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Jason Mraz Once Feared He'd Become A 'Punch Line' If He Revealed His Sexuality
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The musician, who is bisexual, described himself as a "late bloomer" in a podcast interview. "I can't say that I have found love yet," he said.
Six years after he first publicly identified as bisexual, Jason Mraz is looking back on his path to living truthfully.
The two-time Grammy winner and “Dancing With the Stars” contestant appeared on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast Tuesday and explained why he kept quiet about his sexuality early in his career.
“I didn’t have too many sexual experiences in high school,” said Mraz, who grew up in Virginia. “I was bullied and was just ready to get out of town. So that’s why New York City was great and then, even eventually, California was great.”
He continued: “The romance in my songs was just copying other romance in songs ― these are things that you sing about to please others or something. It wouldn’t be probably until I got to California that I met a community of people that would see me in a new way that I’d never fully been seen before. And I liked how I was being seen and heard.”
Mraz, now 47, catapulted to global fame with the 2002 album “Waiting for My Rocket To Come,” which featured the smash single “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry).” Despite his rising profile as a musician, however, he said, “I still took with me the conservative street that I grew up on.”