October 8: Music from Hawaii

On 8 October 1985, Bruno Mars also known as Peter gene Hernandez was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mars was of Puerto Rican and Filipino descent. Mars says that he grow up with music surrounding his life. His mother was a Hawaii dancer and father played percussion. The Hernandez’s six children all had musical talent.

Bruno graduated high school then moved to Los Angeles, California to try to get his music carrier started. First couple years nothing major happened until he signed with Atlantic records in 2009. Mars has a very different genre of music including reggae fusion, pop, soul, and R&B. That’s what makes him so special in the industry. What really makes Mars a special solo artist is that he knows how to play drums, guitar, keyboards, bass, piano, and harmonica.

After a couple of years Mars shocked the world with how famous he become in such a short period of time. One of his albums with the song “Just The Way You Are” sold over 12.5 million copies. He won best international male solo artist at the BRIT Awards in 2012 and was nominated for seven Grammys at the 53^rd Grammy awards. Mars shock the world with his talent and the ability to touch is fans through music all over the world.

In addition to Bruno mars and where he came from which is Honolulu Hawaii the musical similarity is

I think that part of the reason Mars became so successful is because he was exposed to Hawaiian music. By mixing the cool, soothing, smooth tropical beats with contemporary beats tempos, and lyrics made him one of the most popular artists known today. Hawaiian music tells a story through the rhythm and beats that they create themselves to fit the mood of the story that they are trying to tell to the people. They get the emotion that one should feel when hearing a story told by the story teller and they get that special connection from artist to one person’s soul that can make the listener understand the deeper meaning of the song. That’s how Bruno Mars becomes so successful in his career.
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–Lauren Badalamente

Photo Credit: Bruno Mars. Taken from his official website.

Meet the Author: Lauren Badalamente

I’m a sophomore at Schoolcraft College. I play for the women’s soccer team and love every moment of it. I have no idea were I’m going to transfer to next year, but I know I will still be playing soccer and living life to the fullest!

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Schoolcraft College Student
Categories: American History: Modern
Tags: music, Philippines, Puerto Rico, United States

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jyoti kaur says:

13 November 2012 at 2:48 pm

I also listen to Bruno Mars, and am a fan of his music. I love the wide variety of styles he incorporates in his music. It is very interesting that he began making music at a young age. First, performing in his local High School and now Mars is producing songs for other artists. Even though, he had an unsuccessful time in the begginging of his career, with Motown Records, later he signed with Atlantic Records in 2009. It is very commendable that within a year he released his debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Also being nominated for seven Grammys at the 53rd Grammy Awards, winning Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Just the Way You Are” that is very praiseworthy. However, doing some extended research on him, I did find it very surprising that he got into some legal trouble and he pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of cocaine in Las Vegas and received probation. He does not seem like the type to get involved with drugs, I was truly stunned.

Jyoti Kaur

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Kristina Kapedani says:

1 December 2012 at 1:45 pm

Hawaiian music started in the mid 1800’s when visitors from all over the world came by sea to Hawaii bringing many different instruments with them. Hawaiian music became unique because it used all the different kinds of instruments brought by the visitors. Not that long after the arrival of visitors came the Mexican cowboys who brought their guitars and taught the Hawaiians to play in Spanish styles. The Hawaiians changed the style by loosening the guitar strings or “slacking” to fit their traditional songs. The slack key guitar method became popular and Hawaiian families were protective of their secrets in making music involving this method. Hawaiian music has had numerous influences all around the world, especially, the United States where it evolved to gospel music, American pop such, country, swing, European light opera, and jazz. Music today would not be the same without the influence of Hawaiian music.

– Kristina Kapedani

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Shelby Mann says:

3 December 2012 at 3:25 pm

Hawaiian music is a mixture of soothing rock and hip hop. That is what makes Bruno Mars so special, because it’s different from the music out there today. He was born in Waikiki, Hawaii, so his music is very homey. His mother was even a hula dancer.
Hawaiian music includes chanting and dance music, and is religious to nature. Hawaii is actually home to the oldest orchestra in the United States, west of the Rocky Mountains. The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1900.

