Friday, February 3, 2012

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Jason Mraz's international breakthrough came with the release of the single "I'm Yours" from the album We Sing.

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Jason Mraz - I'm Yours

I'm Yours (Live On Earth Single Video) © 2009 WMG

Jason Mraz's Love is a Four-Letter Word

JasonMraz.com relaunched in July 2011 with a new design and a message informing fans that a special announcement was imminent. A few days later, it was announced that Jason Mraz would embark on a mini-global tour in September to November 2011, with occasional full band shows, but mostly as an acoustic duo with long time performing partner and friend, Toca Rivera. The special shows marked the ten-year anniversary of the independently released Live at Java Joe's album. Jason Mraz played in the US, Australia, Berlin and Prague, and was due to make a festival appearance in Hossegor, France before the festival was cancelled.

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Jason Mraz
On September 19, 2011, Jason Mraz announced via his Facebook page the release of a new single titled "The World as I See It", which is intended to be the theme of the "In Search of Incredible" campaign, accompanied by the song being embedded via YouTube. On September 20, 2011, the single was released on the iTunes music store.

During the fall/winter tour, many songs old and new were showcased. Towards the end of the tour, Jason Mraz announced that 'I Never Knew You' would not be featuring on the new album, suggesting that the final tracklist has been decided on and that the album is on course for release around February 2012.

On December 8, 2011, Jason Mraz told Jeff Benjamin of Billboard that the "album is finished" except for one track he was attempting to re-work as an acoustic version. He described the album as, "It's not a departure in the sound of the genre in any way, it's just different tones, different textures. Musically, I think people are going to like it. It's personal. It's melodic. And it's mellow. There's a couple of up-tempo tunes, but mostly the rhythm of the heartbeat kind of takes precedence on this record. Medium-tempo tunes; which I love. It feels more like the pace of life. At least, based on my life and what I've been doing."

The new album is set to be released on May 8, 2012. On January 20, 2012, during a performance streamed live from the Bing Bar at the Sundance Film Festival, Jason Mraz told the audience that the album's title is Love Is a Four-Letter Word. Jason Mraz released a new single from the album, called "I Won't Give Up", and the single has peaked at #1 on iTunes.

During January 2012, the Dutch online retailer bol.com accidently released a tracklisting for the forthcoming album, which been dismissed as being incorrect. At present, the only confirmed tracks are the two singles, The World As I See It, and I Won't Give Up, as revealed in one of Jason Mraz's latest blogs.

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Jason Mraz is an American singer-songwriter.

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Jason Mraz Family

Jason Mraz was born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. He is of Czech descent through his grandfather, who moved to the United States from Austria-Hungary in 1915. His surname is Czech for "frost". His parents, Tom(Tomáš) Mraz and June Mraz, divorced when he was four years old, but he asserts that he had an idyllic childhood, saying, "My hometown of Mechanicsville was very American. There were white picket fences, a church on every street corner, low crime and virtually no drug use. It was a good place to grow up."

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Jason Mraz attended Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville. As a teenager, Jason Mraz participated in local theater with SPARC (School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community). He played Joseph in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

After graduating from high school in 1995, Jason Mraz attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, for a short time, studying musical theater. He dropped out of the school after taking up the guitar and focusing more on songwriting, and began performing at Java Joe's. He had regular shows and was a favourite with audiences. He then briefly returned to Virginia before moving to San Diego, California.

Jason Mraz was engaged to singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman. On June 7, 2011, Jason Mraz said in an interview with the Daily Beast that he and Prettyman were no longer engaged.

Jason Mraz lives a health-conscious lifestyle and enjoys eating mostly raw vegan foods. He owns an avocado farm in Bonsall in Northern San Diego County. Jason Mraz is an active supporter of several charities including VH1's Save The Music Foundation, MusiCares, Free the Children, Life Rolls On and SPARC. He has been named the 2010 SIMA Humanitarian of the Year. He also received the Clean Water Award in 2010 from the Surfrider Foundation. The same year, he also teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and created a PSA using his song I'm Yours to raise awareness about the non-profit organization's efforts to protect the earth. Jason performed at Farm Aid 2011 on August 13 in Kansas City.

In 2011, Jason Mraz appeared in the Visit California promotional film aimed at boosting tourism from the UK.