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Michael Bublé

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“Well, just today, honestly, truly, the excitement of doing something different. You know, like, yeah, it's time to take that challenge. It's time to take that trip, you know? And I know it's there. The same way I kind of told you that I had so much faith in. In knowing like, hey man, I think I got a pretty good voice and I can be good. I'm a good entertainer. Like, I can, if I do this, I have the potential to really have fun doing that at a level. I think I can do.”
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“Being Mike, man. And doing that, whether that's in movies or television or whatever it is, it has to happen now. Why? Cus is my favorite part of me, and I never I've never really there was just it was just too good all the other stuff was so Because I love the other stuff. I love touring. I love, like, I love making money doing that. That's amazing, dude.”
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“Oh, dude, you're going to meet You're going to meet them. I'm going to make sure that the whole world meets them. For 20 years, I have done the same thing. It's been cyclical. Michael Wright makes a great record, and then I go and I promote it. I go to 40 countries and promote it. And then I go and tour for a year and a half. And for 20 years, it has been. Write it, promo it, tour it. And I feel like I met at this point of my life and my career where I wanted to do something different. Listen, again, music will never there will always be my happy place and my love. But I need time to do some other stuff, man. I need time to challenge myself and to wake up and go, yeah, this is different and fun. And it's really about being that other guy, not the suit guy.”
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“The other guy from stage, that's a completely different dude, that guy, that's Michael Bublay. This is, I'm Mike, fantasy football hockey loving idiot who, you know, Is a bigger idiot than you're seeing here. Even I'm a little bit more of the suit guy. Oh, fuck. Yeah, man. I would say closer to Michael Scott from the office. But dude, every night I go and I put on this suit. And then when I walk out on stage, I become the guy that I always wanted to be. He is so cool and Teflon, and he says all the right things and nothing can. And I can be goofy, but there's this, there's another, I mean.”
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“I think what I meant even more than just brands is like, you know, I'm, you don't understand, I'm two different people, right?”
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“But how do you can I ask you how do you because you are a brand now man? I know you're a beautiful nice guy, a human being, but dude, there's a brand, it's a brand. And I know you have people on your team, and I know you have a team that like, they come to you and say, we'd love you to do this. And your team goes, you can't do that Is off brand. How do you Are you able to, because you're in the wave, man, that tidal wave is moving, but you're inside it. You got all your people on top, and they can all kind of see how do you deal with it? Like, what do you do? Do you feel it? Do you think you're self-aware enough to know what the brand is or how to protect it or how to move it forward?”
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“Just a part of life. It takes a piece of us, you know, like my grandpa, man. I miss my grandpa every day, but that's just, that's life. That's a part of life. And I don't know that any of us even have the capacity to deal with it. I think it's why, obviously, we move to faith, you know, something feels good about hoping that there's something more.”
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“Oh, no, no, no, because you already, I think any parent, I mean, now I've become, I've had such great relationships with so many parents and people have not just gone through this. I mean, listen, man, going through any kind of thing with, like, you know, you're not going to get away without it, man. I don't know if you have already, but...”
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“Do you trust you? You respect you. And then I was like, if you don't. You're expecting that person to or any person to. Maybe you're asking too much. I hope we're allowed to look at ourselves in the mirror, and man is so easy to lie to other people, but it's even easier to lie to yourself. You know? Dude, it's so easy. And it's like, I hope everybody has the chance to figure your way to do it. I don't know what it is or how you get there. If you need like medicine or mushrooms or whatever it is. To look in the mirror and to go, these are the things that I think I suck at. And, you know, and I hope, I really do. I hope within us there's an opportunity for all of us to have that self-diagnosis and honesty. And to go, yeah, I can do better than that.”
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“No, but I had to, dude, it's funny. You know, we've all had those moments too. Like, listen, much younger, I had that moment where I was like, oh, dude. You like you?”
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“Yes, sir, and I remember closing my eyes and saying to myself. If we get out of this If we get out of this, I'm living a different life And I made that promise to myself in like a moment, you know? Want to be kinder. I want to be more empathetic. I don't ever want to allow that ego and that false self to take over. I want to know how lucky I am. And dude, I'm a lucky man. Like I, you know, I just look at my wife. Like, you know, it's like, how did that happen? How did I get, you know, this incredible human being who's the best of all of us to sort of lead me through and carry me through these things, you know?”
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“Yeah, of course, absolutely. Absolutely. Dude, I remember being at CHLA. I remember peeing in a stall. I know it sounds weird and it's not sexy, but I remember just sitting in the stall, standing there, you know?”
