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John Mayer
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John Mayer is a United States-based male singer-songwriter whose musical career began in 1998. He performs in genres including acoustic rock, adult alternative pop/rock, and alternative rock. His discography includes the albums *Room for Squares*, *Heavier Things*, *Continuum*, and *John Mayer*. An audio recording titled "QUICK HIT: Pat Sings John Mayer" was released in 2015.
Mayer has authored five works according to Crossref records, while Open Library lists twenty-two works under his name. He has expressed views on music and culture, noting that songs can act as "Trojan horses" to bypass ego defenses. He also stated that his identity as a guitarist is defined by his failure to become Jimi Hendrix and commented on self-serving elements within hip-hop.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Works
- 22
Top works
- John Mayer - Room for Squares
- John Mayer - Heavier Things
- Continuum
- John Mayer
- John Mayer - Heavier Things
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1977-10-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,778,411
- Total plays
- 204,092,745
Tags
John Clayton Mayer was born October 16, 1977, in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA, and started playing guitar at 13 after being inspired by a Stevie Ray Vaughan tape his neighbor gave him. In 1998 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he refined his skills and gained a following. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the 2002 single "Your Body Is a Wonderland" from the album Room for Squares. In February 2005, he was awarded the Song of the Year Grammy for his song D
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,644x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,680x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,923x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,594x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,138x
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Quotes
- “Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”
- “Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.”
- “Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.”
- “I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.”
- “There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.”
- “If I had done things differently, I'd probably have the paparazzi waiting around for me. At the studio where I've been recording, Jessica Simpson is working there, too. The paparazzi are outside waiting for her to come out. That's the result of her decisions. My decisions have led me to the point that when I walk out in front of the paparazzi, I'm considered a waste of film.”
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Encyclopedic overview
John Clayton Mayer (/ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər; born October 16, 1977) 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 festival, and was subsequently signed by Aware Records, an imprint of Columbia Records through which he released his debut extended play (EP), Inside Wants Out (1999). His first two studio albums—Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)—were both met with critical and commercial success; the former spawning the single "Your Body Is a Wonderland", which won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, while the latter peaked atop the Billboard 200.
By 2005, Mayer had moved away from the acoustic music that characterized his early records, and further delved into the blues and rock music that had originally influenced him. Forming the John Mayer Trio, he released the live album Try! (2005) and his third studio album, Continuum (2006). The latter was met with positive critical reception and was nominated for Album of the Year, and won both Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for its single "Waiting on the World to Change" at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. It was followed by Battle Studies (2009), which marked his return to pop.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Mayer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.