He was born Peter Gene Hernandez on the island of Oahu, to a Puerto Rican father and a Filipino mother. His dad nicknamed him Bruno after a popular wrestler. Bruno then added Mars years later. For him and his five siblings music was always the family business. "My dad had this 1950s ...
Original estimated retail price: 5 cents With origins going all the way back to nearly 500 BC, yo-yos became ubiquitous in America after a Filipino immigrant named Pedro Flores partnered with the toy manufacturer D.F. Duncan Sr. to start mass-producing them to the tune of 300,000 units a...