BRUNO MARS

ENGLISHPRESENTATION

Author: Rute Santos, number 24, 11G

Oral Presentation

december 15th 2023

Peter Gene Hernandez, also known as Bruno Mars, was born on october 8th 1985 in Hawaii, in the United States. He is currently 38 and is 5' 5".

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Bruno Mars

1. Life
2. Career
3. Awards
4. Songs
5. Pictures

1. LIFE

The time he spent impersonating Presley had a major impact on his musical evolution and performing techniques. The singer, while in high school, became well known in Hawaiian entertainment, becoming the opening gig for a magic show and impersonating Michael Jackson in a celebrity impersonators show.

1. LIFE

Peter Gene Hernandez, son of Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot. At the age of two, he was nicknamed "Bruno" by his father because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars is one of six children and came from a musical family which exposed him to a diverse mix of music genres.

1. LIFE

In 2003, shortly after graduating from high school, at the age of 17, Mars moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career.

2. CAREER

He reached prominence as a solo artist after being featured on, and composing (as part of the production group the Smeezingtons) American rapper B.o.B's "Nothin' on You" (2009) and McCoy's "Billionaire" (2010).

On July 20, 2010, Mars released "Just the Way You Are" as the lead single from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010). It spawned two other international singles, "Grenade" and "The Lazy Song". Other singles include "Talking to the Moon", "Marry You" and "Count On Me". He released the single "It Will Rain" for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn in 2011. "Locked out of Heaven" was released on October 1, 2012.

3. Awards

Mars has earned numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including 15 Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, four Guinness World Record, 11 American and 14 Soul Train Music Awards. In 2011, he made Time magazine's 100 list and his former songwriting and record producing team, the Smeezingtons, earned several accolades. In 2014, Mars topped Forbes magazine's '30 Under 30' list, a tally of the brightest stars in 15 different fields under the age of 30 in the US. At the 2018 Grammys, he became the second artist to win Record and Song of the Year with two different songs from the same album. At the 2022 Grammys, Mars became the second artist to win Record of the Year three times. In 2019, Billboard ranked Mars at number 41 on its list of Greatest of All Time Artists. As a songwriter, Mars has been honored, as part of the Smeezingtons, by Music Week as best songwriters of 2010 and by Billboard as he ranked at number six on their 2013 list of Hot 100 Songwriters.

3. Awards

"Just The Way You Are" holds the record as the longest-reigning debut on adult contemporary, spending twenty weeks atop the Adult Contemporary chart in the U.S. "When I Was Your Man" became the second number one song in the U.S. to feature only piano and vocals. He is the first male artist to place two titles as a lead act in the U.S. top 10 simultaneously. In total, he has eight number-one singles in the U.S. In 2018, he matched Beyonce and Mariah Carey as the only artists with three top-five singles in the U.S. from their first three studio albums. In the same year, he became the first solo male artist with nine number ones in the U.S. Mainstream Top 40 chart. Bruno Mars, Sheeran and Jewel are the only artists with two songs to spend at least half a year in the U.S. top 10.[310] In 2019, Mars was one of the few artists who have spent at least 241 weeks among all their U.S. Billboard Hot 100 top 10s. "Uptown Funk" and "Grenade" were listed by several publications as being among the best songs of the decade.

3. Awards

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade" are two of the most successful digital singles of all time, with sales of 12.5 million and 10.2 million, respectively. This contributed to Mars becoming the biggest selling artist of 2012. His songs "Just The Way You Are", "Grenade", "Locked Out Of Heaven", and "When I Was Your Man" have each sold over 4 million digital copies, making him the first male artist to do so as a lead singer. Six of his singles are counted among the best-selling singles of all time. Worldwide, he has sold 26 million albums as of 2016, and a total of 200 million singles as of 2020. In 2022, he became the first artist to receive six diamond certified songs in the United States.

SONGS

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TOTAL NUMBER OF SONGS

Bruno Mars has 179 songs in total.

SONGS

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MY PERSONAL FAVORITES

My favorite Bruno Mars' songs are Talking to the moon, Grenade, Just the way you are, The lazy song, Marry you, Count on me, Locked out of Heaven, When I was your man, Leave the door open, That's what I like, Treasure, Uptown funk, 24k magic, It will rain, Billionaire and Nothin' on you.

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Pictures of my husband ❤

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Pictures of my husband ❤

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Pictures of my husband ❤

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Pictures of my husband ❤

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