In the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Aided by the singles " Harder to Breathe", " This Love" and " She Will Be Loved", the album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 chart and went quadruple platinum in 2005. The band signed with Octone Records, an independent record label with a separate joint venture relationship with J Records and released their debut album Songs About Jane in June 2002. In 2001, the band re-emerged as Maroon 5, pursuing a different direction and adding guitarist Valentine. The album garnered a tepid response, after which the record label dropped the band and the members focused on college.
Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in 1994, while they were still in high school.Īfter self-releasing their independent album We Like Digging?, the band signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton and multi-instrumentalist and occasional bassist Sam Farrar. In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that "sources familiar with his many business dealings" estimated Levine would earn more than $35 million that year.Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California.
He also owns a record label, 222 Records. The same year, he collaborated with Kmart and to develop his menswear collection. He also starred in the film Begin Again.Īs an entrepreneur, Levine launched his own eponymous fragrance line in 2013. In 2012, he made his acting debut as a recurring character in the horror television show American Horror Story: Asylum for the series' second season. The winners of the first, fifth and ninth seasons, Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin and Jordan Smith were on his team. As part of Maroon 5, Levine has received three Grammy Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, two American Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award and a World Music Award.įrom 2011 to 2019, Levine has served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice.
Since then, they have released five more albums, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012), V (2014) and Red Pill Blues (2017). In 2002, the band released their first album, Songs About Jane, which went multi-platinum in the US. In 2001, the group was reformed – with guitarist James Valentine joining the line-up – and began a new, musical chapter, changing their name to Maroon 5. The band split up after their only album, The Fourth World (released in 1997), which did not gain popularity. He is the lead vocalist for the Los Angeles pop rock band Maroon 5.īorn and raiseduefbN in Los Angecmns.døknsøknxøsknles, California, Levine began his musical career in 1994, when he co-founded the alternative rock band Kara's Flowers, of which he was the lead vocalist and guitarist. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actorĪdam Noah Levine ( born March 18, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor.
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