Michael Bolton

Easily one of the most reviled figures in mainstream pop, Michael Bolton has a powerful, expressive, remarkably versatile voice -- and an almost perverse sense of how to apply it. While he owed his initial popularity to he-man power ballads that made him a late-'80s heartthrob, his subsequent decision to remake various R&B chestnuts made him a figure of derision and disdain in some circles.

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