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Speaker 2: Where are you or who are you here?

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Speaker 4: Okay, just kidding. I don't have a penthouse and I

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Speaker 2: To be honest, Okay, if you need help text me.

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Speaker 3: Got it.

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Speaker 2: Now it's time to introduce our next icon.

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Speaker 3: Let's go baby Cakes.

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Speaker 1: Over one hundred and thirty million records, soul worldwide.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen Grammy Awards.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen Soul Train Awards.

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Speaker 4: Eleven American Music Awards, eight Number one hits, six.

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Speaker 3: Diamond certified songs in the United.

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Speaker 4: States, four brit Awards, three Guinness World Records, two super Bowls.

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Speaker 3: And one heck of an Artist.

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Speaker 2: Our new icon Peter Dean at none This junior an

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he makes that music you want to either

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Speaker 2: If you know what I'm saying, I think everybody knows

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, because I mean sexy tech.

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Speaker 3: Muchos Movimian does sexy.

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Speaker 2: I love that song, but enough, we got it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And by the way, there is so much more musically

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Speaker 1: and B, funk, soul, disco, reggae, and even a little rock.

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Speaker 3: He's throwing it all in there like Mayabuela's Morley.

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Speaker 1: On today's episode, the Rise of Bruno from child Elvis

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Speaker 1: impersonator to homeless in La and all the way to

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Speaker 3: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an.

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Speaker 1: Icon a weekly podcast where we give you the rundown

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Speaker 1: on how today's most famous latinv stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 3: And given the world some extra level.

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Speaker 2: Sit back and get comfortable.

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Speaker 4: Because we are going in the only way we know how,

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Speaker 4: with buena buenasriesas.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest

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Speaker 3: Okay, those who is Bruno Mars to you?

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Speaker 1: Oh well, I wish he was my friend because I

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Speaker 2: He dresses really well, and the boy can move.

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Speaker 1: All the way back to Hana Lulu, Hawaii, where he.

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Speaker 2: Go, Joseph go.

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Speaker 4: Peter Jean Ernandez Junior was born on October eighth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, when am I getting this Walter Mergado treatment

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Speaker 3: Just some respect not happening.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm kind of rather you not well sooner.

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Speaker 3: It's very much the Jackson Five vibes.

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Speaker 3: Once a family band, always a family band.

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Speaker 2: He went himself on stage?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, poor guy. If only he had Depends

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Speaker 3: as always.

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Speaker 4: by the premier adult diaper on the market, Depends Joseph.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Depends is not a sponsor of this podcast.

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Speaker 3: Not yet big now.

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Speaker 1: For any parent this would have been a major cause

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Speaker 1: I tell Santi this, if you don't take a nap,

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Speaker 1: His mother was even quoted saying this, he knows he

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Speaker 2: Or he will not go on stage. Hold on a second,

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Speaker 4: I was also just going to say it's probably because

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Speaker 1: Nope, and all that time on stage impersonating the king

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Speaker 4: Bruno grew up surrounded by music, and he was determined

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Speaker 3: But like with all great loves, it had to end.

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Speaker 2: Joseph, are you going through another breakup?

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Speaker 3: Lila? I feel like I've been locked out of heaven.

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Speaker 4: Sadly, for Bruno, when he was only eleven, his parents

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Speaker 3: When the zoo closed, Bruno and his family stayed.

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Speaker 4: Because Mio, that's a long way from seven fucking Cadillacs.

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Speaker 1: It is, but Bruno actually remembers it fondly, sharing with

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Speaker 1: know this part of Bruno's history. And when you see

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Speaker 4: I honestly, itch, I'm speachless, I know.

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Speaker 1: I think when we like first talked about it, you

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Speaker 1: thought I was lying. You were like, he did not

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Speaker 4: I thought you meant he owned like a menagerie and

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Speaker 1: I think we should do an entire special with Bruno

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Speaker 1: because it's just I've I mean, listen, we hear a

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Speaker 1: He's like checked out, he's done.

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Speaker 2: I've done, He's done.

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Speaker 1: But what I think is so interesting is when you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it makes it more relatable.

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Speaker 4: And Bruno didn't miss the material things he had his family,

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Speaker 1: Stage, that's right, and that was the one thing he

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Speaker 4: So we already discussed how Bruno literally came into this world.

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Speaker 1: The boom Box is Back and the soundtrack of Bruno's

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Speaker 1: youth included Jodasy and Keith Sweat, Little Motown, led Zeppelin,

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Speaker 3: He lived and breathed these artists.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, this kid was a musical prodigy.

