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Dolce & Gabbana Create Exclusive Outfits for Bruno Mars' Moonshine Jungle Tour

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana created the exclusive outfits for Bruno Mars's new and much anticipated "Moonshine Jungle" World Tour, that will kick off the22nd of June in Washington DC.

During the show, Bruno Mars will wear a series of black tuxedos and iconic white shirts, symbol of the style of Dolce&Gabbana, while for the mid-section of the concert he will sport a bright red suit matched with an ocelot-printed shirt.

"Bruno's style and music are so eclectic that oftentimes we have taken inspiration directly from his work to create looks that were at the same time in line with his very personal taste as well as with the DNA of Dolce&Gabbana. With time, we have managed to establish with a him a relationship of absolute faith in each other and mutual trust, that allows us to create and work together in an atmosphere of complete harmony." Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana

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CINCINNATI, OH - A worldwide pop star could be staying in the Queen City.

According to multiple eye witnesses, Bruno Mars has been staying in downtown Cincinnati for at least the past week.

Mars is set to kick off his Moonshine Jungle tour on June 22 in Washington D.C.

Reports indicate that Mars rented out NKU's Bank of Kentucky Center to rehearse. An NKU spokesperson wouldn't confirm or deny those rumors.

Mars' appearance on the NBC show "The Voice" on Tuesday night was taped last month according to their website.

Twitter users throughout Cincinnati report seeing Mars and his entourage in downtown.

Downtown hat shop Batsakes reports that Mars came in on Wednesday and bought three hats. Employees say he and his entourage couldn't have been nicer.

"They were very nice, and whatever the price was for the hats, they paid for it," said Gus Miller from Batsakes Hat Shop.

Mars even left behind a memento on his way out.

"Before he left, I asked him to give me his autograph, and he gave it to me," said Afrodite Rigas from Batsakes Hat Shop.

According to a tweet that CVG shared, Mars flew out of town on Thursday morning.

http://www.fox19.com/story/22634913/bruno-mars-staying-in-cincinnati-possibly-practicing-for-tour

Bruno Mars and entourage spotted in Cincinnati the other day.

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Bruno Mars arrives on a flight at Washington Reagan National Airport on June 20

Bruno's tweets just before his opening night performance:

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Bruno Mars brings flash, substance to D.C. tour launch

The singer's summer Moonshine Jungle tour kicked off Saturday night in Washington.

(Photo: Brad Barket, Getty Images for Bruno Mars)

Story Highlights

• Fitz & the Tantrums alternate with Ellie Goulding in opening the show
• He's touring behind second album 'Unorthodox Jukebox'
• The show continues this week in Philadelphia and Boston

The event: Pop juggernaut Bruno Mars kicks off his Moonshine Jungle summer arena tour Saturday night with a sold-out D.C. show in support of his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox.

Location: Verizon Center, Washington.

Opening act: Soul sextet Fitz & the Tantrums starts things off. (The group is tag-teaming the opening slot with London's "folktronica" star Ellie Goulding.)

The merchandise: Many fans turn out wearing Bruno-inspired fedoras, but brothers John Montgomery, 45, of Covington, Va., and Monty Montgomery, 49, of Roanoke, are eyeing camo Moonshine Jungle caps to replace their John Deere ones. (Their assessment of Mars: "In between Michael Jackson and Prince.") Also on sale: plush gorillas, T-shirts with Mars' Afroed head and dark blue running shorts emblazoned BRUNO MARS in bright yellow caps across the seat.

I heart Bruno: Sophia Nadder of Richmond, Va., 11, wears her heart on her black walking cast. The superfan, herself a singer, neon-painted the star's name on the Velcroed boot she's sporting.

Confident fan: Prettany Overman of Abington, Md., here in a "Doo-Wops" tee to celebrate her upcoming 20th birthday, credits Mars hit Just the Way You Are with boosting her low self-esteem.

Lots of heart: Fitz frontman Michael Fitzpatrick and his band assemble in front a red LED heart that turns psychedelic as the band breaks into Breakin' the Chains of Love.

Audience participation: The crowd claps, stands, waves its arms and does call-and-response to a cover of Sweet Dreams as vocalist Noelle Scaggs and Fitz rock MoneyGrabber and show off fancy footwork in The Walker.

