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Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Regarded as a pop icon, he is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship and wide range of musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, reggae, and rock. Mars is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans. Raised in Honolulu, Mars gained recognition in Hawaii for his impersonation of Elvis Presley, before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career.

Mars established his name in the music industry as a songwriter and co-founder of the production team the Smeezingtons. He rose to fame as a recording artist after featuring on the US number-one single "Nothin' on You" (2009) by B.o.B. Mars' first three studio albums – Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), Unorthodox Jukebox (2012) and 24K Magic (2016) – found critical and commercial sucess, with the latter winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The albums spawned multiple international hit singles, including "Just the Way You Are", "Grenade", "The Lazy Song", "Locked Out of Heaven", "When I Was Your Man", "Treasure", "24K Magic", "That's What I Like" and "Finesse". He also featured on Mark Ronson's 2014 single "Uptown Funk", which became Billboard's best-performing song of the 2010s.

Mars' success continued throughout the 2020s. In 2021, he formed the musical superduo Silk Sonic with Anderson .Paak, and they released the 1970's R&B-inspired album An Evening with Silk Sonic, which contained the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Leave the Door Open". Mars' 2024 duets "Die with a Smile" (with Lady Gaga) and "Apt." (with Rosé) became his first singles to top the Billboard Global 200 chart. Outside of music, Mars launched the SelvaRey Rum Bar, at the Fairmont Orchid in Hawaii, and landed a voice role in the animated film Rio 2 (2014).

Mars has sold over 150 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He scored nine Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs and his concert tours rank among the highest-grossing tours in history. Mars' accolades include 16 Grammy Awards (including three Records of the Year and two Songs of the Year), four Brit Awards, eleven American Music Awards, 13 Soul Train Awards and three Guinness World Records. He has been featured on Music Week's best-songwriters (2011) and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists (2019) lists, as well as the Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100 lists. Mars was the first artist with six RIAA diamond-certified songs and the first artist to surpass 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify.