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John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play at local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a minor following. He performed at the 2000 South by Southwest fest…
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Born 16 October 1977 · Q215215
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2026· 3 entries
“That was the moment the songwriter in me was born”
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“contentious marriage led him to”
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2023· 3 entries
Released album “Unreleased & Acoustic”.
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Mayer was ranked at number 61 on "The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list by Rolling Stone magazine
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Rolling Stone ranked Mayer at number 61 on "The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “2022‐08‐21: Pine Creek Lodge, Livingston, MT, USA”.
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Released album “2022‐08‐08: Pine Creek Lodge, Livingston, MT, USA”.
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Released album “Sob Rock: Live at Madison Square Garden 2022/02/20”.
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Released album “John Mayer Live at MVP Arena on 2022-02-17”.
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “Sob Rock”.
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As well as a music video for the song, "Shot in the Dark"
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Mayer officially announced his eighth album, Sob Rock, and on June 4, released the lead single "Last Train Home" along with an accompanying music video
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2020· 1 entry
Revealed that he was in the process of writing and recording songs for a new album
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “Summer Tour 2019: John Mayer Live in San Francisco”.
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Released album “John Mayer Live at Scotiabank Arena on 2019-07-30”.
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Mayer established the Heart and Armor Foundation in support of veterans of war
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2018· 3 entries
Premiered a song titled "I Guess I Just Feel Like"
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Released album “Summer Tour: Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX, USA”.
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Mayer released the single "New Light", co-produced by No I
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2017· 12 entries
And was promoted by a third single titled "In the Blood", released on May 1, 2017, and by The Search for Everything World Tour from March to October of the same year
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Released album “The Search for Everything”.
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Released album “John Mayer Live at TD Garden on 2017‐04‐09”.
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Along with the single "Still Feel Like Your Man"
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Released ep “The Search for Everything: Wave Two”.
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Released ep “The Search for Everything: Wave One”.
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“Sobre o fim de seu relacionamento com Jennifer Aniston.”
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John established a scholarship fund honoring his father Richard's 90th birthday
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“O guitarrista que sou se deve ao fracasso em me tornar Jimi Hendrix.”
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“Sobre seu relacionamento com Jessica Simpson em entrevista para a revista Playboy norte-americana.”
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“Em entrevista para a revista Playboy norte-americana, o cantor disse que nunca dormiu com mulheres negras e causou polêmica.”
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“Mayer desculpando-se via Twitter após polêmica racial em entrevista para a Playboy norte-americana.”
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2016· 1 entry
Mayer released "Love on the Weekend" as the lead single from his EP The Search for Everything: Wave One, which was then released on January 20, 2017
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2015· 5 entries
Released album “Unreleased”.
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While the Dead's Fare Thee Well shows with Trey Anastasio were also being planned, Mayer performed "Althea" with Weir on The Late Late Show, along with "Truckin'"
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“with Zach, which features Zach Anner. CBS invited him to guest host The Late Late Show in early 2015 on three dates, February 4–6, after the retirement of Craig Ferguson. He appeared as a guest star on the fourth episode of the tenth season of the TruTV show Impractical Jokers in 2023. Mayer makes a cameo as a truck driver in the 2014 comedy horror film Zombeavers. In the 2015 film Get Hard, he played a version of himself who is disgusted with the”
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Three former members of the Grateful Dead joined with Mayer and two other musicians to form the band Dead & Company
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Mayer announced that he was collaborating with PRS Guitars
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2014· 1 entry
John Mayer announced that he was no longer a Fender Artist
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2013· 9 entries
Which was the last night of Mayer's Born and Raised World Tour
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The Guardian: Later ... with Jools Holland: The National, John Mayer, London Grammar – as it happened
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The Guardian: John Mayer – review
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Released album “Paradise Valley”.
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The Guardian: John Mayer: Paradise Valley – review
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Released a lyric video for the album's first single, "Paper Doll", on his official YouTube page
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Released album “John Mayer”.
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Followed by a set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival the next day, marked his first full-length concerts since his health troubles
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They performed the song together at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 17, 2013, which was the last night of Mayer's Born and Raised World Tour.
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2012· 4 entries
Released ep “The Complete 2012 Performances Collection”.
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Released album “Born and Raised”.
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Mayer announced that he had been forced to cancel his tour and refrain from all singing indefinitely
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Released album “Pinkpop 2010, Landgraaf, Netherlands”.
