來源: MJFC / Daily Record
翻譯 : 邁克爾傑克遜 - 音悅 Tai 飯團 / Sky Young
“ 我覺得他是所有藝人的標杆。作為藝人，不論你是從事的是哪方面的工作，你都應該向著MJ的高度去努力。在做任何事情的時候他都全身心的投入，他對細節的關注讓他變得與眾不同：手套、帽子、舞蹈動作、 音樂 錄影、他的歌唱方式等等，所有的一切都深深的刻上了MJ的烙印，他也把這些烙印帶給了全世界。”
近期，布魯諾 · 瑪律斯在美國電視節目“週六夜現場”中翻唱了MJ的歌曲' Smoot h C rimi nal'。上周日，在英國版的'The X Fact or'中演唱他的新歌'Locked Out Of Heaven'的時候，布魯諾戴了一頂費朵拉帽，帽子和MJ曾經戴過的一頂很像。
“Oh, no，”布魯諾笑著說，“我戴帽子是因為我的頭髮總是很亂。”
布魯諾的父親 來自布魯克林，卻在 檀香山長大。他組辦了 Vegas 風格的時事諷刺劇，和他的家人一起表演。三歲的 布魯諾因為飾演Peter Gene Hernandez而出名。那時，他就已經開始模仿MJ了。到了四歲，他開始模仿貓王，跟著他的家庭樂隊一周表演五天。他甚至在1992年的電影' Honeymoon in Vegas'（維加斯的蜜月）中與尼古拉斯·凱奇和薩拉·潔西嘉·派克一起演出，並在其中有不錯的表演 。
“模仿誰更容易呢，貓王還是 MJ ？”
“都不容易，他們都太不可思議了。 模仿是一件需要豐富經驗的事，那時候我年齡還小，所以我的模仿不倫不類，它更像是一個喜劇。不論是唱歌還是長相我都離貓王差太多了。”
離開學校之後，布魯諾來到洛杉磯，並在2004年Motown唱片公司簽約，這與MJ在Jackson 5時期的簽約公司是一樣的。從那以後他的事業沒有什麼進步，直到後來他遇到了菲力浦·勞倫斯和阿裡·萊文。他們成立了名為The Smeezingtons的歌曲創作和製作團隊，這個團隊寫了很多著名的歌曲如 B.o.B 的Nothin’ On You，Travie McCoy的 Billion aire，Flo Rida的Right Round，以及K’Naan的Wavin’ Flag。而K’Naan的Wavin’ Flag這首歌被選為2012足球世界盃的主題曲。從那以後布魯諾決定單飛，在2011年他的專輯銷量達到了500多萬張，單曲銷量達到了4500萬。雖然布魯諾會多種樂器如鋼琴、吉他和鼓，他還是意識到要在音樂這一行獲得成功是非常艱難的。
“音樂領域是非常奇特的，要想成為一名好歌手要付出很多努力。你不得不向唱片公司展現自己，對他們的態度也要很堅決，要學會說‘不管你們用不用，這就是我的音樂’。無論是MJ、齊柏林飛船（一支英國的搖滾樂隊）還是披頭士樂隊都不是被創造出來的，他們就像千里馬，等待著伯樂去發現，而伯樂發現之後，他們會說，‘這就是我，你發現了我，但是決不能對我頤指氣使，改變我的風格，否則，我們不會有什麼合作。’”
布魯諾的新專輯'Unorthodox Jukebox'將在12月發行。為了給專輯做造勢宣傳，他打算第二年再次去巡演。
“ 買專輯去聽歌是一回事，但是到現場去看歌手的表演則是另一回事，那就是為什麼MJ是最好的原因。看MJ的表演，不管是什麼樣的表演，他那惟妙惟肖的藝術表現力，使人們有了全新的藝術體驗，這種體驗才是讓我去買這張專輯，去聽這些歌曲的原因 。我就是想讓人們願意去現場看表演。那將會是一場非常好的演唱會。”
Bruno Mars: Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson
(30-11-2012) Singer Bruno Mars (27) 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 1992 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 2004 - the same label Michael had been signed to with The Jackson 5. 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 2010 FIFA World Cup theme song. Bruno then decided to go solo and has meanwhile sold more than five million albums and 45 million singles worldwide in 2011. 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
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