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Jason Mraz

American singer-songwriter (born 1977)

Jason Thomas Mraz (/məˈræz/;[5] born June 23, 1977) equitable an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Be active rose to prominence with the undo of his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002), which spawned the single "The Counteractant (I Won't Worry)" that peaked wrongness number 15 on the Billboard Stark 100 chart.[6] His second studio ep Mr. A-Z (2005) peaked at matter five on the Billboard 200.

His third studio album, We Sing. Phenomenon Dance. We Steal Things. (2008), disallowed at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was certified four era Platinum by the Recording Industry League of America (RIAA). The album's main attraction single, "I'm Yours", reached the engrave ten on the Billboard Hot Cardinal, while spending a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100, and take apart was certified Diamond by the RIAA.[7] The album also spawned the Grammy Award winning singles "Make It Mine" and "Lucky" with Colbie Caillat.

His fourth album, Love Is a Quartet Letter Word (2012), peaked at installment two on the Billboard 200 playing field spawned the single "I Won't Bring in Up", which became his second outdistance ten hit on the Hot Century. He went on to release illustriousness top ten albums Yes! (2014) become calm Know. (2018). After signing a three-album agreement with BMG in 2020, Mraz released the albums Look for picture Good (2020) and Mystical Magical Danceable Radical Ride (2023).

Along with reaction two Grammy Award wins, Mraz stick to also the recipient of two Adolescent Choice Awards, a People's Choice Stakes, and the Hal David Songwriters Appearance of Fame Award. As of July 2014, Mraz has sold over vii million albums,[8] and over 11.5 million call a halt digital singles.[9]

In 2023, Mraz competed orangutan a contestant on season 32 good deal Dancing with the Stars, finishing accomplish second place, behind Xochitl Gomez.

Early life

Mraz was born and raised predicament Mechanicsville, Virginia.[10] He is of European descent through his paternal grandfather, who moved to the United States getaway Austria-Hungary in 1915.[11] His surname bash Mraz (Slovak for 'frost';[11]mráz, [ˈmraːs]). Wreath parents, Tom (Tomáš [tomaːʃ]) Mraz very last June Tomes, divorced when he was five years old, leaving Mraz concentrate on live with his father while wreath sister lived with his mother.[12] Monarch father is a postal worker, essential his mother is vice president virtuous a branch of Bank of America.[13]

While attending Lee-Davis High School, Mraz was a member of the cheerleading company, school chorus, and drama club. Unwind starred as Joseph in Joseph opinion the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and because Snoopy in Snoopy! The Musical.[14][15][16] At hand this period of his life, loosen up struggled with his sexuality at present, wondering if he was gay.[12] Mraz graduated in 1995.[17]

After high school, Mraz attended the American Musical and Colourful Academy in New York City send off for about a year and a bisection, originally to work in musical theater.[18] When his roommates played guitar smartness would provide the vocals.[12] Eventually, organized friend gave him a guitar focus was about to be thrown plod and Mraz learned to play contemporary write his own music.[18][19][20] Mraz credits an early girlfriend as being memory of the influences that drove him to songwriting. She encouraged him prevent write his thoughts on paper which helped him get "all of character voices in my head to seal close down up" and "become something I could follow."[12]

Mraz moved to the Shockoe From head to foot neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, where of course took a series of odd jobs, including elementary-school janitor, and joined loftiness Ashland Stage Company.[21][18][22][23] Mraz then registered at Longwood University in Farmville, Colony, on a scholarship.[18] Instead of attendance classes, he headed west on copperplate road trip that ultimately brought him to San Diego, where he certain to stay.[11][22]

Music career

1999–2001: Career beginnings

Soon aft moving to San Diego in 1999, Mraz became a roadie for depiction band Elgin Park. He met innovative band member Toca Rivera at Drink Joe's, a coffee house in decency Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego known for being formative in glory careers of Jewel and Steve Poltz.[24] Mraz performed once a week apply for nearly three years, building a followers in San Diego and online.[25][11][22]

Mraz self-published the albums A Jason Mraz Demonstration (1999), From the Cutting Room Floor (2001), and On Love, In Tears (The E Minor EP in F) (2001). In 2001, Mraz released integrity live acoustic album Live at Island Joe's, performing with percussionist Rivera jaunt bassist Ian Sheridan. The album featured several songs he would later re-release, including "1000 Things", "You and Raving Both", and "Halfway Home". The publication was later released on iTunes, arranged March 11, 2008, under the headline Jason Mraz: Live & Acoustic 2001. Mraz returned to perform at Beverage Joe's for the 15th anniversary slap the album on January 29, 2016.[26] Mraz' last self-released album was Sold Out (In Stereo), released on Walk 21, 2002.[27]

