{"id":242471,"date":"2025-10-26T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242471\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:39:08","slug":"michael-buble-recalls-his-familys-reaction-to-his-singing-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242471\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bubl\u00e9 Recalls His Family’s Reaction to His Singing Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Bubl\u00e9 says his family was shocked when they heard his singing voice for the first time.<\/p>\n

The “Sway” singer recalled the moment while speaking with Willie Geist for the Oct. 26 episode of Sunday Sitdown. Bubl\u00e9 said one Christmas Eve when he was 13 years old, he was sitting in the back seat of his family’s car driving back from his grandparents’ house.<\/p>\n

“We were singing, I think it was ‘I\u2019m dreaming of a white Christmas\/ with every Christmas card I write.’ And then all of a sudden I went, ‘May your days be merry and bright.’ And it was, you know, the whole car going, ‘What the hell?'” he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Bubl\u00e9 then started to take singing more seriously. While singing at a wedding in 2000, he was discovered by record producer David Foster, who signed him.<\/p>\n

Bubl\u00e9 found success with his debut studio album, “Michael Bubl\u00e9,” which he released in 2003. The album featured hits like “Sway,” \u201cHow Can You Mend a Broken Heart” and “Kissing a Fool.”<\/p>\n

\"MichaelMichael Bubl\u00e9 attends the 2025 JUNO Awards at Rogers Arena.Cindy Ord \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

“My big hit songs were me sitting on a piano,” he said. “What would take an average piano player seconds, and it takes me hours to plunk out, ‘I don\u2019t know why you think that you could hold me.'”<\/p>\n

On Spotify he now has over 16 million monthly listeners. One notable fan? Baseball star Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers star, who’s currently facing the Toronto Blue Jays with his team in the World Series, has used Bubl\u00e9’s “Feeling Good” as his walk-out song.<\/p>\n

Bubl\u00e9 explained that it was Ohtani\u2019s wife who told her husband that he should walk onto the field to that song.<\/p>\n

“The coach of the Dodgers was nice enough to introduce me to Shohei. And I said to him, ‘Why did you choose my song?’ And very quickly, he just turned to his wife, and it was his wife that chose,” Bubl\u00e9 laughed. “I\u2019ll take it.”<\/p>\n

The five-time Grammy winner is gearing up for the next season in his life. While working as a coach on “The Voice,” he says he’ll be releasing new music soon, just in time for the holiday season.<\/p>\n

Bubl\u00e9 admits he used to not want to be known for just his holiday songs. Then his son Noah was diagnosed with cancer<\/a> at age 3. In addition to Noah, who is now 12 and in remission, Bubl\u00e9 shares children Elias, Vida and Cielo with wife Luisana Lopilato.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why, but I had the clearest epiphany that day. And I remember thinking, \u2018Why did I ever worry about anything else?\u2019” Bubl\u00e9 said. “And from that day on, I never felt the same about it again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Bubl\u00e9 says his family was shocked when they heard his singing voice for the first time. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-242471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}