As an artist, Miguel is a shape-shifter: loverman, storyteller, party-starter.

As you listen to his music, echoes of Marvin Gaye and Van Morrison, Prince and James Brown may flicker through your mind, as his voice shifts from a falsetto to assertive tenor.

With his own charismatic presence and adventurous approach to making music, he won’t be pinned into any narrow category.

He will make an impression, and he won’t be ignored.

Miguel comes to Hawaii for the first time in concert Saturday at Blaisdell Arena, after a few weeks off from touring across North America with Australian singer Sia. Stand-up comic Jay Pharoah, a former member of the “Saturday Night Live” crew, opens the show.

There’s not much downtime in Miguel’s life. “If I’m not on stage, I’m in the studio,” he said, calling from California.

“In this climate, it is important to continue to push through, continue to give your fans something to hold on to,” he said. “We live in a very voracious time, as far as consuming content. … I’ve learned to take my time when I need to, but now, for me, it’s important to just really go hard.

“I’m young, and I’m excited and I love music, and I think what I do is unique, and that’s what my fans come to me for.”

Making a national impression for the first time in 2010-2011, with the chart action accompanying his first album, “All I Want Is You,” Miguel is still on an upward path, still young at 31. But he’s already notched some notable accomplishments, including a Grammy for single “Adorn” from second album “Kaleidoscope,” taking the single double-platinum, and headlining at prominent festivals including Outside Lands and SXSW.

He’s featured with Sia on newly released “The Hamilton Mixtape,” and collaborated with John Legend on “Overload,” from Legend’s recent release, “Darkness and Light.” For a track on Netflix birth-of-hip-hop series “The Get Down,” he recorded a disco raver, “Cadillac,” guaranteed to get listeners on their feet. And you’ll hear him on the “50 Shades Darker” soundtrack, with a cover of “Crazy in Love.”

Spurred by the emotions of the Black Lives Matter movement, he released a sparse, dramatic “How Many” this year; it calls out, “I’m tired of human lives turned into hashtags and prayer hands.”

His latest album, “Wildheart,” was released in June 2015, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart and earning a place on multiple “best of” lists for 2015, including No. 1 on Time Magazine’s Top 10 Best Albums and a niche on lists by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and SPIN.

This month, it was announced that “Wildheart” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album. Single “Coffee” was also nominated for Best R&B Song. This “Coffee” goes down hot, with allusions to other morning pleasures.

“The Grammys are an amazing effort for people who have in some way, shape or form made music their lives,” he said. “It’s awesome to be included, incorporated, thought of — and it’s great just to be invited, because it means that you’re part of that community.”

With his 2012 album “Kaleidoscope,” Miguel said he worked to become “confident” and “sturdy” in his approach. That hints at the workmanlike attitude he takes to putting in the time required to build a multilayered, meaningful album.

The songs themselves are anything but weighted down — they soar, swirl, lift and confuse. Listening to a song by Miguel feels like walking into a party in a dark room swept by colored lights, pulsing like a heartbeat.

Having gone through another cycle of recording and pushing for public acceptance of “Wildheart,” Miguel says he’d now describe himself as “steadfast.”

“You have to believe in what you’re doing, even when people don’t understand it right in the moment,” he explained. “You have to believe in your bigger picture and what it means to your own personal story. I would say that that’s maybe something I always intended on doing, but now I understand that it’s not always going to be as easy as it was with my first album. …

“I think being steadfast is what I would say I am the most at this phase, because I love what I do and I believe in it, and I think there’s always a place for that.”

He’s been recording a new album and expects to release it next year, but says he can’t reveal details just yet. And he’s in two upcoming movies, playing a molasses maker in period film “Live by Night,” directed by Ben Affleck and set in the Prohibition era, coming to theaters on Christmas Day.

When Miguel appeared at Outside Lands in San Francisco earlier this year, Rolling Stone praised his performance as soulful, “massive” and “ferocious,” likening the energy to that of a punk-rock show. Rock fans may be drawn to his concerts by his use of a live band, and he’s known to prowl the stage with a feline grace that has caused some observers to compare him to performers like Iggy Pop. (“What?” Miguel said jokingly when told of that comparison.)

With an African-American mother and Mexican-American father, Miguel often talks of his natural love for music stretching from hip-hop and soul to rock and R&B.

“It’s because of the music I was raised listening to,” he said, noting that he pushed to work with a live band from the beginning of his recording career. “At this point, I suppose it’s instinctual to pull on some of my rock influences. It’s just a part of who I am, you know?”

He added: “My music is a very authentic representation of my personality and who I am. I’ll give you a compliment, but I’ll say something to let you know, hey, I’m going to (mess) with you, still. I’ll give you a slap and a hug. My music has a playful energy in that way, and — yeah, that’s me.

“I do love hard, I do fight hard, I’m passionate about what I believe in and what I feel,” he said. “I’ve also learned to be a lot more patient. In real life, I’m not so quick to, you know, say what I feel.” (He laughed.)

“I’m a Scorpio, so I’ve had to learn this the hard way. You know, emotions change. And it’s really about principles; I’m happy to say that I’ve grown up a bit in that way.”

For a live show, he says he works with the band to “have fun and be in the moment.”

“I think that’s why people come to watch live music, to come and enjoy and do what they love, in the midst of the music,” he said. “If we project that, hone that spirit within ourselves, I think it projects naturally, and the audience can feel it. So we should project that excitement, every time.”