Maroon 5
About Maroon 5
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California. It consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Adam Levine, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton, and bassist and keyboardist Sam Farrar. Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in February 1994, while they were in high school. After self-releasing their independent album ...We Like Digging?, Kara's Flowers signed to Reprise Records and released their debut studio album, The Fourth World (1997). It garnered a tepid response, after which the record label dropped the band and the members focused on college. In 2001, the band re-emerged as Maroon 5, adding guitarist Valentine. Signed to Octone Records, they released their first album as Maroon 5, titled Songs About Jane (2002). Aided by the hit singles "Harder to Breathe", "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved", the album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 chart and went quadruple platinum in 2005. In the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In 2006, Dusick left the band after...
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Discography
My Blue Ocean
Songs About Jane (2002)
1.22.03.Acoustic (2004)
Live: Friday the 13th (2005)
AOL Sessions (2006)
Take40.com Live Lounge Performance (Telstra Bigpond Exclusive) (2007)
It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (2007)
Live From Le Cabaret: In Montreal, Quebec (2008)
Call and Response: The Remix Album (2008)
2 for 1: Songs About Jane + It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2010)
Hands All Over (2010)
iTunes Session (2011)
Overexposed (2012)
5 Classic Albums (2014)
V (2014)
