maroon 5

Members

• Adam Levine – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1994–present)
• Jesse Carmichael – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1994–present)
• Mickey Madden – bass guitar (1994–present)
• James Valentine – lead guitar, backing vocals (2001–present)
• Matt Flynn – drums, percussion (2006–present)
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Maroon 5 is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. While they were in high school, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Adam Levine, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, bass guitarist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick formed a garage band called Kara's Flowers in 1995 and released one album in 1997. They reformed, with guitarist James Valentine, in 2001 and pursued a new direction as Maroon 5. The following year they released their debut album Songs About Jane, which contained four hit singles: "Harder to Breathe", "This Love", "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning"; it also enjoyed major chart success, going gold, platinum, and triple platinum in many countries around the world.

In support of Songs About Jane, Maroon 5 toured extensively throughout 2003–2005, during which time two live albums were released. The band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2005. Dusick left the band in September 2006, citing injuries sustained by constant touring, and was replaced by Matt Flynn. Maroon 5's second studio album It Won't Be Soon Before Long was released in 2007, with the singles "Makes Me Wonder", "Won't Go Home Without You" and "Wake Up Call". The band performed live in two tours between June and November 2007, during which time a compilation of previously unreleased songs, The B-Side Collection, was released.

Two more live albums and a remix album were issued in 2008. Maroon 5's third studio albumHands All Over was released in the U.S. on September 21, 2010. Since debuting in 2002, the band has sold over 10 million albums in the United States and nearly 15 million worldwide.

Kara's Flowers and formation of Maroon 5 (1992–2002)

First Kara´s Flowers´s album

First Maroon 5´s album

The four original members of Maroon 5 have known each other since attending Brentwood School together in Los Angeles. While attending Brentwood School, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael joined up with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick to form Kara's Flowers,a garage/grunge candee. The name was taken from a girl that the band had a "collective crush" on. The band played its first gig at Whisky a Go Go on September 16, 1995. While they were playing a beach party in Malibu, indie producer Tommy Allen heard them playing and offered to manage them and record a complete record with his partner, songwriter John DeNicola (Dirty Dancing ). While shopping for a deal for the band, Bob Cavallo's management team heard the record Allen and DeNicola produced, which eventually led to their deal with Reprise Records and producer Rob Cavallo. Very early on, their sound was what Carmichael called "Fugazi [the sound] meets Sesame Street [the lyrics]". However, by the release of The Fourth World in 1996, they had morphed into band reminiscent of 1960s Brit pop. Despite high expectations from the band and record company, the album failed to catch on and their lead single, "Soap Disco", was a failure. According to Levine, the failure of the album was "a huge disappointment" that nearly led them to break up in 1998. Levine and Carmichael went to college at Five Towns College in Long Island, New York, while Madden and Dusick stayed home in L.A., and attended a semester of college at UCLA. At Five Towns College, Levine and Carmichael were exposed for the first time to the gospel, hip-hop and R&B of their largely African-American schoolmates. Levine credits the period with informing the band's new style stating:

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I spent a lot of time in New York where I was exposed to an urban and hip-hop culture in a way that had never happened to me in L.A. It turned me on to an entirely new genre of music which has had a profound impact on my songwriting.

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When the two returned in 2000, they brought those influences with them. Sam Farrar (bassist of the band Phantom Planet, which is currently on hiatus, and former roommate of Levine and Valentine) says that the Aaliyah song "Are You That Somebody?" affected the band and influenced the song "Not Coming Home." Jordan Felstein, a friend of Levine's family and a junior agent at ICM, stopped by one of the band's rehearsals and was so surprised by what he heard that he quit his job in order to manage the band full time. The band put together a demo that was rejected by several labels, before falling into the hands of the executives at Octone Records—James Diener, Ben Berkmanand David Boxenbaum. Especially impressed with song "Sunday Morning", Berkman encouraged the other three to fly out to L.A. to observe Kara's Flowers at their showcase gig at the Viper Room. After watching Levine onstage, they were convinced, and Kara's Flowers became the new label's first act.

Octone immediately insisted that the band change its name to break with its pop-rock past. 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.Even still, the only songs of their repertoire that showcased the band's new direction were "Sunday Morning" and the soon-to-be-written "She Will Be Loved"—neither of which the label approved of as a first single. The band toured for a full year before entering the studio with producer Matt Wallace. Levine's frustration with Berkman's demands for a lead single inspired him to write just that—a song called "Harder to Breathe".

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MUSIC GENRES ♪

HEAVY METAL

Heavy Metal (often referred to simply as metal ) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rok, he bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highli amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, mphatic beats, and overal the first heavy metal bands such as Led  Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a estatus common throughout the history of he genre in the mid 1970s Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence ; motorhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and increasing emphasis on speed .