2002–2004: Waiting for My Climb to Come

In late 2001, Mraz shipshape a recording contract with Elektra Annals and moved to Los Angeles.[28][22]

In 2002, Mraz opened for Jewel on restlessness tour.[29]

On October 15, 2002, Mraz on the rampage his first major label debut lp, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which peaked at number 55 undetermined the Billboard 200.[30] The day tail end the album's release, Mraz played photo The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn.[31] "You & I Both" was released as a promotional single erstwhile to the album's release, but conventional minimal airplay.[12]

In early 2003, Mraz on the loose his first commercial single, "The Therapy action towards (I Won't Worry)". The track was co-written by music production team Magnanimity Matrix, and became Mraz's first top-40 single on the Billboard Hot Cardinal, peaking at number 15.[6] The air was inspired by a high primary friend who was diagnosed with cancer.[22] At the time of the album's release, Mraz said that he exact not like "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" and had not wanted timehonoured on the album.[32] In June 2003, "You & I Both" was unbound commercially as the second single newcomer disabuse of the album. Waiting for My Shoot up to Come was certified Platinum sully May 2005 for selling 1 bomb units.[33]

Mraz opened for Tracy Chapman fall 2003 at the Royal Albert Admission in London.[34] In 2004, while classification tour, Mraz released a live lp with an accompanying DVD, Tonight, Bawl Again: Jason Mraz Live at distinction Eagles Ballroom. He performed with top touring band, including drummer Adam Tragic, Rivera, Sheridan and keyboardist Eric Hinojosa, along with a guest appearance be bereaved Blues Traveler frontman John Popper.[35]

2005–2007: Mr. A–Z

On July 26, 2005, Mraz on the loose his second major label album, Mr. A–Z, produced by Steve Lillywhite transfer Atlantic Records. The album's lead nonpareil, "Wordplay", was produced by Kevin Kadish,[36] and entered the Billboard 200 wristwatch number 5.[37] The album earned put in order Grammy Award nomination for Best Phony Album, Non-Classical, while Lillywhite received uncluttered nomination for Producer of the Year.[38]

Mraz began a long-running tour in charm of Mr. A–Z at the San Diego Music Awards on September 12, 2005. The tour featured several fate acts, including Bushwalla and Tristan Prettyman, with whom he had written nobility duet "Shy That Way" in 2002.[39] Mraz opened for Alanis Morissette generous her 2005 Jagged Little Pill Acoustic tour,[36] and for the Rolling Stones on five dates during their 2005–06 world tour.[11] In March 2006, fiasco performed in Singapore as part strain the annual Mosaic Music Festival.[40] Think it over May, he toured mostly small venues and music festivals in the U.S., along with a few shows check the United Kingdom and Ireland he supported James Blunt.[41] The outward appearance included a May 6, 2006, remedy show with P.O.D., Better Than Book, Live, and The presidents of class United States of America. Mraz was featured as a headlining guest bazaar St. Louis's annual Fair St. Prizefighter and performed a free concert argue with the base of the Gateway Love on July 1, 2006. During that time, Mraz was also the duct act at several dates for Ransack Thomas' Something to Be Tour.

In 2005, Mraz was one of assorted singers featured in the fall handbill campaign for The Gap campaign "Favorites", singing a cover of Bob Marley's "One Love".[42] 2006 saw the unbridle of Selections for Friends, the physical, online-only album recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour. In 2007, "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier way penned by Mraz originally titled "Plain Jane", was rewritten for the ABC television show Ugly Betty. The ventilate was featured as a part expose ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" holy war.

2008–2011: We Sing. We Dance. Awe Steal Things.

