John Mayer

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Biography

John Mayer was one particular multiple-threat music skills that made almost every other players’ lives and profession paths seem basic. Blessed in India to Anglo-Indian parents, he examined traditional music and acquired a successful profession as an orchestral violinist, but provided it up to are a composer and, afterwards, in jazz fusion being a composer-violinist-band-leader. In the mid-’60s onward, he produced his mark within the areas of jazz, progressive rock and roll, and globe music. Alongside Dave Arbus of East of Eden, Mayer was essentially the most well-liked violinist among rock and roll music artists in London through the past due ’60s, although his profession is much even more rooted in traditional music. Blessed in 1930 in Calcuttato an Anglo-Indian dad and an Indian mom, Mayer was created in 1930, his musical passions manifesting themselves early, with seven he was learning violin with Phillipe Sandre on the Calcutta College of Music, who decided to show him in his leisure time, because Mayer’s parents lacked the assets to send out him there like a spending pupil. He later on researched with Melhi Metha, who urged him, during his past due teens, to contend for a scholarship or grant towards the Royal Academy of Music in London. At that time, Mayer was established to become composer who be taken significantly both in his very own country and overseas. He also wished to achieve this making use of both Western european and Indian methods, and toward this end he researched with Sanathan Mukherjee, who trained him the theoretical areas of Indian traditional music. At that time, he understood and heard small of jazz, although he do start sitting down in being a drummer with jazz rings. Mayer earned the scholarship or grant, and found its way to London in 1950 to review on the Royal Academy. He previously earned through his violin playing, but he began studying structure with Matyas Sether, who motivated him to utilize the methods of Indian and traditional western music in serial structure. His money went out after just annually, but he was luckily enough to generate a spot within the violin portion of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Therefore began a relatively uncomfortable eight-year period where he performed within the violin portion of the orchestra while carrying on to study structure — despite having a few of his functions performed from the orchestra, and carried out by Sir Adrian Boult, he didn’t commence to make headway like a composer until Sir Charles Groves commissioned him to create his Dance Collection for sitar, flute, tabla, tambura, and symphony orchestra, that was premiered from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958. This early achievement, nevertheless, created issues with the administration from the London Philharmonic, nevertheless, that was a conventional firm and didn’t enjoy creating a composer inside the rates of its executing music artists. Mayer was compelled to keep his job on the LPO, but was employed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, beneath the path of Sir Thomas Beecham, who asked him to become listed on. Mayer started a content seven-year relationship using the RPO, along the way learning a large amount about orchestration (in addition to performing) from a number of the finest players in Britain. By 1965, when he remaining the RPO’s violin section, he could finally generate his living from his compositions also to stop full-time orchestral playing. Additionally, by that point, fate had used a submit his profession — Mayer was known in avant-garde London circles for his function mixing traditional western and Hindustani traditional music, and in 1964, EMI manufacturer Dennis Preston asked him if he previously available a brief jazz-based piece with which to finish an record Preston was focusing on. Mayer informed him he do, even though he previously nothing prepared — Preston stated he wished to record it the very next day, and Mayer remained up forever composing the piece. He went to the documenting the following day time, and thought forget about about any of it until half a year later on when Preston informed him that he’d performed the piece to Atlantic Information founder and chief executive Ahmet Ertegun in NY, who’d loved what he’d noticed and recommended that Mayer compose music for an record which would fuse Indian music and jazz. Ertegun’s idea was to mix the quintet of Indian music artists with whom Mayer proved helpful, having a sitar, tabla, tambura, flute, with Mayer on violin and harpsichord, along with a jazz quintet led by Joe Harriott, himself an under-appreciated alto participant who had proven an appreciation of varied aspects of globe music. Mayer had written the music in per month, and it had been documented by this group, referred to as the Joe Harriott & John Mayer Two times Quintet, in two times. The resulting recording, Indo-Jazz Fusions, premiered in 1966 and became an instantaneous preferred in avant-garde circles and an unexpectedly great vendor. Additionally, the group finished up not only popular like a carrying out device, but with a fresh name — from that day time on, these were referred to as the Indo-Jazz Fusions. Among those within the lineup was potential Mahavishnu Orchestra bassist Rick Laird. They trim a second record that did along with the first, and performed in Britain and throughout European countries for another seven years, until Harriott’s loss of life in 1973. During this time period, Mayer became a familiar body in progressive rock and roll circles aswell — he was stated being a coach and colleague of Keith Emerson’s within the Nice’s third recording, and acknowledged with suggesting a few of their repertory (“Journal of a clear Day time”); he later on co-orchestrated and carried out the orchestra within the documenting of Keith Emerson’s Piano Concerto from Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Functions, Vol. One record (the biggest-selling record and CD which Mayer offers appeared to day). Additionally, he performed violin with an organization called Cosmic Attention, who slice an recording, Dream Series (EMI-Regal Zonophone), in 1972. Mayer dedicated a lot of his amount of time in the years after Harriott’s loss of life to structure and educational pursuits, and was compensated with professorships and composer-in-residence positions on the Birmingham Conservatory. He revived Indo-Jazz Fusions in 1995, and resumed executing and documenting together (lately over the Nimbus label), in addition to composing new works together with exactly the same Indian-Jazz fusion idiom that he pioneered 40 years previously. In March of 2004, Mayer was strike by way of a car and fatally hurt. He was 73.