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Speaker 4: Now he just needed a new band to perform with.

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Speaker 1: Soon he was in high school and the lead singer

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Speaker 1: covering Genuines Pony Wait. He covered Pony in a high school.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know that you were allowed to sing

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Speaker 1: y'all lyrics to pony Wait. Hold on, I gotta look

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just a horingy thought.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, that's in the chorus.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was nasty. I need some wada.

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Speaker 2: I know you do, because you read the lyrics to Pony.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can understand why the teachers were angry at Bruno.

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Speaker 3: And that's when it clicked for Bruno. That endless charm.

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Speaker 4: Plus his sex appeal meant he could be more than

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Speaker 3: He could do his own thing.

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Speaker 1: He graduated in two thousand and three, grabbed his diploma

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Speaker 1: the head of A and R AKA artist and repertoire

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Doctor Dre, It's the d and I staid

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Speaker 2: So Bruno leaves Hawaii. He's on his way to LA

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Speaker 2: but something was missing that X factor. Listen, he knew

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Speaker 2: Bruno was a good name, but it's not Madonna. It

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Speaker 4: We needed mass. So you're probably wondering how did he

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Speaker 1: I don't think I could actually explain it if I

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Speaker 2: To read you what he said quote. I felt like

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Speaker 3: Stop. I can't stop. I can't stop it.

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Speaker 2: I can't. I call this like swag he's got. The

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Speaker 1: It's not even confidence because like, okay, a lot of

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Speaker 1: I do not have swag like that. This man has

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Speaker 4: I also just have to say the fact that he goes.

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Speaker 4: I felt like I didn't have no pizzazz. The word

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Speaker 1: But there is something else to his adoption of this name, right.

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Speaker 1: It was also a very specific effort by him to

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Speaker 1: Let me explain.

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Speaker 2: The music industry was trying to pigeonhole him as another

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Speaker 3: Right, what did he spend their hosts have against the

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I got twosies in my name.

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Speaker 1: I just know that the Morsi's you have the badder

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Speaker 1: but these executives were even trying to convince Bruno to

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Speaker 1: It's not that he was ashamed of his Puerto Rican roots.

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Speaker 1: It won thousand percent influences him musically, and he is

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Speaker 4: But as we've known from listening to all of our

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Speaker 1: That was one of the biggest challenges that Bruno faced

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Speaker 1: they could sell and market him. But Bruno unapologetically embraced

446
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: all parts of his identity, and that left all the

447
00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,919
Speaker 1: right people scratching their heads.

448
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,160
Speaker 3: A year after signing with Motown, he.

449
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,720
Speaker 2: Had a shot to make it big, but it fell

450
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 2: through the cracks.

451
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 3: As fast as he was signed girl, he was dropped.

452
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 4: And to top it off, the culture shock he faced

453
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 4: when he got to La was a brutal.

454
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, La, La Land can be devastating for people when

455
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 1: they first get here. And here's what Bruno had to

456
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: say about his experience moving to La. He said, quote,

457
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: I'd always been a working musician in Hawaii and never

458
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: had problems paying rent. And then it's like, now I'm

459
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 1: in La, my phone's getting shut off. That's when reality hit.

460
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: I started DJing. I told this person liked a DJ

461
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 1: because I said they could pay me seventy five dollars

462
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,719
Speaker 1: cash under the table.

463
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: I didn't know how to DJ. I lost that job

464
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 2: pretty quick.

465
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 4: Our boy was Baroke, but he wasn't a quitter. Daddy

466
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 4: Peter was a hustler and taught his boy the art

467
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 4: of the game.

468
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 2: Bruno knew he had to give it another shot before

469
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 2: calling it quits. At Motown, he met Philip Lawrence, a

470
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,880
Speaker 2: songwriter and producer Lawrence and Mar had hit it off,

471
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 2: and they started writing songs together, along with sound engineer

472
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 2: Ari Levine.

473
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 4: Together they founded a production team called the Smeeezing Tins.

474
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 2: Bless you what a name man.

475
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 3: The Smoothing Tens a Goodbye.

476
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: During this time, Mars played cover songs around La in

477
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: a band called sex Panther with his brother Eric, the.

478
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 2: Future soon to be drummer of the Hooligans.

479
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 4: Wait, sex Panther, I need to call my trademark attorney

480
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 4: because Bruno owes me some moo lah.

481
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 2: Good luck with that case anyway.

