Bruno Mars buys luxury LA home

Bruno Mars buys £2.1 million luxury LA home

One of the world’s leading pop stars has splashed out $3.3 million (£2.1 million) on a luxury property in a trendy Los Angeles suburb.  Bruno Mars, the R&B star who has enjoyed three chart-topping hits in the UK, has bought a stylish home in the Laurel Canyon area which has been home to stars including Frank Zappa and George Clooney.

Keep reading to learn more about the 26 year olds’ fantastic new luxury home.

The Lazy Song star buys £2.1m mansion

The singer of hits including Grenade and Just The Way You Are has bought the luxury £2 million home which features three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms and sits on a generous 4,064 square feet.

The Daily Mail reports that ‘the house is covered in chocolate coloured hardwood floors and long walls of floor-to-ceiling retractable glass panels, allowing for spectacular views of the San Fernando Valley.’

The dining area features a large sky light and floating, built-in buffet bat as well as a special refrigerator to keep wine at the perfect temperature. The service areas include a guest bedroom with private attached bathroom, a separate office, and a laundry facility.

A walled and double-gated motor court at the front easily parks three or four cars, while a three car garage and driveway offers off-street parking for up to six more.

The garden boasts deep, shaded overhangs, an outdoor bar and a dark-bottom swimming pool surrounded by decking.  The property also comes equipped with a modern security system with eight perimeter cameras.

Mars has reportedly paid $3,254,000 for the property which represents a staggering $2,019,000 profit for the existing owners in just 14 months.  The property was bought for just $1,235,000 in May 2011 although there has been a significant sum spent on taxes and renovation costs.

 

Bruno Mars' New Music

Bruno Mars' New Music Has 'Throwback Nina Simone' Feel, Says Producer

For a musician who spends weeklong writing blocks playing ping-pong and shooting hoops, Benny Blanco manages to stay busy. The producer-songwriter, whose credits include chart-toppers for Maroon 5 and Katy Perry, has filled his schedule since the start of the year, clocking studio time with fellow hitmakers like Paul Epworth (who co-wrote and -produced Adele's "Rolling in the Deep") Rico Love and longtime collaborator Dr. Luke. Among the artists he's worked with: Ke$ha, for whom he produced an untitled tune co-written by fun.'s Nate Ruess, and Bruno Mars, who's at work on the follow-up to his 2010 breakthough, Doo Wops & Hooligans. The latter session yielded a piano-laced track intended for Mars' new LP.
"I got a really cool song with him. Me and Paul [Epworth] just got together and Bruno wrote an amazing song on top of it. It kind of all came together," Blanco tells Rolling Stone. "It's like some throwback Nina Simone type shit, like 'Sinnerman.' It's Bruno. He can sing the A.B.C.'s and you'd be like, 'Holy fuck!' He knows how to vibe."
Blanco also hit the studio recently with Empire of the Sun, Wiz Khalifa and Marina and the Diamonds, stretching across genre lines with his spectrum of gigs. Known mostly for his work with pop stars, Blanco hopes to dig back into his hip-hop roots (his early credits include work with Spank Rock and Hell Rell) via collborations with with Rico Love. The pair most recently co-produced Trey Songz's "Heart Attack" with Love, and Blanco says his work with Khalifa upcoming O.N.I.F.C. album is a testament to his intentions to broaden his horizons.
"I'm trying to do different stuff than I've ever done, to challenge myself and dip into a lot of R&B and hip-hop. Maybe some shit I don't even know yet. I just really want to break any boundaries that I thought I might have," explains Blanco. "Paul [Epworth] is showing me great things that I never even thought of. We're doing records with live drum sets, we're playing live bass guitars and chopping them all up and doing just really cool, interesting stuff, trying to challenge ourselves and the listener."
He isn't ditching pop, though. Blanco hasn't caught wind of a new Katy Perry album – "I haven't heard of anything for a record, and I have not started anything yet," he says – but credits his previous work with the singer as building blocks for his current work ethic. He names "Teenage Dream" as one of the most difficult tracks of his career – the product of artistic differences.
"At first, Katy didn't even like those tracks. And then finally, we got 'Teenage Dream' to have great writers on it like Bonnie McKee and Max Martin. All the stars were aligned," he says. "We had to rewrite lyrics to that song seven times. Some of those records are like that. When you finally get it right, it's like, ah. It makes it all the better."

Bruno Mars Arrested For Drug Possession

Bruno Mars has been grabbing headlines recently for his acclaimed work writing hits for B.o.B, Cee-Lo Green and Travie McCoy, as well as for scoring his own chart smash with "Just the Way You Are." But the singer/songwriter wound up with the wrong kind of attention early Sunday morning in Las Vegas when he was arrested on suspicion of narcotics possession.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the 23-year-old singer (born Peter Gene Hernandez), who is preparing to drop his full-length solo debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, next month, was arrested at 2:40 a.m. on Sunday, after security at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino confronted him in a bathroom and allegedly found him to be in possession of narcotics.
At press time a spokesperson for the Las Vegas Police Department could not be reached for confirmation of the arrest or for information on what drugs Mars is said to have possessed at the time of his arrest.
Mars, who took the VMA stage last week with B.o.B and Hayley Williams, had performed a show on Saturday at the Hard Rock. He tweeted fans to come check out his performance, writing, "Come see me @ the Hard Rock 2nite!! VEGAS!" He did not, however, appear to provide any comment on the arrest. His next tweet wasn't until early Monday morning (September 20), when he wrote, "Texas is dope! I'm in Dallas rite now looking forward to meeting some folks @ radio stations. Tune in for a special live performance."
Mars' arrest came on the heels of another star dodging a legal bullet after a possession arrest in Vegas. Following her August 27 arrest outside a Las Vegas hotel in which police found 0.8 grams of cocaine in her purse, Paris Hilton will avoid jail time for felony cocaine possession with a plea agreement that will allow her to serve a year of probation but no time behind bars.

Bruno Mars On New Album

Bruno Mars has told his fans that he is "halfway" through completing his second studio album.
The 'Runaway Baby' singer took to his Twitter account yesterday (5^th June) to announce how progress was going on the record and stated he was pleased with what he has created so far.
He tweeted: "I want you guys to know that I'm halfway done with my second album. I couldn't be happier :)"
The star also added that he had a playful title already sorted for the record highlighting the pressure.
"As of now the album title is Bruno Mars Prepare To S*** Yourself," he added.
Last month, Bruno told his followers that he was locking himself in the studio to work on his new album and was spotted out recently at a Gala event in New York City sporting a new curly hair style.