Quick Facts

Full Name John Mayer

Height 1.91 m

Profession Actor, Guitarist, Comedian, Songwriter, Journalist, Graphic designer, Singer-songwriter, Lyricist, Music artist, Keyboard Player, Visual Artist

Education Berklee College of Music, Fairfield Warde High School, Brien McMahon High School

Nationality American

Parents Margaret Mayer, Richard Mayer

Siblings Carl Mayer, Ben Mayer

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/johnmayer

Twitter http://www.twitter.com/johnmayer

Instagram http://www.instagram.com/johnmayer

IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm1243604

Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000010508

Awards Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

Music Groups Dead & Company, John Mayer Trio

Music Songs Gravity, Your Body Is a Wonderland, Free Fallin', Waiting on the World to Change, Daughters, Who You Love, Heartbreak Warfare, Half of My Heart, No Such Thing, Why Georgia, Who Says, Stop This Train, Say, Queen of California, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room, Shadow Days, Love on the Weekend, Something Like Olivia, Still Feel Like Your Man, I Don't Trust Myself, Dreaming With a Broken Heart, Bigger Than My Body, In Your Atmosphere, Vultures, XO, Paper Doll, Perfectly Lonely, Edge of Desire, The Heart of Life, Clarity, My Stupid Mouth, Belief

Albums Continuum, Paradise Valley, Born and Raised, Room for Squares, Battle Studies, Heavier Things, The Search for Everything, As/Is, The Search for Everything: Wave One, Inside Wants Out, The Village Sessions, The Search for Everything: Wave Two, The Complete 2012 Performances Collection, Any Given Thursday, As/Is Volume Five: Philadelphia, PA/Hartford, CT 8/14/04 - 8/15/04, As/Is Volume Three: Houston, TX 7/24/04, Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles, Ragatal, As/Is Volume 2: Mountain View, CA 7/16/04, John Mayer: Etudes & Radha Krishna, Asian Airs, Dhammapada, As/Is Volume Four: Cleveland/Cincinnati OH 8/03 - 8/04/04

Nominations Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, World Music Award for World’s Best Album, MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video, Grammy Award for Best Music Film, MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video, American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist, People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Artist, American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, Billboard Music Award for Top Digital Media Artist, People's Choice Award for Favorite Star Under 35, World Music Award for World’s Best Pop/Rock Artist, Billboard Music Award for Digital Album of the Year, Danish Music Award for Foreign Newcomer of the Year