482
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 1: Soon sex Panther was meeting with an A and R

483
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: guy at Atlantic Records. He was blown away by their talent,

484
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,920
Speaker 1: but his colleagues they were hashtag not impressed.

485
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 4: It's a Shakira all over again. These moas in charge

486
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 4: need to start getting some.

487
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 2: Exactly.

488
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 1: The A and R guy wanted to sign him right

489
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: then and there, but everyone else thought Bruno needed time

490
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: to develop himself as an artist.

491
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 3: So they agreed on a middle ground.

492
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 2: The Sumeezingtons were hired to write and produce songs for

493
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 2: other artists under Atlantic Records, like.

494
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 4: Bieber Flow, Rita, even Beyonce and jay Z, hell even Kanye.

495
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,959
Speaker 1: I know you're probably wondering, Wait, what songs were they, y'all?

496
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: These were like big fucking hits. Mealving me right, babe,

497
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 1: run like a record, baby, right right, right right.

498
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 4: Marge took the l and was mostly in the background,

499
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 4: either writing and producing or providing backup vocals for other artists.

500
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: That was until two thousand and nine, when he was

501
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: featured in two songs, Bob's Nothing On You and Travi

502
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: McCoy's Billionaire.

503
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 4: But I bet y'all didn't even know that Bruno wasn't

504
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 4: supposed to be on these songs.

505
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 2: That's right.

506
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: Somewhat at the record company thought the hooks Bruno wrote

507
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: would be better if someone white, blonde and blue eyes,

508
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 1: saying them.

509
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 4: Blonde, blue eyed, white people just don't have enough apparently, Yes, I.

510
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: Know, give them, give them, give them more things, Please

511
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: give them the world.

512
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: Oh wait, they already own it. Never mind. Mars called

513
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 2: this moment the lowest of his career.

514
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,479
Speaker 1: He said, even with that song in my back pocket

515
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: to seal the deal, things like that are coming out

516
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: of people's mouths.

517
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,920
Speaker 2: It made me feel like I wasn't even in the room.

518
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 1: It's clear that people did not know how to promote

519
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: an artist like Bruno with such a diverse background, or

520
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: even someone that looked like him.

521
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 3: But he stayed on the tracks and both songs were

522
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 3: instant hits.

523
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: Everything about him was instantly recognizable, his voice, his signature, Fedora,

524
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: his boyish good looks as he likes to call them.

525
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 3: Atlantic Records finally realized what they had and signed him

526
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 3: to the label.

527
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 2: On July twentieth.

528
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: At twenty ten, Mars released Just the Way You Are

529
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: as the lead single from his debut studio album, Doo

530
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: Wop and Hooligans.

531
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 3: Okay, just the Way You Are? Did you love or

532
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 3: hate the song?

533
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: I love, deeply love this song. I feel like when

534
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: I first heard it, I was like, is anyone ever

535
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: going to feel that way about me? Like he's really

536
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: good with the lyrics, he's obsessed with her, but like

537
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: in a not scary way, like not like not in

538
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: like a you on Netflix stockery way, just in like

539
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: a oh I want to be worshiped? Like yeah, it

540
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: was really sweet and yes, I love that song. And

541
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: what's crazy is that that song is one of my

542
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: son's favorite songs, and my son has a little play piano.

543
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 2: He's not as talented as Bruno. Let's be clear. He

544
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 2: bangs on the piano.

545
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: And so when he sees Bruno playing the piano in

546
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: the video, he said, piano. So like he just has

547
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: this real connection to the song. I think it's beautiful.

548
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 3: I love that, But now it brings this question to me.

549
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 4: So he's twenty two months and loves Bruno and you

550
00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 4: can be old and young. Obviously they were playing in

551
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 4: all these, you know, different stations, and it was just

552
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: kind of like this song.

553
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 3: Why do you think this song worked?

554
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: I think it's always a combination with music. I think

555
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:14,199
Speaker 1: that a the lyrics are widely acceptable, and what I

556
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: mean by that is no one is offended by the lyrics.

557
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: No one has like a bone to pick with these lyrics.

558
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: Like you said, everybody wants someone to feel this way.

559
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: So there's a natural kind of like desire for this feeling.

560
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: So there's that connection to the song. So the lyrics

561
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: check out. The connection exists, like you want to feel

562
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: like this, He wants to make you feel like this.

563
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 2: When he's singing to you, you're like, oh, do you

564
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 2: feel like that about me?

