BRUNO MARS Talks Prepping for SUPER BOWL Halftime Performance

Pop star Bruno Mars will be the headlining act for this year's Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show, being held at the MetLife Stadium in NJ. on February 2, 2014.

In an interview posted on today's Billboard.com, the 'Treasure' singer talks about his preparations for the upcoming gig as well as how he plans to deal with the frigid weather of the East Coast.

"Everyone's putting the fear of God in me like there's going to be a blizzard," Mars said in a phone interview from Los Angeles. "I'm going to wear a beekeeper suit... I'm not going to know until I get there ... I'm not trying to hype myself up too much. I know it's going to be cold and I just got to face it."

The singer, recently named Billboard's 2013 artist of the year, also shared his excitement over being asked to perform at the event. "When we got that phone call, again, what do you say? `Nah.' What do you say? `Absolutely. Let's rock,'" he said excitedly. "It was something exciting for me and my (band)."

He continues, "It wasn't too long ago when we were performing in clubs and bars and pubs, and even when I put (my first) album out, (we were) opening acts for a bunch of different artists, living in a van and traveling around and kind of putting in the work and time. It might seem fast to the outsider looking in, but you know, it's just another thing we can celebrate and I feel like as a group we all achieved it together. You know, performing on TV and stuff, whatever the NFL saw they dug it and that's why we got the call."

Read the article in full here!

Grammy-winning singer Mars just won for Best Male Video and Choreography for his single "Treasure" at MTV's 2013 VMAs this August. Mars' second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, was released in 2012 and hit No. 1 in the US, featuring the popular tracks "Treasure", "Locked Out of Heaven" and "When I Was Your Man".

Mars' debut studio album, 2010's Doo-Wops & Hooligans, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, with No. 1 singles "Just The Way You Are," "Grenade" and "The Lazy Song". The album was nominated for seven Grammy Awards and won for Best Pop Vocal Performance for "Just The Way You Are".

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