John Mayer - guitar virtuoso, composer, showman and music producer

American songwriter,guitarist, music producer John Mayer was born on October 16, 1977 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in a family of teachers. Father - Richard Mayer - at that time he worked as a school principal, and his mother - Margaret Mayer - taught English.

Young talent

Since childhood, John Mayer has distinguished himself by musicalabilities, and when I went to school, I began to take private lessons on the clarinet and violin. At the age of thirteen, he took the guitar for the first time. At that time, the teenager was impressed by the 1950's rock'n'roll of the Johnny Be Goode type performed by Elvis Presley, and he also liked the work of Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker.

Once in the hands of John hit a cassette with recordsfamous bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughn. Blues music so captured a young musician that he began to pick up his familiar melodies on his guitar day and night, and then play them in the circle of friends.

From the age of sixteen, John Mayer began performing invarious clubs, which gave him the opportunity to improve his mastery of playing the guitar. Two years later the young musician became a member of the Villanova Junction group, but he did not last long.

Unsuccessful musical education

In 1996, John Mayer, whose songs are alreadyhave gained some popularity, entered the Berkeley, a prestigious music college located in Boston. There he made friends with his classmate Clay Cook. Soon, both friends quit their studies and moved to Atlanta, where they created a group of Lofi Masters and began to perform in nightclubs. Six months later, John Mayer chose to start a solo career, left the band and released his first disc Inside Wants Out, which was released in mid-1999.

Exactly one year later, the musician recorded the second albumunder the name Room For Squares, which included the popular hit No Such Thing. In 2000, John Mayer, whose albums began to appear one after another, signed a contract with the firm Columbia Records, and immediately released an updated version of the disc Inside Wants Out.

The year 2003 was marked for Meyer by the receipt ofthe first "Grammy" prize, in the "Best Vocal" nomination in the pop style for a song called Your Body Is A Wonderland. In the same year he released his first live album Any Given Thursday in DVD format.

Programs on TV with a guitarist

Since mid-2004, John Mayer, whose albumsalready sold millions of copies, opened their own program on television, called "Music lessons with John Mayer." In addition to music in the programs, there was a lot of humor, conversations on popular topics, communication with spectators.

In the fall of 2005, Mayer proposedaudience to come up with poetry for the music he created. The repertoire of the guitarist was a lot of styles, ranging from pop, blues, country, ending with rockabilly. Poems sent in huge numbers, and the winner was a certain Fagan Tim from Los Angeles.

John also launched a vigorous activity on the Internet, in addition to his own official website, the musician communicates with admirers on three more portals.

In terms of creative implementation, John Mayer stillcloser to television, he accepts the invitation to participate in many programs, mostly musical, but does not refuse to act as an artist of the colloquial genre. In various talk shows, John feels quite comfortable, he can organically fit into any scenario, even without preliminary rehearsals.

One day Mayer took part in one of the episodes of the crime series "CSI: Crime Scene", where he played two soundtracks and performed one of the roles of the second plan.

Awards

In total, John Mayer was nominated for a Grammy awardnineteen times, but received a prize only in seven cases. His work was repeatedly noted by other American associations in the field of music.

Discography

Between 2001 and 2013, Mayer produced sixstudio albums, which sold out in huge editions. Currently, the guitarist is working on the next disc, the recording of which is scheduled for the summer of 2016. The album will consist mainly of new songs, although a certain number of songs will be included from previous collections.

Personal life

The guitarist is always in the spotlightreporters of all kinds of publications, newspapers and magazines. A charismatic young man attracts women, his relationships with famous actresses, singers, theater divas and just famous ladies are regularly discussed in the pages of glossy magazines.

John Mayer's girlfriends succeed each other quiteoften, among them were Jennifer Aniston, Minka Kelly, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Swift Taylor. At one time, the yellow press attributed a novel to Mayer with Heidi Klum, but the rumors were not confirmed, in fact, John with the German supermodel was not worth anything.

But with the singer of American origin CathyPerry, according to the ubiquitous reporters, "everything was." Relations between Cathy and John stretched out for three years, during which they parted several times, and then again converged.