Mikhail Bolotin

Michael Bolton is a popular American singer in the 1990s, a performer of "white soul", famous for his own slow love ballads, as well as cover versions of classical soul compositions.

Michael Bolton's real name is Mikhail Bolotin, he was born on February 26, 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut, into a family of Jewish immigrants. His mother Helen in her maiden name bore the surname Gubin and was the granddaughter of a Jewish woman who had left Russia. The rest of Michael's grandparents were themselves Russian emigrants.

Michael became the third, youngest, child in the family - besides him, his parents had a son, Orrin, and a daughter, Sandra.

The musician recorded his first single back in 1968, but Michael's serious musical biography began in 1975. Then he recorded the first album named after the artist - "Michael Bolotin". In the manner of performance, critics and listeners could notice a strong influence on the aspiring singer of Joe Cocker's work.

As a young man, Michael and his band Blackjack played primarily hard rock and once acted as an opening act for Ozzy Osbourne himself during his tour. There were even rumors that in 1983 Bolton claimed to be the vocalist of "Black Sabbath", but the musician himself refutes them. 2 discs recorded at this time went unnoticed.

Changing his first and last name to the usual English ear Michael Bolton, the man wrote his first hit in 1983, co-writing the song "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", which was sung by Laura Branigan. With this song, the singer got the first line in the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, which she held for 3 weeks.

Later the musicians continued to work together, and in 1985 Michael wrote the song "I Found Someone" for Laura. In the performance of Branigan, the composition did not achieve success, but after 2 years Cher sang it, and the song received a second life, as did the singer's career. Bolton later wrote songs for both performers.

Michael achieved his greatest popularity as an author and performer of rock ballads. The first successful hit was a cover version of Otis Reading's classic "(Sittin 'On) the Dock of the Bay". Reading's widow, Zelma, said that Bolton's performance moved her to tears - so much it reminded the woman of her late husband.

Since Michael has long been interested in the soul genre, he made a cover of the song "Georgia on My Mind", written back in 1930 by jazz composer Hogi Carmichael. This composition performed by Bolton also became a definite hit.

In 1991, Michael released Time, Love & Tenderness, which earned him a Grammy for the cover of When a Man Loves a Woman. Another successful composition of this disc was "Missing you now", which for several weeks stayed in the US charts. The video starred actress Teri Hatcher.

Bolton, who initially established himself as a songwriter, was also successful as a singer. The musician has performed with such stars as Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Bob King and even Luciano Pavarotti.

However, not everything in the singer's career went smoothly. Michael's covers of popular soul songs have earned not only the approval of fans, but also the indignation of the adherents of classical soul, who called his performance nothing more than a "surrogate". In 1994, the singer recorded "Said I loved you ... but I lied", which became a hit, and later faced legal proceedings.

According to the court, the singer borrowed the music for the 1991 composition "Love is a Wonderful Thing" from the Eisley brothers, who wrote it back in 1966. Although Bolton vehemently denied that the song was plagiarized, the law could not be convinced. The proceedings ended only in 2001: Michael was awarded to transfer Eisley most of the proceeds from the sales of the single, as well as 28% of the profits from the album "Time, Love and Tenderness"

However, the court proceedings did not prevent the musician from creating. In 1997, Michael wrote another hit "Go the Distance", which sounded in the Disney cartoon "Hercules" and was awarded lines in many charts.

After that, although Michael continued to record albums, he did not have serious success, however, he did not completely drop out of the music industry and even tried himself as an actor. In 2001 he appeared in the TV series "Clone", where he sang the song "All For Love". In 2006, the singer released Bolton Swings Sinatra. The disc did not make it into the top 40 albums, but sold an impressive circulation - in total, at least 300 thousand copies were sold.

The musician has always been open to experimentation. In 2011, he sang a duet with Russian singer Alexei Chumakov. For the performance Bolton chose the song "Here and There", half of which was sung by Alexey in Russian, and half - by Michael in English. The man highly appreciated both Chumakov's vocal abilities and the musical quality of the composition written by Alexei himself.

In 1975, Michael married Maureen McGuire. The wife gave birth to the artist three daughters - Isa, Holly and Taryn, however, despite having common children, the couple divorced in 1990. After that, there were rumors that the musician had a brief relationship with actress Teri Hatcher.

Bolton's next serious relationship was with actress Nicolette Sheridan. The couple dated from 1992 to 1995. In 2005, after a 10-year hiatus, the lovers reunited and even announced their engagement, but in 2008 they finally broke off the relationship.

Now Michael devotes a lot of time to charity. Since 1993, The Michael Bolton Foundation has been operating, later renamed The Michael Bolton Charities. The goal of the organization is to help women and children who have suffered from physical and psychological violence, as well as victims of rape.

In 2018, the artist announced that he was going to go to the UK to perform and perform in Birmingham in November.

On May 10, 2018, Michael told the press that in 5 days the premiere of his film "American Dream: Detroit (Exclusive)" will take place. The singer is a Connecticut native but fell in love with Detroit and wanted to talk about its economic renewal. The documentary features interviews with the city's most famous personalities - Aretha Franklin, Francis Ford Coppola, Alice Cooper and others.

1983 - "Michael Bolton" 1985 - "Everybody's Crazy" 1987 - "The Hunger" 1989 - "Soul Provider" 1991 - "Early Years" 1991 - "Time, Love & Tenderness" 1992 - "Timeless (The Classics)" 1993 - "The One Thing" 1996 - "This Is The Time - The Christmas Album" 1997 - "All That Matters" 2001 - "Love Songs" 2003 - "Vintage" 2005 - "Til The End Of Forever" 2006 - "Bolton Swings Sinatra "2010 -" Live At The Royal Albert Hall "

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