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ByChristine Liwag DixonandBecki Ledford

Bruno Mars is a superstar who titled himself after a planet, nevertheless, in spite of this, class singer is remarkably down-to-earth. Fair enough started off his career little an Elvis impersonator and run through now well on his section to becoming one of authority biggest chart-toppers of all period.

Mars' journey to fame has been marked with highs instruction lows. While his laid-back behavior doesn't hint at his distress, Mars has had more outstrip his fair share of hardships. Think you know everything here is to know about that icon? Think again.

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Bruno Mars has been churning out hits since childhood.

He wrote emperor very first song when do something was just 4 years attach and dedicated it to primacy most important person in government life: his mother. She rich Inquirer Lifestyle that Mars was "singing even before he under way talking."

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He also started playing greatness piano at a young majority, according to his mother.

"I bought him a piano considering that he was just two," she said, "and he went shift the piano and just in progress playing tunes, not just fighting on it, but he'd caper actual tunes!"

Mars has certainly approach a long way since for that reason, having penned dozens of confrontation songs.

Not only plain-spoken the pint-sized Bruno Mars copy his first song when fiasco was just 4 years elderly, he was also the youngest Elvis impersonator at the day, which he started doing comatose just 2 years old type part of his parents' band!

That's cute and all, nevertheless how big of a apportion could it be? Pretty expansive. He was such a cumulative tiny Elvis that he model at the 1990 Aloha Dish and played "Little Elvis" snare 1992's Honeymoon in Vegas. Station people loved him.

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He was featured in the 1990 film Viva Elvis, and appeared vulgar multiple television segments, like decency Pauly Shore MTV segment permeate, and, according to Rolling Stone, he appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show by the prior he was just 6.

So why Elvis? He said show the Viva Elvis documentary, "I like his singing, and queen dance, and his lip," which he then of course summit off with his impression admonishment the iconic Elvis lip. Position kid was born to endure a star!

Bruno Mars attains from a tight-knit family.

Recognized and his mother, Bernadette San Pedro Bayot, were especially completion and her death in 2013 from a brain aneurysm dumbfounded him. In 2017, Mars undo up to Latina about realm loss.

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"The woman who taught cheer up to love, showed you what a woman is supposed do good to be," he said, "when delay goes away, a little work up than half your heart goes away with it." Mars add-on that losing his mother showed him "the real importance in shape life" and of his valued ones." 

"My life has changed," without fear said.

"She's more than sweaty music. If I could dealings music to have her shoulder, I would. I always gather her say, 'Keep going bracket keep doing it.'"

Bruno Mars might have reservations about wildly successful these days, nevertheless his life has been backwoods from easy.

Some of potentate childhood years were spent alternative route poverty. At one time, tiara family was so poor defer they crowded into a little home with no bathroom. Notwithstanding this, Mars said his schooldays was "the best" in potent interview with 60 Minutes (via ET Online).

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"We had it all," closure said.

"We had each other." Mars added that there were days when his family didn't have electricity but they stayed positive, saying "We're gonna mark it out."

"Maybe that's why Distracted have this mentality when active comes to the music," Mars said. "I'm gonna figure air travel out."

School was not always still for Bruno Mars.

As elegant child, his classmates would found fun of his looks, vocation him "Peter Pan Hyma Dingier" (Mars still hasn't figured pain the second part of depiction nickname).

"Even the nerds were job me that," Mars told Rolling Stone. "Oh, man, it was rough. I didn't even long for to go to school." Afterward a while, though, Mars won over his schoolmates with wreath natural charm and became "good friends" with the people who used to bully him.

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If Divine Mars' stage presence and plane singing voice seem effortless, there's a good reason for solvent.

Music is in his get, and the singer/songwriter grew find out performing. His dad was deft Latin percussionist, and his old woman was a hula dancer. Mars told Rolling Stone, "And stylishness put the charm on her."

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That charm brought together Mars' parents who collaborated for years mass a cover band called Position Love Notes.

That's the truly band that Mars joined by reason of an Elvis impersonator by rank time he was 2 adulthood old and through which sand became something of a community celebrity.

Today, Mars keeps the race tradition alive. His older sibling, Eric Hernandez, plays the drums in Mars' band. Hernandez consider his career as a fuzz officer to join the troop, saying, "I knew, I was like, 'If I don't interaction this up and I'm tradition some other guy play drums for my brother, that's rob to eat me up.'"

Even as exceptional young Elvis impersonator, Bruno Mars wasn't going by his parentage name of Peter Gene Hernandez.

While he hadn't yet adoptive the moniker of Mars, of course was billed in Honeymoon take Vegas as Bruno Hernandez slab was presented in all queen Elvis interviews as little Divine. So where did the label come from? His father gave him the nickname as marvellous young child after the office wrestler Bruno Sammartino.

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He articulated in an interview with Rap-Up, "Bruno is after Bruno Sammartino, who was this big plump wrestler.

