Adam Levine | Maroon 5 Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Interscope Records Adam Noah Levine (born March 18, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. He is the lead vocalist for the Los Angeles pop rock band Maroon 5 . Born and raised in Los Angeles, 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. The band split up after their only album, The Fourth World (released in 1997), which did not gain popularity. 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. In 2002, the band released their first album, Songs About Jane , which went multi-platinum in the US. Since then, they have released four more albums, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012) and V (2014).

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. Since 2011, Levine has served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice . The winners of the first and fifth seasons, Javier Colon and Tessanne Chin, were on his team. 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. He also starred in the film Begin Again . As an entrepreneur, Levine launched his own eponymous fragrance line in 2013. The same year, he collaborated with Kmart and ShopYourWay.com to develop his menswear collection. He also owns a record label, 222 Records . In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that "sources familiar with his many business dealings" estimated Levine would earn more than $35 million that year. Adam Levine | Jewish Virtual Library Tweet Adam Levine is a Jewish American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer of the Grammy-winning American pop, funk and alternative rock band Maroon 5.

Born Adam Noah Levine in 1979 in Los Angeles , California to Fred and Patsee nee Noah Levine, Levine attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts Camp in New York as a child. At French Woods, Levine started the band now known as Maroon 5 - which was then called Kara’s Flowers - with his best friend Jesse Carmichael. The band released their first album titled The Fourth World in 1997, during their senior year of high school. After high school, Levine moved to New York with Carmichael and “that’s when I started waking up to the whole hip hop, R&B thing,” Levine said. In 2001, the pair added several musicians and renamed their band Maroon 5. Levine’s band was influenced by Nirvana, Pearl Jam and similar bands. Maroon 5’s albums include Songs About Jane, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, Hands All Over, and their singles include Moves Like Jagger and Payphone featuring the American rapper Wiz Khalifa. In addition to his work with Maroon 5, Levine has collaborated with other musical and entertainment gigs.

For example, he was featured on the Ying Yang Twins’ song “Live Again;” and on Kanye West’s album single “Heard ‘Em Say;” and on Alicia Keys’ third album Alicia Keys: MTV Unplugged. Most recently, Levine participated in the recording of Gym Class Heroes’ newest album in the song “Stereo Hearts.” In addition to his musical performances, he has made four comic appearances on television. In 2007, he was on a Saturday Night Live short called “Iran So Far” with Andy Samburg, Fred Armisen and Jake Gyllenhaal . Levine sang the bridge to a “love song” for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2008, Levine appeared on Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars” and he had a cameo on Jimmy Kimmel Live where he endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election. Levine has said in various interviews that he does not plan on continuing Maroon 5 forever, and may stop after the tour for the band’s third album. Levine is also a coach on the American talent show The Voice.

Though he has Jewish ancestry on both sides of his family and considers himself Jewish, Levine rejects formal religious practice and chose not to be Bar Mitzvah -ed as a child. Levine is active in several causes including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) awareness and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights . His personal connection to ADHD is that he was diagnosed with the disorder as a teenager so he launched an educational campaign called “Own It” to raise awareness of ADHD. Levine’s brother is openly gay, so he is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights and made a video on Maroon 5’s official YouTube channel in support of the “It Gets Better Project.” In January 2012, Levine announced that Maroon 5 changed the location of its post-Grammy Awards show because of the original host restaurant’s backing of Proposition 8, which eliminates the rights of same-sex couples to marry. Adam Levine - Music on Google Play Adam Levine About the artist Adam Noah Levine is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and record producer. He is the lead vocalist for the pop rock band Maroon 5.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, 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. The band split up after their only album, The Fourth World, which did not gain popularity. 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. In 2002, the band released their first album, Songs About Jane, which went multi-platinum in the US. Since then, they have released four more albums, It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Hands All Over, Overexposed and V. 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. Since 2011, Levine has served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice. The winners of the first, fifth and ninth seasons, Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin and Jordan Smith, were on his team.

Adam Levine | The Idea Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Adam Noah Levine [3] was born in Los Angeles on March 18, 1979 [4] to Fred Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy (née Noah) Levine, an admissions counselor. [2] [5] Journalist and author Timothy Noah is his uncle. [6] He has two brothers, Michael and Sam. [7] Levine's parents divorced when he was seven. Growing up, he spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father. [8] He underwent therapy for his parents' divorce, but called it a "waste of time" explaining that his parents could not "accept the fact that I might have been OK with it. I cried my eyes out and kicked and screamed and said, 'Why?' and all the things you do when you find out. A few days later I was fine but I still had to go to therapy." [9] Levine describes his family as "very musical" [10] and credits his mother with "start[ing] me out on the path".

[11] He also attributes his mother's idols - Simon & Garfunkel , Fleetwood Mac and, most notably, The Beatles - to shaping his musical style, calling them "a huge part of my upbringing". [8] He attended Brentwood School , where he met Jesse Carmichael and Mickey Madden , his future bandmates. [12] He carried his musical interests to high school, where he states he was "a little rebellious. I didn't want to do the things they were teaching me ... [music] consumed my every thought." [10] Levine used hallucinogenic drugs in his adolescence. In an interview with Q , he said that using mushrooms "really forced me to look at myself" but added that he had never abused drugs. [13] [14] On Jimmy Kimmel Live! , he stated that he stopped using prescription drugs after his first experience with prescription drug Ambien , which left him unconscious for an hour. [15] Levine's father and maternal grandfather are Jewish, [8] while his maternal grandmother was Protestant.

