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| Myspace Layouts BIOGRAPHY Maroon 5 comenzaron su carrera musical como Kara's Flowers, pero no tuvieron mucha suerte. Pero su persistencia di? lugar a la creaci?n de una nueva banda, el plan B era Maroon 5, y ya con este su primer disco Songs About Jane han llegado a lo m?s alto; un disco producido por Matt Wallace (The Replacements, Faith No More, Blues Traveler). El disco se publica en Estados Unidos en Junio del 2002. Harder to Breathe, el primer single, sali? en rad... Han demostrado su talento como m?sicos, int?rpretes y compositores con tan solo un disco. Un grupo de j?venes que han conquistado al p?blico norteamericano con m?sica cargada de rock y R&B. El primer sencillo que presentan en Espa?a es This love, y viene precedido de un gran ?xito en Estados Unidos. Puede suceder que el Plan B opaque al Plan A. El vocalista y guitarrista Adam Levine, el guitarrista Jesse Carmichael, el bajista Mickey Madden y el baterista Ryan Dusick acertar?an con esa frase, al ver como su primer disco les di? varias rese?as buenas pero nada m?s. En su sengundo intento con la forma de neo-soul rock y gracias a su canci?n Harder To Breathe, Maroon 5 llega a los m?s alto. Harder to Breathe sali? a radio en el verano del 2002 y unos cuantos meses despu?s la canci?n se encontraba en m?ltiples listas de popularidad de la radio. Realizaron m?s de 300 conciertos, incluyendo ser el telonero para John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Train, y Counting Crows, entre otros, lo que nos ayuda a hacer una lista de razones por las cuales el cd debut de Maroon 5 ha vendido m?s de 1 mill?n copias y ha tenido mucho ?xito en programas como Late Night With David Letterman, Conan O?Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly y Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. Harder To Breathe se coloc? muy bien en listas de Rock Moderno, Triple A y radio Hot AC antes de que se posicionara en el #4 en la lista de las m?s tocadas en el Top 40 de radio. Al mismo tiempo, el v?deo se proyectaba m?s de 20 veces por semana en Inside Track de VH1. Conocidos como Kara's Flowers, Levine, Carmichael y Madden eran importantes en una preparatoria del oeste de Los Angeles (Dusick, quien conoc?a a Levine desde que ten?an nueve y siete respectivamente, ya se hab?an graduado). En esas fechas ten?an 17 a?os y estaban grabando un disco con el legendario productor Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, Michelle Branch). En ese entonces la vida era buena. Pero aqu? terminan las buenas noticias. Despu?s de sacar a la venta The Fourth World, sin mucho ?xito la banda sali? de su discogr?fica. "Nos quedamos pensando, Ok, ?qu? hacemos?" dice Levine. "As? que nos fuimos a la universidad". Dusick y Madden ingresaron a UCLA, Levine y Carmichael empezaron a trabajar en el Plan B, Maroon 5 en los dormitorios en la Universidad del Estado de Nueva York. "En los pasillos se o?a m?sica Gospel y las personas escuchaban cosas que nosotros nunca hab?amos oido, como Biggie Smalls, Missy Elliot y Jay-Z. El disco de Aaliyah acababa de salir a la venta, y est?bamos extasiados. Cuando pienso en componer canciones, pienso en los Beatles, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel... las cosas con las que crec?... pero luego dije, Quiero hacer esto. En ese tiempo tambi?n conoc? el trabajo de Stevie Wonder y me inspir? m?s", menciona Levine. "Empez? a cantar diferente," le dijo a VH1, "y Jesse empez? a tocar los teclados; eso fue lo que cambi? todo". Cuando el duo se junt? nuevamente con Madden y Dusick en Los Angeles le dieron un cambio muy grande a su m?sica agregando elementos de R&B al explosivo rock & roll que ya tra?an. Con el nuevo marco musical vino un nuevo nombre Maroon 5, y un quinto miembro: el guitarrista James Valentine. "James lleg? justamente cuando estabamos decidiendo el nuevo nombre," dice Levine. "Nosotros claramente, ya no ?ramos Kara's Flowers, con James en la banda y un nuevo acercamiento a nuestra m?sica. Tambi?n, si nombras una banda cuando tienes 15, lo m?s probable es que cuando tengas 23 ya no te guste tanto". Con una nueva actitud, un nuevo sonido y un nuevo nombre, Maroon 5 r?pidamente llam? la atenci?n de las discogr?ficas. Octone Records, una nueva discogr?fica independiente de Nueva York (y socio de J Records), firm? al grupo, y en el 2001 Maroon 5 entr? al estudio con el productor Matt Wallace (The Replacements, Faith No More, Blues Traveler). "Yo estaba interesado en hacer un disco que fuera puramente R&B," recuerda Levine. "Tengo que agradecer a la gente de Octone por que ellos fueron los que nos forzaron a trabajar en el ?lbum. Matt Wallace tambi?n dijo que hab?a mucha qu?mica y rock & roll en la banda que iba a ser muy tr?gico que se perdiera todo eso. Nos metimos a grabar bater?a en vivo sobre pedazos ya grabados y terminamos haciendo m?s un disco de rock, y pienso que se da m?s a notar de esa manera". El resultado es el ?lbum Songs About Jane, y sali? a la venta en Junio del 2002. Ritmos funky y melod?as de soul cl?sicas cohabitan con poderosas guitarras y un fuerte sonido de rock. Encima de todo, Levine explica que las vocales hablan sucesivamente de una ex-novia. Lo m?s probable es que identifiques su nombre. Harder To Breathe no es ir?nicamente una canci?n acerca de Jane. "Hubo mucha presi?n al escribir," recuerda Levine. "Yo s?lo quiero crear m?sica cuando est? en el humor para hacerlo y cuando me siento forzado es frustrante. No tengo mucho de qu? quejarme, pero pens? que ya hab?a terminado con el ?lbum. Pero fue lo mejor por que me enoj? tanto que escrib? 'This Love' y 'Harder To Breathe', las cuales son las primeras dos canciones en el disco". Songs About Jane tarda dos a?os en publicarse en Espa?a.

