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American singer-songwriter, guitarist

Jason Mraz
Mraz at Campo Pequeno (2009)
Born	Jason Thomas Mraz (1977-06-23) June 23, 1977 (age 44) Mechanicsville, Virginia, U.S.
Education	Mechanicsville High School, then Lee-Davis High School
Occupation	Guitarist singer songwriter
Years active	1999–nowadays
Spouse(south)	Sheridan Edley ​ ​ (m. 2001; div. 2002)​ Christina Carano ​ (m. )​
Musical career
Genres	Folk-pop[1] jazz[two] land[two] reggae[2] R&B[2] soft rock[two] [3] blue-eyed soul[4]
Instruments	Vocals guitar
Labels	Elektra Atlantic Interrabang BMG
Musical creative person
Website	world wide web.jasonmraz.com
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Jason Thomas Mraz (; born June 23, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. 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 (I Won't Worry)", that reached the summit twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[five] His next 2 studio albums, Mr. A-Z (2005), and Nosotros Sing. We Trip the light fantastic. We Steal Things. (2008), peaked in the tiptop five on the Billboard 200; with the latter album spawning the Grammy Award winning singles "Arrive Mine", and "Lucky" with Colbie Caillat.

The anthology'southward lead single "I'one thousand Yours", reached the peak ten on the Billboard Hot 100, while spending a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100, and was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).^[6] His quaternary anthology, Love Is a Four Alphabetic character Discussion (2012), peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, becoming his highest-charting album to date, and spawned the single "I Won't Surrender", which became his second pinnacle x on the Hot 100.

Forth with receiving two Grammy Honour wins, Mraz is as well the recipient of two Teen Option Awards, a People'southward Choice Honour and the Hal David Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. Equally of July 2014, Mraz has sold over seven million albums,^[7] and over xi.5 1000000 in digital singles.^[8] His musical style, from rhythmic feeling to his utilise of nylon string guitars, has been heavily influenced by Brazilian music.^{[9] [10]}

Early life [edit]

Mraz was born and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia.^[xi] He is of Czech and Slovak descent through his grandfather, who moved to the United states of america from Austro-hungarian empire in 1915.^[12] His surname is Czech for 'frost'^[12] ( mráz , [ˈmraːs]). His parents, Tom (Tomáš) Mraz and June Tomes, divorced when he was five years old, leaving Mraz to alive with his father while his sis lived with his mother.^[13] His begetter is a postal worker, and his female parent is vice president at a branch of Bank of America.^[14]

Mraz's first concert was Young MC, the rapper known for "Bust a Move." ^[13]

While attention Lee-Davis Loftier School, Mraz was a member of the cheerleading squad, schoolhouse chorus, and drama society. He starred every bit Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and as Snoopy in a play nigh the Peanuts characters.^{[15] [16] [17]} Mraz graduated in 1995.^[eighteen]

During this period of his life, he struggled with his sexuality at times, wondering if he was gay.^[thirteen]

Mraz credits an early girlfriend equally existence one of the influences that drove him to songwriting. She encouraged him to write his thoughts on paper which helped him become "all of the voices in my head to shut upward" and "become something I could follow."^[13]

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.^[xix] When his roommates played guitar he would provide the vocals.^[xiii] Somewhen, a friend gave him a guitar that was about to exist thrown away and Mraz learned to play and write his own music.^{[19] [20] [21]}

Mraz moved to the Shockoe Lesser neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, where he took a series of odd jobs, including elementary-school janitor, and joined the Ashland Stage Company.^{[22] [19] [23] [24]} Mraz then enrolled at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, on a scholarship.^[19] Instead of attending classes, he headed west on a road trip that ultimately brought him to San Diego, where he decided to stay.^{[12] [23]}

Music career [edit]

Java firm beginnings (2000–01) [edit]

Before long afterwards moving to San Diego in 1999, Mraz became a roadie for the band Elgin Park. He met future band member Toca Rivera at Coffee Joe's, a coffee house in the Bounding main Embankment neighborhood of San Diego known for being formative in the careers of Jewel and Steve Poltz.^[25] Mraz performed once a week for nearly 3 years, building a following in San Diego and online.^{[26] [12] [23]}

Mraz released A Jason Mraz Sit-in in 1999, From the Cutting Room Floor and Oh Love, In Sadness (The Eastward Small-scale EP in F) in 2001, which were self-released and pressed in a limited number of copies. In 2001, Mraz released the alive acoustic anthology Live at Java Joe's, performing with percussionist Rivera and bassist Ian Sheridan. The album featured Mraz'south freelancing vocal style and several songs he would later re-release, including "grand Things", "Y'all and I Both" and "Halfway Dwelling house." The album was fabricated available to download on iTunes on March 11, 2008, under the title Jason Mraz: Live & Acoustic 2001. Mraz returned to perform at Java Joe's for the 15th ceremony of the album on September 21, 2002.^[27] Mraz' last self-released album was Sold Out (In Stereo) in March 21, 2002.

