Adam Levine is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist born on March 18, 1979 in Los Angeles. He is best known as the founding member and lead singer of the pop rock band Maroon 5; Television viewers know him mostly from his coaching on The Voice competition.
The road to Maroon 5
While studying at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, he met Jesse Carmichael and Mickey Madden. In 1994, he founded the band Kara's Flowers with these two friends and drummer Ryan Dusick. The band's only album, The Fourth World, released in 1997, did not receive the expected attention. Levine attended Five Towns College in New York for a time, but dropped out after one semester.
After a while, the team added guitarist James Valentine to their lineup and set out again under the name Maroon 5.
The band's 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane, brought them to mass audiences with a slowly rising sales chart, and Maroon 5 received a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2005. This was followed by It Won't Be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012), V (2014), Red Pill Blues (2017), Jordi (2021) and Love Is Like, released in 2025. Levine has a total of three Grammy awards in his career.
Television, cinema and collaborations
In 2011, she took over as a coach on NBC's singing competition The Voice and remained one of the faces of the program until 2019; contestants on his team won first place in several seasons. He returned to the program in 2025. In the same year, Moves like Jagger, performed with Christina Aguilera, became a huge hit worldwide; He also gave vocals on the song Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes.
On the acting side, he played the character Leo Morrison in American Horror Story: Asylum in 2012. He starred in the 2013 movie Begin Again and sang Lost Stars from the movie's soundtrack; The song was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. A star was unveiled in his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 10, 2017, in recognition of his contributions to the music industry.
In a career spanning two decades, Levine is a familiar name in US pop music, both as a band frontman and as a television personality.
