Jason Mraz

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Jason Mraz
Mraz in 2020
Born
Jason Thomas Mraz

(1977-06-23) June 23, 1977 (age 46)
EducationMechanicsville High School, then Lee-Davis High School
Occupations
  • Singer
  • guitarist
  • songwriter
Years active1999–present
Spouses
Sheridan Edley
(m. 2001; div. 2002)
Christina Carano
(m. 2015; div. 2023)
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Labels
Websitewww.jasonmraz.com Edit this at Wikidata
Signature

Jason Thomas Mraz (

Mr. A-Z (2005) peaked at number five on the Billboard 200
.

His third studio album,

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 Four Letter Word (2012), 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. He went on to release the top ten albums Yes! (2014) and Know. (2018). After signing a three-album agreement with BMG in 2020, he released the albums Look for the Good (2020) and Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride (2023).

Along with receiving two Grammy Award wins, Mraz is also the recipient of two

People's Choice Award and the Hal David Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. As of July 2014, Mraz has sold over seven million albums,[8] and over 11.5 million in digital singles.[9] In 2023, Mraz competed as a contestant on season 32 of Dancing with the Stars and finished in second place, behind Xochitl Gomez
.

Early life

Mraz was born and raised in

Czech descent through his paternal grandfather, who moved to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1915.[11] His surname is Mraz (Czech for 'frost';[11] mráz, [ˈmraːs]). His parents, Tom (Tomáš [tomaːʃ]) Mraz and June Tomes, divorced when he was five years old, leaving Mraz to live with his father while his sister lived with his mother.[12] His father is a postal worker, and his mother is vice president at a branch of Bank of America.[13]

While attending

Lee-Davis High School, Mraz was a member of the cheerleading squad, school chorus, and drama club. He starred as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and as Snoopy in Snoopy! The Musical.[14][15][16] During this period of his life, he struggled with his sexuality at times, wondering if he was gay.[12] Mraz graduated in 1995.[17]

After high school, Mraz attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City for about a year and a half, originally to work in musical theater.[18] When his roommates played guitar he would provide the vocals.[12] Eventually, a friend gave him a guitar that was about to be thrown away and Mraz learned to play and write his own music.[18][19][20] Mraz credits an early girlfriend as being one of the influences that drove him to songwriting. She encouraged him to write his thoughts on paper which helped him get "all of the voices in my head to shut up" and "become something I could follow."[12]

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.[21][18][22][23] Mraz then enrolled at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, on a scholarship.[18] Instead of attending classes, he headed west on a road trip that ultimately brought him to San Diego, where he decided to stay.[11][22]

Music career

1999–2001: Career beginnings

Soon after moving to San Diego in 1999, Mraz became a roadie for the band Elgin Park. He 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.[24] Mraz performed once a week for nearly three years, building a following 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 Oh Love, In Sadness (The E Minor EP in F) (2001). In 2001, Mraz released the live acoustic album

Jason Mraz: Live & Acoustic 2001. Mraz returned to perform at Java Joe's for the 15th anniversary of the album on January 29, 2016.[26]
Mraz' last self-released album was Sold Out (In Stereo) on March 21, 2002.

2002–2004: Waiting for My Rocket to Come

In late 2001, Mraz signed a recording contract with

The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn".[30] "You & I Both" was released as a promotional single prior to the album's release, but received minimal airplay.[12]

In early 2003, Mraz released his first commercial single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)." The track was co-written by music production team The Matrix, and became Mraz's first top-40 single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 15.[6] The song was inspired by a high school friend who was diagnosed with cancer.[22] At the time of the album's release, Mraz said that he did not like "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" and had not wanted it on the album.[31] In June 2003, "You & I Both" was released commercially as the second single from the album. Waiting for My Rocket to Come was certified Platinum in May 2005 for selling 1 million units.[32]

Mraz opened for Tracy Chapman in 2003 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.[33] In 2004, while on tour, Mraz released a live album with an accompanying DVD, Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom. He 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.[34]

2005–2007: Mr. A–Z

Jason Mraz performing at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut on May 17, 2006.

On July 26, 2005, Mraz released his second major label album,

Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while Lillywhite received a nomination for Producer of the Year.[37]

Mraz began a long-running tour in support of Mr. A–Z at the

Fair St. Louis and performed a free concert at the base of the Gateway Arch on July 1, 2006. During this time, Mraz was also the opening act at several dates for Rob Thomas' Something to Be Tour
.

In 2005, Mraz was one of many singers featured in the fall advertisement campaign for

One Love".[41] 2006 saw the release of Selections for Friends, the live, online-only album recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour. In 2007, "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Mraz originally titled "Plain Jane", was rewritten for the ABC television show Ugly Betty
. The song was featured as a part of ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" campaign.

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

Mraz performing in Melbourne on tour in 2008

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.[36][32] It broke into the top 10 of many international music charts.[42] Mraz said that the album title was taken from the work of Scottish artist David Shrigley.[11] Prior to its release, Mraz released three EPs, each with acoustic versions of songs from the album.[43]

The album's lead single, "

Lucky" with Colbie Caillat was released as the third single from the album and peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6]

At the

ASCAP's 2010 Song of the Year.[55]

Mraz's 2008 world tour traveled across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His personal photo travelogue from the world tour was published as a book, titled A Thousand Things (2008).

