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Bruno Mars

 

·         Born as Peter Gene Hernandez.

·         Born on 8 October 1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.

·         Occupation: singer-songwriter, record producer, voice artist, choreographer.

·         Instruments: vocals, piano, guitar, drums, harmonica, keyboard, bass, beatbox.

 

Mars signed to Motown Records in 2004 and after a year he was dropped by the company. He met songwriter and producer Philip Lawrence through the company. They then collaborated, writing songs for Mars but received many rejections from labels. In 2006, Lawrence introduced Mars to his future A&R manager at Atlantic Records who wanted to sign him immediately but it took 3 years for him to be signed to the company as Atlantic felt that it was too early and that Mars still needed development as an artist.  He finally signed with Atlantic in 2009.

His debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans was digitally released on 4^th October 2011 and physically released on 5^th October 2011. The lead single “Just The Way You Are” was released on 19^th July 2010. It reached the top of the several charts such as the Billboard Hot 100.

On 30^th October 2011, he exclusively performed “Runaway Baby” on the results show of The X Factor UK. On the same day he received 6 nominations for a Grammy Award for: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Mars has released 2 studio albums: Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010) and Unorthodox Jukebox (2012). He has released 1 EP, 21 singles, 17 music videos, 5 promotional singles and 3 other charted songs.

He has featured in 2 films (Honeymoon in Vegas and Rio 2) and 3 televisions series.

 

Success

Ø  Billboard ranked Mars as the 12^th richest musician of 2013, with earnings of around $18.8 million.

Ø   “Just The Way You Are” (12.5 million) and “Grenade” (10.2 million) are two of the worldwide most digitally sold singles of all time.

Ø  Amazon.co.uk named him as the 12^th best-selling digital artist.

Ø  Mars became the first male artist to top the 4 million mark in digital sales with 4 different songs.

Ø  He has sold over 130 million records worldwide as a singer, producer and songwriter.

Ø  Mars has the highest total number one songs on Hot 100 Airplay among all solo male artists.

Ø  He has sold 11 million albums and 68 million singles worldwide as a singer.

Awards and nominations

§  He has won a total of 67 awards and has been nominated for 209 awards.

§  Mars won his first Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance on 13^th February 2011 and also received 6 nominations including Best Rap song, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Producer of the Year.

§  He has won 2 Brit Awards for International Male Solo Artist 2012 and 2014.

§  He won Favourite Pop/Rock Male Artist in 2012 as the American Music Award.