Adam Levine – biography, photos, facts, family, kids, affairs, height and weight 2020

Adam Levine biography

Adam Levin is a versatile and enthusiastic person, according to People magazine ‒ America’s sex appeal 2013; he is an actor and outrageous vocalist of the pop-rock band Maroon 5, the permanent mentor of the participants of the show The Voice (USA) for many years, and on the Hollywood Walk of Fame he has got a star with his name engraved on it. He is a creator of a perfume line, designer of the First Act 222 series of released guitars, collector of rare cars, and multiple Grammy winner, ambidextre (equally uses both hands) and a vegetarian who is passionate about yoga.

Childhood: Los Angeles

Spring 1979. When the second boy was born in the Jewish family of the lawyer Patsy Noah and the basketball team coach Fred Levine, he was named Adam Noah Levine.

From early childhood father made Adam and his brother Michael familiar with a basketball game, in which he immediately showed leader skills. He was only seven years old when as a young athlete he threw the ball into the basket in the last seconds of the game and saved the team from defeat at the local YMCA championship. As Levine later admitted in an interview, this victory was the pledge of his self-confidence for the rest of his life.

Adam Levine showed strength of character from childhood

The cock-sure tomboy was not shaken even by the divorce of his parents, which he took quite adequately, despite his young age. Mother, who felt parting more keenly than anyone else, forced Adam to undergo a course of psychotherapy, and he called it a waste of time and money, even though he underwent the whole course for Patsy’s peace of mind. It was comfortable for the boy living with his mother on weekdays, and dealings with his father’s family on weekends.

In addition, soon his mother also married for the second time. In the new families of their parents, Adam and Michael had two half-sisters, Julia and Liza, and a younger brother Sam.

After completing his studies at the Brentwood private school in Los Angeles, Adam entered the Five Town Private College on Long Island, New York, which was considered a very prestigious educational institution.

Youth: New York

Studying in college was easy for the guy. Adam had friends: Mickey Madden, Ryan Dusick, and Jesse Carmichael, with whom he attended various music festivals. Soon, the music teacher discovered phenomenal four octave vocal abilities in Levine, and this fact inspired the young man to create the Kara’s Flowers quartet with his friends. The boys called their band this way because all four liked the girl with this name.

Adam Levine at the beginning of his career

After some rehearsals, their quartet began to be invited to private club parties, where the musicians not only earned their first money, but also enjoyed undeniable popularity. Reprise Records Studio offered the band a contract, and the guys recorded their debut album titled The Fourth World.

Contrary to expectations, their work was not appreciated by the general public and did not have commercial success, although the band even took advantage of the hidden advertising opportunity, starring in an episode of the popular television series ″Beverly Hills″. The contract with the studio was broken; the group broke up.

Career: Maroon 5 and the show The Voice

After graduating from college, Adam returned to Los Angeles, where he created a new band Maroon 5 with the same friends and the guitarist James Valentine, who joined them. Levin wrote a series of songs dedicated to his former girlfriend, and then the band recorded the first studio album Songs About Jane, which became the beginning of Adam’s brilliant creative career and brought the guys deserved audience recognition. And in 2005, Maroon 5 received the first Grammy Award as the best new band.

The second prize was awarded the following year for the vocal performance of the single This Love. The band’s discography for the period from 2002 to 2017 is estimated at six studio albums, which, apart from Songs About Jane, include It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), V (2014), Red Pill Blues (2017).

Maroon 5 ‒ This Love

Restless Levine collaborated with many stars and rappers: they are Eminem, Kanye West, 50 Cent, as well as Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, and Kendrick Lamar.

When he was offered to become a mentor in the television project The Voice, Adam, having learned that Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, and Cee Lo Green would become his partners in the workplace, agreed with pleasure. And along with Blake he lingered there for as many as fifteen seasons, having worked as judges together with Pharrell Williams, Jennifer Hudson, Gwen Stefani.

Levin’s three students became the winners of The Voice, and when, during the sixth season, a fan in love killed Christina Grimmie, his student, shocked Adam himself paid for the funeral arrangements and all the expenses of the girl’s family. Musical activities and commercial projects have made the singer one of the richest Hollywood celebrities.

Adam Levin personal life

In the summer of 2014, the wedding of the sexiest man of America 2013 and his chosen one, Behati Prinsloo, a Namibian fashion model took place on the Mexican coast. But before this happy event, Adam along with his recurrent flame had more than once become the object of the paparazzi.

His first love, Jane Herman, became the sought-after designer and initiator of the break of the long relationship with Levine, after which the young man went on the spree. Among the beauties who are ascribed love affairs with Adam were Hollywood divas Cameron Diaz, Natalie Portman and Jessica Simpson, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova and model Anne Vyalitsyna. Levine liked models, but they didn’t linger near him for a long time. Among them were also Angela Bellotte and Karolina Kurkova. The musician started an affair with a cheerful and witty waitress Rebecca Ginos too.

But only Behati managed to stop the Hollywood ladies’ man and go with him to the altar. With a difference of two years, the couple’s two charming babies were born: Dusty Rose (2016) and Gio Grace (2018). The happy married couple said that their family would continue to grow, and Adam confessed that the sweet home chaos inspired him to new creative ideas.

Adam Levine now

The beginning of 2019 was marked for Levine by buying a luxurious Los Angeles estate for $ 32 million, which belonged to Ben Affleck and his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.

At the end of 2018, the band Maroon 5 released a new video for the hit Girls Like You, starring famous Jennifer Lopez, Rita Ora, Gal Gadot and Millie Bobby Brown. Adam himself spectacularly appears at the end of the video clip, along with his favorite girls: his wife and elder daughter. Within record time, the video gathered millions of views on the Internet.

Maroon 5 ‒ Girls Like You ft. Cardi B

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