Michael Bublé Pulls Off Effortless Frank Sinatra and Elvis Impressions Back-to-Back
The Voice Coach said he finds certain characteristics about his idols' singing styles "fascinating."
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Michael Bublé would make his music idols blush with his spot-on impressions. The Voice Coach has studied the singing styles of legends like Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley so well, he could teach a master class on how to sound just like them.
Michael Bublé's singing impressions of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley are spot-on
In 2016, Bublé sat down for an interview with Dan Rather on AXS-TV and shared a few impressions of fellow musicians he loves.
“You have a reputation of being a very good mimic. Can you do a few?” Rather asked Bublé.
“You know what, it’s funny. When you study, I talked to Tony Bennett about this last night, ‘cause he’s the one who had great advice for me, he said, ‘Michael, you steal from everybody and it’s research. You steal from one you’re just a thief,’” Bublé recalled with a smile. “So by learning and finding these people that I loved, I started to be able to take things and aspects of them that I loved. And there were certain things that I found, characteristics of their vocal ability or even their technique that I found sort of fascinating.”
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For example, Bublé said “Sinatra would sing hard on his vowels” before singing a snippet of the singer’s song “You Make Me Feel So Young,” which Bublé himself covered in 2013 on his album To Be Loved.
Bublé also studied how Dean Martin, aka the "King of Cool,” would sing. “I love Dean Martin so much because he would, like, drop his epiglottis and it would seem so easy,” he explained, adding that Presley “had a very similar sound, a style” to Martin.
“Elvis would get real deep … He had a quick vibrato,” Bublé said as he sang Presley’s famous lyrics, “Wise men say, only fools rush in” from his 1961 song “Can't Help Falling in Love.”
“I’m in awe of you,” Rather told Bublé. “You could make a living just doing that.”
“There’s been times in my life when I feel like I have,” Bublé laughed.
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In a 2024 compilation clip from The Voice Season 26, Bublé talked about how he discovered his own signature style by studying his favorite artists over the years and wanted to put his own twist on jazz and swing music. “I just wanted to make it mine and I did,” he said. “Through emulating and copying my favorite artists I found myself."
During The Voice Season 26 Blind Auditions, Bublé said as a young guy “falling in love with this music,” he spent "so much time impersonating my favorite artists and it took me years to go from just being an impersonator, vocally, to finding whatever that Michael Bublé thing was, whatever that unique version of me is.”
And that unique version of himself wasn’t just built on his love of Sinatra and Presley. “I was as into the Beastie Boys and to Michael Jackson as I was into Dean Martin or Bobby Darin,” he said in The Voice clip. “So naturally I took some of the things that I loved about modern music and infused them with my love of American songbook or jazz. Thankfully, people accepted it and it worked.”
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