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I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

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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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