Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California.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 Sam Farrar. 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.
After self-releasing their independent album We Like Digging?, the band signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1997. The album garnered a tepid response, after which the record label dropped the band and the members focused on college. In 2001, the band re-emerged as Maroon 5, pursuing a different direction and adding guitarist Valentine.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. 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. In the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.In 2006, Dusick left the band after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Matt Flynn.
In 2014, Carmichael rejoined the band alongside Morton to record the fifth album V (pronounced: "five"), with the band signed to Interscope Records and Levine's own label 222 Records. Following the release of V, it reached number one on the Billboard 200. In 2016, Maroon 5 recruited their long-time collaborator Sam Farrar, as the band continued for the sixth studio album Red Pill Blues, which was released in November 2017. With the addition of Morton and Farrar, the band's lineup increased to seven members. The successful singles of both albums "Sugar" and "Girls Like You" peaked at numbers two and one on the Hot 100 chart respectively. Maroon 5 has sold more than 120 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Vocalist, songwriter, producer, and actor
Adam Noah Levine is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor who is best known as the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Maroon 5. Levine began his musical career in 1994.
Vocalist
Matthew Flynn is the drummer, an American musician and record producer.
Guitarist and keyboard Player
Carmichael was born to a Jewish family in Boulder, Colorado, United States.He first started playing the guitar in junior high, rather than the keyboards for which he is known in the band Maroon 5.
Vocalist
Valentine was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.He was the president of his high school Lincoln Southeast High School's student council in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Vocalist and producer
Sam John Farrar is an American musician, singer and record producer.
Vocalist
Michael Allen Madden is an American musician, singer and bassist. He is the former bassist for the pop rock band Maroon 5.
Adam Levine was introduced to Ryan Dusick by a mutual friend and guitarist, Adam Salzman. Levine was 15 years old and Dusick was 16.Three of the five members of the band started playing together at age 12. The four original members of the band met while attending Brentwood School in Los Angeles.While attending Brentwood School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Kara's Flowers,a rock band. The name was taken from a girl that went to their high school that the band had a "collective crush" on. While they were playing a beach party in Malibu, independent producer Tommy Allen heard them play and offered to manage them and record a complete record with his partner, songwriter John DeNicola, who is known for his work on Dirty Dancing (1987) – including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life".
The band started producing immediatley and went ahead to drop singles and albums that still ring the speakers to date
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