Bruno Mars was born Peter Gene Hernandez on October 8,1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bruno Mars grew up in a very musical family. His father Pete was a Latin percussionist from Brooklyn, and his mother Bernadette ("Bernie") was a singer. Mars received his nickname "Bruno" while he was still a baby. "The name Bruno came from baby times," his older sister Jamie explained. "Bruno was always so confident, independent, really strong-willed and kind of a brute—hence the name Bruno. It kind of just stuck."

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