{"id":117217,"date":"2024-02-29T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/29\/michael-buble-recalls-the-moment-when-being-the-king-of-christmas-stopped-bothering-him\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:01:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:01:23","slug":"michael-buble-recalls-the-moment-when-being-the-king-of-christmas-stopped-bothering-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/02\/29\/michael-buble-recalls-the-moment-when-being-the-king-of-christmas-stopped-bothering-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bubl\u00e9 recalls the moment when being the “King of Christmas” stopped bothering him"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thanks to his bestselling holiday album,\u00a0Christmas,<\/em> Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/strong> is now linked forever with the holiday. But at first, Michael admits, he was really ticked off about it\u00a0\u2014 until a family tragedy\u00a0gave him a new perspective.<\/p>\n

Appearing on the podcast Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson<\/em><\/a>, Michael says he experienced “complete clarity” after his son Noah<\/strong>, now 10, was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. “My life changed and I knew what mattered,” he says.<\/p>\n

“At the time the Christmas<\/em> record … just kept on going,” he recalls. “And\u00a0people didn’t shut up about the Christmas<\/em> record: ‘Christmas guy! Hey Christmas guy! The King of Christmas!’ And it really bothered me.” Michael recalls complaining to his wife, “I don’t like it that they call me that, you know, I got other <\/em>things. … I’m killing it in 50 countries.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Michael says after his son’s diagnosis, “I thought, ‘Wow. I’m so worried \u2014 my ego, my fault self \u2014<\/em>\u00a0is so worried that they’re, you know, talking to me about Christmas. What are you thinking about, Mike? What are you doing<\/em>?'”<\/p>\n

“You are connected to the most beautiful time … of the year where people are kinder and more empathetic and they’ve got joy in their hearts,” he says he remembers telling himself. “And they’re inviting you into their homes to celebrate this time with their families, these core memories … and you got a problem with this, a******?\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah, who’s doing well now, is one of the four children Michael shares with his wife, Luisana Lopilato<\/strong>. The others are Elias<\/strong>, 7,\u00a0Vida<\/strong>, 5, and Cielo<\/strong>, 18 months.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

143\/Reprise Thanks to his bestselling holiday album,\u00a0Christmas, Michael Bubl\u00e9 is now linked forever with the holiday. But at first, Michael admits, he was really ticked off about it\u00a0\u2014 until a family tragedy\u00a0gave him a new perspective. Appearing on the podcast Our Way with Paul Anka and Skip Bronson, Michael saysRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}