[16] Levine considers himself Jewish , [17] though according to an interview with The Jewish Chronicle , he " has rejected formal religious practice for a more generalized, spiritual way of life ". He chose not to have a Bar Mitzvah as a child, explaining: "I felt as though a lot of kids were trying to cash in ... I just don't think it's the most respectful way to deal with God and beliefs and years and years and years of cultural heritage." [8] Kara's Flowers Edit In September 1995, Levine, along with Mickey Madden , Jesse Carmichael , and Ryan Dusick , another Brentwood High student, formed garage band Kara's Flowers. [18] The group played their first gig at the Whisky a Go Go , a nightclub in West Hollywood, California , with Levine on vocals and guitar. [19] In 1997, the band was discovered while they were performing at a beach party in Malibu by independent producer Tommy Allen. Allen, along with his partner John DeNicola , had the band record an 11-track album.

[19] Owing to a string of industry showcases in Los Angeles, they were signed on to Reprise Records through producer Rob Cavallo . [20] In 1997, Kara's Flowers released their first album, titled The Fourth World . [21] That same year, the band appeared on an episode of the drama series Beverly Hills, 90210 . [2] After their graduation, the band toured in support of their debut. Despite high expectations, [19] the album had little success, selling about 5,000 copies, [22] and its only single, "Soap Disco", failed commercially. Finally, on Cavallo's exit from the label, [19] Reprise decided to drop the band. [23] Disappointed with the results of their album, the band broke up. [24] [25] Later, Levine would say of the experience: "Kara’s Flowers was just floating up the wall beneath the sticks. Make a record quickly, put it out. No touring base, no nothing. Just try to make it happen right out of the gate and it just doesn’t work".

[26] Maroon 5 and mainstream success Main article: Maroon 5 After the break up of Kara's Flowers, Levine, along with Carmichael, left Los Angeles to pursue further studies in New York . [19] On MTV News, in 2002, he said: "That's when I started waking up to the whole hip-hop, R&B thing. We had friends named Chaos and Shit. It was not Brentwood High". [27] After dropping out of Five Towns College , in Dix Hills , Long Island , New York , where he and Jesse Carmichael spent a semester, [28] they reunited with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form a band once more. [29] They experimented with several styles, including country and folk , before deciding groove-based music would become their genre. [12] Levine explained the need for a makeover for the band: "We were just so sick of being a typical rock 'n'roll band ...

I felt like I needed to look elsewhere for vocal inspiration." [19] The band put together a demo that was rejected by several labels, before falling into the hands of Octone Records executives James Diener , Ben Berkman, and David Boxenbaum. [25] Following Berkman's advice, the band added a fifth member, James Valentine , and was renamed Maroon 5. In an interview with HitQuarters , Berkman explained that Levine "seemed to be a very shy, shoe-gazing type ... a fifth member could play the guitar to free up the singer [Levine], so he could be the star I perceived him to be". [22] Around this time, Levine had been working as a writer's assistant on the CBS television show Judging Amy , whose producer Barbara Hall was his family friend. [2] While on the show, he would spend time writing songs about his ex-girlfriend Jane. These songs were put into Maroon 5's debut album Songs About Jane , which was released in June 2002.

The album slowly gained airplay, and eventually became a sleeper hit , selling an estimated 10 million copies [30] and becoming the tenth best-selling album of 2004, two years after its release. [31] In 2005, Maroon 5 won their first Grammy Award , for Best New Artist . [32] The next year, they won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the second Songs About Jane single " This Love ". [33] File:Maroon 5 - This Love live.jpg By 2006, the band started recording once again, and in May 2007, Maroon 5's second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long was released. Levine described the album as "a vast improvement", explaining: "I think this record is a little more self-confident and powerful lyrically". [34] To support the album, the band performed on a "six-date club tour" in which they visited small venues in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami, and New York City in early June 2007.

[35] The album and its lead, third and penultimate singles (" Makes Me Wonder ", " Won't Go Home Without You " and " If I Never See Your Face Again ", respectively) each received Grammy nominations, although only "Makes Me Wonder" secured a win. [36] [37] After winding down from a world tour in support It Won't Be Soon Before Long, the band began recording in Switzerland in 2009, in collaboration with record producer and songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange . Levine said Lange "worked me harder than anyone ever has". [38] In 2010, Maroon 5 released their third studio album, Hands All Over . The album did not initially meet expectations. In an interview with Los Angeles Times , Levine explained that the album suffered from being "all these disparate ideas and songs that didn't make any sense together". [39] After the moderate success of the album's first three singles, the band released " Moves like Jagger " which Levine classified as "one of those songs that was definitely a risk; it's a bold statement".

[40] The single became a success worldwide; it was the ninth-best-selling digital single of 2011 with sales of 8.5 million copies and, as of 2012, the eighth-best-selling digital single of all time . Levine later credited the song with "totally reviving the band". [39] File:Adam Levine2.JPG Since "Moves Like Jagger" was the first time Maroon 5 had collaborated with an outside writer, the band decided to attempt it again on their next album, entitled Overexposed . [41] Its title is supposedly an allusion to Levine's public ubiquity. In an interview with Rolling Stone , he opined that is their most dance-driven album ever, commenting: "It's very much an old-fashioned disco tune. I have a love/hate relationship with it - but mostly I love it". [42] The album and its lead single " Payphone " gave Maroon 5 their second Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance nominations.

