Jason Mraz in Concert!
Cal Poly Arts and Otter Productions Inc. are pleased to announce that recording artist JASON MRAZ will be stopping at the Performing Arts Center/SLO at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 with a new acoustic tour that offers fans the rare chance to catch the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter in an intimate setting. Performing with Mraz are close friends, Los Angeles-based Raining Jane. Tickets on sale as of noon, Friday, February 21 at the Performing Arts Center Ticket Office, (805) 756-4849, order on line at: www.pacslo.org.
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Mraz’s international breakthrough came with the release of the single “I’m Yours” from the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single. The song was on the Hot 100 for 76 weeks, beating the previous record of 69 weeks held by LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live”. The song was a commercial success in the US, receiving a 5x platinum certification from the RIAA for sales of over five million.[3] The song was successful internationally, topping the charts in New Zealand and Norway and peaking in the top ten of multiple international charts.
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.[5] His surname is Czech for “frost” (Czech: mráz). His parents, Tom (Tomáš) Mraz and June, 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.” He went to Lee-Davis High School and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York.
