Essay About Bruno Mars

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Bruno Mars Bruno Mars is an entertainment sensation that commands hundreds of dollars per ticket and in 2017 he began his 85 day World Tour 24K Magic (Kreps, 2017). This on top of the world star admits to feeling a little out of place with 21st century technology. Bruno’s talent, energy, and drive to make albums in a marketplace where songs aren’t even bought anymore but are offered by subscriptions on many different platforms, still make him one of the most popular and best pop artists in the world. Regardless of his savvy or lack of it for technology, he credits many great artists that paved the way as inspiration (CapitalFM, 2017). Peter Gene Hernandez, better known in the entertainment world as Bruno Mars, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in October of 1985. Acquiring his nick-name Bruno when he was a baby, he admits he was chunky and his dad called him Bruno after a big, fat wrestler named Bruno Sammartino (biography.com, 2017). The last name came about because as Bruno says, “so many girls said I was out of this world”. And that he is. A multi-talented entertainer from a musical family, Bruno started at a very young age. He was never trained to play the guitar, drums, or piano but …show more content…

That suggests to me Bruno’s deliberate and well choreographed moves on stage are also strongly influenced by the music greats he has learned from. In this same article, Mars also claims that Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix also had an impact on his music. Marley for the songwriting, citing “the simplicity and genius”, and Bruno claims Hendrix is “the greatest guitar player in the world”. Bruno says Hendrix “was a guy who mastered that instrument… And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry, or made it sound like it was coming from the devil’s

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