HIS NAME IS MICHAEL BUBLÉ (PRONOUNCED BOO-BLAY) AND THE extraordinary appeal of this 25 year-old Vancouver vocalist with a gift for making his singular swingness very hip these days is evident in these seven brand new performances taken from the film Totally Blonde. Michael was one of the stars of the film and recorded these tracks for its soundtrack.

With 100,000 copies sold so far of his new Reprise/143 Records Top 5 debut album, it is clear that we are witnessing the arrival of a major new talentwith a flair for infusing familiar and beloved music with a fresh, original and utterly unique sensibility entirely his own. Michael Bublé can, indeed, swing.

This enhanced CD will include video of three performances from the film (Thats How It Goes, Love At First Sight and Anyone To Love).

It's a precocious fondness evident virtually from the cradle, when Michael first began absorbing the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald, Keely Smith, Sarah Vaughan and Rosemary Clooney, with a liberal sprinkling of Stevie Wonder, Elvis, Bobby Darin, Vaughan Monroe and Ol' Blue Eyes. "My grandfather was really my best friend growing up," reveals Michael. "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."

According to the multi-Grammy winning producer David Foster, Michael brings youthful energy to [his music], tough and tender at the same time and like nothing else I've ever heard. The great thing is, he's tapped into a repertoire that can last him fifty years. He's at the beginning of a very long career."

A half a century of swing. It just doesn't get any better than that.

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