[37] In support of Overexposed, the band conducted the Overexposed Tour from 2012–13 (with the European leg extending to 2014 due to scheduling conflicts), [43] and also headlined the 12th Annual Honda Civic Tour , which included The Voice contestant Tony Lucca. [44] Over 2014, Maroon 5 continued their collaboration with Ryan Tedder , Max Martin and others to release their fifth studio album, entitled V . Levine acknowledged that they followed the same song-writing process that they tried with Overexposed, saying: "We developed a really nice system on the last record — we found songs we were passionate about, developed them and put our stamp on them [...] this time we kept it going but looked for different types of songs." [45] Five singles were released from it. In support of the album, the band undertook the Maroon 5 World Tour 2015 , which kicked off with a show in Dallas in February 2015.

[46] In 2007, Levine had stated that he believed Maroon 5 was reaching its peak and might make one more album before disbanding. [47] He was quoted explaining: "Eventually I want to focus on being a completely different person because I don't know if I want to do this into my 40s and 50s and beyond". But in 2010, he dispelled any rumors of the band breaking up, saying:"I love what I do and think that, yes, it might be tiring and complicated at times [but] we don't have any plans on disbanding any time soon". [48] He has also turned down the idea of having a solo career, stating that "there will never be a solo record. I would sooner have another band". [49] Other work File:MuchMusic Video Awards 2007 661.jpg Levine has collaborated with several musical artists. In 2005, he was featured on the song "Live Again" by hip-hop duo Ying Yang Twins .

[50] The same year, he appeared on Kanye West 's album Late Registration , on the third single, " Heard 'Em Say ", [51] a collaboration Levine called "very pure and very easy". The song was created during an airplane flight that he and West shared, [52] and its refrain was later used for the Maroon 5 song "Nothing Lasts Forever" from It Won't Be Soon Before Long. He also appeared on Alicia Keys ' third album Alicia Keys: MTV Unplugged , as part of the cover of The Rolling Stones song " Wild Horses ". [53] Around the same time, he featured on fellow Octone Records singer K'naan 's single "Bang Bang". In 2009, he recorded "Gotten", a song for Slash 's first solo album Slash (2010). [54] In February 2010, he was among approximately 80 musicians who sang on the charity-single remake of " We Are the World ", called " We Are the World 25 for Haiti ". [55] In 2011, he appeared on the Gym Class Heroes song, " Stereo Hearts ".

He also worked with hip-hop artist 50 Cent on his song " My Life ", recording the vocals almost two years before it was released as a single in 2012, which included rapper Eminem . [56] He is also featured as a singer for his band's song " She Will Be Loved " in the music rhythm game, Band Hero . [57] TV and media Edit Levine has made four notable comic appearances on television. During 2007, he appeared in the 33rd season premiere of Saturday Night Live in an SNL Digital Short called Iran So Far , performing with Andy Samberg , Fred Armisen and Jake Gyllenhaal . Levine played himself while singing a humorous bridge to a "love song" for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . [58] In 2008, he performed on Comedy Central 's "Night of Too Many Stars". He also had a cameo on Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the night of stars and endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election . In 2013, he hosted Saturday Night Live and featured alongside Kendrick Lamar on Lonely Island's digital short " YOLO ", which parodies the acronym for You Only Live Once.

[59] His hosting was generally disliked by reviewers, who called it "mediocre" [60] and "subpar". [61] "I always felt kind of misinterpreted in the world. I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls. A little bit of a bimbo. Maybe I was kind of a bimbo. I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that. But I wanted to create a little balance. When the show came around, I thought, 'People now know that I have a brain.'" —Levine on how he hoped The Voice would change public perception about him. [7] Since its inception in 2011, Levine has served as a contestant judge/coach on the reality talent TV show, The Voice . [62] The winner of the first season , Javier Colon , was on his team, as was the Season 5 winner, Tessanne Chin . [63] The Voice has been credited with reviving Maroon 5's "faltering" career after the sub-par sales of Hands All Over as well as increasing Levine's popularity.

According to polling firm E-Poll Market Research, awareness of Levine has nearly tripled since he joined the show. He has also been described as the "breakout" star of the series, with #TeamAdam and @AdamLevine scoring a respective 203,000 and 2.14 million Twitter mentions in the show's third season, higher than all the other coaches. In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter estimated that Levine was paid $10–12 million for each season of The Voice. [2] In 2012, Levine appeared as a recurring character in American Horror Story: Asylum , the second season of the anthology series. [64] He plays Leo Morrison, a newly-wed photographer visiting modern-day Briarcliff Manor, an insane asylum, on honeymoon with wife. Teresa, played by Jenna Dewan-Tatum . The scenes were shot around his summer touring schedule. In an interview with E! , he said of his role: "It sounded like so much fun and that's why I wanted to do it ... this sounds, like, hysterical, funny, dark and cool and right up my alley".

[65] [66] However, he admitted to not being a fan of the show nor horror genre in general, stating he didn't watch the episodes because "it's just so weird and disturbing". [67] In June 2012, Levine was cast in the musical romance-drama film Begin Again . The film was directed by John Carney and had Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo play the lead roles. In it, he plays Dave Kohl, Knightley's songwriting partner and former boyfriend of five years, who leaves her behind on finding success in the music industry. [68] [69] [70] The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival to generally favorable reviews from critics. [71] In November 2013, Levine was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, becoming the first singer and the second non-actor (after John F. Kennedy, Jr. ) to claim the title. [72] He was ranked #41 on Glamour 's "Sexiest Men of 2012" list.

