Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Neighbor Boy

Aloha & Welcome to our Pride Party!!








so play da song!
 Local Boy Makes Good!


Bruno Mars & his Grammy Award
AP Photo Jae C. Hong

Yep, that's our guy! Went to High School
a few miles from here.







AP Photo, Matt Sayles


What a performer!




Hawaii-born Local Guy, Bruno Mars,
 was a Grammy nominee in six categories including: Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Producer of the Year (Non-Classical), Best Rap Song,
 and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

Named the winner in the Best Male Pop Vocal" category  for his song “Just the Way You Are"
Bruno bested  Michael Buble,
 John Mayer,
 Adam Lambert and even
 the late Michael Jackson!

 Bette Midler was the last artist
 with Hawaii ties to win the
Best New Artist Grammy in 1973.

Back when I was driving a taxi here in Honolulu,
Bruno was performing almost every night
in Waikiki as 
"World's Smallest Elvis Impersonator."

In the spirit of fun,
and "look how far he's come"
here's a clip from a Hollywood
film featuring such a performance:
(and say, why not scroll down
all the way to the cover picture of
my little "taxi novel"
and check it out at Amazon
with a 'click')
?


and now, let the embarrassment begin!


11 comments:

nonizamboni said...

Bravo! Hawaiian bragging rights too!
Thanks for sharing, as always.
You make my day.

Friko said...

You might almost be his proud mom!
But then, local boys do that to us, don't they.

Cloudia said...

Indeed - those of us who live on islands, eh?

Hilary said...

He was just adorable!

Teresa said...

Great post, Cloudia. What a cutie!!

The Weaver of Grass said...

Love it Cloudia.

KrippledWarrior said...

Congrats to your local boy. I surely hope that JOHNNY BRAVO haircut doesn't comeback. =)

Karen Jones Gowen said...

How exciting! And clearly he has paid his dues, no overnight success story there for the Little Elvis.

Sailor said...

Thats cute!

Cloudia said...

Thanks :-)

Living In Williamsburg Virginia said...

Nice to see local pride.

Darryl and Ruth : )