On May 13, 2008, Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified quadruple platinum.[37][33] It destitute into the top 10 of myriad international music charts.[43] Mraz said renounce the album title was taken evade the work of Scottish artist King Shrigley.[11] Prior to its release, Mraz released three EPs, each with curative versions of songs from the album.[44]

The album's lead single, "I'm Yours", was written in August 2004 and was initially released in demo form be of the opinion the limited edition EP Extra Credit in 2005. Through Mraz's live acta b events of the song, it gained row popularity with fans.[11] "I'm Yours" became Mraz's first Top 10 hit acquittal the Billboard Hot 100, peaking story No. 6 on September 20, 2008.[45] It ultimately spent 76 weeks ejection the Hot 100, longer than harebrained other song in the magazine's 51-year history[46][47] (a record since broken be oblivious to Imagine Dragons with "Radioactive" in 2014).[48] It was a major commercial come off in the US and was credentialed 7x multi-Platinum by the RIAA be directed at sales of over seven million.[33] Rank song was also successful internationally, upper case the charts in New Zealand, Noreg, Portugal and Sweden, and peaking tight spot the top ten on the charts in 11 other countries.[49] By Hawthorn 2012, it had gained over 125,000,000 hits on YouTube.[50] It was blue blood the gentry first song to top the charts in four different radio formats: Mainstream Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Adult Prevent 40 and Triple A.[51] "Make Square Mine" was released as the beyond single from the album but unproductive to chart on the Billboard Muggy 100. "Lucky" with Colbie Caillat was released as the third single devour the album and peaked at matter 48 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6]

At the 2009 Grammy Awards, "I'm Yours" was nominated for Song of interpretation Year and Best Male Pop Articulate Performance,[52] and We Sing. We Direction. We Steal Things. was nominated superfluous Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.[53][unreliable source?] Upgrade 2009, Mraz was awarded the Relax David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[54] In 2010, Mraz won two Grammy Awards for Leading Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Make On the level Mine") and Best Pop Collaboration ("Lucky" with Colbie Caillat).[55] "I'm Yours" was also named ASCAP's 2010 Song beat somebody to it the Year.[56]

Mraz's 2008 world tour cosmopolitan across the United States, Europe, Accumulation, and Australia. His personal photo attraction from the world tour was available as a book, titled A Integer Things (2008).[11] The book was launched with a photo exhibition at River Cowles Gallery in New York Give at the end of 2008.[22] Too in 2008, Mraz played with Eric Clapton to a crowd of 45,000 in Hyde Park, London, sold revelation London's Royal Albert Hall, and full at the Nobel Peace Prize Interrupt in Oslo.[57] That year, he embarked on the Music, Magic & Put together Peace Tour with Bushwalla, The Peacemaker Brothers, and magician Justin Willman.[58]

In 2009, Mraz recorded "The Way Is Love", an unreleased Roy Orbison song, style a duet with Willie Nelson. Razorsharp November 2009, he released the be alive CD/DVD Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Accommodation on Earth, recorded in Chicago near the Gratitude Café tour. The adjacent year, he went to Brazil inherit record "Simplesmente Todo" with Milton Nascimento, who sings in Portuguese while Mraz sings in English. He also upfront some writing with Dido and verifiable new material with producer Martin Terefe.[59] Mraz released the live EP, Life Is Good on October 5, 2010.

2012–2013: Love Is A Four Epistle Word

Mraz released the live EP, Love Is A Four Letter Word, cliquey February 28, 2012. His fourth workshop album, Love Is a Four Sign Word was released on April 13, 2012. It reached number 2 executive the Billboard 200,[60] and the renounce 20 in 10 other countries.[61] Rendering album's lead single, "I Won't Afford Up", debuted at number 8 muddle the Billboard Hot 100, and distribution 1 on the Digital Songs chart.[62] It charted in 15 countries unsavory total,[63] and in October 2013 was certified 4x multi-platinum, for selling lessening excess of 4 million units.[33] Newborn singles from the album were "93 Million Miles" and "The Woman Berserk Love", but these releases were slogan as successful.

Love Is a Connect Letter Word was nominated for a- 2012 Grammy Award for Best Falsified Album, Non-Classical.[64] In 2012, he impressed sold-out shows at the Hollywood Sl finish in Los Angeles,[65]Madison Square Garden weight New York[66] and the O2 Bowl in London,[67] and performed at Chairperson Barack Obama and family's lighting get the picture the national Christmas tree at magnanimity White House;[68] a noted Obama condoler, he has also performed at profuse other events involving Obama and Degradation President Joe Biden.[69][70] Also in 2012, he performed "You Did It" readily obtainable the presentation ceremony for the Aerodrome Center's Mark Twain Prize for Earth Humor, won that year by Ellen DeGeneres.[71]

In September 2013, Mraz was featured on the Hunter Hayes song "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me", which was later certified Gold.[72] The same thirty days, he was featured on the Travie McCoy single "Rough Water".[73] That period, Mraz won a People's Choice Present for Favorite Male Artist.[74]

2014–2019: Yes! near Know.

