Michael Bolton 迈克尔·波顿
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中 文 名 迈克尔·波顿
外 文 名 Michael Bolton
国 籍 美国
民 族 犹太民族
出 生 地 美国康涅狄格州港市
出生日期 1954年（甲午年）2月26日
星 座 双鱼座
职 业 摇滚歌手、音乐制作人
代表作品 没有你我怎么活
主要成就 第32届格莱美奖最佳流行乐男艺人
第34届格莱美奖最佳流行乐男艺人
眼睛颜色 灰蓝色
身 高 178cm
喜欢的颜色 蓝色
艺人资料
迈克尔·波顿(Michael Bolton)，1954年2月26日出生，是上世纪80年代到90年代乐坛备受欢迎的巨星。
他创下了全球超过5200万张的唱片销量。凭着《没有你我怎么活》以及《当男人爱上女人》两首脍炙人口的歌曲，成为两届格莱美音乐奖的最佳流行男歌手得主，并获得4次格莱美的提名。
个人经历
1954年生于康尼迪克州（Connecticut）的New Haven。80年代末起，Bolton 成为最优秀的摇滚乐歌手之一。
在Bolton的成长过程中，他一直喜爱骚灵音乐，喜爱听 Steive Wonder, Ray Charles和 Marvin Gaye的歌曲。早在他十五岁时，便登台演唱，在家乡的一些酒吧、俱乐部中献艺，这为他以后的成功打下了坚实的基础。
起初，Bolton的歌运并不很理想，推出的几首单曲以及两个专辑都没有引起什么反响。70年代末，Bolton 成为硬摇滚乐队“Blackjack”的主唱，注重从属风格摇滚的发挥，后来乐队解散，Bolton转而进入哥伦比亚公司以求发展。
为女歌手Laura Branigan在1983年作的《How Am I Supposed to Live without You》一炮打响，红遍歌坛。接着他又翻唱了已故灵歌巨星奥蒂斯·雷丁的名曲《Sitting on the Dock of the Bay》，获得成功。接着Bolton又重唱了《How Am I Supposed To Live Without You》，听来令人激情荡漾。这首90年代初排行榜上的冠军歌曲，使他获得了该年度的葛莱美流行男歌手奖。从此开始,推出了一系列碧浪灵歌《How Can We Be Lovers》，《Love Is A Wonderful Thing》。91年的专辑《Time Love and Tenderness》一经问世，迅速荣登榜首，在数月里保持在前十的位置。
Michael Bolton凭藉独特的演绎和声线，以及极富创意的作词、作曲的才华，赢得了乐迷的欣赏，成为80年代到90年代乐坛炙手可热的巨星。
2011年，迈克尔·波顿发行《Gems : The Duets Collection》精选；破天荒与美籍华裔流行女歌手李玟再度重新演绎 《How Am I Supposed to Live without You》。
2012年发行精选集《Gems - The Very Best Of》。
2013年发行专辑《Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville U.S.A.》。
2014年发行专辑《The Essential Michael Bolton》。
2015年2月，他开始了新专辑的录制工作。同年在Oliver's Last Week Tonight节目献唱。
Life and career
Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), 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.
Bolton's achievements include selling more than 75 million records, recording eight top 10 albums and two number-one singles on the ‘Billboard’ charts, as well as winning multiple American Music Awards and Grammy Awards.
Bolton began recording in 1975. This first album was self-titled using his original family name of Bolotin. Early in his musical career he focused on hard rock, with his band Blackjack once opening for heavy metal artist Ozzy Osbourne on tour. Indeed, in 1983, Bolton auditioned for, but was denied, the lead vocalist position with Osbourne's former band, Black Sabbath.
After Anglicizing his family name to Bolton, he gained his first major hit as a songwriter, co-writing "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" for Laura Branigan, previously best known for singing the pop hit "Gloria." Narrowly missing the Top 10 on the US pop chart, Branigan took the song to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks in 1983. The two sought to work with each other again, and their next collaboration was when Bolton co-wrote "I Found Someone" for Branigan in 1985. Her version was only a minor hit, but two years later, Cher resurrected the song, and with it her own singing career. Bolton co-wrote several other songs for both singers.
Bolton would achieve his greatest success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a singer on the adult contemporary/easy listening charts. One of his first major hits was his 1987 interpretation of the Otis Redding classic "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay." Redding's widow, Zelma Redding, said she was so moved by Bolton's performance "that it brought tears to my eyes. It reminded me so much of my husband that I know if he heard it, he would feel the same." Always interested in soul and Motown classics, Bolton's success with that song encouraged him to tackle the standard "Georgia On My Mind," with which he had another hit. In 1991, Bolton released the album Time, ‘Love & Tenderness’ which featured his Grammy Award-winning cover version of "When a Man Loves a Woman."
As a singer, he has performed with other artists such as: Lucia Aliberti, Patti LaBelle, José Carreras, Tony Cetinski, Ray Charles, Céline Dion, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Wynonna Judd, BB King, The Lonely Island, Luciano Pavarotti, Percy Sledge, and Zucchero. As a songwriter, he has written and collaborated on several songs for other artists as well.
Bolton's last Top 40 single in the US in his own right was the 1997 hit "Go the Distance" (featured in the Disney animated motion picture ‘Hercules’), which peaked at No. 1 on the US adult contemporary chart. He hired conductor Larry Baird (orchestral musical director/conductor/arranger for The Moody Blues, Three Dog Night, Al Jarreau, etc.) for his 2001 tour.
In 2006, Bolton and his then fiancee Nicollette Sheridan sang a duet, "The Second Time Around," for the album ‘Bolton Swings Sinatra’. In March 2007, Bolton toured South Africa for the first time. He was the headline act at Jacaranda 94.2 FM's two-day concert.
