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Jason Mraz
Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He rose to prominence with the release of his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002), which spawned the single "The Remedy " that peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His second studio album Mr. A-Z (2005) peaked at number five on the Billboard 200.
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entertainment · American singer-songwriter (born 1977) · guitarist · singer · composer · mandolinist · musician · also Jason Mraz, Jason Thomas Mraz, Mraz
Born 23 June 1977 · Q192515
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2026· 19 entries
NST Online: #SHOWBIZ: More seats for Jason Mraz show by popular demand
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Hoodline: Jason Mraz, Isabel Leonard to Share San Diego Symphony Stage for First Time
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Grammy Award winners Jason Mraz and Isabel Leonard will perform at San Diego Symphony’s 2026 gala - San Diego Union-Tribune
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says.com: New Seat Categories Added For Jason Mraz’s KL Concert Due To High Demand
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Yahoo: Jason Mraz spent 20 years turning a San Diego orchard into a regenerative avocado farm
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Yahoo: New seats added for Jason Mraz Asia Tour 2026 live in Kuala Lumpur, on sale Aug 12
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Published video “Jason Mraz - His Eye Is On The Sparrow (Live from The Mranch)”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - When We Die (You Are Loved) [Live from The Mranch]”.
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Public attention spiked: 2,949 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 778, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Peach Pie (Live from The Mranch)”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Turn Your Radio On (Live from The Mranch)”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Daddy Sang Bass (Live from The Mranch)”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Daddy Sang Bass [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Turn Your Radio On [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - God Be With You (Til We Meet Again) [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Peach Pie [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Jason Mraz - Old Rugged Cross [Official Audio]”.
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Released album “Grandma's Gospel Favorites”.
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2025· 2 entries
Released ep “Love Love Love Love Love”.
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Released ep “Things Are Looking Up”.
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2024· 2 entries
Page Six: Why Jason Mraz wanted friends to ‘stop voting’ for him on ‘DWTS’
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People: Jason Mraz Reveals He Came Out Later in Life Because Being Gay Was a 'Punchline' in the '90s'
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2023· 10 entries
Yahoo: Jason Mraz Surprised Himself on ‘Dancing With the Stars’: ‘I Didn’t Know I Had It in Me’
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New York Post: Jason Mraz announced a summer 2024 tour. Here’s how to get cheap tickets
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Page Six: Jason Mraz shares advice to aspiring musicians: ‘Leave all the possibilities open’
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WSLS 10: Jason Mraz is feeling free and curious — in music and in love
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Which was also Mraz's 46th birthday
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Released album “Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride”.
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Mraz announced that he and Carano had divorced
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Awarded Out100 (2023).
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Mraz released the single "I Feel Like Dancing" for his upcoming album Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride
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Mraz competed as a contestant on season 32 of Dancing with the Stars, finishing in second place, behind Xochitl Gomez
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Lalalalovesongs”.
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2020· 3 entries
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 social justice
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Released album “Look for the Good”.
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Mraz released the albums Look for the Good (2020) and Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride (2023)
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2019· 3 entries
Mraz endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries stating, "Bernie is the perfect candidate to follow Trump & continue to shake up the system for the benefit of true American
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Mraz was named the first-ever District Advocate Ambassador to continue the fight for music creators' rights
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Was featured on the album The Secret by Alan Parsons as lead vocalist on the song "Miracle"
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2018· 5 entries
Released album “Know.”.
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Mraz released his sixth studio album, Know
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Partnered with Fathom Events for the one-night-only release of Jason Mraz - Have It All The Movie, a concert film and behind the scenes footage of the making of the "Have It All" video, in 600 movie theaters throughou
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By Billboard, Mraz said he has had previous experiences with men, even while dating Carano
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And was inspired by a blessing he received from a Buddhist monk during a trip to Myanmar in 2012
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2017· 1 entry
It was announced that Mraz would make his Broadway debut in the musical Waitress
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2015· 2 entries
Mraz married Christina Carano in a private ceremony in his hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia
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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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2014· 5 entries
Released album “The Studio Album Collection, Volume One”.
