All All. Sign In. List activity. Adam Levine. He is the son of Patsy Noah , an admissions counselor, and Fredric Levine, who founded the retail chain M.
Adam's father's family is Jewish, while Adam's mother is of half Jewish her own father and half German and Scottish her own mother ancestry. His uncle, Timothy Noah, is a journalist. Adam began playing music with his junior-high friends guitarist, rather than the keyboardist for which he is known in the band Maroon 5 Jesse Carmichael and bassist Mickey Madden. Their first gig was at a school dance and Levine was terribly shy so he played with his back to the audience. Ryan Dusick joined the band as drummer and the alternative rock band Kara's Flowers were born They released an album called "The Fourth World" While they were there, he was surrounded by new music scenes and influences which give him whole new perspective on songwriting and singing.
He dropped out of school after a semester and headed back to California with Carmichael to reunite with their pals and develop their band. He began writing a bunch of songs that were inspired by his recently failed relationship.
After adding in new guitarist James Valentine moving Carmichael over to keyboards Maroon 5 was officially born. Aretha Franklin. Known as the man with the "Million-Dollar Voice", her father was one of the most respected and prominent ministers in the country, and Aretha grew up singing in church, and surrounded by local and national celebrities.
She learned how to play piano by ear and soon understood the correct tones and pitches. Aretha released her first single at the age of eighteen, under Columbia Records, it reached number ten on the BillBoard charts and her first record was released in January of However the people at Columbia often felt they didn't understand the direction Aretha wanted to go with her music, and ultimately failed to bring out her potential. With this single, Franklin would trigger a new vocal skill called, "call and response," which would help liven up many of her singles.
