Bruno Mars has finally released two new songs since 2022. He had been focusing on his duo Silk Sonic with Anderson Paak. This duo formed in 2017 but did not release anything until 2021. They released the album “An Evening with Silk Sonic” and won multiple Grammy awards for the album.
Bruno Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Oct. 8, 1985. He is known for his music and his style of singing in different genres of music. His father, Pete, was a Latin percussionist and is of Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage. His mother was of Filipino heritage and had some Spanish ancestry. She was a singer and dancer, and she migrated from the Philippines to Hawaii.
When Mars was four years old he would entertain as an impersonator of Elvis Presley with his parents’ band that went by the name “The Love Notes.” When he was a teenager he taught himself to play the piano, guitar, bass, and percussion. When he graduated from high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as a musician.
In 2004, Bruno signed with the record company Motown. During that time he didn’t release any recordings but he did end up meeting songwriter Phillip Lawrence. Bruno, Lawrence and their sound engineer, Ari Levine, wrote and produced songs for other artists. Soon after Bruno was featured in the song “Billionaire” with Travie McCoy, which ended up receiving an award for ASCAP’s most performed pop songs.
In 2010 Bruno started releasing more music, including his popular album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans.” This album led him to earning his first grammy and more recognition for his music. Some of the biggest hits in the album are “The Lazy Song,” “Just the Way You Are” and “Grenade.”
This year, Bruno Mars released a collaboration with Lady Gaga and another one with Rosé. The songs are called “Die With a Smile,” and “APT.” “Die With a Smile” was released on Aug. 16, 2024 and is in the number one spot on most popular songs by Mars with over 600 million streams. Meanwhile “APT” has over 13 million streams so far and was released on Aug. 18, 2024.
Rosé also known as Roseanne Chae-Young Park is a singer from South Korea. Rosé is most known for being in the group BLACKPINK which debuted back in 2016. In 2021 her album “R” was ranked number one on the Billboard 200 chart, which made her the first South Korean female solo artist to get such a high ranking.
“I like the way they sound together, and I think their collaboration was unexpected and surprising. It was a good and catchy song, and I like the concept around it,” said junior Angela Ramirez.
“Die With a Smile” is a mix of jazz, pop, rock and country which makes it so popular allowing more people to enjoy this song. Lady Gaga and Bruno collaborated on “Die WIth a Smile” and performed it on Aug. 15 at Bruno’s show opening in Los Angeles, just one day before releasing it onto other platforms. Lady Gaga is an American singer, song writer, and actress. She became famous in the music industry in the 2000’s with her debut album “The Fame” which included some of her most popular songs like “Poker Face” and “Just Dance.”
“I liked ‘Die With a Smile’ because of his collaboration with Lady Gaga, and also because I’ve always listened to his music since I was younger,” said junior Gabriella Estrada.
His songs show how great Bruno Mars is at being able to do a variety of genres and always creates great songs to listen to whenever.