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BiOgraphy MaroOn 5 : May 31, 2006
these are my best friends. throughout the course of our ten years together we have been through so much both individually and as a band. we've tasted failure. relished our amazing success. every one of us has had our hearts broken. we went through fucking puberty together. we know each other. we've grown together. we've grown apart and back together again. so much has happened, and i guess the purpose of this autobiographical drivel is to explain it to the people who want to know where we come from.

on february sixth 1994 we started a band. ryan dusick, jesse carmichael, and i snuck out of the house one weekend and started fantasizing about making music together. we settled on the name that night after delivering birthday roses to a girl. kara's flowers was born. the next day during lunch period we decided to cut mickey madden in as the bassist. ryan would play drums. jesse, guitar. and i would sing. we were terrible. but we knew we would eventually be good. There was amazing chemistry. we played every friday afternoon in ryan's garage. as time went on we started playing shows at LA clubs like the whisky and the roxy hoping to get more famous than pearl jam. but that obviously did not happen.

the band kept playing shows and plugging away. eventually we started to create a small buzz and started working with some producers. We made demos. shopped them around and by the time we were juniors in highschool, we had a record deal from warner bros. on the table. we signed the shit out of it and made our major label debut as kara's flowers during our senior year of high school. it was released in '97 and the second we graduated high school they sent us on the road. We toured for six months to no avail. the record sold five thousand copies, which was pretty much a failure by anyone's standards. we were severely bummed.

time rolled on and the band stuck together. we left warner almost immediately and found ourselves back at square one, which was a bit unsettling for us considering we had more or less blown off college because we were going to become the next beatles. we didn't even become the monkeys. ryan decided to finish school at ucla. mickey got arrested for stealing furniture from ucla. jesse went to santa monica college. and i started smoking too much weed and writing mediocre, uninspired music. (by the way they let mickey go to ucla even though he stole from them.) needless to say the band was in disarray: unfocussed and unmotivated.

a bit more time passed and jesse and i decided to flee for a while. we drove cross-country and did a semester of college at this strange place in long island. we started writing and our musical tastes broadened. we eventually got bored and decided to go home and focus on the band with all of our attention.

now we were at a crucial point in our lives and our collective career. what do we do? we got together and started rehearsing and playing more shows. at one of these shows we met james valentine, who was in a band called square. square was opening for us at the chain reaction in orange county. when i walked into the club i was blown away by james' presence and talent. he was the best fuckin' guitarist i had ever seen. we needed this guy in our band. jesse had been focusing on playing keyboards and i was bearing the burden of all the guitar work, which i hated. so after much prodding and some heavy conversations with james, he decided to hop on board. this was the birth of maroon 5. all of a sudden, the music just started to get better. we were all listening to more hip-hop and r&b music and allowing it to seep into our songwriting. we decided to get really serious, more serious than we ever had been before. because the music was really getting good. FINALLY! so we started playing out more again and label interest followed. we met with everyone all over again. but they essentially all blew smoke up our asses. no one was really willing to sign us.

however, octone records came along at what seemed like our most desperate moment. we were feeling as if our second attempt at doing this was about to fail miserably yet again. but octone had immediate passion and dedication. we signed with them in the spring of 2001. we recorded songs about jane in the wintertime and released it in june of 2002. We've been on the road ever since. The album went platinum exactly 10 years later to the day of the band's inception. Since then we've had 2 number one hits and sold 5 million records worldwide. It's now 2004. ten years later we find ourselves on the most incredible ride of our lives. we are so much more than friends. we're brothers, bound by this incredible experience that only gets heavier everyday. I'm so glad we have each other. without them i don't know what i would do.

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