Busted: Scaggs is on the ground taking pictures with fans before security swoops in to take her away.

Golden: Loud screams erupt at the sight of a giant curtain with sparkly golden palm trees. Lights dim, the crowd stands and monkey sounds are heard over an African drum beat. An eight-piece band, plus Mars, all clad in red suits and cheetah-print shirts, dive into Moonshine. Some parrots join the fun on the video screen.

She got me for everything: Closeups of fire, panthers and a tattooed woman? Must be Natalie.

'Treasure' time: The performance looks just like the song's new throwback music video, complete with Jackson 5 moves and a disco ball. Mars slings on a guitar, sweating, which he emphasizes with a big brow wipe.

Money mashup: Billionaire (which Mars wrote), then Aloe Blacc's I Need a Dollar, to deafening screams.

It's getting freaky in this room: For Show Me, the band shows off Caribbean sounds and synchronized moves, then segues into Our First Time with gyrating and purple mood lighting.

Heating up: Marry You gets a new bass line. Jumping and spinning is in order, as the guys sweat through their jackets and peer-pressure the crowd to wave. "I'm hot as hell," Mars says. "I should have thought about this suit."

Last song from 'Jukebox' is up: If I Knew goes out to Bruno's special someone.

Stage patter: Mars teaches the crowd how to say "damn" with feeling, before finding "a lucky lady to serenade tonight." He fakes one out by nearly picking her, moving on, then returning. "Allow me to introduce myself, I'm the dude on the ticket."

Light 'em up: Things heat back up — with fire — and Runaway Baby. The stage lights up with moving squares of LEDs. Mars breaks out a megaphone and sings into it.

The disco ball is back for 'Young Girls': He sings of "young wild girls, making a mess" of him, and intercuts a line of Girls Just Want to Have Fun.

Sing-along: "The next song is the hardest for me to write and the hardest for me to sing." Of course, it's When I Was Your Man, with just Bruno, a piano and emotional notes.

I'd do anything for you: After teasing us earlier, Mars goes into a drum- and trumpet-heavy Grenade. Red mood lighting illuminates the stage as he sings "if my body was on fire." He's all about the electric guitar solos and sings the chorus in pieces before dozens of lights strobe. Big finish. Boom!

Time for 'Just the Way You Are': Girls sing, no, shriek, the words. "I've been suffering," he tells the audience. "Thank you guys for giving me the strength to come out here and sing" — a reference to his mom, Bernadette Hernandez, who died unexpectedly earlier this month.

The chants of "Bru-no" have begun: We still haven't heard Locked Out of Heaven. Mars rises from the stage on drums, wearing a Hawaiian shirt. He holds up his sticks and runs to center stage. The bandmates have their casual clothes on as they hop across the stage to Locked. Gold and red glitter falls from the sky.

More sexy songs: Fire blasts from the stage for Gorilla. Everyone in the mood now? Mars strips down to a black tank for a slower, smoother seduction from a high, spotlit platform. Lights out.

Next stops: Philadelphia on Monday, then Boston Wednesday.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/06/23/bruno-mars-moonshine-jungle-tour-kickoff-dc/2445893/

“You know, these past couple weeks I’ve been suffering the loss of my goddess, the woman of my life…and I want y’all to know…I want y’all to know that being here tonight with all y’all lets me know that I wanna do this for the rest of my life. It’s because of y’all. Thank you guys for giving me the strength to come up here and sing. Thank you so much.” — Bruno Mars during Just The Way You Are in DC

Bruno's performance of Just The Way You Are + his emotional speech

I want so bad to go to his concert this year but I can't till 2014..

Anyways, he was good vocally and lucky enough to hit some crazy notes, the set was for 88 minutes, his voice was strong (GOD BLESS)

Gorilla (full performance!)






Sexy ending! His arms!

Shawy89 said:

I want so bad to go to his concert this year but I can't till 2014..

Anyways, he was good vocally and lucky enough to hit some crazy notes, the set was for 88 minutes, his voice was strong (GOD BLESS)

Glad you get to go see him! Yeah, his voice was strong, it was a GREAT opening night for him

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LOL! I love how he interacts with his band and lets them share the spotlight. They always look like they are having so much fun together up on stage

Another sexy breakdown from Mr. Sexy himself *swoon*

Gorilla from another angle. You can really see how much he digs this song, he really gets into it.

