1. John Mayer 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.
57 Facts About John Mayer
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John Mayer performed at the 2000 South by Southwest festival, and was signed by Aware Records, an imprint of Columbia Records through which he released his debut extended play, Inside Wants Out.
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John Mayer recovered in January 2013 and released his sixth studio album, Paradise Valley in August of that year, which peaked at number two on the chart and incorporated country, folk, and Americana influences.
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John Mayer is a watch aficionado, contributing to the watch site Hodinkee, has been on the jury at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, and was appointed as the Creative Conduit of Audemars Piguet in 2024.
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John Mayer was born on October 16,1977, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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John Mayer enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in 1997 at age 19.
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In 2003, John Mayer won a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
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John Mayer dedicated the award to his grandmother, Annie Hoffman, who had died in May 2004.
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On February 9,2009, John 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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At the 37th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2006, John Mayer received the Hal David Starlight Award.
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John Mayer again recorded live concerts across seven nights of his US tour in 2004.
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John Mayer accompanied Buddy Guy in a concert at the Irving Plaza in December 2003.
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In May 2006, John Mayer contributed a cover of the song "Route 66" for the Pixar animated film Cars.
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John Mayer recorded a session for the British program Live from Abbey Road at Abbey Road Studios on October 22,2006.
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On December 7,2006, John Mayer was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
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In February 2008, John Mayer hosted a three-day Caribbean cruise event that included performances with various musicians including David Ryan Harris, Brett Dennen, Colbie Caillat, and Dave Barnes, among others.
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Australian artist Guy Sebastian invited John Mayer to collaborate on three songs from his 2009 album Like It Like That.
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On July 7,2009, John Mayer performed an instrumental guitar version of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" at Jackson's televised memorial service.
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However, the granuloma returned, and on March 9,2012, John Mayer announced that he had been forced to cancel his tour and refrain from all singing indefinitely.
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John Mayer appeared in September 2012 on Saturday Night Live, where he joined musical guest Frank Ocean.
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John Mayer played with the Rolling Stones in New Jersey in December 2012.
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In June 2013, John Mayer announced that he was finishing work on his sixth album, Paradise Valley.
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John Mayer recorded the song "Come Rain or Come Shine" as a duet with Barbra Streisand for her album Partners, released in September 2014.
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In February 2015, John Mayer performed alongside Ed Sheeran at the Grammy Awards.
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John Mayer recounted that in 2011 he 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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In February 2015, while guest hosting The Late Late Show, John Mayer invited Grateful Dead guitar player Bob Weir to join him in a studio performance.
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On November 17,2016, John 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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John Mayer released two singles in 2019; the previously played "I Guess I Just Feel Like" on February 22, and "Carry Me Away" on September 6.
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On June 1,2021, John 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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In June 2015, John Mayer appeared as a guest for two nights with Phil Lesh and Friends at Terrapin Crossroads, recreating the Grateful Dead's notable May 8 and June 9,1977, concerts.
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John Mayer joined each annual Tour in the years 2015 to the present.
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Since 2015, John Mayer has been touring with Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.
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In 2015, while the Dead's Fare Thee Well shows with Trey Anastasio were being planned, John Mayer performed "Althea" with Weir on The Late Late Show, along with "Truckin'".
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In March 2024, John Mayer was appointed with the title of "Creative Conduit" at Audemars Piguet, to help facilitate the connection between the watch brand and collectors.
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In November 2024, John Mayer began an interview series on the channel called "How's Life," featuring conversations with fellow musicians.
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In 2004, 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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John Mayer became a fixture of the event, including at the 2007 iPhone announcement.
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Volkswagen concluded a deal with instrument manufacturer First Act to include a GarageMaster electric guitar that was playable through the stereo system of six of their 2007 models; John Mayer were selected to endorse the campaign and were featured playing the guitar in ads.
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John Mayer appeared as a guest star on the fourth episode of the tenth season of the TruTV show Impractical Jokers in 2023.
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John Mayer makes a cameo as a truck driver in the 2014 comedy horror film Zombeavers.
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John Mayer had a small role in the 2022 film Vengeance, playing a friend of the lead character.
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In January 2007, Two Rock collaborated with John Mayer on custom-designed amps.
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In 2006, John Mayer was estimated to have more than 200 guitars in his personal collection.
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In 2014, John Mayer announced that he was no longer a Fender Artist.
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In 2015, John Mayer announced that he was collaborating with PRS Guitars.
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In January 2017 at the NAMM Show, PRS and John Mayer announced the J-MOD 100 signature amp.
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Chris Richards, in a review of a 2017 concert, declared John Mayer is "an amazing guitar player", albeit doing so "through clenched teeth".
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On his third episode of Current Mood, John Mayer revealed he had been sober since 2016.
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John Mayer was a friend of the late comedian and actor Bob Saget, and when Saget unexpectedly died in an Orlando, Florida, hotel room in January 2022, John Mayer had Saget's body flown back to Los Angeles on a private jet.
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In 2002, John 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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John Mayer participated at the East Rutherford, New Jersey, location of the Live Earth project, a musical rally to support awareness for climate change held July 7,2007.
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On December 8,2007, John Mayer hosted the first annual Charity Revue, a tradition he has continued each year.
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John Mayer headlined Tiger Jam 2011 in Las Vegas to help raise around $750,000 for the Tiger Woods Foundation.
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In January 2013, John Mayer participated with Zac Brown in a benefit concert in Bozeman, Montana where they raised more than $100,000 for firefighters who battled a wildfire in the summer of 2012 in Paradise Valley that destroyed 12,000 acres.
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On March 1,2019, John Mayer established the Heart and Armor Foundation in support of veterans of war.
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In March 2014, John Mayer sued watch dealer Robert Maron for $656,000 when he discovered that seven of the $5 million in watches he purchased from the dealer contained counterfeit parts.
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However, in a 2006 interview on the New Zealand show Close Up, John Mayer said that this was not true.