I don't listen to much pop music, but I do like Bruno Mars.
I was interested to learn that he was born and raised in Honolulu.
Really?  I didn't know that.  Far cry from Don Ho type music!  Wonder who influenced his music.
I liked his super bowl performance. 
I missed it, but he is more than a singer; he is an entertainer, so I bet it was great!
2003, shortly after graduating from high school at the age of 17, Mars moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. He adopted his stage name from the childhood nickname his father gave him, adding "Mars" at the end because: "I felt like I didn't have [any] pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I’m out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars." Moreover, the adoption of his stage name was also an effort to "
who co-produced the album told Billboard, "It was a very emotional experience for me. I really got to know a piece of my father that I'd never known. I'm influenced by old American music, of course, and by British pop music and rock'n'roll. I felt he was influenced by troubadours like Woody Guthrie and knew of his influences from the '20s and '30s—but never really heard them in his music. But he made a lot of home tapes of things he loved, and