Jocham 6
3-10-13
The Man Out of This World In a song and in a book what grabs our attention and drag us in for more is a great hook. Time keeps everything moving forward for the better but, in music time is not helping it is making dumber and dumber. Songs nowadays are not worth been in the category of music they are mostly about sexual intercourse, drugs, or random dumb topics. Yet there is an American singer-songwriter/record producer who is out of this world. Bruno Mars. He rose from his childhood, took the path to success, and wrote songs with so much meaning. Bruno Mars’s real name is Peter Gene Hernandez. He was born in October 8, 1985 on Honolulu Island but raised on Waikiki. Bruno is one of six children from Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot (Bernie).At the age of two his father nickname “Bruno”, because of his resemblance to a wrestler name Bruno Sammartino.Later on he got “Mars” when girls said that he lived in different planet and he responded “Well I guess I’m From Mars”. As a child he was surrounded by musicians and instrumental music he got passionate about singing. He was known in the island as the Elvis impersonator. Mars attended Roosevelt High school where he and some friends of his formed a band known as The School Boys, they sang oldies hits. In 2003 at the age of 17 he moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue a musical career
A friend introduced him to a songwriter name Phillip Lawrence. “Everything’s good right now. It’s really paying off because now my songs are on the radio. It took me a while to get it, but when I got it, I think I got it right. And I’m very proud on how my songs are representing me as an artist” Every song has a meaning some of them actually do make sense others just do not. Bruno has many fabulous songs on many different topics such as love, friendship, helpful, and drowsiness. One hit of his is “Grenade” “...It’s a heartbreaking, heartbreak song, and I think everyone can relate to