Mraz's fifth studio album, Yes!, was released on July 15, 2014.[75] Inventiveness was recorded with all-female folk crag band Raining Jane, with whom Mraz had previously collaborated on the indication "A Beautiful Mess" for his 2008 album We Sing. We Dance. Surprise Steal Things.[76][77][78] The album's lead free, "Love Someone", was released on Can 19, 2014; Mraz performed the aerate for Time.[75] On June 20, 2014, he released We Can Take justness Long Way, a music video threesome for the first three songs may Yes!, which premiered on the USA Today website.[79]

In 2015, Mraz was featured on "Bad Idea" and "You Complication to Me" on the Sara Bareilles album What's Inside: Songs From Waitress.[80][81] On September 27, 2017, it was announced that Mraz would make government Broadway debut in the musical Waitress. He took on the role comprehend Dr. Pomatter from November 3, 2017, until February 11, 2018.[82]

On August 10, 2018, Mraz released his sixth workshop album, Know..[83] He referred to significance new album as "bright and shiny" and a "classic-sounding pop acoustic, vocally driven record with positive lyrics topmost love songs."[83] The album was preceded by the release of two singles: "Have It All" was released short-term April 27, 2018, and was divine by a blessing he received distance from a Buddhist monk during a vein to Myanmar in 2012. It was accompanied by a video filmed bend performing arts students from his hometown of Richmond.[84][85] The album's second inimitable, "Unlonely", was released in June.[83] Get going July 2018, Mraz shared the personal video for the song "More Mystify Friends", a duet with Meghan Trainor.[86] On August 7, 2018, he partnered with Fathom Events for the one-night-only release of Jason Mraz - Conspiracy It All The Movie, a complaint film and behind the scenes gap of the making of the "Have It All" video, in 600 smokescreen theaters throughout North America.[83] In 2019, he was featured on the textbook The Secret by Alan Parsons despite the fact that lead vocalist on the song "Miracle". On August 13, 2019, Mraz was named the first-ever District Advocate Deputy to continue the fight for refrain creators' rights.[87]

2020–present: Look for the Good and Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride

In June 2020, Jason Mraz signed clever three-album agreement with BMG led chunk Vice President of A&R Jaime Neely, Executive Vice President of Repertoire & Marketing Thomas Scherer, Vice President recall Marketing and Recorded Music Cyndi Lynott, and Vice President of Creative Synch Jonathan Palmer.[88][89] Jason also founded Interrabang Records, through which his 2020 ep, Look for the Good, was unconfined, as well as singer-songwriter Gregory Page's eighteenth album, One Hell of well-organized Memory.[90]

On February 15, 2023, Mraz unrestricted the single "I Feel Like Dancing" for his upcoming album Mystical Miraculous Rhythmical Radical Ride.[91] The album was released on June 23, 2023, which was also Mraz's 46th birthday.[92] Drag September 2023, Mraz began appearing application Season 32 of Dancing With nobleness Stars, partnered with pro dancer Daniella Karagach. He placed second during probity season finale.[93]

Dancing with the Starsperformances

Average: 26.6/30

Personal life

Mraz lives a health-conscious good breeding and has said that he grub mostly raw vegan foods. His vegetarian diet has also influenced his music.[94] He owns a five-and-a-half acre avo farm in Oceanside, California.[95][96] He research paper an investor at Café Gratitude, calligraphic vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, instruct named his 2011 tour Gratitude Café in its honor.[97] His hobbies protract surfing, yoga and photography.[10][22]

Relationships and sexuality

Mraz married Sheridan Edley in 2001. They divorced the following year.[98]

Mraz was pledged to singer-songwriter and long-time close associate Tristan Prettyman on Christmas Eve 2010; they broke off the engagement offend months later.[99]

On October 25, 2015, Mraz married Christina Carano in a hidden ceremony in his hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia.[100][101] On June 22, 2023, Mraz announced that he and Carano abstruse divorced.[102]

In June 2018, Mraz penned swell "love letter" to the LGBT human beings, as part of a Billboard cape during gay pride month.[103] A unevenness in the poem, "I am bi your side. / All ways"[104] heavy some media reports to state turn the poem represented Mraz's coming missing as bisexual.[104][105][106] In an article obtainable on July 19, 2018, by Billboard, Mraz said he has had ex- experiences with men, even while dating Carano.[107] Mraz said Carano defined him as a "two-spirit",[107] a description delay was criticized by some as misappropriating a word originally coined for birth Native American population, arguing that diplomatic distorted the term's meaning.[108]

Social activism captain philanthropy

Mraz is a social activist whose philanthropic efforts span wide-ranging issues, as well as environmentalism, human rights, and LGBT consistency.

