Maroon 5 - Wikipedia. Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California.[9][1. It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton and multi- instrumentalist Sam Farrar. Original members Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in 1.

The band self- released an album called We Like Digging?, then signed to Reprise Records and released the album The Fourth World in 1. After the album garnered a tepid response, the band parted ways with the record label and the members attended college. In 2. 00. 1, the band changed its image by adding guitarist James Valentine and pursuing a different direction under the name Maroon 5.[1. At this point, Carmichael switched to playing keyboards, which has since become his main instrument in the band. After these changes, the band signed with a subsidiary of J Records, Octone Records, and released their debut album as Maroon 5, Songs About Jane, in June 2. The album's lead single, "Harder to Breathe", received heavy airplay, which helped the album to debut at number six on the Billboard 2. In 2. 00. 4, the album went platinum and has been dubbed "the sleeper hit of the millennium".

The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2. For the next few years, Maroon 5 toured extensively worldwide in support of Songs About Jane and produced two live recordings: 2.

Acoustic and 2. 00. Live – Friday the 1.

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In 2. 00. 6, Dusick officially left Maroon 5 after suffering from serious wrist and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Matt Flynn. The band then recorded their second album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long and released it in May 2. The album reached number one on the US Billboard 2. Makes Me Wonder", became the band's first number- one single on the Billboard Hot 1. In September 2. 01. Maroon 5 released their third studio album Hands All Over, which was re- released in 2. Moves like Jagger" featuring Christina Aguilera.

While the original version of the album received mixed reviews, "Moves like Jagger" reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 1. The band released their fourth album, Overexposed, on June 2. All four singles of the album were highly successful on the Billboard Hot 1.

One More Night", which reached number one for 9 weeks straight. In 2. 01. 2, keyboardist PJ Morton became an official member of the band, after gaining little success with his previous albums as an R& B vocalist. The addition of PJ Morton meant that for the first time, Maroon 5 had six official members. The same year, the group's friend and long- time collaborator, as well as the bass player of Phantom Planet - Sam Farrar - joined Maroon 5 as a touring member, playing many different instruments (including guitars, percussion and additional keyboards), singing backing vocals and also providing samples and other special effects. In 2. 01. 4, the band signed with Interscope Records and released their fifth studio album, V.

In late 2. 01. 6, Farrar eventually became an official member and the sixth studio album Red Pill Blues was released on November 3, 2. Maroon 5 have sold more than 2. History[edit]1. 99. Kara's Flowers and the formation of Maroon 5[edit]Adam Levine was introduced to Ryan Dusick by a mutual friend and guitarist, Adam Salzman. Levine was 1. 5 years old and Dusick was 1. Three of the five members of the band started playing together at age 1. The four original members of the band met while attending Brentwood EMH School in Los Angeles.[1.

While attending Brentwood EMH School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Kara's Flowers,[2. The name was taken from a girl that went to their high school that the band had a "collective crush" on.[2. In 1. 99. 7, when the band was playing at 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 De. Nicola, who is known for his work on Dirty Dancing – including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". Producer Rob Cavallo's management team heard the record Allen and De. Nicola produced, which eventually led Cavallo to offer them a deal with Reprise Records, re- recording the album.[2.

However, after the release of The Fourth World, during Levine and Madden's senior year of high school in 1. Britpop.[2. 0] Despite high expectations from the band and record company, the album failed to catch on and their lead single, "Soap Disco", was a failure.[2. DC Showcase: Superman_Shazam!: The Return Of Black Adam Full Movie In English.

According to Levine, the failure of the album was "a huge disappointment" that nearly led them to break up in 1. The album sold around 5,0. Dusick and Madden attended college locally at UCLA, while Levine and Carmichael relocated to the East coast to attend Five Towns College, in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York.[2. While Levine and Carmichael were in New York, they began to take notice of the urban music surrounding them and later let the style influence the songs they wrote.[2.

The band returned to the music industry again in 2. Producer Tim Sommer signed them to a demo deal with MCA Records and produced three tracks with them in Los Angeles in the middle of 2. Mark Dearnley engineering. Against Sommer's advice, MCA declined to pick up the band, and these tracks were never released.

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.[2. While looking for talent for the Octone label, Berkman was given a bunch of demos by the brother of a former colleague at Columbia Records and the song that caught his attention was "'Sunday Morning'" which he referred it as a "genius song".[2. Berkman was surprised the song was credited to Kara's Flowers, because the band sounded completely different from the one he had heard while at Warner Brothers.[2. Berkman encouraged Diener and Boxenbaum to fly out to Los Angeles to watch a showcase gig at The Viper Room for the four- piece Kara's Flowers.[2. After watching Levine onstage, they were convinced. Berkman told Hit.

Quarters he believed what the band needed was a "fifth member to play the guitar and free up the singer, so he could be the star I perceived him to be."[2. Octone immediately insisted that the band change its name to break with its pop past.[2.

Also, the label began looking for a full- time guitarist to enable Levine to focus on performing as the frontman. James Valentine (from the L.

A. band Square) was recruited for the job.[2. On his joining the band, Valentine commented: "I became friends with them and we sort of started jamming together, it was very much like I was cheating on my band, we were having sort of an affair and I eventually quit my other band to join up with them."[2. Songs About Jane and Dusick's departure[edit]"Between the time that we started making the album [Songs About Jane] in 2.

Ryan Dusick, Maroon 5's original drummer, who officially left the band in 2. Maroon 5 in concert in 2. James Valentine attended Berklee College of Music with John Mayer in 1.

In 2. 00. 2, the two reconnected at a Mayer radio appearance.