Michael Buble: Happiness After Heartbreak

The Grammy Winner Opens Up About HisSons Terrifying Cancer Battle And WhatThe Future Holds For His Family And His Career.

It changed their lives forever. On Oct. 31, 2016, Michael Bublé and wife Luisana Lopilato’s son Noah was diagnosed with liver cancer. “It was the worst possible thing that you could hear as a parent, maybe as a human being,” says Michael, 43, who put his career — and his entire life — on hold for the next seven months to support his family and care for his now 5-year-old son. “I think that life changes for all of us when we face the mortality of someone who you love so much. It made my faith stronger. I thought, ‘How can we suffer so much?’ There is a greater reason.”

Today, two years later, Noah’s cancer is in remission, and the entire Bublé family — which includes younger son Elias, 2, and daughter Vida, 3 months — are counting their blessings and not taking a single minute for granted. “Every day should just be joy,” explains Michael. “I’ve been through a lot… I don’t have room for anything else.” As he gets ready for the Nov. 16 release of his new album, Love, the musician gets candid about his work, his family and finding happiness after the darkest days of his life.

You’ve been through so much. How are you doing?

Good, better every day. Just trying to live the new normal, whatever that is.

Your new album is titled Love. What’s the meaning behind it?

This album represents the snapshot of my life, and where I’ve been, and who I am. It’s a group of short stories that are my theory of love and the complicated, varied, layered emotion. Love isn’t romantic always; it carries many connotations.

Would you say this is your most personal album yet?