Waiting for My Rocket to Come up (2002–04) [edit]

In late 2001, Mraz signed a recording contract with Elektra Records and moved to Los Angeles.^{[28] [23]} In 2002, he opened for Jewel on her bout.^[29] On October 15, 2002, Mraz released his kickoff major characterization debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which peaked at number 55 on the Billboard 200.^[30] The first single, "You & I Both," was sent to radio stations fourth dimension for the album'due south release, just received minimal airplay, which led Elektra to reconsider whether a mid-tempo vocal was the right way to introduce Mraz.^[thirteen]

In early 2003, the characterization took a new approach with the more upbeat "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, becoming one of the biggest songs of 2003.^[5] The song was inspired by a high school friend who was diagnosed with cancer.^[23] At the fourth dimension of the album'due south release, Mraz said that he did non like "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" and had not wanted it on the album because it had started as a special and experimental song and the record label had "chalked up this chorus".^[31] The day after the album'south release, Mraz played on "The Late Tardily Show With Craig Kilborn".^[32]

Elektra would return to "You & I Both" a 2d time, shooting a music video and re-releasing information technology as the second official single.

On May 19, 2005, Waiting for My Rocket to Come was certified Platinum, for selling one one thousand thousand units.^[33]

Mraz opened for Tracy Chapman in 2003 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.^[34] In 2004, while on tour, Mraz released a live anthology with an accompanying DVD, Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom. He performed with his touring band, including drummer Adam Rex, Rivera, Sheridan and keyboardist Eric Hinojosa, along with a guest appearance from Blues Traveler frontman John Popper.^[35]

Mr. A–Z (2005–08) [edit]

On July 26, 2005, Mraz released his 2d major label album, Mr. A–Z, produced by Steve Lillywhite for Atlantic Records. The album's pb unmarried, "Wordplay", was produced by Kevin Kadish,^[36] and entered the Billboard 200 at number 5.^[37] The anthology earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Engineered Anthology, Non-Classical, while Lillywhite received a nomination for Producer of the Twelvemonth.^[38]

Mraz began a long-running bout in back up of Mr. A–Z at the San Diego Music Awards on September 12, 2005. The tour featured several opening acts, including Bushwalla and Tristan Prettyman, with whom he had written the duet "Shy That Way" in 2002.^[39] Mraz opened for Alanis Morissette during her 2005 Jagged Trivial Pill Acoustic tour,^[36] and for the Rolling Stones on five dates during their 2005–06 globe tour.^[12] In March 2006, he performed in Singapore as role of the annual Mosaic Music Festival.^[40] That May, he toured mostly small venues and music festivals in the U.S., forth with a few shows in the U.k. and Ireland where he supported James Edgeless ^[41] The tour included a May 6, 2006 acoustic show with P.O.D., Better Than Ezra, Live, and The Presidents of the Us. 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 Gateway Curvation 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 entrada for The Gap entitled "Favorites", singing a cover of Bob Marley's "One Beloved".^[42] 2006 saw the release of Selections for Friends, the alive, online-only anthology recorded during the Songs for Friends Tour. In 2007, "The Beauty in Ugly", an earlier rails penned by Mraz originally titled "Plain Jane", was rewritten for the ABC boob tube prove Ugly Betty. The song was featured as a role of ABC's "Be Ugly in '07" campaign. Too that year, on American Idol, contestant Chris Richardson performed a cover of Mraz's "Geek in the Pink".^{[43] [ unreliable source? ]}. In a 2006 concert at EBS Space Gonggam, Mraz said in an interview that he was going to make an audio-visual anthology based on his get-go two albums.

