Filipino-Puerto Rican Bruno Mars gets 11 noms at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards

Filipino-Puerto Rican Peter Gene Hernandez, popularly known as Bruno Mars, gets a buzzworthy 11 nominations at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards to be aired on US channel ABC on May 22, 2011. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter made a Billboard number one hit out of "Just the Way You Are," a song that gave him his first Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performace last February 13, 2011.

Bruno Mars is nominated for the following categories:
Top new artist
Top male artist
Top Hot 100 artist
Top digital songs artist
Top radio songs artist
Top Hot 100 song : “Just the Way You Are“
Top digital song : “Just the Way You Are”
Top radio song : “Just the Way You Are”
Top streaming song (audio) : “Just the Way You Are”
Top pop song : “Just the Way You Are”
Top rap song : “Nothin’ on You” with B.O.B.

Bruno Mars is born to Filipino Bernadette and Puerto Rican Pete Hernandez and has spawned other hits "Grenade" and "Marry You" and collaborated in hit song "Billionaire" with Travie McCoy and "F*** You" hitmaker Cee Lo Green for "The Other Side." "The Lazy Song" is Bruno Mars third single off his album "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" and is currently making the rounds in radio stations worldwide and charting on the US top 20 charts.