[73] In 2008, he appeared on People's "Single and Sexy Men" list. [74] He was elected TV's Most Crushworthy Male Reality Host/Judge in a poll held by Zap2it . [75] In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked him Number 7 on its list of "Top 50 Hottest Jewish men in the world". [76] Levine stripped naked for testicular cancer awareness for a centerfold in Cosmopolitan UK's February 2011 issue. [77] Business ventures and endorsements File:Adam Levine with guitar at 2007 MyCokeFest in Atlanta.JPG In October 2008, Levine collaborated with First Act to create the First Act 222 Guitar, which was fashioned to his specifications. The guitar was made available for purchase at Target retail stores. [78] Two years later, he launched his own fashion line, entitled "222", at the Project Trade Show in Las Vegas . The collection is a minimalistic line of jeans, basic T-shirts and leather jackets, a style he described as "simple and pure and durable".

The venture was organized in partnership with his father, Fred Levine (who operates a chain of specialty boutiques), and his cousin, Sami Cooper. [79] [80] In June 2011, Levine took part in an educational campaign to raise awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder . The project, titled "Own It", was created by Shire and organized in collaboration with the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD). The project targets people who were previously diagnosed with the disorder, focusing on how it may continue into adulthood. Levine, who himself was diagnosed with it as a teenager, said, "This campaign is important to me because it can help young adults and adults realize that there's a chance they may still have ADHD if they had it as a kid". [81] [82] In connection to this, he wrote an article in ADDitude Magazine about his personal experience with it. [83] Levine founded his own record label, 222 Records, in February 2012.

He stated that he was inspired to start the label to sign on Rozzi Crane , an USC music student he discovered through a mutual friend. [84] She became the first singer signed on to the label, followed by Glee actor Matthew Morrison , Mexican artist Diego Boneta and The Voice season 2 contestant and part of Team Adam, the singer Tony Lucca . It was reported that he was negotiating further with potential distributors, as well as organizing staff, to operate as a full-fledged record company with departments such as marketing, radio and publicity. [85] [86] In 2013, Levine collaborated with ID Perfumes to create his debut eponymous scent. [87] The line was launched at the Premiere Fragrance Installation in Los Angeles in February 2013. [88] The fragrance range, consisting of scents for both for men and women, is sold through Macy's department stores in microphone-shaped bottles. Speaking at its launch, Levine said: "The task was to make something that I would wear.

So that was a process and we finally came to a great conclusion and it smells great" [89] [90] The fragrance garnered media attention for contradicting his tweet the previous year, in which he said that he wanted to "put an official ban on celebrity fragrances. Punishable by death from this point forward". [91] In 2013, Adam Levine became a celebrity spokesperson for Proactiv , a well-known company with acne-fighting products. In the commercial, Adam shares details about his acne experiences in high school, and promotes Proactive Plus. [92] In 2013, it was announced that Levine would be entering a partnership with Sears Holdings to launch a multi-department lifestyle brand to develop apparel and accessories collections. [93] The company, which owns Kmart and ShopYourWay, a shopping social platform, also included rapper Nicki Minaj in the same contract. The menswear collection was launched on October 1 that year and conducts business via 500 Kmart stores across the US, as well as online.

[94] In an official statement, Levine said: "Partnering with ShopYourWay to develop this line was an exciting opportunity for me and I am really looking forward to diving into the process of designing an apparel and accessory collection". [95] In an interview with People, he commented further, "it was cool that they really promoted creative control. I like to be involved with process rather than just phoning it in". [96] Artistry File:Adam Levine from Maroon 5 cropped.JPG Levine's interest in music started at around ten years of age, when he first started playing the guitar. He found music an outlet for feelings, stating: "I picked up a guitar and that was it. I fell so madly in love with it, it's all I did". [10] He performed his first professional jig at The Troubadour when he was twelve, but was so nervous he played with his back to the audience.

[2] [97] Throughout his childhood, he had been influenced by the diverse groups like the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, The Who , Pearl Jam , Soundgarden , Alice in Chains , and Nirvana , and, in high school, by Bob Marley , Bill Withers , Al Green , Stevie Wonder , Marvin Gaye [98] and Michael Jackson . [99] He also incorporated elements of The Police and Prince into his music. [100] In an interview with Billboard , he explained the diversity of his influences: "I love every single kind of music ... even the most saccharine, sugary pop song can be the greatest thing ever. But so can a 25-minute crazy avant-garde fusion gnarly Herbie Hancock jam from the '70s". [101] Levine remembers that listening to " Are You That Somebody? " by Aaliyah convinced him to pursue a more soulful sound than that of his then-band Kara's Flowers. [21] His move to New York introduced him to a new music scene that involved hip-hop , R&B , gospel and soul music . [27] He took to changing his musical style, extensively emulating Stevie Wonder.

[100] Subsequently, Songs About Jane was released, deemed "bluesy funk" [102] and similar to Busted 's music. [103] Critics also drew comparisons between Levine and Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay . [104] While earlier work was deemed "vaguely funky white-soul" [104] and "rock", recent ones have been judged to have a more reggae, anthemic pop sound, [105] evoking comparisons to Coldplay . [106] Levine refuses to fit his music into a genre, saying: "There's so much variety in music, it's silly to belong to a specific club and try to sound a certain way". [100] He considers himself an orthodox lyricist sticking to conventional themes, acknowledging: "Romance, love, the lack thereof are still very big themes. I haven't figured out a way to use everything yet.

