
Songs About Jane was followed by the successful albums It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007) and Hands All Over (2010), the latter of which featured the smash hit "Moves Like Jagger." Levine also found success along the way by appearing on other musicians' albums, working with such superstars as Kanye West, Alicia Keys and Natasha Bedingfield. The band would go on to win Grammys for Best Pop Performance in 20. Maroon 5 earned their first Grammy Award (Best New Artist) in 2004. The singles' accompanying music videos turned Levine into an instant sex symbol. Two years later, after slowly climbing the charts with hits like "Harder to Breathe," "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved," the album went platinum. The band then changed its name to Maroon 5 and released its debut album, Songs About Jane, in 2002. There, they reunited with the other members of Kara's Flowers and added a new member, guitarist James Valentine, with Carmichael moving to keyboards. Levine and Carmichael dropped out of Five Towns and returned to Los Angeles in 2000. Living in New York exposed the pair to an entirely different music scene, involving large doses of R&B and hip-hop, and Levine would later say that living in New York had a large impact on his musical point-of-view. Levine and Carmichael left Los Angeles for Long Island, New York, to attend Five Towns College, a music and performing arts school.

Kara's Flowers released one single, "Soap Disco," and appeared on an episode of Beverly Hills 90210, before breaking up. The band released its first album, The Fourth World, in 1997, as high school seniors. He formed his first band, Kara's Flowers, while attending the private Brentwood School with friends and fellow students Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick. The following year, Maroon 5 released its fourth studio album, Overexposed, featuring hits like "One More Night" and "Payphone." In 2014, Levine and his bandmates hit the charts with V, which included "Maps" and "Animals," and three years later released Red Pill Blues (2017), offering hits like "What Lovers Do," "Wait" and "Girls Like You." Early Life and First BandĪdam Noah Levine was born on March 18, 1979, in Los Angeles, California. In 2011, he branched out into television as a judge/coach on the reality singing show The Voice.

Adam Levine is the Grammy Award-winning lead singer of the band Maroon 5, whose success includes several chart-topping hits and gold and platinum albums.
