Michael Bolotin, better known by his stage name Michael Bolton, was born in the United States on February 26, 1953. From the middle of the 1970s until the middle of the 1980s, Bolton performed in the hard rock and heavy metal musical genres on both his early solo albums and those he made while the lead singer of the band Blackjack. After a change in style in the late 1980s, he released a number of pop-rock ballads that helped him become more well-known.
Bolton has sold more than 75 million records, produced eight albums that reached the top 10 on the Billboard charts, had two songs that peaked at number one, and has won six American Music Awards and two Grammy Awards. Lucia Aliberti, Patti LaBelle, José Carreras, Tony Cetinski, Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Wynonna Judd, B.B. King, The Lonely Island, Luciano Pavarotti, Percy Sledge, and Zucchero are just a few of the musicians he has shared the stage with.