We Sing. We Dance. Nosotros Steal Things. (2008–09) [edit]

On May 13, 2008, Mraz released his tertiary studio album, Nosotros Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200.^[37] It broke into the acme x of many international music charts, and reached number iii in the US and Australia.^[44] In March 2009, information technology was certified Platinum for selling 1 million units.^[33] Mraz has said that the anthology title was taken from the work of Scottish artist David Shrigley.^[12] Prior to its release, Mraz released three EPs, each with acoustic versions of songs from the album.^[45]

The lead single, "I'm Yours", was written in August 2004 and originally released as a free acoustic B-side when Mr. A-Z came out. Through Mraz'south alive performances of the song, it gained in popularity with fans. When he played it at a festival in Sweden in 2007, the fans were ecstatic and singing along, afterward which Mraz realized the song'south popularity and decided to make it the centerpiece of his side by side anthology.^[12] "I'm Yours" became Mraz'southward get-go Elevation 10 striking on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #6 on September xx, 2008.^[46] Information technology ultimately spent 76 weeks on the Hot 100, longer than any other song in the magazine's 51-year history^{[47] [48]} (a record since broken by Imagine Dragons with "Radioactive" in 2014).^[49] It was a major commercial success in the U.s.a., receiving a 7x multi-Platinum certification from the RIAA for digital sales of over 7 million.^[33] The song was also successful internationally, topping the charts in New Zealand, Kingdom of norway, Portugal and Sweden, and peaking in the top 10 on the charts in 11 other countries.^[50] By May 2012, information technology had gained over 125,000,000 hits on YouTube.^[51] Information technology was the first song to acme the charts in iv different radio formats: Mainstream Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Adult Acme 40 and Triple A. It too fabricated the Latin Pop and Smooth Jazz charts.^[52]

Mraz won his first two Grammy Awards in 2010, for Best Male Popular Vocal Functioning ("Make Information technology Mine") and Best Popular Collaboration ("Lucky" with Colbie Caillat).^[53] At the 2009 Grammy Awards, "I'm Yours" was nominated for Song of the Year and All-time Male Pop Vocal Performance,^[54] and We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. was nominated for Best Engineered Anthology, Not-Classical.^{[55] [ unreliable source? ]} "I'm Yours" was also named ASCAP'southward 2010 Song of the Year.^[56]

Mraz performing in Melbourne every bit part of his world tour in 2008

Mraz's 2008 world tour took him all over the United States, Europe, Asia and Commonwealth of australia. His personal photo travelogue from the world tour was published as a book, titled A Thousand Things (2008).^[12] The book contains Polaroids from his time touring and backpacking around Europe, and was launched with a photo exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in New York City at the end of 2008.^[23] Also in 2008, Mraz played with Eric Clapton to a crowd of 45,000 in Hyde Park, London, sold out London'southward Royal Albert Hall and performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo.^[57] That year also marked his Music, Magic & Make Peace Tour with Bushwalla, The Makepeace Brothers, and magician Justin Willman. Mraz brought along the magician after picking up magic as a hobby during recording sessions for Nosotros Sing. We Dance. Nosotros Steal Things. ^[58] On January 31, 2009, Mraz was the musical invitee on Saturday Night Live, performing "I'grand Yours" and "Lucky",^{[55] [ unreliable source? ]} which peaked on the Hot 100 at number 82.^[5]

In 2009, Mraz was awarded the Hal David Starlight Honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[59]

Love Is a Four Alphabetic character Word (2010–13) [edit]

In 2009, while preparing for his new album, Mraz recorded "The Fashion Is Love", an unreleased Roy Orbison vocal, equally a duet with Willie Nelson. In Nov 2009, he released the live CD/DVD Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess: Alive on World, 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 likewise did some writing with Dido, and recorded new fabric with producer Martin Terefe.^[sixty] Mraz and then released two live EPs: the Life Is Good EP on Oct v, 2010, and the Live Is A Four Alphabetic character Word EP on February 28, 2012.

Love Is a Iv Letter Discussion was released on April 13, 2012. It reached number 2 on the Billboard 200,^[61] and the top 20 in 10 other countries.^[62] The lead single, "I Won't Give Up", debuted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, and number one on the Digital Songs chart.^[63] It charted in 15 countries in total,^[64] and in October 2013 was certified 4x multi-platinum, for selling in excess of 4 1000000 units.^[33] Mraz premiered the track live during his 2011 tour, before an official version had been released. It began to receive a lot of attention through live performances, every bit well as online. The official lyric video gained over 2.5 million views in its commencement 10 days on YouTube.^[63]

Love Is a Four Letter Word was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Accolade for All-time Engineered Album, Non-Classical.^[65] Mraz won a 2013 People's Option Award for Favorite Male Creative person.^[66] He performed at Farm Aid 2011 in Kansas Urban center.^[67] In 2012 he played sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles,^[68] Madison Square Garden in New York^[69] and the O2 Arena in London,^[70] and performed at President Barack Obama and family's lighting of the national Christmas tree at the White House;^[71] a noted Obama supporter, he has also performed at numerous other events involving Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.^{[72] [73]} Also in 2012, he performed "Y'all Did It" at the presentation ceremony for the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, won that twelvemonth past Ellen DeGeneres.^[74]

