying a path and your own style.

-About the mainstream, I always felt weird and weird. I go to awards shows like the Grammys, I look around and I don’t see anything like that. On one side are the jazz guys, on the other side are the pop guys, and I’m not sure where I fit. If I fit in any box!

Keep on top

-After so many years of racing, do you think it’s easier to reach the top with one hit, and harder to stay on top?

-I don’t know if it’s easy to get there, but I know it’s harder to stay on top. Just the other day I talked to Luisana about this topic. I told him, “You started with light comedies like Married with children And then you move on to more serious roles and people start to trust you. “

How important is credibility?

-I’ll give you an example: I don’t have to listen to a record if I already trust the actor. I knew there was a new album Red Hot Chili Peppers coming out recently and I would buy it without hearing. Because they earned my trust. When you trust and believe in yourself, you have no choice in your audience but to trust you. It’s very important to stay on top, because you can’t fake it.

-The challenge is to maintain the feeling of enthusiasm and freshness.

-I was young, I didn’t know much about myself and I didn’t know what to do. I will still be a journalist! But I know I have to do something creative, and I feel it when I compose or even make Lego with Noah. I love to build, draw, make things. Luisana and I talked a lot about that …

-What topic?

-Sometimes he tells me he wants to make a movie but he knows I have a tour and he doubts it. So I told him he had to do it, without hesitation: “Baby, I know you and I know it’s not about money, ego or fame, because you have to do creative things. And if you don’t. do, we’re going to be miserable. ” I didn’t miss the tour during the pandemic, because I could go to the studio and start writing songs, inventing, using my imagination and creating, just like when I was a kid.

Compose under the shower

-Do you sing every day, from home, or just in the studio and on stage?

-I sing all the time! Sometimes I go out with a hat and glasses to be with my family and they don’t recognize me, even with a mask on during the pandemic, and suddenly I sing a little and Luisana tells me to be quiet because they are going. get to know me. Yes, I sing a lot. Many of my best ideas come from the shower, which is the only time I’m alone.

-You mentioned in some notes the importance of Luisana when you were living in difficult times. Have you ever thought that a couple can help you so much in difficult times?

-Oh, I had no idea about that when I married that woman, I don’t know how durable it was! I tell you more: one discovers what a person looks like when things get ugly. And I discovered that I married someone who was the most beautiful of all. I get emotional when I say that, but that’s really it.

Are you referring to a particular moment?

-In my worst moment he lifted me up and united the whole family. He is my best friend and I love him. And if this album is a photo, if each album is a polaroid of who you are at that moment, this one is dedicated to her like a love letter. That’s simple.

The tour came to Argentina

One Night with Michael Buble, the Canadian singer-songwriter’s world tour, was delayed by the pandemic and rescheduled her date in Argentina for Nov. 12 at the Movistar Arena. Tickets already sold will remain valid.

Before being delayed, the tour has seen 82 cities of over half a million fans and an additional 27 dates need to be scheduled to meet the massive public demand. Now, as additional information, there is a new album and new songs to be added to the repertoire.

For statistics lovers, Michael Bublé is an artist with dozens of Platinum Records and Grammy and Juno awards, with 4 albums reaching No. 1, multiple hit singles and 8 sold-out world tours. In total, he has sold over 60 million albums worldwide in his career,

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