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“Filter gone, and I mean in a moment in one moment. Moment gone, and I went. Okay, this is it. This is life. This is it. This is what's important. And that's when it's not like I thought about it. It didn't. There was no time to process it. It was you have your priorities. This is what your priorities are. And this is what your priorities must be in order to be happy in your life. It is”
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“And that pain, the fear, the suffering that comes with those sort of things, I guess it's part of that beautiful, this life, you know. But if I wasn't clear and I wasn't clear, and it's interesting because when it actually happened, I was going through, I think, a crisis. Like really, like the crisis that you're talking about, you know. I don't think I had my priorities straight. I mean, I always, my family was always a love of, you know, I think I once think I was a terrible guy, but dude, it was blinders career. Ambition How do I become the baddest, biggest, best, you know? ego more power, more money, more and on Halloween, however many years ago that was, dude, it's like life was lived with like a curtain in front of me, like a filter? and the moment that they said this is what's happening That reality hit me.”
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“Listen, like I said to you before, this whole thing starts with family. And I, I, I, I have never been so out of touch because I have too good of a family. My mom and dad are just they just they're just too beautiful people and my grandparents and listen I may not do it but I know what the difference is between right and wrong and putting ego first. I don't want to get too deep into it because it's not that it is uncomfortable for me, but my son has his own life and his own story My son's cancer diagnosis rocked my world It pulled a curtain from over my eyes, and I don't want to get deeper into it, but I can tell you that I don't think that I had what you're talking about. I don't think I had context. And that was a sledgehammer to my reality. I will never be carefree again in my life, and that's okay. It is a privilege for me to And”
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“Yeah, my false self, I would say the ego. I should read more Ecartolian power of now. And I tell stories about the hockey team that I'm a part owner of, the Vancouver Giants. He talks about the ages, how substantial that is. But he is a big part of my life too, you know. And by the way, practicing to get to this place where it's really easy to let your fears and your false self give you these negative messages. And it was helpful for me to understand that I could control that, not allowing those negative things to get a hold of me.”
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“No, man. No. Of course not. Absolutely not. And by the way, there can be times where my false self Allows that to change.”
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“And this morning I woke up and I was brushing my teeth and I was on FaceTime with my wife and the kids, you know. And she said, okay, how are you? How do you feel? And it was like, I said, listen, Lou, I said. Faith number one, my family number two and my career a really distant third. And so for me, I'm blessed to really feel that. Because of course I get scared, man. I don't want to lose it. And there's a million ways to lose it. But I also haven't put all of my eggs into that one basket.”
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“Paul is very sweet, like he'll call me just out of the blue and he'll go like, hey, dude, you're the man. Don't, don't trip. You know, whatever you're feeling, if you're feeling it's up or down, just keep doing your thing, man. Be true to yourself. Don't panic. And it's beautiful. It's a beautiful, you know, and listen, for me, having four kids and a wife that is my favorite human being in the whole planet, that made me. Makes the process of that worry easier because, you know, it's funny, dude. I was terrified yesterday, that event. Terrified, man. I wanted to be great and scary to be in front of your peers. That's something you know is so important.”
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“There is for all those. There is for you. I'm sure you sit and go, like, I'm kicking ass right now, but you know what? You know why? Because naturally everything that goes up must come down. No, there is no career. I don't give a I don't care if you're a school teacher or a doctor. I mean, nothing just continues to go. I mean, you have to understand that there are peaks and valleys and that there are times when you might not be the hottest, but those are the times when you continue to stay true to the brand. You don't panic. It's hard not to panic. Like I was talking about Paul Anka, but...”
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“And it was in the Philippines. And I went to get sushi at a mall in Manila. And there was a security guy. He was like, don't go without me. And I was like, yeah, sure. And I went and went and bought sushi. And then all of a sudden. I was surrounded by all these beautiful Filipinos speaking Tagalic and asking for pictures. And I was like, and I remember he was really pissed with me. He was really upset that I hadn't taken him the security. I was like, why? I don't need security. And then he took me, we went up to my room, and I was like, dude, I'm sorry. Like, that was crazy. Like, I've never, this is crazy. I feel like a fucking backstreet boy or something, you know? Like, they were. And then I remember that he opened the curtain and this curtain opened and it was a building facing us and the dude, the full building was just my face.”
