Bruno Mars Biography & Music [1985-2022] | Is he the new Michael Jackson?

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Silk Sonic Leave the Door Open

Bruno Mars Biography and music

• One night, when he was 5 years old, he forgot to pee before the show and found himself weeping his pants while singing 😥. Comes with the territory! Bruno carried on as if nothing had happened, his parents told Rolling Stone.
• He had a small version of a drum set, guitar and piano and learned to play the instruments.

Bruno lived in a comfortable way in a large house with his parents and 6 siblings, but everything would change when he turned 11 years old:

• His parents broke up and with them the family band too.
• His father’s business began to tank and they ran out of money. Bruno had to move with his father to the slums of Hawaii.
• At his new school he was nicknamed ‘Peter Pan Hyma Dingier‘ and was bullied for a time, but he finally managed to conquer his classmates, among other things for his Michael Jackson imitations for which he was paid $ 75 in local club 💰

The 2000s were hard time | Bruno Mars moves to Los Angeles looking for an opportunity in music

His first stage in Los Angeles was a tough time for Bruno Mars

• He couldn’t pay the rent, so he took a job as a DJ for $ 75 per session, but he wasn’t good at it and he quit pretty quickly. He also tried as a poker player with the same ending.
• He lived in a poor area of Los Angeles and told the story that one afternoon when he came back home, found his parking space occupied by a homeless person:

It was a dude taking a shit in my stall. No toilet paper, nothing! It was just foul, and no one cleaned it up. So, every morning, I got reminded of where I’m at.

2006. He is introduced to Atlantic Records label. Even though they like Bruno, they thought he needed hardeninig and find his voice as an artist. 3 years later he would sign his first record deal with them 💿

Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are | His rise to stardom

Bruno Mars 1st album, “Doo-Wops & Hoolingans”, came out in 2010 too

• The single “Just the Way you are” was No. 1 on Billboard.

What does “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” mean?

• Doo-Wop: Is a genre that mixes R&B and gospel music that originated among African-American youth in the 1940s. It features vocal group harmony that carries an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Bruno loves it for being simple and romantic. Furthermore, Bruno’s father was known as Peter “Dr. Doo-Wop” Hernandez 👨
• Hooligans: It’s the name of his band.

2011. Still digesting success, Bruno continues to work unstoppable.

• He sings the main song of ‘The Twilight‘ soundtrack, “It Will Rain”.
• He also appears in Sesame Street singing ‘Don’t give up’.

Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox | Superbowl season

Unorthodox Jukebox is filled with hit after hit. We highlight:

• Moonshine: Find out more about the party that originated this song 🥃
• When I Was Your Man 🎹: Bruno Mars revealed that he wrote it about his girlfriend, model Jessica Caban, when he thought he might lose her.
• Gorilla 🦍: The lyric “Got a body full of liquor with a cocaine kicker” was controversial for inciting drug use, but Mars was not concerned. He said:

To take that line out would dilute my art.

The song needs a sense of danger. When I was a kid, pop could be dangerous but still massive. Michael Jackson would grab his crotch. Prince would rock assless chaps. With this album, I wanna let loose.

Bruno Mars Uptown Funk | The song that drives the world crazy

2014. Bruno Mars would make a cameo in ‘Jane the Virgin‘, the series where his girlfriend Jessica Cobin acted.

• But not everything in 2014 would be good for Bruno. His mother passes away leaving him devastated. He then stated:

I would trade music to have her back

2016. Four years after his 2nd album, the long-awaited confirmation album of the world’s biggest pop star arrived, “24K Magic”

• Mars was recognized by Guinness World Records as the ‘First Male Artist to achieve three 10-million-selling-singles’ 🤑
• His 24K Magic World Tour, which lasted almost 1 year, grossed over $ 300 million 💸
• Mars won in the 6 categories for which he was nominated at the 2018 Grammy Awards (Album of the Year, Best R&B Album, etc.), being his song “Versace on the Floor” an international hit 👗

2021. In February this year, Bruno Mars and American rapper Anderson .Paak announced that they had recorded an album together under the name Silk Sonic.

• The debut album, called “An Evening with Silk Sonic”, features American musician Bootsy Collins as a special guest.
• “Leave the Door Open” was released as the first single.
• All questions about Silk Sonic resolved here