As a songwriter, I'm still limited to that one thing." [21] He also claims he does not like mincing words, stating in a Rolling Stone interview: "I was so sick of typical lyrics like 'Ooh, baby' and 'I love you' and all this vague shit. I thought the more explicit I got without being totally explicit was a nice approach". [27] Levine has a four octave tenor / countertenor vocal range [107] [108] and has been noted for his falsettos . [109] Salon wrote: "When he’s crooning come-ons, his voice lends the music a satisfying lewdness, a sense of sticky physicality that gives his snaky hooks a pheromonal urgency." [110] In a review of It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Entertainment Weekly described his vocals as "smug, R&B-slick deadpan ... there's a twisted logic to his dispassionate delivery". [111] In another review, Allmusic noted that "he knows that he's a pop guy, somewhat in the tradition of Hall & Oates , but he isn't trying to be retro, he's ...

making records that are melodic, stylish, and soulful". [112] In a review of the 2013 Honda Civic Tour, The Boston Globe also commented positively on his on-stage presence, which "exude[s] a sense of up-for-anything playfulness ... combined with a rock solid work ethic and a clear love for their audiences and performing". [113] Levine's popularity outside of his musical work has seen him tagged as a "stand-alone star", [114] which critics say have pushed other members of Maroon 5 to the backseat, even in their music. [115] Their guitarist Valentine noted that his vocals were a central aspect around which their music revolved. [116] Conversely, others opine that Levine's fame has been a boost to the band, with Paper writing: "Maroon 5 has managed to ebb and flow with the times ... thanks in no small part to their frontman's uncanny ability to be extremely entertaining". [117] Delta Sky described him as "a natural, if slightly neurotic, leading man".

[118] He claims that the image was consciously cultivated, explaining: "We talked about it a long time ago and decided I would step out, for us, not for me or my own ego ... We wanted there to be a frontman". [49] Personal life Edit In early 2010, while performing at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release party in Las Vegas, Levine met Russian Sports Illustrated swimsuit and Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna , whom he later started dating. [119] After two years together, in April 2012, Levine and Vyalitsyna announced that they had split. [120] The following month Levine began dating Namibian Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo . [121] [122] They broke up in March 2013, [123] but later reconciled and subsequently became engaged in July that year. [124] [125] The couple were married on July 19, 2014 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

[126] Levine, whose brother openly identifies as being gay, is an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. [127] In 2011, he made a video [128] on Maroon 5's official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project . In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the "unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8 ". [127] In 2013, Levine was mentioned in a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by an unnamed security guard who claimed that Universal Music Publishing Group 's Santa Monica location was "infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices and openly used in common areas, and lounges". The guard claimed that when she complained about the cannabis smoke coming from one of the studios, she was told that "it's Adam Levine ... if he wants to come to the lobby and do a line of cocaine on the floor, it's OK". In an official statement to The Hollywood Reporter, UMPG described the allegations as "absurd".

[129] [130] Discography Adam Levine — The Movie Database (TMDb) Report Biography Adam Noah Levine is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, widely known as the lead vocalist for the Los Angeles pop rock band, Maroon 5. Born and raised in Los Angeles, 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. After the commercial failure of their only album, The Fourth World (released in 1997), the band split up. 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. In 2002, the band released their first album, Songs About Jane, which went multi-platinum in the US. Since then, they have released four more albums, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012) and V (2014).

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. Since 2011, Levine has served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice. The winners of the first and fifth seasons, Javier Colon and Tessanne Chin, were on his team. 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. He also appeared in the film Begin Again. As an entrepreneur, Levine launched his own eponymous fragrance line in 2013. The same year, he collaborated with Kmart and ShopYourWay.com to develop his menswear collection. He also owns a record label, 222 Records. In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that "sources familiar with his many business dealings" estimated Levine would earn more than $35 million that year.

Adam Levine (Singer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Adam Levine Male Born Mar 18, 1979 Adam Noah Levine is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actor best known as the front man and lead singer of American pop rock band Maroon 5. He is also a coach on the American talent show The Voice. related links Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Adam Levine. CHILDHOOD 1979 Birth Adam Noah Levine was born in Los Angeles on March 18, 1979 to Fred Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy (nÃ©e Noah) Levine, an admissions counselor. … Read More He has two uncles, journalist and author Timothy Noah and television producer and writer Peter Noah. He is also the nephew of economist Jordan Levine. He has two brothers, Michael and Sam. Levine's parents divorced when he was seven. Growing up, he spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father. He underwent therapy for his parents' divorce, but called it a "waste of time" explaining that his parents could not "accept the fact that I might have been OK with it.

I cried my eyes out and kicked and screamed and said, 'Why?' and all the things you do when you find out. A few days later I was fine but I still had to go to therapy."<br /><br /> Levine describes his family as "very musical" and credits his mother with "starting me out on the path". He also attributes his mother's idols â Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac and, most notably, The Beatles â to shaping his musical style, calling them "a huge part of my upbringing". He attended Brentwood School, where he met Jesse Carmichael and Mickey Madden, his future bandmates. He carried his musical interests to high school, where he states he was "a little rebellious. I didn't want to do the things they were teaching me... music consumed my every thought." Read Less TEENAGE 1995 16 Years Old In September 1995, Levine, along with Mickey Madden, Jesse Carmichael, and Ryan Dusick, another Brentwood High student, formed garage band Kara's Flowers.