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“Oh, probably. Probably So it's happened late for me, man. This whole thing happened late. For what is the norm? Yeah, man. I didn't know what my first taste of fame had maybe. twenty”
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“You're not killing it. There's not a ton of interest. He said, would you consider going to Southeast Asia and Africa? And I was like, yeah, I'll go anywhere you want. And I did, dude. I just started going to all the, and man, that's where it happened. I made it, and my first big hit was in the Philippines, South Africa. I started to do pretty good. I'd sold a couple million records, and my manager, Bruce would call, and he would say, Hey, kid. You want to go to Germany? I'd say, like, what's in Germany? Well, they got about eight journalists there. And you'd be singing in the Hyatt lobby, doing a showcase. Know, and I guess there might have been a thought even that point, maybe that's beneath. And I was like, no, shit, man, go, yeah. And I did it, dude. I just went, literally, man. I did that in.”
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“Come upstairs, come upstairs. Come upstairs, you know And so we took the elevator up and I grabbed the telephone and said hello and David said hey Mike man and I said hi David and he said hey Mike man I want to welcome you to Warner Brothers Records and I want you to know we have your back and you're never gonna have to worry again and it was like man it was I don't know again dude it sounds like that's the end of the story but That wasn't then, because the record came out, and it was awesome, but I believe I debuted at one hundred ninety eight on Billboard. And I had a manager named Bruce Allen. He was known as one of the greatest managers in the business and still is. And he said to me, Kid, you're an American signed act, but”
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“I have no idea what that meant. Like he had no idea. And he honestly, I don't think he had any. Concept when we walked out of those doors what Mr. Wally was going to say, you know. And then two days later, I flew my grandfather down. I said, grandpa, I can't do this. I need you, man. So he flew down to LA. And that little Westwood apartment, and I was down on the treadmill. And the door sort of flung open, and he and the manager, the time Bev. Open the door and they were just crying. I said, you know”
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“So Raprize was a subsidiary of Warner that Frank had started And they had Frank on the label. You know, they had Sinatra on Raprice. And he said, why should we sign you a half, Frank? Must be like getting to the pearly gates. and having one opportunity. To get in. And I said with all due respect, Mr Wallie Frank's debt don't bear the music. I said, I will keep it alive. I love it, I cherish it, I will break my ass for you, I will go out there and I will will this to be great and he sat, he listened to the four demos, and then two days later I had flown my grandfather down to LA because it's funny when I walked out with David that day, I say thank you, David, for putting your balls on the line for me like that. I said, so what do you think? And he looked at me and he said, I think you did a great job. But Mike.”
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“Holy shit, you know. And I sat in the meeting with Wally, Tom Wally is the president, and he's like real good looking dude. Like imagine like Eric Stoltz or something. But, you know, as that, you know, the executive and he sat down in the office. And I think he said, well, why should we sign you? We have Sinatra and Raprice. I think it's one of the first things he said.”
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“Please give me one opportunity to go to Warner Brother Records and to speak to the president and play my case, and if he doesn't want me, I will never ever bother you again. You'll never hear from me again. You want me to show up and do stuff for you, I'll do it, but I'll never ask that question again. And he was like, okay, and I don't think he did love confrontation. And I remember he called me about a day, two days later, and he said, let's see what a 26-year-old kid knows about the record business. And I went in to Warner Records in Burbank. Maybe probably the scariest day of my life of my life. And wood building, you know, look up on the wall and in its prints and tompetty and Madonna and red hot chili peppers and like.”
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“And he literally told me what to say. And about three days later, David had brought me in, hired me to do something. I think it was for Kenny G and his wife at the time had an anniversary party. And I said, David, can I speak to you? And he said, like, okay. And I took David to this other little room beside the banquet hall and literally regurgitated word for word, you know, what Umberto had told me to tell this guy. You know, David was my hero, right? David was a scary guy when you're, you know, you look, wow, this is my, and basically the gist of the conversation was. We have done something incredible. We have four or five songs here that are you know they're amazing.”
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“Well, a big deal was Umberto. And he said he's a Chilean guy. And he said, hey, Bubble, man, you need a, I drive you to your apartment. And I was dead. Like, I had it. I was there, dude. It was there. In my hand, Was there, and then it was gone. And he drove me home. And I remember he parked, I lived in Westwood. I'd rented this little place in Westwood. And Umberto parked the car outside, and he looked at me and he said, Good. Okay, Miklito. David Foster is a strong guy, but he doesn't like confrontation at all, he said. Here's what you're going to say to him.”
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“Yeah, the money deal fell through, and he was like, it didn't work out, and somebody else will do this. And I was like, dude, you know, and there was another producer in Mumberto Gatica. He was another massive producer, beautiful guy. And he said, he took me into the car. I was destroyed because I was this. I was there. I was making the record. I was four songs in to making a record. And then it was done. And David was like, I'm really sorry, Mike. It just not going to happen.”
