Everybody in my family sings, everyone plays instruments. I used to do a lot of shows in Hawaii with my father's band. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan,' he stated.In 2010 he said, 'Growing up in Hawaii made me the man I am. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. In 1990, Hernandez was featured in MidWeek as 'Little Elvis', going on to have a cameo in Honeymoon in Vegas in 1992. From a young age, he was impersonating and performing songs by artists such as Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Isley Brothers, and The Temptations.
Hernandez was one of six children and came from a musical family giving him a diverse mix of reggae, rock, hip hop, and R&B. It was released exclusively on iTunes September 27, 2011.Bruno Mars was born and raised in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii by parents Pete and Bernadette 'Bernie' Hernandez, of Puerto Rican and Filipino descent.
The It Will Rain Songfacts reports that in 2011 he recorded 'It Will Rain,' the lead single from the soundtrack to the movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1. The second single off the album, Grenade, was released on September 2010 as a promotional single but was eventually shifted to official second single. The lead single, Just the Way You Are, was released on July 19, 2010. He then released his debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, on October 5th, 2010 which features special guest appearances from B.o.B, Cee-Lo Green, and Damian Marley. After the success of the songs he featured on, Mars released his debut EP, It’s Better If You Don’t Understand, in May 2010. Mars has won 11 Grammy Awards in his career.He also co-wrote the international hits Right Round by Flo Rida and Wavin' Flag by K'naan. As of 2018, Mars has ten top 10 hits in the USA (and five more as a featured artist), including seven #1 singles combined : 'Just the Way You Are', 'Grenade', 'Locked Out of Heaven', 'When I Was Your Man', 'That's What I Like', 'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson and 'Nothin' On You' by B.o.B. He has released three studio albums: Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010, #3 USA), Unorthodox Jukebox (2012, #1 USA), and 24K Magic (2016, #2 USA). Peter Gene Hernandez (born Octoin Waikiki, Hawaii), better known by his stage name Bruno Mars, is a Filipino-Puerto Rican American singer-songwriter, producer and musician signed to Atlantic Records.