Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter whois best known for his series of soft rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s. His band, Blackjack, once toured with heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne.

Since 1975, Bolton has released 17 studio albums and 35 singles. He has sold eight top 10 albums, achieving two number one singles on the Billboard charts, and receivied awards from both the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards. His first album was self-titled using his original surname, Bolotin. Early in his musical career, he focused on hard rock.

Michael gained his first major hit as a songwriter, co-writing "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" for Laura Branigan. Branigan took the song to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks in 1983. The two sought to work with each other again, and their next collaboration was when Bolton co-wrote "I Found Someone" for Branigan in 1985.

Bolton would achieve his greatest success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a singer on the adult contemporary charts. He would cover Otis Redding's, "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" in 1987 and "Georgia On My Mind". In 1991, Bolton released the album Time, Love & Tenderness which featured his Grammy Award winning cover version of "When a Man Loves a Woman".

His 1997 hit "Go the Distance" was featured in the Walt Disney motion picture Hercules and peaked at No. 1 on the US adult contemporary chart.

In 2006, Bolton and his then fiancee Nicollette Sheridan sang a duet, "The Second Time Around," for the album Bolton Swings Sinatra. His album, For Over the Rainbow, included the song "New York, New York".

Bolton released his album One World One Love in the UK in September 2009 and the first single was "Just One Love". Bolton is currently working on his new studio album.