Mayer John

John Clayton Mayer was born to Margaret and Richard Mayer on October 16, 1977 in Bridgeport , Connecticut . He is the middle child among his two brothers, Ben and Karl. His mother, Margaret, taught English, his father, Richard, was the principal of the school. On the paternal side, Mayer is a Jew. On maternal - Crimean Tatar from Feodosia. John grew up in the town of Fairfield, where his close friend was James Blake , the future star of tennis.

At school he took violin and clarinet lessons. When John turned thirteen, his father rented a guitar for him, and Mayer began taking lessons from the local owner of the music store. A neighbor presented John with a Stevie Ray Won cassette, with which his love for blues began. The desire to play the guitar came to him after watching the movie "Back to the Future" , "when Michael J. Fox played" Johnny Be Goode ". I think - after that I decided on playing the guitar. "

Subsequently, John began to listen to The Police, by Jimi Hendrix , but most of all by Stevie Ray Vaughn , who became his idol and biggest inspiration in playing the guitar.

At age 16, John began performing in clubs. At an older age, he became a member of the group "Villanova Junction", along with Tim Procaccini, Joe Balesney and Rich Wolf, but did not stay there for long.

At age 19, John Mayer enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston. However, influenced by his classmate Clay Cook , a year later, John dropped out of school and moved with Cook to Atlanta, Georgia. There, they both formed the LoFi Masters band and performed at local clubs. Due to disagreements in the choice of musical style, Meyer left the group and began a solo career. John released his first album, entitled “Inside Wants Out,” in 1999, and a year later released his breakthrough disc, “Room for Squares,” with the smash hit “No Such Thing” (a text based on a conversation with mother).

In 2000, John signed a contract with Columbia Records and in 2001 released the second version of “Inside Wants Out” with the bonus track “3x5”.

In 2003, John won his first Grammy Award for "Best Male Pop Vocal" for "Your Body is a Wonderland." He also released his first live DVD that year, “Any Given Thursday.” In the summer of 2004, John participated in Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival , where he played along with the greatest guitarists of our time. He really became one of them.

John began to play mostly acoustic rock, but then switched to the blues ... Daughters, Wheel.

Has toured in North America, Asia and Europe for three full years. In early 2005, John won two Grammy Awards , ("Best Male Pop Vocal", and "Song of the Year" for "Daughters"), which caused tears of pride in the eyes of his fans.

Now John Mayer is one of the most respected guitarists of our time, both among beginners and among distinguished artists.

In 2013, released the album "Paradise Valley", highly praised by critics.

On June 1, 2004, at Esquire, Mayer began leading a personal program, "Musical Lessons with John Mayer." Each issue has a new lesson, as well as on personal and social topics, full of sparkling humor. In a magazine in August 2005, he invited readers to create poems for the music he wrote. The winner was Tim Fagan from Los Angeles. John Mayer never paid him a dime for it.

Mayer is an active Internet user and has four blogs at different times: MySpace page , a blog on his official website, another at Honeyee.com , one at tumblr.com , as well as a photo blog at StunningNikon.com. He is one of the most visited people on his Twitter blog, 3 million users in January 2010. (The blog ceased to exist on September 13, 2010. At the time of closing, the number of readers was 3.7 million) . On February 1, 2014, Katy Perry, who was Mayer's girlfriend at the time, announced that he was back on Twitter ^[2] .

Although his blogs most often deal with career-related issues, they also contain jokes, videos, and photographs. He is known for writing on his own blog, and not through a publicist.

In the mid-2000s, comedy shows became Mayer's peculiar hobby. He appeared in the famous Comedy Cellar in New York.

In 2004, Mayer took part in a half-hour comedy, on the television show VH1 . This is a series with various antics from concerts. On January 14, 2009, the American CBS announced that they were negotiating with Mayer for his participation in show variety shows. In an interview with Rolling Stone on January 22, 2010, Mayer confirmed this.

John Mayer often appears on talk shows and other television programs. He can be seen in the Chappelle's Show comedy skit, Late Night with David Letterman and in the final episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien .

Also, John Mayer took part in episode 1 of season 7 of the CSI crime series : Crime Scene , where he performed two compositions. In 2015, he starred in a cameo role of himself (a cameo) in the Ethan Cohen-Crepis film!

Among the girlfriends of John Mayer at different times were Jennifer Love Hewitt , Jessica Simpson , Minka Kelly , Jennifer Aniston , Taylor Swift . Despite the rumors, Meyer has never been close to Heidi Klum . Since June 2012, he began dating American singer Katy Perry . During the relationship, they parted several times. In July 2015, the couple broke up again ^[3] .

On October 24, 2017, John announced through his Twitter account that he hadn’t been drinking alcohol for exactly a year ^[4] . At the same time, before (June 28, 2017) in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, he admitted that he had replaced drinking alcohol with smoking marijuana ^[5] .

Studio albums

• 2001 - Room for Squares
• 2003 - Heavier Things
• 2006 - Continuum
• 2009 - Battle Studies
• 2012 - Born and Raised
• 2013 - Paradise Valley
• 2017 - The Search for Everything

Mayer received 7 Grammy awards, was nominated 19 times.

• www.johnmayer.com
• Meyer's official Mayer John page on Myspace
• John Mayer Auction site
• Official John Mayer Trio site
• Blackberry Presents: John Mayer's 2008 Summer Tour
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