Movies California Typewriter, Get Hard, Zombeavers

TV Shows I Love the '90s

#	Fact
1	Friends with Andy Cohn.
2	Was mentioned in the song "We Made You" by Eminem.
3	Was in an on-off relationship, with singer Katy Perry, from 2012-2014. The two released a duet, called "Who You Love", together in 2013.
4	Frequents Los Angeles bar The Roger Room along with Jason Sarayba, Chris Pine, and Samantha Ronson.
5	Good friends with singer Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West.
6	Divides his time between New York City and Los Angeles.
7	Grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut with James Blake.
8	When he was seventeen, he was suddenly stricken with a cardiac arrhythmia that sent him to the hospital for a weekend. The trauma of the incident sparked his songwriting, and he penned his first lyrics the night he got home. Shortly thereafter, he began suffering from crippling panic attacks that only subsided when he was twenty-six, and even now, he keeps a Xanax (an anti-anxiety drug) with him, just in case.
9	Is a big fan of Opie & Anthony and also Ron & Fez on XM Satellite Radio. He debuted the single "Waiting On the World to Change" when he dropped by unannounced at their New York studio on June 14, 2006. Since then, he has regularly checked in with both shows, either calling in to contribute to the topic or just stopping by to hang out.
10	John's parents are Margaret (Hoffman) and Richard Mayer. John's father's family is Jewish (of half German Jewish and half Russian Jewish descent). John's maternal grandfather was of German, Luxembourgian, and Swedish descent, and John's maternal grandmother was English, born in Lancashire.
11	Drives a silver Porsche Cayenne.
12	The movie Back to the Future (1985) inspired him to play guitar.
13	Wrote his Grammy award winning song "Daughters" in the shower
14	Used to play violin
15	Started playing guitar at 13
16	Played flute in elementary school
17	His parent's ages are 19 years apart
18	His first job was in a supermarket in Fairfield, Connecticut. Later he worked in a gas station.
19	Drives a steel-blue BMW
20	His favorite movie is Good Will Hunting (1997).
21	His favorite song of his own is "3x5", from the album, "Room for Squares".
22	Used to play clarinet.
23	Tried out for acting in 6th grade, but never got a manager.
24	Has an older brother named Carl and a younger brother named Ben. Ben is 18 months younger than John.
25	Was lead guitarist of a band called Villanova Junction when he was in high-school.
26	He is the second of three children
27	He decided to call the album, "Room for Squares", a characteristically wry take on jazz sax player Hank Mobley's 1963 LP, "No Room for Squares".
28	Attended Berklee School of Music in Boston

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2016 writer - 1 episode, 2016
Todd's Pop Song Reviews		TV Series documentary performer - 2 episodes, 2011 - 2015 writer - 2 episodes, 2011 - 2015
Late Show with David Letterman		TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2015 writer - 1 episode, 2009
Get Hard	2015	performer: "Daughters", "Ballad Of James King" / writer: "Daughters", "Ballad Of James King"
Howard Stern Birthday Bash	2014	Video performer: "Like a Rolling Stone"
Danville 2nd Ward Young Men		TV Series writer - 4 episodes, 2012 - 2014 performer - 4 episodes, 2010 - 2014
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles	2014	TV Special performer: "Don't Let Me Down"
Vampire Academy	2014	writer: "Spiritual" - as John Clayton Mayer
Chelsea Lately		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013
Glee	2013	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dancing with the Stars		TV Series performer - 5 episodes, 2008 writer - 4 episodes, 2008 - 2013
Voice - Danmarks største stemme	2012	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Saturday Night Live		TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2003 - 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2003
Girl Most Likely	2012	performer: "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room" / writer: "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room"
So You Think You Can Dance		TV Series performer - 7 episodes, 2006 - 2012 writer - 5 episodes, 2007 - 2012
Girls		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012
Idool 2011	2011	TV Series writer - 1 episode
20 to 1		TV Series documentary performer - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2011 writer - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2011
CMT Insider	2011	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	2011	TV Special performer: "Jolene"
The Karate Kid	2010	performer: "Say" / writer: "Say"
American Idol	2010	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Date Night	2010	performer: "Heartbreak Warfare" / writer: "Heartbreak Warfare"
De wereld draait door	2010	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Michael Jackson Memorial	2009	TV Movie documentary performer: "Human Nature" instrumental
Hawthorne	2009	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Marie Brand und die Nacht der Vergeltung	2009	TV Movie performer: "Free Fallin'"
Ghost Town	2008/I	performer: "The Heart of Life" / writer: "The Heart of Life"
The Bucket List	2007	performer: "Say" / producer: "Say" / writer: "Say"
Idols	2005-2007	TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Shark	2007	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Australian Idol	2006-2007	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
The Game		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2007 writer - 1 episode, 2007
Evan Almighty	2007	performer: "Waiting on the World to Change" / writer: "Waiting on the World to Change"
The Office	2006	TV Series writer - 1 episode
House M.D.		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2006 writer - 1 episode, 2006
Cars	2006	performer: "Route 66" / producer: "Route 66"
Shut Up and Sing	2006	writer: "No Such Thing"
The 48th Annual Grammy Awards	2006	TV Special performer: "Gravity" / writer: "Gravity"
The 47th Annual Grammy Awards	2005	TV Special performer: "Daughter" / writer: "Daughter"
7th Heaven		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2005 writer - 1 episode, 2005
Senhora do Destino		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2004 writer - 1 episode, 2004
Chappelle's Show	2004	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!	2004	performer: "Back to You" / writer: "Back to You"
Celebridade		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2003 writer - 1 episode, 2003
How to Deal	2003	performer: "Not Myself" / writer: "Not Myself"
Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast	2003	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Smallville		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2002 writer - 1 episode, 2002
Serendipity	2001	performer: "83" / writer: "83"

