15 Secrets About Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars is that artist who makes you feel all of the emotions. He has this crazy ability to get you feeling emotionally unstable one minute and ready to take over the world and become filthy rich the next (yes please). It doesn’t take a genius to figure out how incredible talented Bruno is. What a lot of people don’t know, though, is that he actually has quite an interesting backstory. It might break your heart just a little bit, but he’s so inspiring that we promise you’re going to fall so in love with him.

1. Bruno’s real name is Peter Gene Hernandez. He was nicknamed Bruno after his father thought he resembled the professional wrestler, Bruno Sammartino. 

2. He gave himself the last name Mars after he decided that he needed some “pizzazz” and apparently a lot of girls had told him that he was “out of this world.” 

3. He also didn’t want people to judge him by his last name, so he changed it. He found that he was being told to create Latino music, and that’s not what he wanted. 

4. He was one of six siblings growing up. He has four sisters, and they have their own musical group called The Lylas. They also have their own reality TV show that follows the creation of their demo.