… Read More The group played their first gig at the Whisky a Go Go, a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, with Levine on vocals and guitar. In 1997, the band was discovered while they were performing at a beach party in Malibu by independent producer Tommy Allen. Allen, along with his partner John DeNicola, had the band record an 11-track album. Owing to a string of industry showcases in Los Angeles, they were signed on to Reprise Records through producer Rob Cavallo. In 1997, Kara's Flowers released their first album, titled The Fourth World. That same year, the band appeared on an episode of the drama series Beverly Hills, 90210. After their graduation, the band toured in support of their debut. Despite high expectations, the album had little success, selling about 5,000 copies, and its only single, "Soap Disco", failed commercially. Finally, on Cavallo's exit from the label, Reprise decided to drop the band. Disappointed with the results of their album, the band broke up. Later, Levine would say of the experience: "Karaâs Flowers was just floating up the wall beneath the sticks.

Make a record quickly, put it out. No touring base, no nothing. Just try to make it happen right out of the gate and it just doesnât work". Read Less TWENTIES Show Less After the break up of Kara's Flowers, Levine, along with Carmichael, left Los Angeles to pursue further studies in New York. On MTV News, in 2002, he said: "That's when I started waking up to the whole hip-hop, R&B thing. … Read More We had friends named Chaos and Shit. It was not Brentwood High". After dropping out of Five Towns College, in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York, where he and Jesse Carmichael spent a semester, they reunited with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form a band once more. They experimented with several styles, including country and folk, before deciding groove-based music would become their genre. Levine explained the need for a makeover for the band: "We were just so sick of being a typical rock 'n'roll band...

I felt like I needed to look elsewhere for vocal inspiration." The band put together a demo that was rejected by several labels, before falling into the hands of Octone Records executives James Diener, Ben Berkman, and David Boxenbaum. Following Berkman's advice, the band added a fifth member, James Valentine, and was renamed Maroon 5. In an interview with HitQuarters, Berkman explained that Levine "seemed to be a very shy, shoe-gazing type... a fifth member could play the guitar to free up the singer Levine, so he could be the star I perceived him to be". Read Less … Around this time, Levine had been working as a writer's assistant on the CBS television show Judging Amy, whose producer Barbara Hall was his family friend. While on the show, he would spend time writing songs about his ex-girlfriend Jane. Read Less These songs were put into Maroon 5's debut album Songs About Jane, which was released in June 2002. The album slowly gained airplay, and eventually became a sleeper hit, selling an estimated 10 million copies and becoming the tenth best-selling album of 2004, two years after its release.

In 2005, Maroon 5 won their first Grammy Award, for Best New Artist. … Read More The next year, they won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the second Songs About Jane single "This Love".<br /><br /> By 2006, the band started recording once again, and in May 2007, Maroon 5's second album It Won't Be Soon Before Long was released. Levine described the album as "a vast improvement", explaining: "I think this record is a little more self-confident and powerful lyrically". To support the album, the band performed on a "six-date club tour" in which they visited small venues in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami, and New York City in early June 2007. The album and its lead, third and penultimate singles ("Makes Me Wonder", "Won't Go Home Without You" and "If I Never See Your Face Again", respectively) each received Grammy nominations, although only "Makes Me Wonder" secured a win. Read Less 2005 26 Years Old Levine has collaborated with several musical artists.

In 2005, he was featured on the song "Live Again" by hip-hop duo Ying Yang Twins. … Read More The same year, he appeared on Kanye West's album Late Registration, on the third single, "Heard 'Em Say", a collaboration Levine called "very pure and very easy". The song was created during an airplane flight that he and West shared, and its refrain was later used for the Maroon 5 song "Nothing Lasts Forever" from It Won't Be Soon Before Long. He also appeared on Alicia Keys' third album Alicia Keys: MTV Unplugged, as part of the cover of The Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses". Around the same time, he featured on fellow Octone Records singer K'naan's single "Bang Bang". In 2009, he recorded "Gotten", a song for Slash's first solo album Slash (2010). In February 2010, he was among approximately 80 musicians who sang on the charity-single remake of "We Are the World", called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti". In 2011, he appeared on the Gym Class Heroes song, "Stereo Hearts".

He also worked with hip-hop artist 50 Cent on his song "My Life", recording the vocals almost two years before it was released as a single in 2012, which included rapper Eminem. He is also featured as a singer for his band's song "She Will Be Loved" in the music rhythm game, Band Hero. Read Less 2007 28 Years Old Levine has made four notable comic appearances on television. During 2007, he appeared in the 33rd season premiere of Saturday Night Live in an SNL Digital Short called Iran So Far, performing with Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen and Jake Gyllenhaal. … Read More Levine played himself while singing a humorous bridge to a "love song" for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read Less Show Less In 2008, he performed on Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars". He also had a cameo on Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the night of stars and endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election.

THIRTIES Show Less … Born and raised in Los Angeles 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. The band split up after their only album, The Fourth World (released in 1997), which did not gain popularity. In 2001, the group was reformed â with guitarist James Valentine joining the line-up â and began a new musical chapter, changing their name to Maroon 5. In 2002, the band released their first album, Songs About Jane, which went multi-platinum in the US. Since then, they have released four more albums, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012) and V (2014). 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. <br /><br />Since 2011, Levine has served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice.

