Michael Bolton (USA) - pop

The American singer Michael Bolton, who is, so to speak, the personification of the soft and romantic side of pop music, will make an appearance in Ljubljana after the release of his eleventh album, One World One Love.

Currently one of the most popular American singers, Bolton first made a name for himself for composing music hits performed by other artists. In the second half of the 1980s, however, he released an album of covers of the greatest soul hits and became one of the star artists himself.

Michael Bolton has sung in duet with Luciano Pavarotti and Ray Charles, collaborated with Bob Dylan, played the guitar side by side with B.B. King, and wrote hit songs for Barbra Streisand and many others. His latest album features collaborations with a couple of young rising stars, Ne-Yo and Lady GaGa.

To date, Bolton has sold about 53 million records. He has won two Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, six American Music Awards, a Martin Luther King Award, and a prestigious Lewis Hine Award for his humanitarianism and human rights activism. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.