For Over the Rainbow, an album which was recorded in five days, Bolton recorded the song "New York, New York," which was also on his ‘Bolton Swings Sinatra’ album. This was for an episode of the TV series, Challenge Anneka. The proceeds from the album went to children's hospices across the UK.
Bolton performed a duet entitled "Il Mio Amico" with the Italian singer Anna Tatangelo at the Sanremo Music Festival 2008. The song was originally sung by Tatangelo alone, but the duet version contained English lyrics as well.
Bolton's album ‘Only A Woman Like You’ was released in 2001. The title song was co-written by Shania Twain and featured background vocals by Skyler Jett. Bolton released his album ‘One World One Love’ in the UK on September 21, 2009. The first single, "Just One Love," was released one week earlier.
In 2011, Bolton was featured as a guest vocalist in The Lonely Island's song "Jack Sparrow" on their ‘Turtleneck & Chain’ album. His performance with the comedic hip-hop trio focused on his (intentionally) off-topic chorus and miscommunication with the group, and the video featured him dressed in costumes as Jack Sparrow from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, Forrest Gump, Erin Brockovich, and Tony Montana from ‘Scarface’.
In 2013 Bolton released the album ‘Ain't No Mountain High Enough – A Tribute to Hitsville USA’, which featured duets with Kelly Rowland, Melanie Fiona and Orianthi.
In 2013 and 2014, Bolton appeared in Honda commercials in which he sings.
As of February 2015, Bolton was working on the recording of a new studio album. He has collaborated with Indian musician A. R. Rahman for a song which was recorded in February 2011 for ‘Gems – The Duets Collection’.
In 2015 Bolton sang on John Oliver's Last Week Tonight episode concerning the IRS.
热门评论
- @微微：说Michael Bolton是位没有特点的歌手，会有许多歌迷举双手反对。对这位曾经长发飘飘、浑身散发出如西部牛仔般野性魅力，后来又以短发形象出片、举手投足流露成熟男人风度的男歌手而言，光是形象的转变就足够令人回味了；在他三十多年的歌坛岁月里，好歌不断被称为“情歌大师、流行巨星”。
- @f0rest：Bolton极具穿透力的歌声每一次都撞击着我的心灵，音乐里，已恍似坐在海滩，月光如水，再冷的风中，却可以看那潮来潮往，怒涛拍岸，那种感觉，会是怎样一种苍凉和悲壮！若风中小舟，所有的心事在怒海上都显得那么渺茫，在天地一色的银光中，浩如烟海！望黑夜无尽苍穹，人如尘间飞絮，又何其微小，海风是凉的，所有的凡尘过往都会在寒冷中渐渐沉淀，，梦想于无尽的海的边缘，一个飘摇的木屋，可以在不快乐时，走出囚禁我的木房，赤足走在细软的沙滩上，移步月光在海边独坐，无论夜风多冷，也会让心境融入空旷寂凉最浓郁的黑色里，那歌声，一种难以形容的痛彻心扉的无奈与伤感，穿越了灵魂，绵绵不绝，在空旷的脑海中回音，回音，直至一片空白
- @苍狼：80年代的音乐，只要听到前奏我就能听出来，那个年代的味道总是那么悠扬，和现在的音乐比起来，80年代堪称音乐辉煌之时代。
- @象人：莱昂纳多·科恩之外的这个世界总有在表达方式上更爱简单直白的快乐人，但你并不能说这种人不懂得深沉是什么。
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- @抱歉(布鲁斯我的最爱)：长头发男生难以驾驭，他的长头发透出的不羁感刚刚好
- @Sonia姚(爱听音乐痴迷音乐的女人)：Bolton极具穿透力的歌声每一次都撞击着我的心灵，音乐里，已恍似坐在海滩，月光如水，再冷的风中，却可以看那潮来潮往，怒涛拍岸，那种感觉，会是怎样一种苍凉和悲壮！若风中小舟，所有的心事在怒海上都显得那么渺茫，在天地一色的银光中，浩如烟海！望黑夜无尽苍穹，人如尘间飞絮，又何其微小，海风是凉的，所有的凡尘过往都会在寒冷中渐渐沉淀，，梦想于无尽的海的边缘，一个飘摇的木屋，可以在不快乐时，走出囚禁我的木房，赤足走在细软的沙滩上，移步月光在海边独坐，无论夜风多冷，也会让心境融入空旷寂凉最浓郁的黑色里，那歌声，一种难以形容的痛彻心扉的无奈与伤感，穿越了灵魂，绵绵不绝，在空旷的脑海中回音，回音，直至一片空白
- @漂亮的秋天：听着顿哥的歌，是一种越出现实一种至高享受，沉醉、回忆、伤感、无尽的无尽.....就让我一辈子就样被陶醉，我愿意。
- @雨后阳光：算来波顿叔今年六十有六了？
- @音为有你(有音乐的世界才无比精彩！)：着嗓音真迷人
- @大喵(不要自我设限.....)：
- @瓯江月(若文明消失,惟有音乐值得...)：伟大！
- @Eagle 27(I think,ther...)：波顿是内心有超强能量的人，他的歌也一样，心灵有这种能量的人并不多。他的词曲再配以独一无二的嗓音，使得他的歌声不管在什么时代都能让我们的内心澎湃沸腾，就像夜空里最亮的星，温暖我们的心，照亮全世界，永恒闪耀！
- @Metaled(8090老炮摇滚乐迷，歌...)：个人喜欢1983的专辑。
- @Metaled(8090老炮摇滚乐迷，歌...)：一顿得几斤牛肉才能满足这嗓子