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“And I think for David, I remember sitting up he had this room in Malibu and he had like all the Grammys all over his piano. And I remember we were like, we got it. And he was like, you got it? It was like, well, okay, you know, okay. He said, but Warner will get the first ride of refusal. And even that wasn't the end of the story. We started making a demo that we ended up going, he got Paul Anka. Do you know Paul Anka? Okay, well, Paul is, I'll remind you of who Paul Ank is, if you don't know. Paul at sixteen or maybe fifteen had written a song called Put Your Head on My Shoulder Put on my Shoulder Or Diana I'm so young and you're so old He wrote another song called My Way And now the end is near huge massive stars. He is Justin Beaver, okay?”
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“Because I had again said to him, Amen, come on, like, sign me, and he was like, you need to get out. You need to go. He said, like, listen, dude. I told you you're on my radar. You and another 19 kids are, you know, it's just not happening. And it's funny because The reason it happened when it came down to it was I was like, what do I need to do? Surely this is not impossible. And he went, okay, it's this much attract. And six tracks minimum. And I was like, okay. And so this manager and I literally went back to Vancouver and she was an amazing woman and she went door to door bank to bank and we found this incredible dude who underwrote and we bought the money. We brought the check. And I went to David's and Malibu and said that we said We got it. Here's the money. David's a massive producer. I think it was 100,000 a song.”
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“But I was like an indie act. It was a full-on indie act. It was like doing weird shit that no one else was doing. And I think it was just so outside. Even listen, David Foster, that David Foster producer guy I'm talking about. It's funny. He doesn't remember this way, but I remind him many times that when are we going to do this? You're going to produce my record? And he said in quotations, I will never produce your record and we will never sign you. Never. He had a very sweet assistant named Neil, who's a beauty, the sweetest kid. And when I see him once or I mean, I would see him and he would laugh and he would go, dude, I remember that I would like say to you, just walk away because this isn't going to happen for you. You know, he's not, you're not, you're not the one. I remember he said to me, he got pissed with me.”
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“Why would they? I didn't do anything that was mainstream. I mean, I used to do, it was like I had an indie record. I would do indie festivals. It's so funny, man. I talk about it now. It's like, you know, I'm so whatever you want to call it, like where I could probably, you know.”
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“Yeah, I understand that that's, but it wasn't. It was ten years. I don't care if it was a shopping mall or a street corner or a nightclub or a bar or a wedding or a funeral. Every room was the same. Every single room was the same.”
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“Yeah. Well, you know, it's interesting you say that because if that was just me sitting in my bathroom mir And going, I'm amazing.”
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“No, no, dude. You know what? I knew because every room I ever walked into, I was such a sensitive. Insecure Kid, really sensitive. And I think that beautiful kindness and empathy that my family drove into me and my sisters is what made me that man on stage. You understand? I even now, man, I could play fifty thousand people, and if there's one looking at their watch, and I will play to that man. And my mission, my mission, I love the rest of forty nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine of you, but you. I'm not leaving here until I break you. I'm not leaving here until, you know, you get me. You might not, I might not be your cup of tea. I might not be your favorite, but you'll walk away and you'll say, okay, the kid's better than, yeah, I get it.”
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“Listen to me, man. I'm going to say it's going to sound like it directly I don't want it to be condescending at all, but Half of that ten years. gave me humility. gave me appreciation For when it would happen, I would Be appreciative, and I would still have humility and I would still be able to be present and aware enough of how lucky I was, you know. But the reason that I didn't stop in those ten years was because I knew I was the best in the world I mean, no doubt that if the right person sees me, I am one of the greatest entertainers on earth, and all you need to do is come into my room, and you don't have to pay to see me. You can be there just to drink booze and get laid. But by the end of the night. You'll know.”
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“Because it's like so many of the stories that are told across I failed, I failed, they said no over and over again and over again. And I just continued to go forward.”
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“It's funny, I was going to tell you today I've watched a show religiously and I was like, what if you just call yourself failure and why it's so great?”
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“I was like, yeah, okay, what an honor, you know? And she was like, you know, David Foster will be there. And this producer who, and he's one of the biggest producers in the world, billions of, I mean, half a billion or a billion records, I think. Okay, this is my chance. This is the shot for somebody to see me. But even then, after he saw me, this story didn't, it wasn't like. David Foster didn't say you I found my guy he said come to LA and you're on my he actually said you're on my radar now is what he said well I didn't know that he had another eighteen kids that were on his radar Man, I was good. I was in the atmosphere now. You know, I was closer than I'd ever been to a real guy.”
