Michael Bolton is trying to save Detroit. Yes, that Michael Bolton. - Washington Post
On a recent afternoon, Michael Bolton — yes, that Michael Bolton — walks down Michigan Avenue showing off the city he has grown to love. A bald man who sings in a Bolton tribute band asks for a selfie. 50,” Bolton says, smiling. Bolton is in Detroit for his latest project, and it’s a doozy. The pop singer, whose booming voice has kept the mom-jeans intelligentsia mesmerized since roughly 1987, is making a documentary about the city’s attempt to dig itself out of disaster. Bolton has spent three years and $250,000 of his own money in the hopes of recasting how the public views Detroit. Michael Bolton making a documentary about Detroit. “He’s probably one of the last people I would have expected to do it,” says Aaron Foley, a local writer and Detroit native. Another “parachute celebrity,” it bristled, mocking the project through a series of snide links to glossy 1980s Bolton videos. But the still-untitled documentary, which Bolton is hosting and directing with his manager, Christina Kline, will premiere Oct. The project has sparked considerable interest since Bolton began conducting interviews with everyone from Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson to Mayor Mike Duggan and Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
