Maroon 5
Maroon 5 in TV Week Logies, 2011.
General Information
From Los Angeles, California,
U.S.
Its musical
Genre (s) Funk rock
Soul rock
Years active 1994 - 2000 as Kara's Flowers
2001 - present as Maroon 5
Label (s) A & M / Octone
Universal Music Group
Web
Website www.Maroon5.com
Members
Adam Levine
Jesse Carmichael
Mickey Madden
Matt Flynn
James Valentine
Former members
Ryan Dusick
Maroon 5 is a rock-pop group formed in California in
U.S. Los Angeles in 1994. Although his original name was Kara's Flowers, in
2001 and with the addition of a new component, the band was renamed to which
they are known today. With their debut album Songs About Jane, published in
June 2002, achieved gold discs, platinum and triple platinum in many countries.
His second album entitled 1.22.03.Acoustic, which included live songs from the
album Songs About Jane, also went platinum. The group won the Grammy for Best
New Artist in 2005. Later that same year the band released what would be his
second live album called Live - Friday The 13th, which was recorded in May 2005
in Santa Barbara, California. The album was released with a DVD of the concert
and he won the Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in
2006.
The grunge style of the voice of lead singer, Adam
Levine, has inspired many amateur solo singers, including Ben Deignan, Marie
Digby, Limahl, David Choi, Only Savior, Joseph Vincent, Joey Carlos, Josh,
Pity, or Cristian Winston between other.
Contents
1 Origin
2 Formation of Maroon 5
Songs About Jane 2.1
2.2 It Will not Be Soon Before Long
2.3 Hands All Over
Overexposed 2.4
3 Members of the band
3.1 Former Members
4 Discography
4.1 Studio albums
4.2 Compilation albums
4.3 Live albums
5 tours
6 Awards and accolades
6.1 2004
6.2 2005
6.3 2006
6.4 2007
6.5 2008
6.6 2011
2012 6.7
7 Simple
8 References
9 External lin
Origin
In high school, Brentwood High School in Los Angeles
met the members of grupo.Brentwood High School saw the birth of the group
Kara's Flowers, a garage band /'' grunge'' which aired on the local Whisky a
go-go on 16 September 1994 (Adam Levine sang with a deep voice grunge style at
the time).
The band signed with Reprise Records while still studying
in high school and released their only studio album The Fourth World in
mid-1997. Only three of the four members were about to graduate. They recorded
a video for the first single called Soap Disco, but it was not successful on
MTV.
Despite being on tour opening act for other bands like
Reel Big Fish consolidated or Goldfinger, the album failed to hit the market
and in 1999 the band split with Reprise Records. Due to the great popularity
achieved later the group Maroon 5, sold more copies of the debut album by
Kara's Flowers, The Fourth World, after the release of Songs About Jane to
previous years. After canceling the contract with Reprise Records, the four
young men resumed their studies at different universities in the United States
where they discovered new musical styles and developed a taste for pop music, R
& B, soul, and gospel, experiences that greatly influenced the style and
the sound of Maroon 5. The four original members of Kara's Flowers remained in
touch and started playing together again in 2001. Jesse Carmichael switched
from guitar to keyboards, so it was a problem for the need for an additional
guitarist. James Valentine, who belonged to the band Square, joined them to
fill that void.
Formation of Maroon 5
When Valentine joined Kara's Flowers in 2001, the band
adopted the name Maroon, changing a few months later to Maroon 5 due to a name
conflict. The band performed in New York and Los Angeles by way of
introduction. Adam Levine recognized in the interim period the influence of new
styles in the band in an interview with VH1, "During the time between the
negotiations of the record, I spent much time in New York, where I was exposed
to urban culture and hip-hop in a way never experienced in Los Angeles. returned
with an entirely new genre of music, which had a profound impact on the
composition of my songs. "
The band signed with Octone Records, an independent
label in New York, with distribution through BMG and Clive Davis' J Records.