565
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: And I think that his music style just has really

566
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: wide appeal, Like it's not for boomers, it's not for

567
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: gen Z, it's not for gen X, it's not for millennials.

568
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: It just has cross generation appeal.

569
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 3: It does.

570
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 4: But it's funny that you say that, because I feel

571
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 4: like he has created this sound, that is, he's pigeonholed

572
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 4: himself to this universal sound.

573
00:27:58,080 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? I do?

574
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm gonna like fight you on this because

575
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: remember this was the lead single off of his debut album,

576
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: So he's smart, he's been in the game and having

577
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: this song be the first one to come out because

578
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: he has then the ability to appeal to the widest,

579
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 1: biggest audience.

580
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 2: That's why I think it worked at this time.

581
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,479
Speaker 1: As he progresses as an artist, he gets bolder, he

582
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: takes more risk, by the way, as all artists.

583
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: Do you want that?

584
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: But to start this album to me felt like that

585
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: was a great introduction for him to this audience.

586
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 3: Well, I actually have some juice for you.

587
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 2: Give me the juice. Give me the juice.

588
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 4: Originally it was going to be given to Selo Green

589
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 4: or Lupe Fiasco, but Brunito said, no, man, you know

590
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 4: what this one's mind and.

591
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: It reached the top of the US Billboard Hot one hundred,

592
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: ending the two week reign of Queen Katie Perry's Teenage Dream.

593
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: You know Bruno had an undeniable hit in his hand

594
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: because Teenage Dream was like.

595
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 3: Everywhere it still is.

596
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: Bruno was a star and he loved it. The fans

597
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: loved him.

598
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 4: There was money, he got special treatment wherever he went.

599
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: The world was finally treating him like the vip he

600
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: always knew he was.

601
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: But all of that can go away with the snap of.

602
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 3: A finger or the snort of a note. Hanni, yup.

603
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: Bruno Mars might have had the number one song in

604
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: the world, but a forthcoming arrest record threatened at all.

605
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: You couldn't escape the headlines. They were everywhere.

606
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 4: Bruno had the number one song in the country when

607
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 4: he was caught with cocaine in Vegas.

608
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 3: Talk about living in the rock star lifestyle.

609
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,479
Speaker 1: Bruno paid a two thousand dollars fine, performed community service,

610
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: and completed a course on drug abuse in exchange for

611
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: the arrest being erased from his record. When asked about

612
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: the instan during an interview with GQ magazine, this is

613
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: what the singer had to say.

614
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: You've prepped your whole life, it's all you know how

615
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 2: to do. Your kid experiencing life in Sin City, and

616
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: that was the lesson. It can all be taken away,

617
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 2: put you in a weird place, embarrass you.

618
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 3: And this was a real wake up call for him.

619
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 2: With an album underway, Bruno was more determined now than

620
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: ever not to fuck it all up.

621
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 3: But like they say, all press is good press, and

622
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,719
Speaker 3: just the way you are continue to perform well despite.

623
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: His arrest and do Wop and Hooligans finally arrived. Did

624
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: you know they gave them six months to.

625
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 2: Work on this.

626
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 4: Everyone on planet Earth and the aliens up in Alaska

627
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 4: were like, who is this Bruno Mars?

628
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 3: I want more of that.

629
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 4: So the label called them and said, you know what,

630
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 4: let's have this one done quickly instead of six months.

631
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 3: Now you got one chu.

632
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: They scrambled to put this album together and while the

633
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: entire process had felt daunting, but looking back on those weeks,

634
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: Philip Laurens had this to say, we had no idea

635
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: what we were doing, and for the most part, we

636
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: still have no idea. Back then it was just like,

637
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: holy hell, how are we going to pull this off?

638
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: But still in the midst of that, we couldn't believe

639
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: we had a record deal and that we were making

640
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: songs that were hits.

641
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: So it was all this fantasy.

642
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 4: The album itself is a breezy mix of pop, reggae, and.

643
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 3: R and B.

644
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: It speaks to Bruno who he is, how he grew up,

645
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: and the people that surrounded him, especially his father.

646
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 4: The album's divided into two parts, Duop and Hooligans.

647
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: Bruno credits his dad, who loved duop, so he wanted

648
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: to emphasize beautiful melodies and more importantly, the vocals.

649
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 3: As for the Hooligans side, Bruno really likes to party.

650
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: We really like to party, and the world clearly likes

651
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: to party. Because the album went on to sell over

652
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: fifteen million copies world wide. I mean, like, damn you guys,

653
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: there's just not that much many albums that can hit

654
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: these milestones, right.

