Classic showmanship in the vein of James Brown and Michael Jackson is alive and well, and Bruno Mars is here to prove it.     

A classic song-and-dance man and multi-platinum selling pop star, Mars references everyone from Prince to The Police in both his image and sound, but the result is more than mere imitation; as a songwriter and producer, he has successfully combined the sounds of his pop idols with reggae and hip hop to create a new generation of genre-crossing hits.