With a name like Peter Gene Hernandez, the musical background and a unique blend of nationalities, I would have thought that Bruno Mars was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley area in Los Angeles like me! Nope, just like most of us living in the United States, we are a melting pot and scattered. If you’re asking wheres Bruno Mars from, he is from Honolulu, Hawaii and was raised in the Waikiki neighborhood. His father (Peter Hernandez), originally from Brooklyn, New York and mother (Bernadette San Pedro Bayot), originally from the Philippines met in Hawaii during performing in a show in which his dad played percussion and mom was a hula dancer.
The Filipino/Spanish/Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish Bruno Mars now lives in The San Fernando Valley…
