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You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.
Bruno Mars
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Bruno Mars
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: October 8
Choreographer
Composer
Dancer
Multi-Instrumentalist
Music Video Director
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Peter Gene Hernandez
Peter Hernandez
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What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience.
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My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
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My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
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You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that's what you're gonna get!
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We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.
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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
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I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.
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Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.
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I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.
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Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
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I think everybody don't know what color I am. It's like, He's not black enough. He's not white enough. He's got a Latin last name but he doesn't have - he doesn't speak Spanish. Who are we selling this to? Are you making urban music? Are you making pop music? What kind of music are you making?
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I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all the success that's happened (for me).
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I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
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There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.
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