Maroon 5 History

Rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, winner of the Grammy and other awards for her debut album Songs About Jane, published in June 2002, the album enjoyed much success, with gold, platinum, and triple platinum in several countries worldwide. His next acoustic album 1.22.03.Acoustic, which included live songs from the album Songs About Jane, also reached platinum.The group won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005. Ending 2005 published a disc with songs live called Live - Friday The 13th which was recorded in May 2005 in Santa Barbara, California which won the Grammy award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 2006.

This consists of four members (Adam, Jesse, Mickey and Ryan) which met in high school Brentwood High School in Los Angeles, then form Kara's Flowers a garage band / grunge that had its first performance at the Whisky a go -go on September 16, 1995 (Adam Levine sang with a deep voice of "grunge" at that time). the band signed a contract with Reprise Records while still in high school and released their only album the Fourth World in the middle 1997 only three of the four members were about to graduate (Ryan Dusick who was completing his second year at UCLA). They made ​​a video for the opening track "Soap Disco", but this was not successful on MTV. Despite support slots on tours with Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger failure to hit the market in 1999 album the band parted ways with Reprise Records. (Due to their next popularity of Maroon 5, more copies of The Fourth World were sold after the release of

Songs About Jane that during the previous years). After being released by Reprise Records, the four young people attended different universities in the United States. They discovered new musical styles and developed a love for Motown, pop, R & B, soul, and gospel, experiences that influenced much the style and 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 a problem arose the need for an additional guitarist. James Valentine, formerly of the Square band, joined them to fill that void. When Valentine joined Kara's Flowers in 2001, the band adopted the name Maroon, changing it a few months later to Maroon 5 due to a name conflict. The band made ​​promotional appearances in New York City and Los Angeles. Adam Levine recognized in the interim period the influence of new styles in the band in an interview with VH1: "During the time between our negotiations of the disc spend much time in NY where I was exposed to urban and hip-hop culture in a way that I had never happened to me I getback to me with a kind of entirely new music which had a profound impact on my songwriting. " the band signed with Octone Records, an independent label in new York, with distribution through BMG and a deal with an artist perfected with Clive Davis' J Records. the band recorded Songs About Jane with Rumbo Recorders in Los Angeles with producer Matt Wallace, who had also produced for Train, Blues Traveler, Kyle Riabko, and Third Eye Blind . Much of the material that had won the debut album of Maroon 5 was directly inspired by the tumultuous relationship with his ex-girlfriend Jane; "We finished when the band entered the studio , " he explained (Adam Levine). "After a complicated list of songs, we decided to name the album would be Songs About Jane because it felt like the most honest statement we could make with title". The first song "Harder to Breathe" slowly started having position which helped encourage sales of the album. By March 2004, the album reached the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and Harder to Breathe arrived at the listing Billboard 100. The album, 26 months after the release, went to number 6 of the Billboard in August 2004 this was the period longest among the album's release and its initial appearance in the Top 10 since SoundScan results were included in the seat on the Billboard 200 in '91. Songs About Jane had possibly reached the Top 10 on the charts of albums of Australia while Harder to Breathe made ​​the Top 20 on the charts in the UK and the Top 40 in Australia and New Zealand. The album also eventually reached number one in the UK and in Australia. The second song "This Love" was also in the Top 10 in the US and Australia and the Top 3 of the charts in the UK. The third song, "She Will Be Loved", reached the Top 5 in both the UK and US and was number one in Australia. The fourth song, "Sunday Morning", also reached the Top 40 in the US, UK, and Australia. In March 2007, Billboard Magazine and other similar media reported that Maroon 5 was ready to release his second album It will not be Soon Before long (a & M / Octone Records) in a world premiere on May 22, 2007. day Agree with Adam Levine, this new album, successor of its previous and successful album Songs About Jane, will be "much sexier and strong ", taking as inspiration the iróncos artists of the 80 's as Prince, Shabba Ranks, Michael Jackson and Talking Heads. The recording time of the disc took from November 2005 until its completion in mid-September 2006. The first single, "Makes Me Wonder", was released on the radio on 27 March 2007. The completion of Music Video [1] , was in premiere on MTV's Total Request Live and was released in a Show of this American music channel on March 29, 2007. Then on March 31 the same year, Maroon 5 played the song at the awards of Infant chain Nickelodeon 2007.