1. Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
59 Facts About Jason Mraz
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Jason Mraz rose to prominence with the release of his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which spawned the single "The Remedy " that peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Jason Mraz's fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word, peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 and spawned the single "I Won't Give Up", which became his second top ten hit on the Hot 100.
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In 2023, Jason Mraz competed as a contestant on season 32 of Dancing with the Stars, finishing in second place, behind Xochitl Gomez.
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Jason Mraz is of Slovak descent through his paternal grandfather, who moved to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1915.
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Jason Mraz's father is a postal worker, and his mother is vice president at a branch of Bank of America.
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Jason Mraz moved to the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, where he took a series of odd jobs, including elementary-school janitor, and joined the Ashland Stage Company.
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Jason Mraz then enrolled at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, on a scholarship.
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Jason Mraz met future band member Toca Rivera at Java Joe's, a coffee house in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego known for being formative in the careers of Jewel and Steve Poltz.
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Jason Mraz performed once a week for nearly three years, building a following in San Diego and online.
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In 2001, Jason Mraz released the live acoustic album Live at Java Joe's, performing with percussionist Rivera and bassist Ian Sheridan.
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Jason Mraz returned to perform at Java Joe's for the 15th anniversary of the album on January 29,2016.
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Jason Mraz' last self-released album was Sold Out, released on March 21,2002.
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In late 2001, Jason Mraz signed a recording contract with Elektra Records and moved to Los Angeles.
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On October 15,2002, Jason Mraz released his first major label debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which peaked at number 55 on the Billboard 200.
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The day after the album's release, Jason Mraz played on The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn.
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In early 2003, Jason Mraz released his first commercial single, "The Remedy ".
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At the time of the album's release, Jason Mraz said that he did not like "The Remedy " and had not wanted it on the album.
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Jason Mraz opened for Tracy Chapman in 2003 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Jason Mraz performed with his touring band, including drummer Adam King, Rivera, Sheridan and keyboardist Eric Hinojosa, along with a guest appearance from Blues Traveler frontman John Popper.
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Jason Mraz was featured as a headlining guest of St Louis's annual Fair St Louis and performed a free concert at the base of the Gateway Arch on July 1,2006.
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In 2005, Jason Mraz was one of many singers featured in the fall advertisement campaign for The Gap campaign "Favorites", singing a cover of Bob Marley's "One Love".
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In 2007, "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Jason Mraz originally titled "Plain Jane", was rewritten for the ABC television show Ugly Betty.
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On May 13,2008, Jason Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing.
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Jason Mraz said that the album title was taken from the work of Scottish artist David Shrigley.
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In 2009, Jason Mraz was awarded the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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In 2010, Jason Mraz won two Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Collaboration.
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Also in 2008, Jason Mraz played with Eric Clapton to a crowd of 45,000 in Hyde Park, London, sold out London's Royal Albert Hall, and performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo.
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In 2009, Jason Mraz recorded "The Way Is Love", an unreleased Roy Orbison song, as a duet with Willie Nelson.
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Jason Mraz did some writing with Dido and recorded new material with producer Martin Terefe.
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Jason Mraz released the live EP, Life Is Good on October 5,2010.
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Jason Mraz released the live EP, Love Is A Four Letter Word, on February 28,2012.
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Jason Mraz's fourth studio album, Love Is a Four Letter Word was released on April 13,2012.
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In September 2013, Jason Mraz was featured on the Hunter Hayes song "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me", which was later certified Gold.
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That year, Jason Mraz won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist.
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The album's lead single, "Love Someone", was released on May 19,2014; Jason Mraz performed the song for Time.
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In 2015, Jason Mraz was featured on "Bad Idea" and "You Matter to Me" on the Sara Bareilles album What's Inside: Songs From Waitress.
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On September 27,2017, it was announced that Jason Mraz would make his Broadway debut in the musical Waitress.
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Jason Mraz took on the role of Dr Pomatter from November 3,2017, until February 11,2018.
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In July 2018, Jason Mraz shared the lyric video for the song "More Than Friends", a duet with Meghan Trainor.
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Jason Mraz founded Interrabang Records, through which his 2020 album, Look for the Good, was released, as well as singer-songwriter Gregory Page's eighteenth album, One Hell of a Memory.
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On February 15,2023, Jason Mraz released the single "I Feel Like Dancing" for his upcoming album Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride.
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In September 2023, Jason Mraz began appearing on Season 32 of Dancing With the Stars, partnered with pro dancer Daniella Karagach.
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Jason Mraz owns a five-and-a-half acre avocado farm in Oceanside, California.
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Jason Mraz is an investor at Cafe Gratitude, a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, and named his 2011 tour Gratitude Cafe in its honor.
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Jason Mraz was engaged to singer-songwriter and long-time close friend Tristan Prettyman on Christmas Eve 2010; they broke off the engagement six months later.
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On October 25,2015, Jason Mraz married Christina Carano in a private ceremony in his hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia.
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On June 22,2023, Jason Mraz announced that he and Carano had divorced.
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In June 2018, Jason Mraz penned a "love letter" to the LGBT community, as part of a Billboard feature during gay pride month.
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Jason Mraz said Carano defined him as a "two-spirit", a description that was criticized by some as misappropriating a word originally coined for the Native American population, arguing that it distorted the term's meaning.
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Jason Mraz is a social activist whose philanthropic efforts span wide-ranging issues, including environmentalism, human rights, and LGBT equality.
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In 2003, after learning one of his beer bottles was listed for sale on eBay, Jason Mraz was inspired to auction off items of his wardrobe online, raising money for the Make a Wish Foundation.
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The Jason Mraz Foundation was established in 2011, with a mission to support charities in the areas of human equality, environment preservation and education.
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Jason Mraz was named the 2010 Surf Industry Manufacturers Association Humanitarian of the Year.
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Jason Mraz received the Clean Water Award in 2010 from the Surfrider Foundation, for helping to preserve the world's oceans and beaches.
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On December 16,2012, Jason Mraz headlined the Milestone Concert in Myanmar to raise awareness about human trafficking, making him the first foreign artist to play an open-air concert in Myanmar.
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Also in 2012, Jason Mraz spent a week in Antarctica with a group of environmentalists, scientists and researchers on a mission led by Al Gore, to learn about the effects of climate change.
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Jason Mraz is a continued supporter of WhyHunger, a grassroots support organization dedicated to fighting hunger and poverty in the United States.
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On June 19,2020, Jason Mraz announced he would be donating all profits from his album Look for the Good to Black Lives Matter and other organizations working toward equality and justice.