Pics from the Moonshine Jungle Tour Program

https://vines.s3.amazonaws.com/r/videos/B5305682-206B-4AAF-9C5A-D6237781EC5C-18936-00000C13F5EF1ECB_1587e1b14ef.1.3.mp4?versionId=Y6LOnlKMgFglCNWwegdmV0mRSS1Rkc5W

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1- Moonshine

2- Natalie

3- Treasure

4- Billionaire

5- Show Me

6- Our First Time/Pony

7- Marry You

8- If I Knew

9- Runaway Baby

10- Young Girls

11- When I Was Your Man

12- Grenade

13- Just The Way You Are

Encore - Bruno On The Drums

14- Locked Out Of Heaven

15- Gorilla

There's a lot more footage of Bruno's opening night uploaded on the web. To see more check out these two blogs:

http://bmars-news.com/

OR

http://rhapsodyincolour.tumblr.com/

You've come a long way Baby!

Natalie


Runaway Baby


If I Knew

Bruno Mars is otherworldly in a genre-jumping show



Bruno Mars kicked off his summer tour at Washington’s Verizon Center Saturday night with all the requisite retinal razzmatazz. Sprawling video screens. Blasts of smoke, fire and confetti. A disco ball the size of a Toyota Prius.

But the concert’s most dazzling visual element was discreetly physiological. Clad in uniform red blazers, cheetah-print shirts and blingy gold chains, Mars and his eight-man band worked the stage like a platoon of over-caffeinated Big Daddy Kanes. It didn’t take long for those crisp red blazers to start showing splotches of burgundy.

“I shoulda thought about this suit!” Mars said to a capacity crowd, as if he hadn’t. This was no wardrobe malfunction. He wanted everyone to see him sweat.

It was one of those rare, thrilling, upside-down pop concerts where instead of rigidly trying to recreate the high sheen of various hit singles, the singer takes complete control of the songbook, reshaping it at will. Which is to say, it was fantastic.

On the radio, where Mars has four No. 1 hits perpetually floating about, his voice can sound tangy and stiff. But on stage Saturday, it was sugar-dusted and elastic. “Treasure,” his latest single, felt like an old VHS dub of “Soul Train” brought back to life. On the Police-inspired “Locked Out of Heaven,” he sang like Sting with more bite. And during the hushed final refrain of his heart-squeezing “When I Was Your Man,” thousands of fans hushed, too, listening but still unable to stop themselves from crooning along.

Mars hopscotched through Motown, new wave, late-’70s funk, mid-’90s R&B, flaunting a pop fluency that’s earned him a vast and diverse horde of admirers. You could see it in Saturday night’s audience — there were baby boomers, babies of boomers, babies of babies of boomers, and in Section 100, an actual baby.

But Mars seemed to be primarily concerned with the women in the audience, fake-flirting with one in the front row: “Allow me to introduce myself,” he said. “I’m the dude on the ticket.”

There was some genuine showing off, too. He garnished a few songs with guitar solos for the sake of playing guitar solos, as well as a drum solo that was somehow, miraculously, not horrific. And while he may be pushing himself toward that look-at-me-I-can-do-everything space where Prince resides, he still needs to learn how to assert his personality through all of his genre-jumping time travel.

Here’s one move he should steal from Revolution-era Prince immediately: Put the Hooligans, the name of the backing band, on that ticket stub, too.

The front line — guitarist Phredley Brown, bassist Jamareo Artis, supporting vocalist Phillip Lawrence and the horn section of Kameron Whalum, Dwayne Dugger and James King — not only brought tremendous life and electricity to their boss’s songs, they also seemed to be having the best 90-odd minutes of their lives. Toward the back, drummer Eric Hernandez and keyboardist John Fossit kept the set glued together.

And on lead vocals, a man poised to spend his summer winning over the planet, one sopping blazer at a time, Bruno Mars.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/bruno-mars-is-otherworldy-at-genre-jumping-show/2013/06/23/5450564c-dc2f-11e2-bd83-e99e43c336ed_story.html