He said: “Yeah, I mean I feel like I gravitate more towards singers with high voices, so growing up, I always used to listen to Michael Jackson, The Police, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Freddie Mercury, guys with high voices, because they’re the songs that I sing along to. The song sounds like The Police and Bruno’s not shying away from the similarity. Mark Ronson who worked on Locked Out of Heaven with Bruno reckoned the new album will “change the sound of music”. There are again lots of different styles from Motown and pop to rock and jazz. Locked Out of Heaven has reached No2 and second album Unorthodox Jukebox will be released in the UK on December 10. His first three singles went to No1 in the UK – Just The Way You Are, Grenade and The Lazy Song. His debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans went to No1 in 2010 (selling six million copies globally). He’s getting there and after being a child impersonator is well on his way to having some of Elvis’s success.īruno sold more than five million albums and 45 million singles worldwide in 2011. “Mars is just joking around in a studio, and just kind of stating that I am out of this world.” “When I was a kid, I used to walk around like I was big stuff. The singer explained: “He was a wrestler in my dad’s day, and I used to walk around and I guess reminded him of that wrestler, so he used to always call me Bruno Sanmartino. The name Bruno Mars came from wrestler Bruno Sanmartino. Nothing developed but he met Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine and they formed songwriting/production team The Smeezingtons writing B.o.B’s Nothin’ On You, Travie McCoy’s Billionaire, Flo Rida’s Right Round and K’Naan’s Wavin’ Flag, which was the 2010 FIFA World Cup theme song. I never sounded like Elvis at all either or looked like Elvis.”Īfter leaving school, Bruno moved to Los Angeles and was signed to Motown Records in 2004. It was more of a novelty I think because I was so little, so it wasn’t really like an accurate impersonation, it was more just a funny thing to watch. He said: “Neither, they are both amazing. “Because the details, the attention to detail he did on everything he did, everything he was a part of, you can look at what made him so iconic, the glove, the hat, the dancing, the music videos, the way he sang when he sang, everything he did was Michael Jackson, and he just kind of stamped that on the world.”Īlthough Jackson’s life was also mired in controversy, including child molestation allegations that he was acquitted of, his music continues to inspire.īruno impersonated Jackson’s song Smooth Criminal on US TV show Saturday Night Live recently and on The X Factor wore a fedora similar to the one Jacko wore in the video.īefore Bruno topped the charts, he impersonated Elvis Presley as a four-year-old Any artist, I don’t care what genre you do, you should always aspire to be like Michael Jackson. Bruno said: “I feel like he set the bar for artists. Last Sunday evening Bruno showed The X Factor hopefuls just how to do it with an incredible performance of his current single Locked Out of Heaven, which had show favourite Jahmene Douglas tweeting about him being an “amazing performer”.Īnd the American owes it to Jackson, who died in June 2009. The 27-year old, from Hawaii, who was the world’s biggest-selling male act of 2011 and is about to release his second album, has long been a fan of the King of Pop. BRUNO Mars claims that every artist “should always aspire to be like Michael Jackson”.
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