John Mayer Complete Bio & Career
At the age of nineteen, John Mayer went to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left it after a year to move with his friend Clay Cook in Atlanta, Georgia, where he began his career as a musician. With the help of Glenn Matuloo, he recorded his first EP Inside Wants Out. Most of the eight songs came from the collaboration with Clay Cook, including the first successful single No Such Thing. In 2003, he released his first live CD Any Given Thursday, and in the same year, he released his second studio album Heavier Things.
Although the album was not as commercially successful as Room for Squares, like the single Daughters, it was number one on the US Billboard charts. The song was even awarded a Grammy as Song of the Year. Besides, Mayer got a Grammy as Best Male Pop Vocal. During this time, Mayer changed his style and moved away more and more from Acoustic-Pop. In 2005, he began collaborating with blues greats such as BB King, Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton, and jazz greats John Scofield and Herbie Hancock.
On January 15, 2005, Mayer performed with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan as part of a charity concert for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Continuum was released on September 12, 2006, in the US, on January 19, 2007, in Germany. As singles, "Waiting on the World to Change", "Gravity" and "Dreaming with a Broken Heart" were released, which placed well in the US charts. Continuum was ranked # 2 in the Billboard Top 200, with two platinum awards. On July 1, 2008, Where the Light Is Mayer's fourth live album was released, recorded on December 8, 2007, at an extraordinary concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. On November 17, 2009, his fourth studio album Battle Studies, which he again produced in collaboration with Steve Jordan. The album was a commercial success but was rated differently by the critics. On May 16, 2011, in New York, John Mayer co-hosted a charity event in support of war veterans suffering from DPTS, titled In Support of Our Troops, during which he announced his new album work entitled Born and Raised would be released in October 2011.
On February 24 2015, the Search for Everything is released: Wave Two, the second EP that will form the new album, from which the first song Still Feel Like Your Man is extracted as a single. On March 13th 2017, through various social networks, Mayer announces that the album will be released in full on April 14th 2017 and will include 12 tracks, 8 of which previously released in EP form ( Wave One and Wave Two ) and four new tracks ( In the Blood, Theme from "The Search for Everything", Never on the Day You Leave, Rosie) .