Bruno Mars is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and dancer. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship, and for performing in a wide range of musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, reggae, hip hop, and rock. Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has appeared in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Bruno Mars is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, musician, and dancer. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship, and for performing in a wide range of musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, reggae, hip hop, and rock. Mars is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans, who play a variety of instruments, such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, and horns, and also serve as backup singers and dancers. Mars has sold over 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has appeared in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 and Forbes magazine’s lists of ’30 under 30′ in 2013, and Celebrity 100 in 2014, 2018 and 2019. Mars moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career. In 2009, he co-founded the production team The Smeezingtons, responsible for various successful singles for Mars himself and other artists. He rose to fame in 2010 buoyed by the success of \”Nothin’ on You\” by B. o. B and \”Billionaire\” by Travie McCoy, both of which featured his vocals. Mars’ debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligan spawned the international number-one singles \”Just the Way You Are\”, \”Grenade\”, and \”The Lazy Song\”. The former won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His second studio album, Unorthodox Jukebox, was his first number one on the Billboard 200.
His third album, 24K Magic, received seven Grammy Awards, winning the major categories of Album of the Year, Record of the year, and Song of the Day. In 2014, Mars was featured on Mark Ronson’s \”Uptown Funk\”, which topped various music charts, spending a total of 14 and seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, respectively. He was nicknamed ‘Bruna’ by his father because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars was born on October 8, 1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot. His father is of half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii, and was of Filipina, and some Spanish, ancestry. He had six children and came from a musical family which exposed him to a diverse mix of music genres, including reggae,. rock, hip-hop, and R &B. At the age of five, Mars began performing five days a week with his family’s band, The Love Notes, and became known in Hawaii for his impersonation of Elvis Presley. In 1990, he was featured in the Hawaiian tabloid Shopper Midweek as ‘Little Elvis’ In 1992, he appeared in a cameo role in the 1990 Aloha Bowl show.
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