655
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 4: I think it became such a hit because despite him

656
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 4: taking inspiration from so many bands and artists he admired,

657
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 4: it still sounded like his own thing.

658
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: You're one thousand percent right. It's it's always those moments

659
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: with artists when you go whoa, what was that? And

660
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: then you go, wait, who is that like Shakira has

661
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: the same impact. Right at the time, I felt like

662
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: it felt so fresh for my ears. And anytime you

663
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: can capture freshness in music, everything in music and film

664
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: and art is derivative. It's a different version of something

665
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: you already know. It's the marriage of two things that

666
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: are familiar. And when someone is able to really break

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Speaker 1: that and come into their own with a really unique

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Speaker 1: sound to your ear, that's like, that's major.

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Speaker 4: Whenever I think about Bruno Mars, I do think of

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Speaker 4: this very unique sound, right, people don't sound like Bruno Mars,

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Speaker 4: And I think when I first heard it, I just

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Speaker 4: was like, what is all this this?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna say, noise I do.

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Speaker 4: Now it's like a melody, you know, But I just

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Speaker 4: feel like I had my brain couldn't process like the

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Speaker 4: sounds that were coming in, and I feel like I

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Speaker 4: just needed a minute to warm up to him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone that was on the Bruno train back

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Speaker 1: then is still on the Bruno train.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: What's really interesting about this particular album is that this

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Speaker 1: has been charting on the Billboard two hundred for a decade.

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Speaker 2: Did you know that?

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Speaker 3: No, I actually did not. I'm Shocked. That was a

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Speaker 3: you really heard a shocked noise for me ten years.

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Speaker 1: And this is not some light record, you guys. This

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Speaker 1: is a hyper exclusive club. I mean, the only other

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Speaker 1: albums that I think Joseph might know that are in

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Speaker 1: this club, and the only ones that are in it

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Speaker 1: period are Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Bob Marley and The Whaler's Legend, Like I mean iconic,

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Speaker 1: talk about fucking iconic, Okay. Then Metallica, like the actual

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Speaker 1: album Metallica, curt and call Eminem and last but not least,

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Speaker 1: never Mind, which is the soundtrack to my entire like

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Speaker 1: high school, middle school life.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Speechless for Bruno. I feel like he's got to be

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Speaker 1: speech I mean, that is some elite shit.

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Speaker 3: How can you even just walk around your days like that? Really?

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Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, I'm just still recurring on the top two.

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Speaker 4: He's like I Got the pizzaz wow.

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Speaker 1: I And you know, often we talk about debut albums,

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Speaker 1: and you know, some of them are incredibly well done

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Speaker 1: and they pop off when they launch, but then they

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Speaker 1: kind of go away and they fade into obscurity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what happened with this one.

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Speaker 4: And it wasn't like anything on the radio at the time.

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Speaker 4: Bruno reached notoriety most people could only dream of.

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Speaker 2: Everyone wanted a piece of the suave singer songwriter.

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Speaker 1: Even Twilight Mars released a single called it Will Rain

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Speaker 1: for the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part one soundtrack.

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Speaker 4: I can totally believe that was a hit. Team Jacob

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Speaker 4: at BT Dubbs, How.

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Speaker 1: Did I know you were a Twyhart Beyond a Twilight song,

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Speaker 1: Bruno now had a Grammy win to his name, the

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Speaker 1: Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Just the

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Speaker 1: Way You Are. All those years living in Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: trying to break into the music industry left him oft

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Speaker 1: and dejected. He was constantly yearning for home, but he

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Speaker 1: never faltered because he didn't want to return home a failure.

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Speaker 4: In twenty eleven, during his tour, he did anything but that.

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Speaker 4: When he returned home, he wasn't empty handed.

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Speaker 2: He had all these hit singles, he had an album,

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Speaker 2: and he had a Grammy win to prove it. His family,

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Speaker 2: alongside a legion of fans, waited for him for a

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Speaker 2: well earned homecoming celebration. On December nineteenth. He performed to

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Speaker 2: a soldout crowd of ten thousand people.

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Speaker 3: All was good on mars Land.

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Speaker 1: Now he had the platform to come back with an

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Speaker 1: even bigger album the next time around.

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Speaker 2: On the next Becoming an.

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Speaker 5: Icon, Unorthodox Jukebox, twenty four Carrot Magic, Silkthnic, and two

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Speaker 5: Super Bowl halftime shows.

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