Name	Jason Mraz
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	June 23, 1977
Place of Birth	Mechanicsville, Virginia, U.S.
Famous for

Mraz graduated from Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville, Virginia. During high school, Mraz was an active cheerleader.After a brief stint studying musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, he moved to San Diego.

In 2002, Mraz signed to Elektra Records, returning to Virginia to work with producer John Alagía on his major label debut release, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which would be certified platinum by the RIAA in July 2004 and reach #2 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart.His first single, "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)," was co-written by music production team The Matrix. Mraz's friend and former roommate Billy "Bushwalla" Galewood also collaborated on the album, co-writing "Curbside Prophet", the album's second single, and "I'll Do Anything".

In June and July of 2005, Mraz opened for Alanis Morissette during her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Tour. On July 26, 2005, he released his second major-label album, Mr. A-Z, for Atlantic Records. It entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number 5.In December, the album earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, while its producer, the prolific Steve Lillywhite, received a nomination for Producer of the Year.


Jason Mraz in concert at the Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, CaliforniaMraz began his long-running tour in support of Mr. A-Z at the San Diego Music Awards on September 12.[when?]The tour featured a variety of opening acts, including Bushwalla and Tristan Prettyman, with whom he had co-written the duet "Shy That Way" in 2002.Mraz and Prettyman dated, co-writing the songs "Shy That Way" and "All I Want For Christmas is Us".

In November 2005, Mraz opened for the Rolling Stones on five dates during their 2005–2006 world tour. Also in 2005, Mraz was one of many singers featured in the fall advertisement campaign for The Gap entitled "Favorites". The music-themed campaign also featured other singers including Michelle Branch, Joss Stone, Keith Urban, Alanis Morissette, Brandon Boyd, and Michelle Williams.[citation needed] In December 2005, Mraz released the first part of his ongoing podcast.


Jason Mraz performs at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut on May 17, 2006. Photo by Marisa Gesualdi.In March 2006, Mraz also performed for the first time at a sold-out (one month before the actual performance date) performance in Singapore with Toca as part of the annual Mosaic Music Festival.

In October 2005, Mraz did an interview with High Times magazine in which he claims that "Pot laws don't exist in our world" referring to himself and his band. He also claims that producer Steve Lillywhite would tell him and his bandmates to take LSD over the weekend to gain perspective and creativity.

In May 2006, Mraz toured mostly small venues and music festivals in the U.S., along with a few shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The tour included a May 6, 2006 acoustic show with P.O.D., Better Than Ezra, Live, and The Presidents of the United States of America. 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 Arch on July 1, 2006.

In December 2006, Selections for Friends, the live, online-only album recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour, was released. Selections for Friends features Jason's favorite songs from the Schubas Tavern and Villa Montalvo shows he played in July 2006.

Jason Mraz began 2007 by debuting his new single "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier track penned by Mraz entitled "Plain Jane" that he rewrote for the ABC TV show Ugly Betty. The song was featured as a part of ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" campaign, which sought to promote self-esteem in women. He has since released a song in Spanish entitled "La Nueva Belleza (The New Beauty)".[citation needed] Carlos Olmeda helped him with the Spanish lyrics.


In 2007, American Idol contestant Chris Richardson performed "Geek in the Pink", which subsequently garnered the song mass recognition and increased downloads at the American iTunes Store.[citation needed] "Geek in the Pink" peaked at #22 on the U.S. iTunes Store on March 10, 2007, but it was ineligible for the site's Hot 100.[citation needed]

The tape-recording of bootlegs during Mraz's shows is explicitly supported by him and his management.

Jason is currently promoting his next studio album, We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things which is scheduled for release on May 13, 2008.