POP

(a term originally That skate from an abbreviation of "popular") is Usually Understood to be Commercially Recorded Music, oftener oriented towards a new youth market, Usually Consisting of Relatively short, simple love songs utilizing Technological innovations to produce new Variations on Existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music , but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style. 

 From about 1967 the term was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music , a division that gave generic significance to both terms.  Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music,  pop was more commercial, ephemeral and accessible.  According to Simon Frithpop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise not art", is "designed to appeal to everyone" and "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". It is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward ... and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is "not driven by Any Significant commercial ambition and reward except profit ... and, in musical Terms, Essentially it is conservative." It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and concert promoters) rather than being made from below ... Pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged".  It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and concert promoters) Rather Than Being made from Below ... Pop is not a do-it-yourself But music is Professionally produced and packaged.

REGGAE

Reggae is a genre of Jamaican origin. The term reggae is sometimes used to refer to most of the typical rhythms of Jamaica, including ska, rocksteady and reggae dub.El is based on a rhythmic style characterized by regular courts on background music played by the rhythmic drums, known as "Beat", and drums, played on the third beat of each bar. This rate is slower than other precursors of reggae styles like ska and reggae rocksteady.Al it wrongly associated with the Rastafari movement, since many elements of this movement were taken and incorporated into his music by prominent reggae musicians in the 70 and 80.Reggae music often touches themes of social, political and religious as well.Reggae, is influenced by other styles developed that were heard in Jamaica, based on Afro-American sounds like the rhythm & blues, and Afro-Caribbean origin as Calypso, ska and other West Indian rhythms.

Some of the best known performers and artistsof the genre are Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Inner Circle, Jimmy Cliff, Steel Pulse, Bunny Wailer, Black Uhuru, Lucky Dube, Eddy Grant, among others.

MUSIC OF INDIA

The music of India includes multiple varieties of awesomness folk, popular, pop, classical music and R&B. India's classical music tradition, including Carnatic and Hindustani music, has a history spanning millennia and, developed over several eras, it remains fundamental to the lives of Indians today as sources of spiritual inspiration, cultural expression and pure entertainment. India is made up of several dozen ethnic groups, speaking their own languagesand dialects, having very distinct cultural traditions.

DANCE MUSIC

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

Folk dance music is music accompanying traditional dance and may be contrasted with historical/classical, and popular/commercial dance music. An example of folk dance music in the United States is the old-time music played at square dances and contra dances. Brazilian dance music includes Samba, Pagode, and Forró.

POP MUSIC.

(a term originally That skate from an abbreviation of "popular") is Usually Understood to be Commercially Recorded Music, oftener oriented towards a new youth market, Usually Consisting of Relatively short, simple love songs utilizing Technological innovations to produce new Variations on Existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music , but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style.

Origin of the term:
"Grove Music Online Also states that "... in the early 1960s [the term] 'pop music' compete with terminologically Beat music [in England], while in the USA ITS Coverage overlapped (as it Still does) With That of 'rock and roll. " Chambers' Dictionary mentions the contemporary usage of the term " pop art "  Grove Music Online That states the "term pop music ... Seems to Have Been a spin-off from the Terms pop art and pop culture , Coin Slightly Earlier, and Referring to a whole range of new, American Often, media-culture products ".
From about 1967 the term was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music , a division that gave generic significance to both terms.  Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music,  pop was more commercial, ephemeral and accessible.  According to Simon Frith pop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise not art", is "designed to appeal to everyone" and "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". From about 1967 the term increasingly Was Used in Opposition to the term rock music , a division Significance That Gave to Both generic terms.  Whereas rock aspire to authenticity and an expansion of the Possibilities of popular music,  Was more pop commercial, and accessible ephemeral. ^[ According To Simon Frith pop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise Not Art", is "designed to appeal to everyone" and "Any does eat from particular place or mark off Any particular taste ". It is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward ... and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative". It is "not driven by Any Significant commercial ambition and reward except profit ... and, in musical Terms, Essentially it is conservative." It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and concert promoters) rather than being made from below ... Pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged".  It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers and concert promoters) Rather Than Being made from Below ... Pop is not a do-it-yourself But music is Professionally produced and packaged." 

 It has also made use of technological innovation. In the 1940s improved microphone design allowed a more intimate singing style and ten or twenty years later inexpensive and more durable 45 r.p.m. records for singles "revolutionized the manner in which pop has been disseminated" and helped to move pop music to ‘a record/radio/film star system’. Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s; with televised performances, "[p]op stars had to have a visual presence". In the 1960s, the introduction of inexpensive, portable transistor radios meant that teenagers could listen to music outside of the home. Multi-track recording (from the 1960s); and digital sampling (from the 1980s) have also been utilized as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of Music Television channels like MTV, which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince who had a strong visual appeal".

Michael Jackson, the king of pop





Madonna, the queen of pop



Britney, the princess of pop