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!