Michael Bolton, (born Michael Bolotaround in New Haven, Connecticut on February 26, 1954) is a Jewish-American Pop, Rock and Adult contemporary singer-songwriter known for his soft rock ballads and gravelly singing voice.

His accomplishment include Heptad top decade albums & Sextet first singles on the Billboard charts, when well as awards from either each a American Music Awards and Grammys.

Background
Bolton occurs as solo vocalizer & has observed his profits in the "easy listening" genre. Unbeknown to numerous, even so, Bolton had his musical theater begin in the late seventies by using the heavy metal band called Blackjack, which also featured of these-erstwhile Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick, in which he was known by his birth title. A band another time toured sustaining Ozzy Osbourne. He began recording when Michael Bolton inside 1983. He has as well performed using Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Patti Labelle, Ray Charles, Percy Sledge, Wynonna Judd, and BB King.

Although Bolton is known for singing more creative person' songs, he is likewise the prolific songster, getting written songs for Barbra Streisand, KISS, Kenny Rogers, Kenny G, Cher, Peabo Bryson and Patti Labelle, when well as by having co-written songs with Bob Dylan, BabyFace and Diane Warren, among others.

Bolton is the father of girl born in the mid-1970s - Isa, Holly & Taryn.

Around 1993, he established the Michael Bolton Foundation (now a [http://www.michaelboltoncharities.com Michael Bolton Charities, Inc.]) to assist women & kids at chance from either a results of poverty and emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. A foundation has provided across $3.7 million within funding to local & national charities.

Bolton too serves when a honorary chair of Prevent Child Abuse America, the national chair for This Close for Cancer Research, and the board member for the National Mentoring Partnership and the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital.

Inside March, 2003, Bolton joined with Lifetime Television, Verizon Wireless, and several others to lobby in behalf of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, urging legislation to provide more assistance for hikers of farm violence, like low-cost housing choices.

Bolton has received a Lewis Hine Award from the National Child Labor Committee, the Martin Luther King Award from the Congress of Racial Equality, and a Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. A Hollywood Chamber of Commerce also recognized Bolton with the star on the "Walk of Fame" for his musical theater & kindly contributions.

Trivia
The character played by David Herman in the 1999 film Office Space was named Michael Bolton, as a playful jab per scriptwriters at Bolton a singer. In a film, a character is typically the subject of questions like "are you related to that singer guy?"

Solo Discography
Michael Bolotin (1975) Every Day of My Life (1976) Michael Bolton (1983) ''Everybody's Crazy (1985) The Hunger (1987) Soul Provider (1989) Time, Love & Tenderness (1991) The One Thing (1993) Greatest Hits (1985-1995) (1995) All That Matters (1997) My Secret Passion (1998) Only A Woman Like You (2001) Vintage (2004) The Very Best Of'' (2005)