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Bruno Mars is adding Honolulu to the list of cities on his 24K Magic World Tour, with possibly two shows planned.
The multi-Grammy Award-winning Roosevelt High School graduate will perform Nov. 10 at Aloha Stadium. A source told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that a second Aloha Stadium show, on Nov. 11, is also being discussed.
Ticket prices and sales information might be announced at a news conference later this month. It is unknown whether Mars will attend the news conference or where the news conference will be held.
Mars, who was named to the inaugural “A100 List of Influential Asian Americans” by cultural collective Gold House earlier this week, has a concert scheduled in the Philippines today, followed by shows in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong next week.
He’ll then take a break before playing BottleRock Napa Valley in California on May 27, with scheduled dates in Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and France in June. From there Mars and his guest star, high-profile rap artist Cardi B, will play concert dates across the mainland and Canada.
The final show of the tour will be Oct. 27 — the fourth in a four-night engagement at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
It is not known whether Cardi B, who announced in early April she was pregnant, will perform with Mars in Hawaii.
Mars last performed in Hawaii in April 2014, when he opened his Moonshine Jungle World Tour with three sold-out shows in the Blaisdell Arena. All three shows sold out shortly after tickets went on sale.
The international success of the 24K Magic tour is matched by the success of its namesake album. At the 2018 Grammy Awards in January, it won Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best R&B Album; Mars also won Best R&B Performance, and Song of the Year, a songwriter’s award, for “That’s What I Like.”
“That’s What I Like” won Mars the Grammy for Best R&B Song.
The six wins gave Mars a career total of 11.
Hawaii cheered Mars’ six wins at the Grammys, and the news that he’s bringing his tour here, as it has been cheering him for more than a quarter-century.
Hawaii discovered Mars in the early 1990s when he was performing as “the World’s Youngest Elvis” with his father, Pete “Dr. Doo Wop” Hernandez, and multitalented uncle John Valentine in the Esprit Lounge at the Sheraton Waikiki. At the age of 5, already an experienced showroom entertainer, Mars did his Elvis act as part of the halftime entertainment at the 1990 Aloha Bowl. He was 6 when he made a cameo appearance as “Little Elvis” in the 1992 Nicolas Cage-Sarah Jessica Parker comedy “Honeymoon in Vegas.”
His career goal was always success in the music business, so he left Honolulu for Los Angeles shortly after he graduated.
When Mars returned to Hawaii in 2010, it was to sell out the Blaisdell Arena.
And, with an impeccable sense of history that Hawaii understood, he opened that first triumphant homecoming concert with “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” the musical introduction Elvis Presley used in 1973 to open his sold-out “Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite” concert in that same arena.
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