Marbella (Málaga) (EFE).- With his usual charisma and his characteristic broken voice, even deeper over the years, Michael Bolton dazzled the audience at the Starlite festival in Marbella singing some of his songs that catapulted him to the higher as “When a Man Loves a Woman” in a concert without big surprises, but that did not leave indifferent.
Between eighties chords, the singer-songwriter from Connecticut (United States) came on stage and greeted an expectant audience, including the actress Brigitte Nielsen, who enthusiastically sang the popular “Stand by me”, the song with which she started the only performance that Michael Bolton will offer this season in Spain.
“Tonight I am going to sing songs that you know very well”
“Don’t be shy”, he said between laughs in impeccable English, “tonight I’m going to sing songs that you know very well”, he commented addressing the attendees, and “those that you don’t know, sing them softly”, so: “go ahead, teacher,” he added, this time in Spanish.
At 70, the singer-songwriter -a living history of music- remains in good shape and although he no longer exudes the agility of his performances of yesteryear, he elegantly walked his slim figure around the stage of the Nagüeles Quarry, clad in a pair of tight trousers and a dark jacket with bright sparkles, which he replaced with a tuxedo after a short break.
Michael Bolton performed accompanied by an orchestra of five musicians, including piano, saxophone, drums, and guitar, and two female voices, with one of them, Chrissi Poland, starring in a brilliant duet halfway through the concert. Together they performed “To make you feel my love”.
Almost ninety minutes of concert
A lively play of lights completed a show that exuded preparation and professionalism, in which nothing was left to chance and which left the audience satisfied and wanting more, despite the almost ninety minutes that the concert lasted.
That is the feeling with which one of the spectators, Isabel Jiménez, has left the stalls, who has confessed to EFE that in the end she could not help but stand up and start dancing.
A pleased Michael Bolton has not only had time to sing, but also to joke with the public and between songs, flirt with his followers on a night in which the Marbella festival had hung the sign “Sold out. No tickets”.
Among the artist’s successes, one of the greatest exponents of “soft-rock” and the American romantic ballad of the 80s, a Grammy Award, an Emmy nomination and more than 65 million records sold.
”How Am I Supposed To Live Without You”
In addition, eight of his albums have been at the top of the music charts and several of his songs have been number one on Billboard, a classification that includes the hundred best-selling singles in the United States, among them, another of the songs that have raised the public, “How Am I Supposed To Live Without You”.
They were also part of the repertoire of a magical summer night in Marbella, in which the temperature kindly eased as the sun went down, “Soul Provider”, “Time, Love & Tenderness” and “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay”, among others, all of them adapted with exquisite arrangements tailored to the artist, who chose “Beautiful World” to end a memorable concert.