Bruno Mars: The Talented Musician

By Mike Dayson

After graduating from senior high school in 2002 at age 17, Mars decided to leave Hawaii for Los Angeles. Throughout his first few years in California, he struggled to make a development in the music industry. And particularly due to the fact that he had performed so often while growing up in Honolulu, Mars expanded frustrated with waiting for his occupation to progress.
It was during this duration that Mars first relied on songwriting. "I just started composing songs when I went up to L.A., because when I was in Hawaii I never ever really had to," he remembers. "But it came from simply finding out that you need to do everything by yourself. It's not like what you see in films, where you walk into a record business and you're given all these terrific songs to sing. You need to write the tune the world is going to wish to hear and play it over and over again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Dec 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781304093004

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Introduction

Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars was born upon October 8, 1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii. By the late 2000s, he began finding success by writing songs for various other preferred artists such K'Naan's Wavin' Flag, the theme song for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. After numerous years as one of the pop music's top songwriters, he broke out as a singer in his own right with the 2010 hit Nothin' on You.

Early Life

Bruno Mars grew up in an extremely musical household. His father, Pete, was a Latin percussionist from Brooklyn, and his mother, Bernadette (Bernie), was a vocalist. Mars received his nickname, Bruno, while he was still a child. The name Bruno came from baby times, older sister Jamie clarifies. "Bruno was constantly so positive, independent, really strong-willed and kind of a brute-- hence the name Bruno, and it