Soft rock legend Michael Bolton based in Singapore for new reality show
Michael Bolton is back in Asia for some other reality bear witness talent search. He is, later on all, the Soul Provider who is always singing how we can Become The Distance. And he'due south doing that right here in Singapore.
"It'due south then great to be based in Singapore," said Bolton. "I've been coming here for touring and promotions for 35 years. And I'm really comfy here!"
Asian Dream is a new reality singing competition that sees six contestants from the region compete with one another, with the winner landing a Subaru Ambassadorship and the opportunity to continue the Asian Dream Tour with Bolton himself. And while Bolton previously headlined an Asian talent search called Bolt Of Talent in 2017, his new testify promises to offer something different.
"The original concept was poor, considering information technology was almost similar a tourist type show where y'all go to different countries and bout effectually," said Asian Dream co-creator Glenn Tan, who is as well deputy chairman and managing director of Tan Chong International, which distributes Subaru cars through its subsidiary Motor Image.
"This one is more organised, where they're really competing with each other all together. And you build up the character of each particular person for the viewer to follow, and root for. Hither, the contestants as well have more interaction. That makes the big deviation."
Asian Dream is presented past Subaru.
Bolton, who serves as Asian Dream's host and co-creator, agreed. "I think we both knew we needed to movement forward in a different format."
Information technology is a concept that Tan and Bolton hatched over a productive lunch at the latter's house in Connecticut about a year ago. "We're now using the time and our resources to scout and feed the contestants and so that they develop correct in front end of the camera," Bolton explained. "And we're really seeing their improvement in every episode."
To a bespeak, the two-time Grammy winner added, "that we're getting attached to them".
"Because they're trying to requite their all. And so, you know, the elimination episodes are really the painful ones. Information technology'due south a grouping of people fighting for their opportunity to exist discovered," he said.
The 66-twelvemonth-former singer confessed that while it's hard for him to be "brutally honest", he is trying his all-time. "I don't practice well with hurting other aspiring artistes," Bolton told CNA Lifestyle. "And now because they are all together, they are bonding. So nosotros have some tears and some crying festivals. I haven't had one [episode] yet where I haven't been honest."
Billed equally a seven-episode series that aims to foster emerging musical talent, the Asian Dream squad scouted six aspiring singers from Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, handpicked from submitted casting videos.
Throughout the series, they will be coached, mentored and judged by Bolton and an assortment of special guests that include Singapore extra Tan Kheng Hua, Thailand'due south Mild Nawin and Jannine Weigel, US way lensman Yu Tsai and Vietnam's Thanh Bui and Ho Ngoc Ha. The first season of Asian Dream will be hosted on the Subaru Asia website. The TV channel that it will air on has yet to be finalised.
So will the contestants get extra credit or actress cringe if they decide to sing any one of big hits from Bolton'due south massive back catalogue?
"No, I really appreciate that How Am I Supposed To Live Without You is one of the about used songs during competitions for aspiring artists all over the globe!" he replied with a laugh. "That's a great compliment and I love knowing that new generations are embracing the song and are enlightened of it."
"I would say that this is that artiste'southward interpretation. And as an artiste, you take the right, and actually need to exist able to, deliver your own estimation," said Bolton, citing some of his biggest hits Georgia On My Mind and When A Man Loves A Woman equally examples. "I wasn't intimidated. I love Percy Sledge's version. Merely I knew I had to bring my own. And I talk to the contestants about that as well when picking songs.
"No, I wouldn't be more critical considering information technology was mine. I'thou looking for the potential," he said. "There's simply so much time left for the contestants to step upward and stand out. And, basically, at the finish of the deliberation, have the judges say clearly that this is the winner."
Asian Dream volition premiere in the fourth quarter of 2019.
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Source: https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainment/michael-bolton-asia-reality-show-competition-singapore-244496
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