Bruno Mars
Mars in 2011
Birth Name: Peter Gene Hernandez
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 8, 1985
Ethnicity:
*paternal grandfather – Puerto Rican [including Spanish/Canary Islander, Catalan, and remote Italian]
*paternal grandmother – Ashkenazi Jewish
*mother – Filipino [Cebuano, Tagalog, Spanish Castilian]
Bruno Mars is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He is one half of R&B super-duo Silk Sonic, with Anderson .Paak.
Bruno is the son of Bernadette del Pedro Bayot and Peter S. Hernandez, both of whom were musically-inclined, his father performing rock and roll and his mother a singer and a dancer. He was raised in Honolulu’s Waikiki neighborhood. Growing up, he was exposed to rock, reggae, hip hop, and R&B.
His father is from Brooklyn, New York. Bruno’s paternal grandfather was Puerto Rican and Bruno’s paternal grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish, of Hungarian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish descent. Bruno’s mother was from Manila, Phillippines, and was of Filipino [including Cebuano and Tagalog], and some Spanish [Castilian], ancestry. Through his Puerto Rican line, he has at least 1/256th Italian ancestry.
He was nicknamed Bruno due to his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino.
Bruno is a second cousin, once removed, of Filipino actor Eddie Gutierrez, and the third cousin of Eddie’s children, actors Tonton Gutierrez, Richard Gutierrez, and Raymond Gutierrez, and model Ruffa Gutierrez. Bruno’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Mariano Herranz Heras and Mamerta Cañizares Secuya, were also Eddie’s maternal great-grandparents.
Bruno’s paternal grandfather was Peter Hernandez (the son of Almecio Hernández Aquino and Fabiana Sebastiana Vázquez Garcia). Bruno’s grandfather Peter was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Almecio was born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, the son of Manuel Hernández Muñoz and Mercedes Aquino Hernández. Fabiana was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, the biological daughter of José Vázquez Romero and María del Rosario García Betancourt, and was adopted by Bernardo Peña Martinez and Rafaela Perosa Gerardez.
Bruno’s paternal grandmother was Mildred Dubov (the daughter of William Wolf Dubovis/Dubov and Bella Berger). William was a Jewish emigrant, from Kiev, and was the son of Sholom Yoseph DuBovis and Malka Weissman. Bella was born in New York City, to Hungarian Jewish parents, Joseph Berger and Louise Wohlberg.
Bruno’s maternal grandfather was Romeo Amando Maria “Eugene” Herranz Bayot (the son of Jesús María Bayot Fuentes and Consolación “Consuelo” Herranz Cañizares). Romeo was born in Manila, Philippines. Jesús was also born in Manila, the son of Gabriel Bayot and Josefa Fuentes. Consolación was born in Segovia, Spain. Consolación’s father, Mariano Herranz Heras, was Spanish, from Nava de la Asunción, Segovia, and Consolación’s mother, Mamerta Cañizares Secuya (or Mamerta Secuya Cañizares in Filipino), was born in Talisay, Cebu, Phillippines, the daughter of Alejo Cañizares Canindot (or Alejo Canindot Cañizares in Filipino), also of Talisay, and of Sabina Secuya Larombe (or Sabina Larombe Secuya in Filipino), of Minglanilla, Cebu. The surname Secuya is also spelled as Sycuya, which is of possibly Chinese origin, but it is not clear if Sabina had Chinese ancestry.
Bruno’s maternal grandmother was named Soledad San Pedro. She was born in Baguio City, Benguet, Philippines.
Bruno Mars at the Grammy Nominations Concert Live, Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA, 2010. photo by s_bukley
Sources: Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak’s article about Bruno’s ancestry, at The Huffington Post – http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Genealogy of Bruno Mars – http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Bruno Mars (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com
Marriage information of Bruno’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Mariano Herranz Heras and Mamerta Cañizares Secuya – https://www.familysearch.org
this nigga is a self hater, he DOES have some black in him. why won’t he come out and admit he’s black?
he looks asian not black
He is NOT black. No . matter what you want him to be. He is asian, jewish, european. No black. Sorry.
@cwm85
How could you make a claim like? The man is Puerto Rican, so the African element is most definitely a possibility
It is a possibility but the pics of his mom and dad make it low. He is not a black man lol. He is Filipino, European Jewish, Spanish. His African descent if any is not documented, so we go by what we know and is documented.
@cwm
Ok lets look at it this way. Snoopy dog is said to be 23% native.however from my understanding, it’s. Not documented, but his Dna says it’s. There. Should we forget the Dna test, and just say he’s black?.I mean the Dna stuff you put up, says the Avg puerto Rico has African dna. Most ones I see don’t. Say anything accept that they’re puerto rican
Ok first, I never stated he was a black man. I said by him being PR that there is a very good chance he has recent African. Heritage. Also, you should learn that the outward appearance doesn’t. Tell you the whole story
would that make him a better person if he was black
He doesn’t look 100% “Black”, tf is wrong with people???? He probably DOES have a little Black since he’s part Puerto Rican. He just looks like a multiracial Latino to me.
He looks black and sounds black (his vocals). I thought he was related to Michael Jackson, he looks like him before he turned white.
He doesn’t look black or sound “black” whatever that means. He looks Asian and Puerto rican. Puerto Ricans typically are Spanish or Spanish and native mix and some are Spanish and African or mix all of the above. Bruno’s texture of his hair, lip size and his slanted eyes shows basically what his ethnicity is as explained on this site. African Americans or people with African admixture aren’t the only people on earth who have brown or tan skin. Bruno has like a very tan, very light brown complexion. People from India are brown, Nepal, some parts of asia. Some Spaniards are very tanned because of the geographic area where they live. Not every person who has a tan or brown or even black skin is from an orgin of Africa. If Bruno’s family had African ancestry I’m sue he or genealogist would discover it by now.
Just so you know not all “black people” look a like. Africa is a continent with a variety of ethnic groups and looks. The Philippines have an indigenous black skin population that are labelled so called “negritos”.
I have several corrections to request.
Filipino, Spanish (mother) -> Filipino (including Cebuano and Tagalog), Spanish (mother)
Peter Hernandez (the son of Sotero Hernandez y Lebron and Maria Lebron y Lopez) -> Pedro Hernández Lebrón (the son of Sotero Hernández Lebrón and María Lebrón López)
Eugene Amando Maria Herranz Bayot (the son of Jesus Maria Bayot and Consolacion Herranz) -> Eugenio Amando Maria “Eugene” Herranz Bayot (the son of Jesús María Bayot Fuentes and Consolación “Consuelo” Herranz Canizares)
Consolación’s father, Mariano Herranz Heras, was Spanish while her mother, Mamerta Canizares Secuya, was born in Talisay, Cebu to Alejo Canizares and Sabina Secuya. The surname Secuya is also spelled as Sycuya which is of possibly Chinese origin. It is not clear if this Chinese ancestry has been documented/verified.
Thank you.
He looks Latino.
What does Latino look like?