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“It isn't the usual, you know, like the record companies will be like. And so I was going to go back to Canada. I was going to go back to Vancouver. And I was thinking about going to SFU or Douglas and taking up journalism. So even then, once I was in Toronto, I got connected to the Prime Minister of our country, who their daughter was getting married and she asked if I would sing at the wedding because I'd given an independency deed to another guy at some corporate gig I had done.”
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“You start singing it thirdly. Dude, my story isn't even a straight line from fishing boats to Chuck E. Cheese to working at restaurants to singing. There's 10 years of clubs. There's 10 years of me moving to Toronto. There's 10 years of me going into every record company, not getting in the door. There's 10 years of every agent saying the exact same thing. Every manager. I thought they had a fucking note that they would send each other that said, you're really talented. You're a great young kid. We just don't know what to do with you. Over two months, dude, to a point where I was like, you know what? Okay, I'm 26. It's too late. And in this business, people can say, oh, 26, no dude, is late. If you haven't been signed or you haven't made a bunch of noise at 26, 27, I don't think it's right. I think there should be late bloomers, but it's...”
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“For both of us is my happiness. It's my passion. It's my thing. And, you know, and I love he would have died to know that his grandson was continuing the legacy of our heroes, you know, because if he was being honest when I played Madison Square Garden for the first time and I said, did you think I'd get here? He said, oh, no, no, definitely not. There's a clip of him on a documentary. He goes, no, I thought you'd be good. You know, maybe Vegas. But I just think it was because, how could I? We were this, my grandpa's a plumber and we were a fisherman. We didn't know anybody. We're never going to get, we're never going to get to there. We're from Vancouver. We didn't even know anybody. How are we going to get there?”
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“It is, man. And I met, I've told this story too too many times, but I remember the first time I met Tony Bennett. I said, you know, Tony, I'm obviously, you know, I'm a huge fan. I've stolen so much from you and Bing and Frank and all of them. And he said, good. He said, because if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But when you steal from everybody it's research. And I thought that was amazing. And I've told that story a million times too. But it was everything, man. Like Elvis was a big part of it. You know, I just, all of those things that I loved.”
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“I'd say I don't know I love you like I do I don't emulate them God damn I like listen to the mills brothers and what I'm saying all of this you probably have no idea sometimes what I'm talking about yeah the way the Mills brothers saying there was this weird I wanna buy a paper doll that I could call my own a doll that other fella I just he with the way he would open up and everything was so the very thought of you and I forget to do and there was all these things that I would just like oh my god I love that and then I would steal it all and I would try to emulate all of it and then one day you know sitting with grandpa I started realizing okay I'm starting to wow grandpa this is the way I do it now taking all those things and”
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“Sit in bed, and I would listen over and over, and then I would listen to each of these singers, and I would learn the song for Grandpa and Grandma so I could come over the next day and I could sing for him. And I'd sit at the table with him and we, you know. But I started to just steal. I mean, steal, full-on steel. And I started to like almost impersonate each of them. And I would listen to Frank Sinatra with the pied pipers. There was ways that he would sing and I would try to emulate. So I would sit there and then I would be like I was a record player. I'd come home and Grandpa would say, okay, what's today? Stormy weather. And I'd say there's no sun up in the sky Stormy weather I can't do it now. And then the next day would be Dean Martin Martin and”
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“And I think that was the first time they were like, what the is that? Where did that just come from? And it was interesting is I think if I really am honest with myself and I look back, that Bing Crosby was the first, because that was like the first record in that style and that played through the house at Christmas. That was my introduction to Big Band. That was my introduction to jazz. That was measured introduction to that swing and feeling. And then with that relationship with my granddad, we used to have a shag, he had just like a green shag carpet and he had a record machine that he attached to a cassette machine. And we would sit down and we would just, I'm not kidding you, man, hours. I loved it. I loved it. And I used to go with those cassettes at a walkman. And I would just.”
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“Well, it was because there was Christmas Eve. We were coming home from, I've told this story many times, but we were coming home from my grandma and grandpa's on Capitol Hill. And I think it was like white Christmas or something. And my little sisters, I would have been 12, maybe 11, 12. My voice was just starting to change And the girls were in the back my two My sister's a great, beautiful voices. And they were I'm dreaming of a white red man with every criminal part I write and I think from the back I went May your days be merry and bright and it was like the whole car went who?”
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