Savvy enough to realise that, for his career to thrive as well as merely survive, he needed to diversify, Bublé recorded an album, 2009’s Crazy Love, which saw him not only tackle contemporary-sounding pop songs but also, as the hit single Haven’t Met You Yet revealed, emerge as a talented songwriter who had a knack for an infectious vocal hook.
But through Bublé made crooning cool again in the 21st century, he was not content to be regarded as a throwback artist whose nostalgic sound evoked another era.
With his velvet-smooth voice and a repertoire of songs mostly drawn from the revered pages of the Great American Songbook, Michael Bublé is an unapologetic devotee of the golden age of the crooner, when his idols Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin ruled the airwaves in their 40s and 50s heyday.
