Beverly Delich

In this memoir, Beverly Delich takes her readers through most of her life, starting with her lonely, isolated childhood in Butte, Montana, and covering her years working with Michael Buble to place him solidly and successfully in the music industry. The first part of this book is very dry and impersonal, a reporting of Delich's young life in which very little emotion really comes through. Her story is certainly authentic, and having grown up within a similar enough household, I am not surprised that her story of these years is so brittly factual. Still, this first chapter is a rough way to start out the book. I got the feeling that this first chapter was a cathartic journey for its author, and that is part of the point of writing a mamoir, after all. And, cool and factual as it is, there is still plenty to enjoy about this first segment of this book.
The rest of the book gets a lot better, too. Even for readers who know nothing of how the music industry works, it will be interesting to read about Beverly Delich's path of exploration and discovery within this field as she learned how to maneuver the young Michael Buble through the Canadian and American professional music world. For those who, like me, have had a slight taste of at least a local music scene, this book is particularly interesting as it provides a glimpse at the tortuous route to success that eventually landed Michael Buble a great record deal and a CD produced by David Foster. That his manager, Beverly Delich, was a woman working in a world so dominated by men also makes her story fascinating and inspiring, and even moreso when you consider that she was in her 50's when she began working with Michael Buble. There are a lot of potential lessons in Delich's story for anyone interested in music or any creative career, and for everyone else it is neat to be able to peel back the curtain and see just a bit of how the mysterious world of mainstream music really works.


(I received my copy of this book free in exchange for a fair review.)… (mehr)