The life of Bruno Mars

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"You have to keep showing them you're more than just one song on the radio that's playing."  As a child, he imitated Elvis Presley in his family's band. Today, his music sales rival The King's. This is Bruno Mars - just the way he is.

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00:00It's not like the movies, you know, I mean even me I got signed at a young age and you know, didn't really pan out

00:06I

00:28Feel like you got constantly keep proving yourself

00:30You gotta constantly keep getting out there and showing them that you're more than just

00:34That one song on the radio that's playing and that's what I had to do on the first time around

00:39I had to keep going out there and

00:42Keep performing live

01:00I

01:25That's the best tool I think in any artist is

01:29Go out there and show them show them what you can do

01:40I thought you know you get signed and

01:44You know, the world is yours then you're gonna be rubbing shoulders with

01:47Timbaland and you know, everyone's gonna be writing songs. Are you just gonna be you know, it's not like that at all

01:52And I needed to learn that you know that you have to do it yourself

01:58You have to write your own song, you know, you have to

02:02You have to walk into these labels with your package. This is what I am. I'm Bruno Mars. Here you go

02:08Get in or get out

02:29Hey guys, this is Bruno Mars. My EP is out right now. It's better if you don't understand on electro records

02:50Now that these songs came out my voice is on the radio, you know

02:53I don't want to just put something out just to put it out

02:55I want to put as much love and time as I did those songs, you know and songs that I've written for other people

03:02it was just like

03:04Really, you know every word counts and I want to do that for my album. So there's a little pressure right now, but I ain't scared

03:12I'm about to get real cheesy. Get ready. It means that hard work pays off

03:26I

03:28Worked hard on this, you know, I'm putting I put everything I got everything that I learned in the past

03:33Two years and I'm still working on it. I'm still working on it

03:36I feel like I have such a bigger view of what the kind of content I need

03:41You know the things that I want to be performing the way I want things to look and especially the way I want to feel

04:07The

04:18First band I thought of was the red-hot chili peppers. They're just this soulful band and not just musically but as

04:25As people, you know, I sat down with flea and and he's so passionate about music for even till this day doing it for so long

04:33He's still so passionate about creating music and performing and

04:38You know, I want to surround myself with guys like that forever

05:02Cuz I

05:06Don't believe me just watch it's crazy that what the song's gonna do

05:11I mean and it just kind of keeps going you think like everybody's sick of it by now or whatnot

05:17But I don't know. It's just like it's one of those things. I don't try and explain too much

05:32I

05:41Well, it proves that I'm the greatest right

06:02I

06:03Love performing and making it feel like a party. So that means don't write a hundred ballads, you know, let's have fun

06:24I'm happy that it took is as long as it took because I

06:28I really get to put out what I want to say. I get to say the things I want to say

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