Charles Cowles Gallery in New York City at the end of 2008.[22] Also in 2008, 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.[56] That year, he embarked on the Music, Magic & Make Peace Tour with Bushwalla, The Makepeace Brothers, and magician Justin Willman.[57]

In 2009, Mraz recorded "The Way Is Love", an unreleased Roy Orbison song, as a duet with Willie Nelson. In November 2009, he released the live CD/DVD Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth, recorded in Chicago during the Gratitude Café tour. The following year, he went to Brazil to record "Simplesmente Todo" with Milton Nascimento, who sings in Portuguese while Mraz sings in English. He also did some writing with Dido and recorded new material with producer Martin Terefe.[58] Mraz released the live EP, Life Is Good on October 5, 2010.

2012–2013: Love Is A Four Letter Word

Mraz performing in 2013

Mraz released the live EP, Live Is A Four Letter Word, on February 28, 2012. His fourth studio album, Love Is a Four Letter Word was released on April 13, 2012. It reached number 2 on the Billboard 200,[59] and the top 20 in 10 other countries.[60] The album's lead single, "I Won't Give Up", debuted at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 1 on the Digital Songs chart.[61] It charted in 15 countries in total,[62] and in October 2013 was certified 4x multi-platinum, for selling in excess of 4 million units.[32] Further singles from the album were "93 Million Miles" and "The Woman I Love", but these releases were not as successful.

Love Is a Four Letter Word was nominated for a

Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, won that year by Ellen DeGeneres.[70]

In September 2013, Mraz was featured on the Hunter Hayes song "Everybody's Got Somebody but Me", which was later certified Gold.[71] The same month, he was featured on the Travie McCoy single "Rough Water".[72] That year, Mraz won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist.[73]

2014–2019: Yes! and Know.

Mraz's fifth studio album, Yes!, was released on July 15, 2014.[74] It was recorded with all-female folk rock band Raining Jane, with whom Mraz had previously collaborated on the track "A Beautiful Mess" for his 2008 album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.[75][76][77] The album's lead single, "Love Someone", was released on May 19, 2014; Mraz performed the song for Time.[74] On June 20, 2014, he released We Can Take the Long Way, a music video trilogy for the first three songs on Yes!, which premiered on the USA Today website.[78]

In 2015, Mraz was featured on "Bad Idea" and "You Matter to Me" on the Sara Bareilles album What's Inside: Songs From Waitress.[79][80] On September 27, 2017, it was announced that Mraz would make his Broadway debut in the musical Waitress. He took on the role of Dr. Pomatter from November 3, 2017, until February 11, 2018.[81]

On August 10, 2018, Mraz released his sixth studio album,

Know..[82] He referred to the new album as "bright and shiny" and a "classic-sounding pop acoustic, vocally driven record with positive lyrics and love songs."[82] The album was preceded by the release of two singles: "Have It All" was released on April 27, 2018, and was inspired by a blessing he received from a Buddhist monk during a trip to Myanmar in 2012. It was accompanied by a video filmed with performing arts students from his hometown of Richmond.[83][84] The album's second single, "Unlonely", was released in June.[82] In July 2018, Mraz shared the lyric video for the song "More Than Friends", a duet with Meghan Trainor.[85] On August 7, 2018, he 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 throughout North America.[82] In 2019, he was featured on the album The Secret by Alan Parsons as lead vocalist on the song "Miracle". On August 13, 2019, Mraz was named the first-ever District Advocate Ambassador to continue the fight for music creators' rights.[86]

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

In June 2020, Jason Mraz signed a three-album agreement with BMG led by Vice President of A&R Jaime Neely, Executive Vice President of Repertoire & Marketing Thomas Scherer, Vice President of Marketing and Recorded Music Cyndi Lynott, and Vice President of Creative Synch Jonathan Palmer.[87][88] Jason also 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.[89]

On February 15, 2023, Mraz released the single "I Feel Like Dancing" for his upcoming album Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride.[90] The album was released on June 23, 2023, which was also Mraz's 46th birthday.[91] In September 2023, Mraz began appearing on Season 32 of Dancing With the Stars, partnered with pro dancer Daniella Karagach. He placed second during the season finale.[citation needed]

Dancing with the Stars performances

average: 35.6/40; 26.7/30

Week # Dance / Song Judges' scores Result
Inaba Hough Guest Tonioli Total
1
I Feel Like Dancing
"
7 7 7 7 28 Safe
2 Rumba / "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" 8 8 8 8 32 Safe
3 Jive / "Do You Love Me" 9 8 9 8 34 Safe
4 Foxtrot / "A Whole New World" 8 8 8 8 32 Safe
5 Quickstep / "On the Road Again" 9 9 9 9 36 Safe
6 Contemporary / "Zombie" 9 9 9 9 36 Safe
7 Jazz / "Take On Me"
Team Freestyle / "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"
8
9
8
9
10
10
9
9
35
37
Safe
8
Higher Love
"
8 9 8 8 33 Safe
9 Argentine tango / "Don't Blame Me" 10 10 10 10 40 Safe
10
Paso doble
/ "Diablo Rojo"
9
10
9
10
9
10
9
10
36
40
No elimination
11 Foxtrot / "Fly Me to the Moon"
Freestyle / "Happy"
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
40
40
Runner-up