Yes! (2014) [edit]

Mraz's fifth studio album, Yes!, was released on July xv, 2014.^[75] It is his start acoustic album, and was recorded with all-female folk rock band Raining Jane.^{[76] [77]} They had previously co-written "A Beautiful Mess" for Mraz'southward 2008 album We Sing. We Trip the light fantastic toe. We Steal Things.^[78] Bated from a cover of the Boyz Two Men song "It'southward And then Difficult to Say Good day to Yesterday", every song on Yes! was written past Mraz and Raining Jane.^[79] The lead single, "Love Someone", was released on May 19, 2014, with Mraz performing an acoustic version of the vocal for Fourth dimension.^[75] On June 20, 2014, he released We Can Accept the Long Manner, a music video trilogy for the first three songs on Yes! – "Dearest Someone", "Howdy, You Beautiful Thing" and "Long Drive". It premiered on the Us Today website.^[lxxx]

Waitress (2017–18) [edit]

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 on November 3, 2017 for a 10-week run. Sara Bareilles re-joined the bandage during his run and he extended his time equally Dr. Pomatter playing his final show on February 11, 2018.^[81] He had previously sung "Bad Idea" and "You Affair to Me" on Sara Bareilles' 2015 album (based on the show's music) What's Inside: Songs From Waitress.^{[82] [83]}

Know. and Expect for the Good (2018–present) [edit]

Prior to and following his involvement in Waitress, Mraz began work on a follow-upwards anthology to Yep!. In June 2018, he announced his sixth studio album, Know.—a play on the previous album's title— information technology was released on August ten, 2018.^[84] He referred to the new album every bit "bright and shiny" and a "classic-sounding pop acoustic, vocally driven record with positive lyrics and love songs."^[84]

Inspired by a blessing he received from a Buddhist monk during a trip to Myanmar in 2012, Mraz wrote the song "Take It All" with Raining Jane and producers David Hodges, JKash, and Andrew Wells. The vocal was released equally the pb single to the new album on April 27, 2018, and accompanied by a video filmed with performing arts students from his hometown of Richmond.^{[85] [86]} With the declaration of the album in June 2018, Mraz released a second track off of Know. chosen "Unlonely".^[84] In July 2018, Mraz shared the lyric video for the vocal "More Friends", a duet with Meghan Trainor.^[87] On August 7, 2018, he partnered with Fathom Events on the one-night-just release of Jason Mraz - Take It All The Movie, a concert film and behind the scenes footage of the making of the "Accept It All" video, in 600 movie theaters throughout North America.^[84] On August ten, 2018, his sixth album, Know., was released. In 2019, he was featured on the anthology The Secret past Alan Parsons as pb vocalist of the song "Miracle". On August 13, 2019, Mraz was named the start-always District Advocate Ambassador to keep the fight for music creators' rights.^[88] In June 2020, Jason Mraz signed a three multi-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.^{[89] [90]}

Personal life [edit]

Relationships and sexuality [edit]

Mraz married Sheridan Edley in 2001.^[91] They divorced the following year.^[92]

Mraz was engaged to singer-songwriter and long-fourth dimension close friend Tristan Prettyman on Christmas Eve 2010; they broke off the date six months after.^[93]

Mraz lives a health-conscious lifestyle and has said that he eats mostly raw vegan foods. His vegan nutrition has likewise influenced his music.^[94] He owns a five-and-a-half acre avocado farm in Oceanside, California.^{[95] [96]} He is an investor at Café Gratitude, a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, and named his 2011 tour Gratitude Café in its honor.^[97] His hobbies include surfing, yoga and photography.^{[11] [23]}

On October 25, 2015, Mraz married his girlfriend, Christina Carano, in a private anniversary in his hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia.^{[98] [99]}

In June 2018, Mraz penned a "dear letter" to the LGBT customs, equally part of a Billboard characteristic during gay pride month.^[100] A line in the verse form, "I am bi your side. / All ways"^[101] led some media reports to state that the poem represented Mraz's coming out as bisexual.^{[101] [102] [103]} In an article published on July 19, 2018, by Billboard, Mraz said he has had previous experiences with men, even while dating Carano.^[104] Mraz said Carano defined him as a "2-spirit",^[104] a description that was criticized by some every bit misappropriating a word originally designed solely for the native population, and for distorting the term'south significant.^[105] In August 2018, Mraz confirmed in an interview with the New York Mail that he now identifies as bisexual, speaking of the burden of being closeted ("I honestly didn't know how to come up out and sing these happy love songs..."; "It was tough, 'crusade not even my mom knew it, you know? [...] And I realized that's the struggle that people in the LGBT community have. It can be a very stressful hole-and-corner that we carry") and the lack of backlash once he came out ("And I recall that'due south the cosmic joke. We carry around these secrets, and then once yous say something, nobody cares").^[106]

Social activism and philanthropy [edit]

Mraz is a social activist whose philanthropic efforts span wide-ranging bug, including the environment, human rights and LGBT equality.

