Bruno Mars and New Songs

JJ: Tell us how you got the music.

BM: My father is a musician and my mother was a singer. My father  New Songs  was from Brooklyn and was a Latin percussionist, so I always had instruments around the house. He used to play a show as a rock and roll 1950 with Little Richard's music. Would do, doo-wop songs and stuff like that. My uncle would imitate Elvis, so I used to watch him and I said one day: "Coach, put me in" So basically I had 2-3 years, and he brought me on stage.

JJ: So young!

BM: Yes, I was a child - a Tyke!

JJ: What are your musical inspirations at this time?

BM: Everyone, man. I have much love for classical music and I feel so much incredible music. As a producer, I get this question a lot. I like to work with Coldplay one day. You know, you get  New Songs a little 'round. You should know a number of music and have Michael Jackson Songs respect for all types of musical genres and styles.

JJ: Any other artists for the album have?

BM: I'm Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on a song called "Liquor Store Blues." Being from Hawaii, a lot of people do not know that reggae is huge out there, and I will be in a reggae band, when I was in Hawaii. So if I had the song, I made the call to Damian. It 'was on tour, I had not   New Songs even met yet. He heard the song and we have in the studio and did his thing.

JJ: You grew up in Hawaii, but are of Filipino and Puerto Rico.

BM: Yes, my mother is Filipino and my father is from Puerto Rico - my father is actually a lot of stuff.

JJ: Growing up, did your mom cook for you? What was your favorite Puerto Rico food, Filipino food?

BM: Chicken Adobo course. My father's mother had this thing called  country love songs Spanish rice. It is yellow rice with olives, peppers and lots of other things.

JJ: Do you cook for yourself?

BM: A little. ' Can I down. The Pop Tarts. (Laughs) Actually I can. I learned a lot from my mother.

JJ: Who are you listening to right now?

BM: I bought albums by Lil Wayne last night at the hotel. I Drake albums. I have a lot of Beach Boys just listen.

JJ: Have you heard Rihanna's "Only Girl In The World"?

BM: Really fast. I just heard a clip on iTunes. I knocked [my] and I said "what?" It seemed like a good old Rihanna.

Michael Jackson Songs and Bruno Mars

I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Bruno Mars for a few days after the release of his solo EP is better if you do not understand. He has Michael Jackson Songs already made a splash on the pop charts as a singer in "Nothin 'On You" by BoB and "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy. We talked about his development as a solo artist in his right hand. The interview was conducted, 13 May, 2010.

Bill: For many fans seem kind of pop out of nowhere, came the voice in "Nothin 'On You" and "Billionaire", but that's not the case.Can you tell me a little "how to get there, where are you now?

Bruno: I moved from Hawaii to California to be, you know, an artist, a singer. I never knew. I was a little "over my head I think what it takes to not here to make music. Luckily, I met the right people and learned the process of creating a song and the production of a song and wrote a song. It took a while "to figure it out.

So, what the artist ... I once had to write songs Michael Jackson Songs and games, was kind, as the first priority. Label would come to me and say: ". Hey, why not write well for this artist, signed with us for a long time" Unlike them, come to me and give me a chance. So I was like I must survive. Show me  where I can quickly this position and I think I'm a producer now. New Songs   So I just started writing and producing for other acts. Me and my partner Philip Lawrence.

It was only a matter of time until someone heard me sing these demos and such. "Nothin 'On You" and "Billionaire" were really like the songs ... I was there. When I wrote Michael Jackson Songs this hook I wrote the songs for me. Aaron Bay-Shuck, A & R for Atlantic, which was difficult to hear.. "We need him to sign, he is the guy who is writing and singing and playing Who will sell country love songs  better than this guy And 'comin'? from the heart. "This is how all things go, and just came very close to each other, so it's like" the feel nothing.