He also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for " Waiting on the World to Change". Both albums received positive reviews, and Continuum earned Mayer a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Forming the John Mayer Trio, he released a live album, Try!, in 2005 and his third studio album Continuum in 2006. He collaborated with blues artists such as B.B. In 2003, he won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his single " Your Body Is a Wonderland".īy 2005, Mayer had moved away from the acoustic music that characterized his early records, and begun performing the blues and rock music that had originally influenced him as a musician. His following two studio albums- Room for Squares (2001) and Heavier Things (2003)-performed well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status.
After his appearance at the 2000 South by Southwest festival, he was signed to Aware Records, and eventually to Columbia Records, which released his first extended play Inside Wants Out. After their split, Mayer continued to play local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a following. Together, they formed a short-lived two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters. Born and raised in Fairfield County, Connecticut, Mayer attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but left and moved to Atlanta in 1997 with Clay Cook. ər/ MAY-ər born October 16, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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