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Jojo Mason

Canadian country music singer-songwriter (born 1990)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ23008165
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JoJo Mason (born February 26, 1990) is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Mason moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 2004 to play hockey at the junior (Saanich Jr Braves, VIJHL) ranks but suffered a herniated disk. Later, he met songwriter/producer Dan Swinimer and worked on developing his vocals. He signed to Manicdown Productions in 2014 and released his debut single, "It's All Good", in early 2015. Mason's second single, "Good Kinda Love", was released in November 2015, before he signed with 604 Records for the release of his third single, "Red Dress", in May 2016. In 2021, Mason achieved his first gold-certification for his single "Better on You", and charted on the Canadian Hot 100 for the first time with the single "Broken Umbrella".

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The public source identifies “Jojo Mason” as canadian country music singer-songwriter (born 1990). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jojo, Mason and Canadian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2004, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-02-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jojo, Mason and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Jojo Mason” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.