Adam Levine is an American singer. He is the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career.
- His full name is Adam Noah Levine
- He was born on March 18, 1979
- He is an American singer, songwriter and musician
- Adam Levine is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the pop rock band Maroon 5
- Levine began his musical career in 1994 with the band Kara’s Flowers
- He was the lead vocalist and lead guitarist
- After the commercial failure of their only album, The Fourth World, the group was reformed in 2001 as Maroon 5
- With James Valentine replacing Levine as lead guitarist
- In 2002, they released their first album, Songs About Jane
- The album went multi-platinum in the US
- Since then, they have released six more albums: It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012), V (pronounced: “five”) (2014), Red Pill Blues (2017), and Jordi (2021)
- As part of Maroon 5, Levine has received multiple accolades
- These include three Grammy Awards
- From 2011 to 2019, Levine was a coach on NBC’s reality talent show The Voice
- The winners of seasons (1, 5, and 9) belonged to his team
- In 2012, Levine made his acting debut as recurring character Leo Morrison in the second season of the television series American Horror Story
- Levine also appeared in the films Begin Again (2013), Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Fun Mom Dinner and The Clapper (both 2017)
- Levine launched his eponymous fragrance line in 2013
- The same year, he collaborated with Kmart and ShopYourWay.com to develop his menswear collection
- He also owns a record label, 222 Records, and a production company, 222 Productions, which produced television shows Sugar and Songland
- In 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported that “sources familiar with his many business dealings” estimated Levine would earn more than $35 million that year
- Adam Noah Levine was born in Los Angeles to Fredric Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy (née Noah) Levine, an admissions counselor
- They divorced when he was seven
- Then, Adam Levine underwent therapy
- Growing up, he spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father
- He has a brother Michael, two half-siblings—Sam and Liza Levine—and step-sister Julia Bartolf Milne
- Adam Levine’s father and maternal grandfather were Jewish, while his maternal grandmother was a Protestant
- Levine considers himself Jewish
- However, according to The Jewish Chronicle, he is spiritual but not religious
- He chose not to have a Bar Mitzvah as a child because of the custom of receiving Bar Mitzvah gifts
- Levine is a nephew of journalist and author Timothy Noah, and television producer and writer Peter Noah
- Levine describes his family as “very musical” and credits his mother with “start[ing] me out on the path”
- He also attributes his mother’s idols – Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, and The Beatles – to shaping his musical style, calling them “a huge part of my upbringing”
- Levine attended Brentwood School, where he met Jesse Carmichael and Mickey Madden, his future bandmates
- He carried his musical interests to high school
- In early 2010, while performing at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release party in Las Vegas, Levine met Russian Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover-model Anne Vyalitsyna
- They began a relationship
- They ended the relationship in April 2012 in an “amicable and supportive manner”
- In May 2012, Levine began dating Behati Prinsloo, a Namibian Victoria’s Secret model
- The couple married on July 19, 2014, with Jonah Hill officiating the wedding
- Levine and Prinsloo have two daughters, Dusty Rose (born September 21, 2016) and Gio Grace (born February 15, 2018)
- Levine, whose brother Michael is gay, is a supporter of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights
- In 2011, he made a video on Maroon 5’s official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project
- In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the “unnamed Los Angeles restaurant’s backing of Proposition 8”
- In 2013, Levine was mentioned in a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by an unnamed security guard who claimed that Universal Music Publishing Group’s Santa Monica location was “infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices and openly used in common areas, and lounges”
- The guard claimed that when she complained about the cannabis smoke coming from one of the studios
- In an official statement to The Hollywood Reporter, UMPG (Universal Music Publishing group) described the allegations as “absurd”
- In July 2020, Levine and Prinsloo collaborated with Ferrari and Save the Children to raise funds to support U.S. education programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
- In 2021, Levine and Prinsloo founded a tequila company called Calirosa
- The brand’s tequila bottles were made available from December 2021
- On September 7, 2022, it was reported that Levine and Prinsloo are expecting their third child together
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