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Jason Mraz and Noel Toca Rivera first met in 2000 when Mraz was just starting to make a name for himself as a singer-songwriter in San Diego. They collaborated as a duo and toured together for a few years before Carlos Toca took a break from the music industry. Mraz and Toca continued to collaborate as a duo and have since released several albums and toured extensively. They are considered one of the most gifted pop-troubadours of their generation and maintain a long-standing friendship.
Hailed as one of the modern era s most gifted pop troubadours,
Jason Mraz has shared stages with percussionist Noel Toca Rivera
for more than a decade. The two musicians first met back in 2000,
when Mraz was just making his mark on the San Diego coffee house
scene. Enthralled by the young songwriter s free-flowing lyrical
mastery, Rivera invited Mraz to join the eponymous trio he fronted
alongside his brother Carlos. The group hit the road, travelling
California s highways and byways together in a beat-up Winnebago,
inspiring Mraz s classic song, Dream Life of Rand McNally. When
Carlos decided to take time off, Jason and Toca continued to
collaborate as a duo, earning acclaim and passionate audience
responses wherever they performed. Mraz s guitar and vocals match
beautifully with Rivera s intuitive djembe playing and the two
maintain a long friendship and collaborative relationship,
recording and touring together to this day.
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