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Shelby Mann says:

3 December 2012 at 9:13 pm

Bruno Mars was born in Waikiki, Hawaii, so his music is very homey. His mother was even a hula dancer.
Hawaiian music includes chanting and dance music, and is religious to nature. Hawaii is actually home to the oldest orchestra in the United States, west of the Rocky Mountains. The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1900. This orchestra originally housed in a clubhouse on the slopes of Punchbowl. The orchestra now plays in downtown Honolulu at the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall and is now called The Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.

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Benny Marsalese says:

7 December 2012 at 12:10 am

Another famous Hawaiian musician, before the times of Bruno Mars there was another sensation from the Hawaiian islands. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, born in Honolulu in May,1959 always seemed to have music in his life. His uncle was a famous Hawaiian musician named Moe Keale, and he ended up teaching Israel how to play the ukulele, which he ended up becoming famous for. After getting a very popular reputation on the islands, Israel released his album Facing Future, where his songs Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World wowed listeners from around the world, making him a global sensation Israel died at 38, simply from having medical problems caused by his severe obesity. Before his death, Israel had weighed nearly seven hundred in fifty pounds. Studies show that his weight had become so bad because of severe over eating. Kanakawiwo’ole means The Fearless Eyed in hawaiian. The Fearless Eyed, was indeed was the first “huge” Hawaiian success.

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Anthony Ibrahim says:

9 December 2012 at 4:10 pm

Being a big fan of Bruno Mars, its very interesting to learn that before he had huge
success he had to do many things before actually being noticed as his own artist, such as writing songs for other popular artists such K’Naan’s “Wavin’ Flag,” the very popular and catchy theme song for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. After many years of hard work and as one of the pop music’s top songwriters, he broke out as a singer in his own right with the 2010 hit “Nothin’ on You.”. During an interview they asked some of his family members if he had always had that much talent and his sister, Jamie, said that “Bruno was always so confident, independent, really strong-willed and kind of a brute — hence the name Bruno, and it kind of just stuck.” Doing more research on Bruno, I found out that during high school, himself and a group of friends started a band and performed many old-school hits. Bruno has always had music as a big part of him, and after not giving up and finding ways to make himself and his music unique, he ended up becoming one of the most popular singers in the business today.

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James Beni Wilson says:

9 December 2012 at 9:16 pm

In many animistic and indigenous cultures like Hawai’i, they’ve told stories via ‘Oral Tradition. Oral tradition is exactly how it sounds, the passing down of stories orally or verbally through songs and chants.. Places such as Hawai’i passed down their cultural traditions through these melodies and songs. Story telling also has for told the long history of the Volcanoes as well in Hawaii.

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Chris Long says:

9 December 2012 at 10:42 pm

A lot of Bruno Mars’s success could be attributed to his family. He was born into a very musical oriented family. His mother was a singer and a dancer, his father impersonated Little Richard on stage and his uncle did the same as Elvis. With his whole family encouraging him to follow the same path, by age 4 he was on a stage five nights a week with the family band. He would perform acts by Michael Jackson and the Temptations and was featured in MidWeek (magazine in Honolulu) at age 5 as “Little Elvis”.

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Gary L. Johnson says:

9 December 2012 at 11:18 pm

So, I am most certainly not a fan of Bruno Mars, and that is putting it mildly. I will by no means condemn Hawaii for this, because they gave the world one of the single biggest things that music has ever seen. Without Hawaii, solid body guitars would never have come into existence. Acoustic guitars were very popular for god knows how long, even if they aren’t the same as they are today. The musical genius Les Paul was the first man to create a solid body guitar. The first product was unimpressive by today’s standards, but the first solid body guitar, The Log, is a rather insane bit of innovation. Les Paul created a guitar that would pick up a sound using a pickup to produce the sounds through an amplifier instead of directly through the guitar. Les Paul’s ideas came together through a combination of the Spanish style acoustic guitar and the idea of the metal slide that was prominent in Hawaiian “guitars”. This piece of technology that was considered to be borderline magic allowed performers to stop using an acoustic guitar in front of a microphone. This is a much bigger deal than it first seems due to issues of feedback, which, even with solid body guitars, Les Paul, almost completely alone, removed the issue of feedback.

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