Maroon 5 Biography

Biography

Emerged as a band with unusual melding of R&B, soul, and rock which flows from the distinctive voice of Adam Levine, Maroon 5 has penned its name solidly in the ground of American music industry. Already gained wide recognition through their hit songs, the band surely has displayed the capability to captivate the heart of every music listener all over the world. The sold-out tours they have undertaken with some well-known artists, like Nikka Costa, Counting Crows, Phantom Planet, Jason Mraz, and The Donnas, indicate that they are certainly no ordinary band which is worth to look at.

The origin of Maroon 5 could be tracked back to 1994 when Adam Noah Levine (born on March 18, 1979 in Los Angeles, California) and Jesse Royal Carmichael (born on April 2, 1979 in Boulder, Colorado) were still the students of Brentwood High School in Los Angeles, California. On one night they went out together with Adam's old friend, Ryan Michael Dusick (born on September 19, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) who was an alumni from the same school. All of them came up with an idea to make music together as a pop rock band which they quickly named Kara's Flowers. ...

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Looking for one more member among the other schoolmates, they were finally joined by Michael Madden (born on May 13, 1979 in Austin, Texas) after he responded positively upon their request to include him in the band.

With Adam in vocal also guitar, Ryan in drums, Jesse in guitar, and Mickey in bass, Kara's Flowers made its first performance at West Hollywood's Whisky A Go-Go on September 16, 1995. Managed to evoke quite a buzz during their journey around some other clubs in L.A., the band was successfully signed to Reprise Records, a division of Warner Music Group, thus released their debut album, "The Fourth World," in 1997. Unfortunately, it did not turn out well for the record only sold five thousand copies and was considered as a failure. Disappointed, the quartet decided to leave Reprise in 1999, turning their attention to education. Ryan and Mickey chose to study at UCLA while Adam and Jesse entered Five Towns College in Long Island, New York.

During this period, Adam began to develop an interest in other music genres which all are basically known as black music. "We were living at a predominately African-American school, and Jesse and I fell in love ...