The winners of the first, fifth and ninth seasons, Javier Colon, Tessanne Chin and Jordan Smith, were on his team. Read Less 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. … Read More He also starred in the film Begin Again. Read Less In 2012, Levine appeared as a recurring character in American Horror Story: Asylum, the second season of the anthology series. … Read More He plays Leo Morrison, a newly-wed photographer visiting modern-day Briarcliff Manor, an insane asylum, on honeymoon with wife. Teresa, played by Jenna Dewan-Tatum. The scenes were shot around his summer touring schedule. In an interview with E!, he said of his role: "It sounded like so much fun and that's why I wanted to do it... this sounds, like, hysterical, funny, dark and cool and right up my alley". However, he admitted to not being a fan of the show nor horror genre in general, stating he didn't watch the episodes because "it's just so weird and disturbing".

Read Less He was ranked #41 on Glamour's "Sexiest Men of 2012" list. … Read More In 2008, he appeared on People's "Single and Sexy Men" list. He was elected TV's Most Crushworthy Male Reality Host/Judge in a poll held by Zap2it. In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked him Number 7 on its list of "Top 50 Hottest Jewish men in the world". Levine stripped naked for testicular cancer awareness for a centerfold in Cosmopolitan UK's February 2011 issue. Read Less Levine founded his own record label, 222 Records, in February 2012. … Read More He stated that he was inspired to start the label to sign on Rozzi Crane, an USC music student he discovered through a mutual friend. She became the first singer signed on to the label, followed by Glee actor Matthew Morrison, Mexican artist Diego Boneta and The Voice season 2 contestant and part of Team Adam, the singer Tony Lucca.

It was reported that he was negotiating further with potential distributors, as well as organizing staff, to operate as a full-fledged record company with departments such as marketing, radio and publicity. Read Less … Levine's popularity outside of his musical work has seen him tagged as a "stand-alone star", which critics say have pushed other members of Maroon 5 to the backseat, even in their music. Their guitarist Valentine noted that his vocals were a central aspect around which their music revolved. Conversely, others opine that Levine's fame has been a boost to the band, with Paper writing: "Maroon 5 has managed to ebb and flow with the times... thanks in no small part to their frontman's uncanny ability to be extremely entertaining". Delta Sky described him as "a natural, if slightly neurotic, leading man". He claims that the image was consciously cultivated, explaining: "We talked about it a long time ago and decided I would step out, for us, not for me or my own ego... We wanted there to be a frontman".

<br /><br />In early 2010, while performing at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release party in Las Vegas, Levine met Russian Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover-model Anne Vyalitsyna. Read Less They began a relationship which ended in April 2012. Levine began dating Namibian Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo in May 2012.They got married in July of 2014. Prinsloo gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, in September 2016. … Read More Levine practices yoga under instructor Chad Dennis and has stated that "yoga will drastically improve you in every way imaginable". He began the practice as a way to relieve his back pain and eventually replaced his weightlifting with yoga.<br /><br /> Levine, whose brother openly identifies as gay, is an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. In 2011, he made a video on Maroon 5's official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project.

Read Less In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the "unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8". In June 2012, Levine was cast in the musical romance-drama film Begin Again. … Read More The film was directed by John Carney and had Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo play the lead roles. In it, he plays Dave Kohl, Knightley's songwriting partner and former boyfriend of five years, who leaves her behind on finding success in the music industry. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival to generally favorable reviews from critics. Read Less Show Less As an entrepreneur, Levine launched his own eponymous fragrance line in 2013. … Read More The same year, he collaborated with K-Mart and ShopYourWay.com to develop his menswear collection. He also owns a record label, 222 Records. Read Less In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that "sources familiar with his many business dealings" estimated Levine would earn more than $35 million that year.

In 2013, he hosted Saturday Night Live and featured alongside Kendrick Lamar on Lonely Island's digital short "YOLO", which parodies the acronym for You Only Live Once. … Read More His hosting was generally disliked by reviewers, who called it "mediocre" and "subpar".<br /><br /> Since its inception in 2011, Levine has served as a contestant judge/coach on the reality talent TV show, The Voice. The winner of the first season, Javier Colon, was on his team, as was the Season 5 winner, Tessanne Chin and Season 9 winner Jordan Smith. The Voice has been credited with reviving Maroon 5's "faltering" career after the sub-par sales of Hands All Over as well as increasing Levine's popularity. According to polling firm E-Poll Market Research, awareness of Levine has nearly tripled since he joined the show. He has also been described as the "breakout" star of the series, with #TeamAdam and @AdamLevine scoring a respective 203,000 and 2.14 million Twitter mentions in the show's third season, higher than all the other coaches.

Read Less In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter estimated that Levine was paid $10â12 million for each season of The Voice. In November 2013, Levine was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, becoming the first singer and the second non-actor (after John F. Kennedy, Jr.) to claim the title. In 2013, Levine collaborated with ID Perfumes to create his debut eponymous scent. … Read More The line was launched at the Premiere Fragrance Installation in Los Angeles in February 2013. The fragrance range, consisting of scents for both for men and women, is sold through Macy's department stores in microphone-shaped bottles. Speaking at its launch, Levine said: "The task was to make something that I would wear. So that was a process and we finally came to a great conclusion and it smells great" The fragrance garnered media attention for contradicting his tweet the previous year, in which he said that he wanted to "put an official ban on celebrity fragrances. Punishable by death from this point forward".

Read Less In 2013, Adam Levine became a celebrity spokesperson for Proactiv, a well-known company with acne-fighting products. … Read More In the commercial, Adam shares details about his acne experiences in high school, and promotes Proactiv Plus. Read Less In 2013, it was announced that Levine would be entering a partnership with Sears Holdings to launch a multi-department lifestyle brand to develop apparel and accessories collections. … Read More The company, which owns Kmart and ShopYourWay, a shopping social platform, also included rapper Nicki Minaj in the same contract. The menswear collection was launched on October 1 that year and conducts business via 500 Kmart stores across the US, as well as online. In an official statement, Levine said: "Partnering with ShopYourWay to develop this line was an exciting opportunity for me and I am really looking forward to diving into the process of designing an apparel and accessory collection". In an interview with People, he commented further, "it was cool that they really promoted creative control.

