WOW! What an amazing accomplishment Bruno has made once again! Today, his cover for Billboard Magazine’s special 50th anniversary issue was unveiled and with it comes a new interview in which he speaks on becoming one of the biggest names in music history, fame, and things in his past.
Bruno took to his official Twitter page to express his happiness about everything and here’s what he said:
@Billboarddotcom I’ve always wanted to see my songs in the pages of your magazine… But the Cover?? WOW! Im so honored. Thank you Billboard
Check out some excerpts from the interview below & the full-size cover in the gallery.
“It’s a rare thing that happens,” he says, a packet of cigarettes and a smartphone resting by his feet, “especially in this day, where it’s real hard to sell albums. I’m traveling to places that I’ve never even heard of and there are all these people singing the songs back — and English is not even their first language. It’s like, what the hell happened?” The answer is simple: Music fans the world over have fallen in love with Bruno Mars.
“The great thing about Bruno is that you can’t put him in a box. That’s why I think people are so attracted to him and his music,” Atlantic Records chairman/COO Julie Greenwald says. “You can put him with any type of artist from any genre and it will be beautiful. He understands music.” To understand the roots of Mars’ musical education one must go back to the late ’80s when he made his onstage debut, at age 4, impersonating Elvis Presley in his parents’ 1950s-style revue on Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach. “That was it,” Mars says. “I was Elvis.”
“I’m just a mixed-up dude,” he says when asked about his genre-crossing versatility. “I want to work with the Kanyes, the Jay-Zs… a Rihanna, a Gaga, Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons. I want to do all those things. As proud as I am of “Doo-Wops,” I feel like, ‘Oh, man. People haven’t seen nothing. They don’t even know what I’m about to do,’ and that’s what I can’t wait to show the world.”
Full interview Billboard Magazine
Be sure to order YOUR copy of this very special edition of Billboard: HERE.
I’m sure some of you will remember these pics from a couple of weeks ago where we saw Bruno & model Joan Smalls on location for a shoot in Puerto Rico. It turns out, the shoot was not for a video – but for the legendary Vogue Magazine which Bruno will be featured in.
Below is the official behind the scenes video from Vogue.com + 70 screen captures. Check it!
Bruno is featured in the April 2011 issue of Glamour UK as one of their picks for “Most Glam Leading Men” – along with other stars like Johnny Depp, Jake Gyllenhal, Drake, James Franco and more. Check out the scan below (thanks to BrunoMars.com.
Check out the OFFICIAL cover of Bruno Mars, Wiz Kalifa & B.O.B gracing the cover of the February issue of Vibe Magazine. The magazine also included a quote from each of their interviews & here’s what Bruno had to say:
I’m a fan of young Elvis. And I’m a fan of the story, how he freaked out white America by doing this Black rock’n'roll. He would go onstage shaking his hips, and people were freaking out. They said, “You can’t film him from the waist down.” To me, that’s fucking awesome.
Bruno Mars is featured in the current weekly edition of The New Yorker – complete with an all-new article & photo shoot. I’ve added 1 of the outtakes from the session to the gallery and an excerpt from the magazine below.
POP MUSIC about Bruno Mars. Sometimes a star arrives with a story so bereft of surprise you could guess it while knowing only a bit of the script. Bruno Mars and his marketable, wholesome feel is exactly what one would expect to develop from a childhood spent impersonating Elvis in a Waikiki hotel, and performing in a “straight Partridge family” band called the Love Notes. The twenty-five year old Hawaiian of Puerto Rican and Filipino heritage has a global look and a million-dollar smile—his appearance is that of a pop star designed to be plausibly claimed by any nation in the world.
Mars is nominated for seven Grammys in multiple categories, and he and his songwriting team, the Smeezingtons, had a hand in some of this year’s biggest hits, including Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You!,” B.o.B’s “Nothin’ on You,” and Travie McCoy’s “Billionaire.” Mars’ début album, “Doo-Wops & Hooligans,” has already spawned two No. 1 singles of its own—“Just the Way You Are” and “Grenade.” Mars’s melodies lodge quickly and repeat painlessly, in keeping with his role of reliability. There is a bit of jumping around and thrashing in the live show, but not more than you’d see on Broadway in “Jersey Boys.”
As a singer, Mars shows his roots as a child star, displaying the exquisite technique, forceful projection, and almost total lack of persona that comes from covering other people’s songs. Rarely does Mars sound like a specific person with a specific set of traits, but that would complicate things for the millions of people trying to project their needs onto him. A more dedicated songwriter might tell more stories, or get specific about that pretty face, but that would be a very different songwriter.
Source: The New Yorker
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