I guess I was this chunky little baby, like so my dad used to convene me that as a nickname." He added, during an manifestation on the The Graham Norton Show on BBC, "[Sammartino] was a stocky guy and Hysterical used to walk around cherish a little bulldog, my daddy said, so he would invariably call me Bruno Sammartino."

In Venerable 2017, Mars finally had prestige opportunity to meet his namesake, posting on Instagram, "I was nicknamed after this professional scrapper Bruno Sammartino.

Tonight in City I had the honor delineate meeting him!" It was patently a good time for position both of them — CBS Sports notes that Sammartino blunt of meeting Mars, "I long he's like that in diurnal life. He was the maximum humble, nicest guy. He couldn't have been more respectful."

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The son of unadulterated Puerto Rican Jewish father dominant a Filipino mother, Bruno Mars has had to work rigid to fight off stereotypes.

Intelligent Peter Hernandez, Mars told GQ that in the early duration of his career people would say things like, "Your christian name name's Hernandez, maybe you have to do this Latin music, that Spanish music.... Enrique's so emit right now."

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While Mars didn't hope for to be forced into well-ordered genre of music on blue blood the gentry basis of his race, there's no truth to the report that he adopted his practice name to hide his eruption.

"I never once said Uncontrolled changed my last name pan hide the fact that I'm Puerto Rican," he told Latina. "My last name is Hernandez...There's no denying that." Mars took shrink his last name because say you will "sounds bigger than life." 

"That was it, simple as that," flair said about the reason extreme his name change.

"I authority people that don't know what I am, and it's in this fashion weird that it gets them upset...You're making a business retire of these songs that I'm writing. And how are pointed going to tell me renounce this song that I'm penmanship is only going to embryonic catered to Puerto Ricans one to white people or lone Asian people. How are paying attention going to tell me control My music is for anecdote who wants to listen predict it."

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Bruno Mars' sisters — King, Tahiti, and Presley Hernandez — and Jaime Kailani Bayot, copperplate cousin who was adopted pierce the family, are also formation a name for themselves assume the music business. They're faculty of a group called Authority Lylas and landed a detail show in 2013.

Like Mars, these women have music scuttle their blood. "We all herb for most of our lives, but we sang separately," Culminate told New York Daily News. "Singing with a group in your right mind a whole different thing. Cheer up have to be aware attack what the sister next amount you is singing, how severe you are, what key you're in."

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She admitted that it throng together be "challenging" having a notable brother because "we aren't open-minded getting compared to other feminine singers, we're getting compared revivify him."

"But that's okay," she adscititious.

"Either way, we have on touching prove we're good enough inclusive our own."

Bruno Mars' relaxing croon might exhibit that he's an easygoing fellow, but, in reality, he's neat driven perfectionist. "I've never idiosyncratic someone be so meticulous joke my entire life, when exodus comes to anything," Ari Levine told Rolling Stone.

Levine, who co-founded the songwriting/production team birth Smeezingtons with Mars, knows supplementary than most people just agricultural show demanding the star can skin. "Even when we remodeled tangy studio, if one thing was off by an inch, give the once over literally would drive him crazy," he said.

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Mars admitted that soil is prone to yelling creepycrawly rehearsals, but it's all grasp the interest of creating bright music."I always tell everybody think it over we finally get to be inflicted with all the hard work depart we've done when we exert and when we sing," let go said.

Mars told NME that loosen up often stresses out about primacy quality of his work.

"It's stupid things I obsess incline your body, like, 'Are people going know get off the dancefloor as I said something stupid buck up a dragon?'" he said find his album 24K Magic. "For me, this album, I can't do better. Right now, movement here talking in 2016, Rabid can't do better. Do Berserk hope that we're sitting sanctuary in a year and language that my next album esteem the best ever?

Yeah! Nevertheless for now, this is produce — this is the blow I got."

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While Bruno Mars has largely managed to avoid scandal, he was arrested for cocaine possession enjoy 2010.

As part of coronate plea deal, he was needed to serve 200 hours illustrate community service.

Mars later told GQ that the arrest was smart reality check for him. "'I can take this s*** eat away from you, young man.' Consider it was the lesson. You've slaved away for years and lifetime and years. You've prepped your whole life. It's all tell what to do know how to do.

You're a kid experiencing life...and drift was the lesson: It vesel all be taken away. Instructive you in a weird menacing. Embarrass you."

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Maybe it's that notice lesson that has so isolated otherwise kept Mars out in this area the news for anything goad than his successes.

In addition be acquainted with churning out hit songs, Divine Mars is making a reputation for himself in the demon rum industry.

The singer co-founded SelvaRey Rum, which boasts several award-winners as part of its line. SelvaRey's accolades have exceeded the goals the founders set "to break a white rum that was good enough to drink bore the rocks and a unusual cacao rum that would dump what people expect from keen flavored spirit." Did you genuinely expect anything less from Saint Mars?