I like to be involved with process rather than just phoning it in".<br /><br /> Levine's interest in music started at around ten years of age, when he first started playing the guitar. He found music an outlet for feelings, stating: "I picked up a guitar and that was it. I fell so madly in love with it, it's all I did". He performed his first professional gig at The Troubadour when he was twelve, but was so nervous he played with his back to the audience. Throughout his childhood, he had been influenced by the diverse groups like the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Nirvana, and, in high school, by Bob Marley, Bill Withers, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson. He also incorporated elements of The Police and Prince into his music. Read Less … Levine refuses to fit his music into a genre, saying: "There's so much variety in music, it's silly to belong to a specific club and try to sound a certain way".

He considers himself an orthodox lyricist sticking to conventional themes, acknowledging: "Romance, love, the lack thereof are still very big themes. I haven't figured out a way to use everything yet. As a songwriter, I'm still limited to that one thing." He also claims he does not like mincing words, stating in a Rolling Stone interview: "I was so sick of typical lyrics like 'Ooh, baby' and 'I love you' and all this vague shit. I thought the more explicit I got without being totally explicit was a nice approach". <br /><br />Levine is tenor, he has a 3 and a half octave vocal range and has been noted for his falsettos. Salon wrote: "When heâs crooning come-ons, his voice lends the music a satisfying lewdness, a sense of sticky physicality that gives his snaky hooks a pheromonal urgency." In a review of It Won't Be Soon Before Long, Entertainment Weekly described his vocals as "smug, R&B-slick deadpan... there's a twisted logic to his dispassionate delivery".

In another review, Allmusic noted that "he knows that he's a pop guy, somewhat in the tradition of Hall & Oates, but he isn't trying to be retro, he's... making records that are melodic, stylish, and soulful". Read Less In a review of the 2013 Honda Civic Tour, The Boston Globe also commented positively on his on-stage presence, which "exudes a sense of up-for-anything playfulness... combined with a rock solid work ethic and a clear love for their audiences and performing". In 2013, Levine was mentioned in a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by an unnamed security guard who claimed that Universal Music Publishing Group's Santa Monica location was "infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices and openly used in common areas, and lounges". … Read More The guard claimed that when she complained about the cannabis smoke coming from one of the studios, she was told that "it's Adam Levine... if he wants to come to the lobby and do a line of cocaine on the floor, it's OK". In an official statement to The Hollywood Reporter, UMPG described the allegations as "absurd".

Read Less 2015 36 Years Old In 2015, Adam Levine was featured on duo, R. City's, single, "Locked Away". 2016 37 Years Old In June 2016, sources close to Levine stated he was considering not returning to The Voice after the murder of former contestant Christina Grimmie, citing his feelings of guilt over the singer's death and his belief that The Voice should do more to protect its current and former contestants. … Read More In October 2008, Levine collaborated with First Act to create the First Act 222 Guitar, which was fashioned to his specifications. The guitar was made available for purchase at Target retail stores. Two years later, he launched his own fashion line, entitled "222", at the Project Trade Show in Las Vegas. The collection is a minimalistic line of jeans, basic T-shirts and leather jackets, a style he described as "simple and pure and durable".

The venture was organized in partnership with his father, Fred Levine (who operates a chain of specialty boutiques), and his cousin, Sami Cooper.<br /><br /> In June 2011, Levine took part in an educational campaign to raise awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The project, titled "Own It", was created by Shire and organized in collaboration with the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA), Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD). The project targets people who were previously diagnosed with the disorder, focusing on how it may continue into adulthood. Levine, who himself was diagnosed with it as a teenager, said, "This campaign is important to me because it can help young adults and adults realize that there's a chance they may still have ADHD if they had it as a kid". In connection to this, he wrote an article in ADDitude Magazine about his personal experience with it. Read Less Original Authors of this text are noted on .

Adam Levine — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm adam levine Adam Levine (born Adam Noah Levine; March 18, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, widely known as the lead vocalist for the Los Angeles pop rock band, Maroon 5 . Born and raised in Los Angeles, 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. After the commercial failure of their only album, The Fourth World… read more Adam Levine - Watch Viooz Adam Levine Los Angeles - California - USA: Biography: Adam Noah Levine is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor, widely known as the lead vocalist for the Los Angeles pop rock band, Maroon 5. Born and raised in Los Angeles, 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.

After the commercial failure of their only album, The Fourth World (released in 1997), the band split up. 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. In 2002, the band released their first album, Songs About Jane, which went multi-platinum in the US. Since then, they have released four more albums, It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012) and V (2014). 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. Since 2011, Levine has served as a coach on NBC's reality talent show The Voice. The winners of the first and fifth seasons, Javier Colon and Tessanne Chin, were on his team. 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.

He also appeared in the film Begin Again. As an entrepreneur, Levine launched his own eponymous fragrance line in 2013. The same year, he collaborated with Kmart and ShopYourWay.com to develop his menswear collection. He also owns a record label, 222 Records. In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that "sources familiar with his many business dealings" estimated Levine would earn more than $35 million that year. Film Credits

Question: Adam Levine is the lead singer of which US pop rock band?
Answer: Maroon 5