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Released album “The Live Album Collection, Vol. One”.
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Released album “Yes!”.
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Released ep “Amazon Artist Lounge EP”.
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Released We Can Take the Long Way, a music video trilogy for the first three songs on Yes
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded People's Choice Awards (2013).
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2012· 8 entries
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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Released ep “iTunes Live from Hong Kong”.
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Released album “Love Is a Four Letter Word”.
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Released ep “Live Is a Four Letter Word”.
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Performed "You Did It" at the presentation ceremony for the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, won that year by Ellen DeGeneres
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Played sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Madison Square Garden in New York and the O2 Arena in London, and performed at President Barack Obama and family's lighting of the national Christmas tree at
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Was featured on the cover of Instinct magazine in recognition of his efforts in support of LGBT rights
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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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2011· 1 entry
With a mission to support charities in the areas of human equality, environment preservation and education
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2010· 5 entries
Released ep “Life Is Good”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Make It Mine (2010).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for Lucky (2010).
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Mraz won two Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Make It Mine") and Best Pop Collaboration ("Lucky" with Colbie Caillat)
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From the Surfrider Foundation, for helping to preserve the world's oceans and beaches
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2009· 6 entries
Released album “Beautiful Mess - Live on Earth”.
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Released ep “Yours Truly: The I'm Yours Collection”.
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Awarded Songwriters Hall of Fame (2009).
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Participated in a rescue mission to Ghana with members of Free the Slaves, a global nonprofit working to liberate children sold into slavery
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Mraz was awarded the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Mraz recorded "The Way Is Love", an unreleased Roy Orbison song, as a duet with Willie Nelson
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2008· 9 entries
Released ep “We Steal Things.”.
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Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing
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Released album “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.”.
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Released ep “We Dance.”.
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Released ep “We Sing.”.
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Released ep “iTunes Live: London Sessions”.
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Under the title Jason Mraz: Live & Acoustic 2001
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Released ep “Introducing… Jason Mraz”.
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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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2007· 4 entries
Released album “2007-07-13: Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands”.
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Released album “2007-07-15: Live at Backyard Dagmar, Ootmarsum, The Netherlands”.
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"The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Mraz originally titled "Plain Jane", was rewritten for the ABC television show Ugly Betty
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Released album “Jason Mraz: Influences”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Selections for Friends”.
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Released album “2006-10-19: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA”.
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Released ep “Geekin' Out Across the Galaxy”.
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2005· 7 entries
Mraz released his second major label album, Mr
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Released album “Mr. A-Z”.
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Released ep “Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jason Mraz”.
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Released ep “Wordplay”.
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Released ep “Extra Credit”.
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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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Released ep “Mr. A-Z Sampler”.
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2004· 5 entries
Released album “Tonight Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom”.
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Released album “2004-06-20: Copley Symphony Hall, San Diego, CA, USA”.
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Awarded Teen Choice Award for Choice Music – Male Artist (2004).
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Released album “2004-04-15: Live at Lestat's, Normal Heights, CA”.
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While on tour, Mraz released a live album with an accompanying DVD, Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Homemade”.
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After learning one of his beer bottles was listed for sale on eBay, Mraz was inspired to auction off items of his wardrobe online, raising money for the Make a Wish Foundation
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2002· 6 entries
Released album “Before Rockets and Roosters”.
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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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Released album “Waiting for My Rocket to Come”.
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Released album “Sold Out (In Stereo)”.
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Mraz opened for Jewel on her tour
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Released ep “Jason Mraz”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released ep “The E Minor EP in F (On Love, in Sadness)”.
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Released album “From the Cutting Room Floor”.
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Released album “Live at Java Joe's”.
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Mraz released the live acoustic album Live at Java Joe's, performing with percussionist Rivera and bassist Ian Sheridan
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1999· 2 entries
Mraz became a roadie for the band Elgin Park
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Released ep “A Jason Mraz Demonstration”.
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-06-23.
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