برونا مارس: هر هنرمندی باید رویای می‌خواهند مایکل جکسون باشند

برونو مارس Bruno Mars: Every Artist Should Aspire To Be Like MJ (۳۰-۱۱-۲۰۱۲) Singer Bruno Mars (۲۷) from Hawaii ('Grenade', 'The Lazy Song') has long been a fan of Michael Jackson. "I feel like he set the bar for artists. Any artist, I don't care what genre you do, you should always aspire to be like Michael Jackson. 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." Recently, Bruno Mars impersonated Michael Jackson's song 'Smooth Criminal' on the US TV show 'Saturday Night Live'. Last Sunday, he performed his new song 'Locked Out Of Heaven' on the UK version of 'The X Factor' wearing a fedora similar to the one Michael used to wear. "Oh no," Bruno laughed, "I use my hat because my hair is a mess all the time." Growing up in Honolulu, Bruno's dad, a Latin percussionist from Brooklyn, organised a Vegas-style revue with the family. Three-year-old Bruno, then known as Peter Gene Hernandez, began performing Michael Jackson tunes and at four became an Elvis impersonator, performing five days a week with his family's band. He even had a cameo in the ۱۹۹۲ film 'Honeymoon in Vegas' starring Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker. Who is easier to impersonate - the King or the King of Pop? "Neither, they are both amazing. 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. I never sounded like Elvis at all either or looked like Elvis." After leaving school, Bruno moved to Los Angeles and was signed to Motown Records in ۲۰۰۴ - the same label Michael had been signed to with The Jackson ۵. 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 ۲۰۱۰ FIFA World Cup theme song. Bruno then decided to go solo and has meanwhile sold more than five million albums and ۴۵ million singles worldwide in ۲۰۱۱. But Bruno, who plays piano, guitar and drums, has learnt that the music industry is an extremely tough business: "The music industry is a weird place and it takes more to be a good singer. I learned that you had to show up to a record playboy and say, 'This is my music, take it or leave it'. No one can create a Michael Jackson, no one can make a Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, it can't be done, it has to be something there, and you have to give me that, you have to be the one to say, 'This is me. Either you are in or you are out'." His new album 'Unorthodox Jukebox' will be released in December. Bruno is expected to go on tour again next year to promote the new album: "It's one thing to buy the song, like the song, like the lyrics, like the production, it's another thing to see the artist perform that song, that's why Michael Jackson is the best. To see him do it, to see whatever it is, the artistic way he brought it to life live, and paint a whole other picture and I feel like it was very important when you hear this album. I want people to be like, I've got to go see this show. It's going to be a good show." Source: MJFC / Daily Record