火星哥：努力+才華=成功

Like it or not, people tend to give labels to singers - Adele, pop; Eminem, rap; Miranda Lambert, country. But that rule doesn’t seem to apply to Bruno Mars. The 32-year-old US singer is, in the eyes of The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica, “one of the most versatile and accessible singers” working today.

不論你是否喜歡，人們總會給歌手們貼上標簽 —— 阿黛爾，流行歌手;姆爺，饒舌歌手;米蘭達·蘭伯特，鄉(xiāng)村歌手。但貼標簽這一說似乎并不適用于“火星哥”布魯諾·馬爾斯。在《紐約時報》評論家喬恩·卡拉曼尼卡看來，這位現(xiàn)年32歲的美國歌手是當今活躍在歌壇中“最多才多藝又平易近人的歌手之一”。

After hearing the musician display a wide variety of music styles ranging from pop to hip-hop to rock, Caramanica said “there is nowhere Mars doesn’t belong.”

在聽完這位音樂人演繹流行、嘻哈、搖滾等多種多樣的音樂曲風后，卡拉曼尼卡稱“沒有哪個曲風是馬爾斯無法駕馭的。”

Mars won six awards at the American Music Awards on Nov 19, including artist of the year and favorite male artist.

11月19日，火星哥在全美音樂獎頒獎禮上獲得了年度藝人、最受歡迎男藝人等六項大獎。

And unlike many of today’s popular singers, Mars didn’t get to where he is via a talent show or the internet. After he left his hometown of Hawaii for Los Angeles, California, to pursue his dreams at 17, Mars was “rejected and rejected and rejected for years”, as he told the Mercury News. Before he was able to appear on stage, he had to prove himself by producing and writing songs for others.

與如今許多流行歌手不同的是，火星哥并非通過選秀或網(wǎng)絡成名。正如他在接受《水星新聞報》采訪時所說的那樣，他在17歲時離開家鄉(xiāng)夏威夷，前往加州洛杉磯追逐夢想，“好幾年來一直被拒”。在登上舞臺之前，他不得不為他人寫歌來證明自己。

So what does Mars owe his success to? “Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training [myself] to sing,” he said in an interview on US TV show 60 minutes last year.

那么火星哥認為自己成功的原因是什么呢?“在工作室里花上無數(shù)小時來學習創(chuàng)作歌曲、彈奏不同的和音以及練習唱功，”去年他在接受美國電視節(jié)目《60分鐘》采訪時表示。

However, it seems that Mars forgot to mention one thing: his amazing talent.

然而，火星哥似乎忘了提及一件事：他出眾的才華。