![]() ![]() But I just wouldn’t know what to do with you. “The people who discovered me, whether it was the record producers, my record company, my manager - all of them, at many different points, each of them said the exact same thing to me: ‘You are a really great kid. In Boston, Bublé played Scullers Jazz club, a spot committed to bolstering up and coming talent. There were dispiriting periods during which Bublé was “constantly down,” years of performing at shopping malls and on cruise ships and at Canadian dive bars and nightclubs including Vancouver’s now-shuttered Purple Onion Cabaret and the Reservoir Lounge in Toronto. Maybe it was because I could not accept it not happening.” But I definitely had complete and utter belief that this would be the story. I don’t care how much talent you have, there are so many dominoes that have to fall in a perfect way for you to have that sort of dream come true. And in hindsight, I realize how unbelievably lucky I have been. I felt like, if I just set a plan, and took it day by day and stayed true to myself, and hopefully built up a team around me that loved me and believed in me, that I would somehow get to this point. “As a matter of fact, if I go back, I realize how stupid and silly I was,” he continues. “I had no idea how I was going to get there, but I don’t think there was ever any doubt,” says Bublé, whose 2003 eponymous breakthrough album spawned four hit singles - among them renditions of the Bee Gees’ “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” and George Michael’s “Kissing a Fool” - and kickstarted a two-decades-and-counting-long career that is credited with reinvigorating the genre of traditional pop standards from the great American songbook. And that’s not meant in any hubristic sense, but rather that “completely unrealistic” way in which artists chase a dream. What Bublé does know, and always has, is that he was destined for success. Who knows what’s gonna happen tonight? I just put on the Batsuit and we’re good to go.” ![]() Last night, there was a really beautiful girl in the audience who had a hideous tattoo with my face on it. We’re going to celebrate life and laugh and love. “I can’t wait to get out there,” says Bublé of his impending curtain call in front of a crowd of 12,000. ![]()
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