Personal life

Mraz lives a health-conscious lifestyle and has said that he eats mostly

raw vegan foods. His vegan diet has also influenced his music.[92] He owns a five-and-a-half acre avocado farm in Oceanside, California.[93][94] He is an investor at Café Gratitude, a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, and named his 2011 tour Gratitude Café in its honor.[95] His hobbies include surfing, yoga and photography.[10][22]

Relationships and sexuality

Mraz married Sheridan Edley in 2001. They divorced the following year.[96]

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.[97]

On October 25, 2015, Mraz married Christina Carano in a private ceremony in his hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia.[98][99] On June 22, 2023, Mraz announced that he and Carano had divorced.[100]

In June 2018, Mraz penned a "love letter" to the

bisexual.[102][103][104] In an article published on July 19, 2018, by Billboard, Mraz said he has had previous experiences with men, even while dating Carano.[105] Mraz said Carano defined him as a "two-spirit",[105] a description that was criticized by some as misappropriating a word originally designed solely for the Native American population, and for distorting the term's meaning.[106]

Social activism and philanthropy

Jason Mraz in March 2009

Mraz is a social activist whose philanthropic efforts span wide-ranging issues, including

LGBT equality
.

In 2003, 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.[12]

During early tours, he encouraged his fans to drop off food items as they arrived at the venue, an effort to support local food banks.[12]

In 2009, he participated in a rescue mission to

LGBT rights.[107]

The Jason Mraz Foundation was established in 2011, with a mission to support charities in the areas of human equality, environment preservation and education.

True Colors Fund, which promotes LGBT equality.[108][109][110]

Mraz was named the 2010 Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Humanitarian of the Year.[111] He also received the Clean Water Award in 2010 from the Surfrider Foundation, for helping to preserve the world's oceans and beaches.[112] That same year, he teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and created a PSA using his song "I'm Yours" to raise awareness about the nonprofit organization's efforts to protect the earth.[113]

On December 16, 2012, 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. The concert was organized by MTV EXIT and held in the People's Square in Yangon, with over 70,000 people in attendance, as part of an initiative to raise awareness about human trafficking in Myanmar.[114][115] Also in 2012, 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.[116]

Mraz is a continued supporter of WhyHunger, a grassroots support organization dedicated to fighting hunger and poverty in the United States. The organization was founded by late musician Harry Chapin and Radio DJ Bill Ayres in 1975.[117]

On June 19, 2020, 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.[118]

Politics

On October 24, 2019, 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 values: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness".[119]

Discography

Studio albums

Awards and nominations

Award Year Nominee(s) Category Result Ref.
Grammy Awards
2009
"I'm Yours" Song of the Year Nominated [120]
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Nominated
2010
"Make It Mine" Won
"
Lucky" (with Colbie Caillat
)
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Won
Pop Awards 2021 Himself Icon of the Year Nominated [121]
Look for the Good Album of the Year Nominated
San Diego Music Awards 2002 Himself Best Acoustic Won [122]
Artist of the Year Won
2003 Won [123]
"The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" Song of the Year Won
2004 Himself Artist of the Year Won [124]
2009 Nominated [125]
"
Lucky" (with Colbie Caillat
)
Song of the Year Nominated
We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Album of the Year Won [126]
2014 Himself Artist of the Year Won [127]
"Love Someone" Best Music Video Won
Song of the Year Nominated [128]
Yes! Album of the Year Nominated
2019 Himself Artist of the Year Nominated [129]
"Have It All" Song of the Year Nominated
Know. Album of the Year Nominated

Other awards

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2004 Jason Mraz Pollstar Concert Industry Awards for Best New Touring Artist Nominated
2009 Teen Choice Award for Choice Music – Male Artist Won
We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. Teen Choice Award for Choice Album (Male Artist) Won
Jason Mraz American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist Nominated
Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award Won
2010 People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist Nominated
2010 "I'm Yours"
ASCAP
Song of the Year
Won
2010 Jason Mraz Surf Industry Manufacturers Association Humanitarian of the Year Won
2010 Jason Mraz Surfrider Foundation Clean Water Award Won
2012 "I Won't Give Up" Best Love Song Nominated
2012 MVPA Awards for Best Adult Contemporary Video Nominated
2012 Jason Mraz ASCAP Foundation Champion Award Won
2013 Jason Mraz
People's Choice Award
for Pop Male Artist
Won
2013 Jason Mraz MTV Europe Music Award For Best World Stage Nominated

Bibliography

  • A Thousand Things (2008, I Love Books)

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2012 The Big Fix Himself Produced / Documentary film
2015 Unity Narrator Documentary
2019 Trouble Himself (voice) Animated film
2020 Clouds Himself Feature film
2020 Kiss the Ground Himself Documentary

Television appearances (selected)

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