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Having sold 53
million albums worldwide and winning multiple
Grammies for Best Male Vocalist, Michael Bolton
has recently taken on an extraordinary artistic
challenge. In his newest album, Bolton Swings
Sinatra, Michael reinvents classic songs
made famous by music legend Frank Sinatra.
This collection finds Bolton singing
classics like “New York, New York,” “My Funny
Valentine,” “Night and Day,” “Fly Me to the
Moon,” and “That’s Life”.
 “Sinatra
sang with such power and such vulnerability,”
said Bolton. “He was a great storyteller. I just
tried to tell some of theses stories in my own
way. He is one of the very few singers with such
a dynamic vocal and personal range that he could
sing with complete authority, strength, and
conviction on moment and in another stir us to
our core with a tenderness and a sense of
vulnerability that would deliver the pure
emotion and meaning the composer intended.”
Bolton is no
stranger to broadening his musical horizons. In
the past, he has sung with Luciano Pavarotti and
Ray Charles, played guitar with B.B. King,
written songs for Barbra Streisand and KISS, and
even been sampled on a track by hip-hop
superstar Kanye West.
The album also
includes a duet song by Bolton and his fiancée
Nicollette Sheridan, who is best known for her
role on the hit television series Desperate
Housewives. Of this duet, he relates,
“Nicollette always sang around me until she
thought I was listening – then she’d get
self-conscious. But I always told her she had a
wonderful pitch and a beautiful tone. I played
her “The Second Time Around” and suggested she
sing it with me, and she just lit it up. The
song just captured what we’ve been feeling –
that love really is better further down the
road, like the song says, with both feet on the
ground.”
On August 27th,
Michael Bolton will be performing in the North
Fork Theatre in Westbury, New York.
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