John Mayer

 John Clayton Mayer was born on October 16, 1977. He is an American pop and blues musician, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He went to Berklee College of music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1997 (when I was born) he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where his career began. His first two albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things won multi platinum status. At the 2003 Grammy's he won the award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his song, "Your Body is Wonderland".  In his early career he focused mostly on acoustic rock but as he grew into his music he made the transition towards the Blues.  In 2005 he was collaborating with great blues artists like B. B. King, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton. In September of 2006 John released his third album Continuum. At the Grammy's in 2007 he won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his song, "Waiting on the World to Change".  His fourth album that was released in 2009 was called Battle Studies.  Mayer’s reputation began to build, and a March 2000 appearance at South by Southwest brought him to the attention of "launch" label, Aware Records. After including him in the Aware Festival concerts and having his songs included on Aware compilations, in early 2001, Aware released Mayer's internet-only album titled, Room for Squares. During this time, Aware inked a deal with Columbia Records that gave Columbia first pick in signing Aware artists, and so in September of the same year, Columbia remixed and re-released Room for Squares. As part of the major label "debut", the album's artwork was updated, and the track "3x5" was added. The re-release also included reworked studio versions of the first four songs from his indie album, Inside Wants Out.

In 2003, Mayer released a live CD and DVD of a concert in Birmingham, Alabama titled Any Given Thursday. The concert featured songs previously not recorded, such as "Man on the Side" (co-written with Cook) and "Something's Missing", which later appeared on Heavier Things. The concert also included "Covered In Rain". According to the accompanying DVD documentary, this song is "part two" of the song "City Love", which features the line "covered in rain". Commercially, the album quickly peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard 200 chart. The CD/DVD received conservative, although consistent, praise, with critics torn between his pop-idol image, and (at the time) emerging guitar prowess. Erik Crawford asked "Is he the consummate guitar hero exemplified when he plays a cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'Lenny', or is he the teen idol that the pubescent girls shriek for after he plays 'Your Body Is a Wonderland?'"

Heavier Things, Mayer's second album, was released in 2003 to generally favorable reviews. Rolling Stone, Allmusic and Blender all gave positive, although reserved, feedback. PopMatters said that it "doesn't have as many drawbacks as one might assume".The album was commercially successful, and while it did not sell as well as Room for Squares, it peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Mayer earned his first number one single with the song "Daughters" as well as a 2005 Grammy for Song of the Year, beating out fellow contenders Alicia Keys and Kanye West. He dedicated the award to his grandmother, Annie Hoffman, who died in May 2004. He also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, beating Elvis Costello, Prince, and Seal for the award. In a February 9, 2009 interview on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Mayer said that he thought he should not have won the Grammy for Song of the year because he thought that Alicia Keys 'If I ain't got you' was the better song. Because of this, he removed the top half of the Grammy and gave it to Keys, and kept the bottom part for himself. At the 37th Annual Songwriters Hall of fame Induction Ceremony in 2006, Mayer was honored with the Hal David Starlight Award.

Mayer again recorded live concerts across seven nights of his U.S. tour in 2004. These recordings were released to the iTunes Store under the title As/is, indicating that the errors were included along with the good moments. A few months later, a "best of" CD was compiled from theAs/Is nights. 
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