VANCOUVER, BC  [Wednesday Oct.26.2005]  /WMQT.com/ -- Micheal Buble owes some of his musical success to leaky faucets.

The Canadian singer's grandfather, who first introduced a young Buble to the records of jazz greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and the Mills Brothers, was also a skilled plumber.

Buble's grandfather encouraged the budding singer to learn the old standards, and then bartered with musicians around Vancouver to trade plumbing services for performance time for his young grandson.

"My granddad, who was a skilled plumber, started offering to do free work for musicians in town in exchange for letting me perform a few numbers with them on stage," Buble explains on his web site, www.MichaelBuble.com.

The rest, as they say, is history...

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