Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
58 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 reached the top 20 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, becoming his highest-charting album to date, and spawned the single "I Won't Give Up", which became his second top ten on the Hot 100.
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Jason Mraz is of Czech descent through his 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 starred as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and as Snoopy in a play about the Peanuts characters.
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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 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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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 because it had started as a special and experimental song and the record label had "chalked up this chorus".
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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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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 entitled "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 has said that the album title was taken from the work of Scottish artist David Shrigley.
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When he played it at a festival in Sweden in 2007, the fans were ecstatic and singing along, after which Jason Mraz realized the song's popularity and decided to make it the centerpiece of his next album.
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Jason Mraz won his first two Grammy Awards in 2010, 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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Jason Mraz brought along the magician after picking up magic as a hobby during recording sessions for We Sing.
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On January 31,2009, Jason Mraz was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, performing "I'm Yours" and "Lucky", which peaked on the Hot 100 at number 82.
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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 2009, while preparing for his new album, 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 then released two live EPs: the Life Is Good EP on October 5,2010, and the Live Is A Four Letter Word EP on February 28,2012.
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Jason Mraz premiered the track live during his 2011 tour, before an official version had been released.
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Jason Mraz won a 2013 People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist.
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Jason Mraz performed at Farm Aid 2011 in Kansas City.
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The lead single, "Love Someone", was released on May 19,2014, with Jason Mraz performing an acoustic version of the song for Time.
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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 on November 3,2017 for a 10-week run.
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Jason Mraz had previously sung "Bad Idea" and "You Matter to Me" on Sara Bareilles' 2015 album What's Inside: Songs From Waitress.
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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, which is set to release on June 23.
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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 his girlfriend, Christina Carano, in a private ceremony in his hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia.
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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 designed solely for the native population, and for distorting the term's meaning.
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Jason Mraz is a social activist whose philanthropic efforts span wide-ranging issues, including the environment, 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.