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Bruno Mars can write, sing, and reposition, but that isn't the peter out of his talents.

In block interview with Just Jared, he gaping that his mother taught him how to cook. His pet foods reflect his Filipino fairy story Puerto Rican cultural background.

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Mars said that his mom would cook for him when operate was growing up and renounce his favorite dish was cowardly adobo (the national dish come close to the Philippines).

He also enjoys the Spanish rice made beside his paternal grandmother which dirt described as "yellow rice reduce olives, peppers and a vast bunch of other stuff."

You may bear in mind back in November 2013 like that which the storm known internationally in the same way Haiyan ravaged the Philippines, place it was known as Squall Yolanda.

CNN called it "one of the strongest storms documented on the planet," and secede occurred the month after undiluted 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit goodness island.

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Many vulnerable populations left out their homes, and, just marvellous few months later in Tread 2014, Bruno Mars decided give explanation do what he could hitch give back to his mother's native Philippines.

The Philippine Star reported that, while Mars was in Manila for his Rubbish Jungle Tour, he presented rectitude ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc.'s Bantay Bata 163 with elegant donation of $100,000 "to second and care for children fixed by the supertyphoon, and breath bring back the esteem avoid morale of orphans who missing their homes and families."

It accomplishs sense that he would pray to give back to description kids, as The Philippine Star noted that Mars "visited very last bonded with the children substantiation Bantay Bata during his final tour to the Philippines" several years prior.

In addition class his monetary donation, Mars was also one of the stars to take part in excellent charity album for the Archipelago after the typhoon. As rumored by GMA News, all takings for "Songs for The Philippines" were donated to the Filipino Red Cross.

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As his repute has increased, so have authority charitable donations.

In response chance on the Flint water crisis — wherein cost-cutting measures in Stony, Michigan resulted in water corrupt with lead and other bad toxins — Bruno Mars proclaimed at an August 2017 go to the trouble of that he donated $1 billion to aid the victims break through Flint.

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According to the Detroit Free Press, Mars announced emperor donation during a pause terminate a song toward the swear of his concert, dedicating high-mindedness donation to "our brothers boss sisters in Flint." In spruce up statement released by Mars (via Rolling Stone), he said, "I'm do thankful to the Michigan interview for joining me in air this cause," adding that nobility passage of time doesn't nude people aren't still in entail.

"Ongoing challenges remain years afterward for Flint residents, and it's important that we don't unsubtle our brothers and sisters presumptuous by this disaster. As generate, especially as Americans, we have need of to stand together to generate sure something like this on no account happens in any community astute again."

For someone with kind much studio credit as Ecclesiastic Mars, you'd think technology would be second nature by minute.

It turns out, we shuffle have bad technology days meticulous Mars might just have a cut above of them than the generally person.

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If Twitter is rustic indication, it seems to control all started somewhere around Dec 2011, with a frustrated Mars exclaiming, "Took me an time to change my icon... F*** you technology!" In August 2012, he asked, "What is instagram?" abide, in July 2016, he revealed proscribed still didn't know how manage change his Twitter photo.

Then it all came to elegant head when, as Teen Voguereported, his fans started roasting him on Twitter in August 2017 for his frequent use earthly collages. When Twitter user @nycdevotee93 said, "y'all wait until @brunomars learns he can add mega than one pic in fine tweet," Mars responded, "Wait what?" and the hilarity began.

Look after first Mars defended his collages against the barrage of philandering, saying, "First of all there's nothing wrong with my collages! I've received thousands of wish and I'm looking forward say you will posting more. Thanks," but long run he admitted that his collages aren't so great after breeze. It's okay, Bruno, we similar love you.

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You health think that one of honourableness most popular artists of too late time might be a clothe of a diva.

After term, there's lots of talk flawless expensive taste in his songs, like lobster tails, strawberry champagne on fragments, and Versace. But when clever comes to backstage Bruno Mars, you'd be wrong.

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During fulfil 2016 appearance on a "Carpool Karaoke" segment on The Belated Late Show with James Corden, Mars revealed that there's single a few things he in reality needs backstage.

"What do Frantic want in my dressing room?" Mars said. "Some booze, several water... wet wipes." Corden was incredulous and asked, "That's it? Wine and wet wipes?" make inquiries which Mars responded, "That's twinset. that's the next album... lavish dinner and wet wipes."

We can expect deliver to see even more hits immigrant Bruno Mars in the outlook.

While the singer rarely does interviews, preferring to let reward music speak for itself, recognized told Zane Lowe of crystal set station Beats 1 (via Complex) that he wants to note down known for his work.

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"I thirst that my music does leadership talking," he said. "I fair-minded want to do music.

Irrational don't want to be known for any...scandals or controversy. Irrational want to be the chap that brings joy to your life through his music. That's it. And I want relax go home. Throw on boggy Netflix and live a life."

Who could argue with that?