In September 2006, the band's drummer Ryan Dusick
Maroon 5 decided to leave for health reasons as it had a disease of the muscles
of the arms, leaving the band was announced by him in his myspace page and was
replaced by Matt Flynn the newest member of the band but the oldest age of 37.
Songs About Jane
The band recorded Songs About Jane Rumbo Recorders in
Los Angeles and counted with producer Matt Wallace, who also produced albums
for other artists as Train, Blues Traveler, Kyle Riabko, and Third Eye Blind.
Much of the material of Maroon 5's debut album was directly inspired by
Levine's tumultuous relationship with his ex-girlfriend Jane. "We ended
when the band entered the studio," said he (Adam Levine). "After a
complicated list of songs, we decided that the name of the album would Songs
About Jane, because we felt that it could be an honest statement with the
title."
The first single "Harder to Breathe" [1],
began slowly to move up the charts, which helped boost sales of the album. By
March 2004, the album reached the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and Harder to
Breathe reached the Billboard 100 list. The album reached number six on the
Billboard chart in August 2004, 26 months after its release. This was the
longest period between the release of the album and its first appearance in the
Top 10 since SoundScan results were included in the Billboard 200 in 1991.
Songs About Jane eventually reached the Top 10 in the charts of the albums in
Australia while Harder to Breathe won the Top 20 in the charts in the UK and
the Top 40 in Australia and New Zealand. The album also reached the top spot in
the UK and Australia. The second song "This Love" [2] which has an
international award for best song of the year was also in the Top 10 U.S. and
Australia and the Top 3 of the charts in the UK. The third song, "She Will
Be Loved" [3], reached the Top 5 in the United Kingdom and the United
States, and was number 1 in Australia. The fourth single, "Sunday
Morning" [4], also reached the Top 40 in the United States, United Kingdom,
and Australia.
[Edit] It Will not Be Soon Before Long
In March 2007, Billboard Magazine and other similar
means, said that Maroon 5 was set to release their second album. It Will not Be
Soon Before Long (A & M / Octone Records) was released worldwide on May 22,
2007. Adam Levine stated that this new album, successor to his previous hit
album Songs About Jane, would be "much more sexy and strong", with
the inspiration of the 80 artists as Prince, Shabba Ranks, Michael Jackson and
Talking Heads. The album was recorded from November 2005 until mid September
2006.
The first single, "Makes Me Wonder" [5] was
launched by the radio stations on March 27, 2007. The music video preview [6]
was carried out by the music channel MTV estadonunidense Total Request Live
program known as TRL, March 29, 2007. On 31 March the same year, Maroon 5
played the song at the awards Nickelodeon Kids chain of that year. In August of
that year, they released their second single, entitled "Wake Up Call"
[7] with the corresponding video. Months later, precisely in October 2007,
premieres on TV the third single from second album "Will not Go Home
Without You" [8]. In May the fourth be trained next single "If I
Never See Your Face Again" [9], reissued as a duet with the collaboration of
singer Rihanna. The video shows Rihanna with a different look than usual Adam
and most of the time with a more classical style, wearing a black suit. It was
filmed in a mansion. Their fifth single, "Goodnight Goodnight" [10]
which had been previously released in Hong Kong and Canada. In August was its
worldwide release and the video shows a before and after Adam's relationship
with a girl.
It is the third studio album by the group, which was
produced by Robert Mutt Lange, who has worked with artists like AC / DC, The
Corrs and Shania Twain. The first single from this new album is
"Misery" [11], which was promoted in June on various radio stations
worldwide, also triggered a corresponding promotional video. The second single
from the album, "Give a Little More" [12], was released a week before
the album's release, which was released on September 21, 2010. On 23 December
the same year, promoted on Facebook's third single, "Hands All Over".
After playing a couple in the music video for "Misery" by Maroon 5, Adam
Levine and his now ex-girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna model team up again for
another clip of the band. "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" was filmed on
location in Santa Monica, California. After his fourth single to do a duet with
Christina Aguilera featuring the July 21, 2011 in the voice program, Moves Like
Jagger name song title referring to the ability in the dance leader Mick Jagger
of The Rolling Stones.
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