In 2003, afterwards learning ane 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 Brand a Wish Foundation.^[13]

During early on tours, he encouraged his fans to drop off food items every bit they arrived at the venue, an attempt to support local food banks.^[13]

In 2009, he participated in a rescue mission to Ghana with members of Free the Slaves, a global nonprofit working to liberate children sold into slavery.^[11] In 2012, he was featured as the offset-ever straight man on the encompass of Instinct magazine in recognition of his efforts in back up of LGBT rights.^[107]

The Jason Mraz Foundation was established in 2011, with a mission to support charities in the areas of human equality, surroundings preservation and education.^[108] Organizations supported by the foundation include VH1'south Save The Music Foundation, MusiCares, Surfrider Foundation, Gratuitous the Children, Life Rolls On, the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, the Natural Resources Defense force Council, and the Truthful Colors Fund, which promotes LGBT equality.^{[108] [109] [110]}

Mraz was named the 2010 Surf Manufacture Manufacturers Clan (SIMA) Humanitarian of the Year.^[111] He likewise received the Make clean Water Award in 2010 from the Surfrider Foundation, for helping to preserve the world'south oceans and beaches.^[112] That aforementioned yr, he teamed up with The Nature Salvation and created a PSA using his song "I'm Yours" to heighten awareness almost the nonprofit organisation's efforts to protect the earth.^[113]

On Dec 16, 2012, Mraz headlined the Milestone Concert in Myanmar to raise awareness near human being trafficking, making him the first foreign artist to play an open-air concert in Myanmar. The concert was organized past MTV Leave and held in the People's Square in Yangon, with over seventy,000 people in omnipresence, as part of an initiative to raise awareness well-nigh homo trafficking in Myanmar.^{[114] [115]} Likewise 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 furnishings of climatic 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 nineteen, 2020, Mraz appear 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 [edit]

On October 24, 2019, Mraz endorsed Bernie Sanders for President in the 2020 Democratic Political party presidential primaries stating, "Bernie is the perfect candidate to follow Trump & continue to milk shake upwards the system for the benefit of truthful American values: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness".^[119]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

• Waiting for My Rocket to Come up (2002)
• Mr. A–Z (2005)
• We Sing. Nosotros Trip the light fantastic toe. We Steal Things. (2008)
• Love Is a Four Letter Discussion (2012)
• Yes! (2014)
• Know. (2018)
• Look for the Good (2020)

Awards and nominations [edit]

Other awards [edit]

Bibliography [edit]

• A Grand Things (2008, I Love Books)

Motion-picture show [edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	The Large Fix	Himself	Produced / Documentary film
2015	Unity	Narrator	Documentary
2019	Trouble	Himself (voice)	Blithe film
2020	Clouds	Himself	Feature picture show
2020	Osculation the Ground	Himself	Documentary

Television appearances (selected) [edit]

• American Music Awards (2003)
• Late Nighttime with Conan O'Brien (2003)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2003, 2005, 2008)
• New year's day's Rockin' Eve (2004)
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2004, 2005, 2009, 2012)
• EBS Infinite Gonggam (EBS 스페이스 공감) (2006)
• Late Show with David Letterman (2008, 2009, 2012)
• Nobel Peace Prize Concert (2008)
• Rachael Ray (2008)
• American Idol (2009, 2019)
• Saturday Night Live (2009, 2019)
• Spicks and Specks (Tv series) (2009)
• The Tonight Evidence with Conan O'Brien (2009)
• Grammy Awards (2009, 2010)
• Family Guy (2010)
• The Jay Leno Show (2010)
• Sesame Street (2010)
• Chelsea Lately (2012)
• Conan (2012)
• Dancing With the Stars (2012)
• The Fresh Beat Ring (2012)
• Belatedly Night with Jimmy Fallon (2012)
• Opening Human activity (2012)
• Today (2012)
• VH1 Storytellers (2012)
• Watch What Happens: Live (2012)
• Alive from Daryl's House (2012)
• American Restoration (2015)
• Live from the Artists Den (2014)
• Grand-pop Star 4 (케이팝 스타 four) (2015)
• Today Show with Hoda and Jena (2019)
• Celebrity Show-Off (2020)
• Celebrity Bicycle of Fortune (2021)

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