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2011· 4 entries
Mayer posted, "I had surgery this afternoon to remove it and am now on complete vocal rest for a month or more," during which he planned to "travel the country, look, and listen"
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Posted on his blog that his next record, Born and Raised, would be delayed due to treatment he was receiving for a granuloma discovered on his vocal cords
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After hearing their song "Althea" by chance on Pandora radio
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Happened upon a song by the Grateful Dead while listening to Pandora, and that soon the band's music was all he would listen to
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2010· 6 entries
The Guardian: John Mayer apologises after using N-word in Playboy interview
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The Guardian: John Mayer | Pop review
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And drew inspiration from the 1970s pop music of Laurel Canyon for the sound of his fifth studio album, Born and Raised (2012)
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Mayer and Keith Urban performed at a CMT Crossroads concert a medley of their songs and a rendition of George Michael's single "Faith"
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Fender announced a production model of Mayer's Black1 guitar
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Which was widely believed to be about her relationship with him
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2009· 7 entries
The Guardian: John Mayer: Battle Studies | CD review
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The Guardian: John Mayer: 'You can't make music as a famous person'
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Mayer's fourth studio album, Battle Studies, debuted at number one on the U
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Released album “Battle Studies”.
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In advance of the album, followed on October 19 by "Heartbreak Warfare" and "Half of My Heart" on June 21, 2010
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Mayer performed an instrumental guitar version of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" at Jackson's televised memorial service
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Mayer told Ellen DeGeneres 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
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2008· 7 entries
Released album “On His Own: Live in Los Angeles”.
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Released album “2008-08-02: The Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX, USA”.
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Mayer released Where the Light Is, a live concert film of Mayer's performance at the Nokia Theatre L
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (2008).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (2008).
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Released album “Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles”.
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Posted the quote "There is danger in theoretical speculation of battle, in prejudice, in false reasoning, in pride, in braggadocio
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2007· 7 entries
Mayer hosted the first annual Charity Revue, a tradition he has continued each year
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"Belief" was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards
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The re-issue of Continuum became available online and in stores
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The Guardian: John Mayer, Royal Albert Hall, London
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Waiting on the World to Change (2007).
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Released album “2007-07-04: Petrillo Music Shell, Chicago, IL, USA”.
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By 2007, his personal life had become regular fodder for the gossip media and, as a result, Mayer made efforts to control his public image.
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2006· 11 entries
Released ep “The Village Sessions”.
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Mayer was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year
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Mayer appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the episode "Built to Kill, Part 1", playing "Waiting on the World to Change" and "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room"
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Produced by Mayer and Steve Jordan
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Released album “Continuum”.
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Mayer debuted the entire album on the Los Angeles radio station Star 98
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Released ep “Waiting on the World to Change: Limited Edition”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum (2006).
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First mentioned that he had begun using marijuana
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Mayer was estimated to have more than 200 guitars in his personal collection
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Mayer received the Hal David Starlight Award
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2005· 1 entry
“closing up shop on acoustic sensitivity”
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2004· 11 entries
Released album “2004‐12‐29: Webster Hall – John Mayer Plays the Blues”.
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Released album “As/Is”.
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Released album “As/Is: Houston, TX – 7/24/04”.
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Released album “As/Is Volume Five: Philadelphia, PA/Hartford, CT 8/14/04 – 8/15/04”.
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Released album “As/Is Volume Four: Cleveland/Cincinnati OH 8/03 – 8/04/04”.
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Released album “As/Is Volume Three: Houston, TX 7/24/04”.
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Released album “As/Is Volume 2: Mountain View, CA 7/16/04”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (2004).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Daughters (2004).
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The Guardian: Obituary: John Mayer
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Mayer hosted a one-shot, half-hour comedy special on VH1 titled John Mayer Has a TV Show, with antics including wearing a bear suit while anonymously teasing concertgoers in the parking lot outside one of his concerts
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2003· 6 entries
Released album “As Is: Volume One”.
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Released album “Heavier Things”.
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Released ep “Clarity”.
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Released album “Any Given Thursday”.
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Martin Guitars gave Mayer his own signature model acoustic guitar called the OM-28 John Mayer
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Mayer won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland"
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance (2002).
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In 2002, Mayer created the "Back to You" Fund, a nonprofit organization that focuses on fundraising in the areas of health care, education, the arts and talent development.
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Mayer created the "Back to You" Fund, a nonprofit organization that focuses on fundraising in the areas of health care, education, the arts and talent development
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Room for Squares”.
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Released ep “Room for Squares (AVCD)”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released ep “Inside Wants Out”.
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1997· 1 entry
With fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-10-16.
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