38 Facts About Jason Derulo

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Derulo released his second single, "In My Head", in December 2009 and his self-titled debut studio album Jason Derulo, followed on March 2,2010.

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Jason Derulo released his second album, Future History, on September 16,2011; the album was preceded by the release of the UK number-one single "Don't Wanna Go Home".

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In 2015, Jason Derulo released his single "Want to Want Me" and announced his fourth studio album, Everything Is 4, which was released on June 2,2015.

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In June 2020, Jason Derulo released the single "Savage Love " alongside beat producer Jawsh 685.

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In November 2020, Jason Derulo released another single entitled "Love Not War " featuring New Caledonian beat producer Nuka.

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Jason Derulo was born in Miramar, Florida, the son of Haitian parents.

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Jason Derulo attended performing arts schools in Florida and made some early attempts at music composition, writing his first song at the age of eight.

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Jason Derulo's writing skills began attracting attention when he was a teenager.

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Jason Derulo wrote "Bossy" for Birdman, a New Orleans-based rapper, and made a guest appearance on the song, highlighting his ability as a vocalist.

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Jason Derulo's stage name, "Derulo", is a pronunciation respelling of his surname, Desrouleaux.

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Jason Derulo has been writing songs for artists including Diddy, Danity Kane, Donnie Klang, Sean Kingston, Cassie, and Lil Wayne since he was young, intending on becoming a solo performer.

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Jason Derulo was discovered by music producer JR Rotem, who signed him to his record label Beluga Heights Records and Warner Bros.

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The single's music video was released in September 2009; after the single became successful, Jason Derulo began work on his debut album.

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Jason Derulo released the second single from his album, "In My Head", on December 8,2009.

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Jason Derulo first charted within the top ten of the UK and Irish Albums Charts in early March 2010.

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Jason Derulo has been featured in a song by new artist Will Roush called "Turn it Up", which features Stat Quo and Young Buck.

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Jason Derulo collaborated with UK singer Pixie Lott on a song titled "Coming Home" from the re-released edition of her album Turn It Up.

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In 2011, Jason Derulo recorded a track with Demi Lovato titled "Together" for her album Unbroken.

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Jason Derulo planned to embark on an eight-date UK tour in support of the album in February 2012, including a show at Wembley Arena on March 1.

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However, on January 3,2012, while Jason Derulo was rehearsing for his Future History Tour, he broke one of his vertebrae.

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On March 28,2012, Jason Derulo appeared on American Idol to announce he would allow fans to help him finish the lyrics for a new song entitled "Undefeated", as part of a partnership with American Idol and Coca-Cola.

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On May 5,2012, Jason Derulo announced that his first post-neck injury television performance would be on the eleventh-season finale of American Idol, on May 22,2012.

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On July 9,2012, Jason Derulo announced that he had signed Australian singer-songwriter Arlene Zelina to his record label Future History after he attended one of her performances at Whisky a Go Go in 2011 before she returned to Melbourne, Australia.

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On July 10,2012, Jason Derulo confirmed this on his Twitter.

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Jason Derulo announced via Twitter that his third album would be called Tattoos.

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The album features American hip-hop recording artist 2 Chainz; it is the first single from Jason Derulo to contain a feature.

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That same day, Jason Derulo released the special edition of Tattoos in the UK, which included the 4 new songs from the Talk Dirty album.

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On September 28,2016, Jason Derulo guest starred in an episode of the Fox drama Lethal Weapon.

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On February 24,2017, Jason Derulo released a new single entitled "Swalla", featuring Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign.

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At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21, Jason Derulo announced that his next studio album would be titled 777.

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Jason Derulo explains the reason why he changed the album's name, saying:.

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In May 2020, Jason Derulo confirmed that after a lengthy negotiation, he had left his record contract with Warner Bros.

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In May 2021, Jason Derulo featured on the remix of "Jalebi Baby" by Indian-Canadian singer Tesher.

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On September 3,2021, Jason Derulo released his new single "Acapulco".

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In March 2023, Jason Derulo was announced as a judge for the Australian version of the singing competition, The Voice, replacing Keith Urban.

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On May 18,2023, Jason Derulo released the single "When Love Sucks", which features singer Dido, sampling the latter's 2000 single "Thank You".

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Jason Derulo has predominantly named Michael Jackson as his inspiration.

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Jason Derulo explained that "Derulo has been tweaking his two modes just enough as they are used to offset each other, so that audiences never grew sick of either style".