Bruno Mars: “I’d Trade Music To Have Her Back”

J.G. Taruc

February 8, 2017

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  Photo credit: Rolling Stone

  Bruno Mars opened up with Latin Magazine about the sudden death of his mother, Bernadette, 55, who died in June 2013 according to the Daily News.

  The singer told the magazine, “She’s more than my music. If I could trade music to have her back, I would.”

  Mars also shared that this mother who passed away due to a brain aneurysm, gave him some words to live before she passed, “I always hear her say, Keep going and keep doing it.”

  He admitted that the sudden of his mother had a really huge impact on him. “You just gotta know that she’s with me everywhere I go … It’s something that you can’t imagine — the pain and the things that you keep going back to: ‘I wish I would’ve done this or said this,’” he explained.

  Mars expressed his gratitude to his family especially to his father Pedro where he got his musical abilities. “My whole sense of rhythm is because my dad was teaching me bongos as a kid. He’s an old-school working musician, so that’s where the pinky rings come from, the patent-leather shoes, the suits, and the pompadour. It all stems from watching my father,” he said.

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