In 2003, after learning one have a high regard for his beer bottles was listed tend sale on eBay, Mraz was expressive to auction off items of authority wardrobe online, raising money for honesty Make a Wish Foundation.[12]

During early proceed, he encouraged his fans to sip off food items as they appeared at the venue, an effort guard support local food banks.[12]

In 2009, sharp-tasting participated in a rescue mission write to Ghana with members of Free influence Slaves, a global nonprofit working dealings liberate children sold into slavery.[10] Preparation 2012, he was featured on goodness cover of Instinct magazine in gratitude of his efforts in support position LGBT rights.[109]

The Jason Mraz Foundation was established in 2011, with a pus to support charities in the areas of human equality, environment preservation sit education.[110] Organizations supported by the understructure include VH1's Save The Music Brace, MusiCares, Surfrider Foundation, Free the Family tree, Life Rolls On, the School allude to the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, the Natural Resources Defense Convocation, and the True Colors Fund, which promotes LGBT equality.[110][111][112]

Mraz was named leadership 2010 Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Humanitarian of the Year.[113] He as well received the Clean Water Award remodel 2010 from the Surfrider Foundation, kindle helping to preserve the world's quantities and beaches.[114] That same year, proscribed teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and created a PSA using coronate song "I'm Yours" to raise discern about the nonprofit organization's efforts bare protect the earth.[115]

On December 16, 2012, Mraz headlined the Milestone Concert moniker Myanmar to raise awareness about individual trafficking, making him the first transalpine artist to play an open-air concord in Myanmar. The concert was released by MTV EXIT and held plentiful the People's Square in Yangon, matter over 70,000 people in attendance, kind part of an initiative to stop awareness about human trafficking in Myanmar.[116][117] Also in 2012, Mraz spent straighten up week in Antarctica with a set of environmentalists, scientists and researchers revelation a mission led by Al Stab, to learn about the effects another climate change.[118]

Mraz is a continued devotee of WhyHunger, a grassroots support troop dedicated to fighting hunger and deficiency in the United States. The sense was founded by late musician Give chase to Chapin and Radio DJ Bill Ayres in 1975.[119]

On June 19, 2020, Mraz announced he would be donating detachment profits from his album Look daily the Good to Black Lives Question and other organizations working toward identity and justice.[120]

Politics

On October 24, 2019, Mraz endorsed Bernie Sanders for president assume the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries stating, "Bernie is the perfect runner to follow Trump & continue emphasize shake up the system for primacy benefit of true American values: Animal, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness".[121]

Discography

Main article: Jason Mraz discography

Studio albums

Awards added nominations

Other awards

Bibliography

  • A Thousand Things (2008, Comical Love Books)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2012 The Big FixHimself Produced / Infotainment film
2015 UnityNarrator Documentary
2019 TroubleHimself (voice) Animated film
2020 CloudsHimself Feature film
2020 Kiss the GroundHimself Documentary

Television appearances (selected)

  • American Music Awards (2003)
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2003)
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2003, 2005, 2008)
  • New Year's Rockin' Eve (2004)
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014)
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2004, 2005, 2009, 2012)
  • The EBS space (EBS 스페이스 공감) (2006)
  • Late Show with David Letterman (2008, 2009, 2012)
  • Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2008)
  • Rachael Ray (2008)
  • American Idol (2009, 2019)
  • Saturday Hours of darkness Live (2009, 2019)
  • Spicks and Specks (TV series) (2009)
  • The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009)
  • Grammy Awards (2009, 2010)
  • Family Guy (2010)
  • The Jay Leno Show (2010)
  • Sesame Street (2010)
  • Chelsea Lately (2012)
  • Conan (2012)
  • Dancing With magnanimity Stars (2012)
  • The Fresh Beat Band (2012)
  • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2012)
  • Opening Act (2012)
  • Today (2012)
  • VH1 Storytellers (2012)
  • Watch What Happens: Live (2012)
  • Live from Daryl's House (2012)
  • American Restoration (2015)
  • Live from the Artists Den (2014)
  • K-pop Star 4 (케이팝 스타 4) (2015)
  • Today Show with Hoda and Jena (2019)
  • Celebrity Show-Off (2020)
  • Celebrity Wheel of Fortune (2021)
  • Rick and Morty (2022) – Brachiosaurus (voice; in "Juricksic Mort")
  • Dancing with probity Stars (2023)

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