Joining host Mike Adam today for a special Audacy Check In, Michael Bublé discusses his big win on this season's 'The Voice,' his brand new holiday duet "Maybe This Christmas" with Carly Pearce, and more.
We're just days away from Christmas, a perfect time to sit down with singer Michael Bublé who is such a huge admirer of this festive season, and right when he's got a brand new holiday song as well, while still reeling from his big win on 'The Voice.'
“It wasn't what I expected, honestly… It was like 50 times better than I expected,” he says of his experience on 'The Voice.' “I spent most of my morning on the phone with Snoop [Dogg] and writing Gwen [Stefani] and Reba [McEntire], and just talking about how much we appreciate each other. And I've been on with the artists, not just the one who won, but you know, others too, and it's been an incredible thing, man. I don't know if there's anything that's more fulfilling than to be able to give back in that way.”
“I think for us that we're coaches in the chairs -- I know it sounds weird for people -- but it wasn't that long ago when we were in the positions of those kids,” he adds. "Hearing ‘No,’ and feeling the crush of disappointment. I think it just really meant something for us to be able to know that we've been really lucky to live out our dream, and now we have this chance to help other people see that through. It's a very cool thing… there's nothing negative about any of it.”
“By the way, I got calls all through the day from Kelsea Ballerini and John Legend and Adam Levine, all of them being so sweet with me and teasing me at the same time,” Michael says of the overwhelming support he received from his fellow coaches. “Adam was saying to me last night, he's like, ‘Oh my God, we're never gonna hear the end of this are we?!’”
Looking back on his own career, he says there was never just one emphatic "Yes" that made him continue to strive to break into the music industry. “It starts with mom and dad, and grandparents, and your sisters, and the kids that are your best buddies growing up. There's all these people that love you, and there's nothing in it for them. It's not like they're investing and they're getting something back. They do it because they love you and because they see your passion and they see that you're excited -- so it took a million people.”
“I always call it ‘the domino effect,’” he adds. “It took people that love me, it took strangers, it took people to really give of themselves and exactly what I'm talking about when I talk about ‘The Voice’ and that experience. People that just loved me and just said, ‘You know what, I want this to happen for you, not because it's doing anything for me, but because it feels good.’ My grandfather, he would take me to every audition, and he sat with me at shopping malls and busking. And of course, my mom and dad, my sisters would help me sell all my theaters. Man, just so many beautiful souls that loved me.”
Michael and Country star Carly Pearce teamed up on the new holiday track "Maybe This Christmas," released just before Thanksgiving with the help of producer Greg Wells. Just last week, Carly stopped by 'The Voice' finale to perform the single with Michael, and on December 15 joined him to perform the song again during his Grand Ole Opry debut.
The song , he says, “was inspired by real life circumstances that I've gone through with a really great friend I grew up with who, you know, through just a bunch of strange little circumstances and through mental health and stuff that so many of us deal with. It started by me knowing that he had lost his way, and that he had found himself in a bad way on the street, and I helped him off, and got him counseling, and I wrote a song about how it felt when, last winter I had found out. I just realized that this holiday is so hard for so many people. As much as for me, it's beautiful -- it's my kids, and Santa Claus, and all of that stuff -- for so many people, it's a r ...
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