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Get Hard	2015		John Mayer
Zombeavers	2014		Luke
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	2008	TV Series	Tony's Buddy
Clarity	2004	Video short	Lead

Composer

Title	Year	Status
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room	2015	Short
American Heroes Saltwater Challenge	2013	TV Movie documentary
Clarity	2004	Video short

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Live, Laugh, LIVE!	2016	TV Series
The Paul Reddy Show	2005	Video short

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Live, Laugh, LIVE!	2016	TV Series producer
John Mayer Has a TV Show	2004	TV Movie executive producer

Director

Title	Year	Status	Character
Live, Laugh, LIVE!	2016	TV Series

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Shut Up & Sing	2006	Documentary musician: lead electric guitar

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze - An Appreciation of JJ Cale	2014	Documentary short special thanks
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985	2004	Video documentary special thanks: documentary

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Austin City Limits	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself
2003 Radio Music Awards	2003	TV Special	Himself
I Love the '80s Strikes Back	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself
The 45th Annual Grammy Awards	2003	TV Special	Himself - Performer
John Mayer: Any Given Thursday	2003	Video documentary	Himself
VH1 Big in 2002 Awards	2002	TV Special	Himself
The Panel	2002	TV Series	Himself
Last Call with Carson Daly	2002	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest
Live at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame	2001	TV Series	Himself - Performer
Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar	2017	TV Series	Himself
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show	2006-2017	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Guest
Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle	2017	TV Series	Himself - Judge
Live, Laugh, LIVE!	2016	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	2016	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Musical Guest: Dead & Company
California Typewriter	2016	Documentary	Himself
CBS News Sunday Morning	2016	TV Series	Himself
American Express UNSTAGED: Dead & Company	2015		Himself - Dead & Company
The 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony	2015	TV Movie	Himself
Late Show with David Letterman	2002-2015	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	2015	TV Series	Himself - Host / Himself - Guest Host
The 57th Annual Grammy Awards	2015	TV Special	Himself - Performer
Katy Perry: Getting Intimate	2014	TV Movie	Himself
Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze - An Appreciation of JJ Cale	2014	Documentary short	Himself
Howard Stern Birthday Bash	2014	Video	Himself
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly	2014	Documentary
The Best Hit USA	2014	TV Series	Himself
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles	2014	TV Special	Himself
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013	2013	Video	Himself
Skavlan	2010-2013	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	2004-2013	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest and Musical Guest / Himself - Musical Guest
Global Citizen Festival	2013	TV Movie	Himself
Rock in Rio	2013	TV Series	Himself - Performer
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards	2013	TV Special	Himself - Presenter / Nominee
Saturday Night Live	2003-2012	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Musical Guest
Watch What Happens: Live	2012	TV Series	Himself - Guest
CollegeHumor Originals	2012	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2012	TV Series	Himself - Guest
B.B. King: The Life of Riley	2012	Documentary	Himself
The Zen of Bennett	2012	Documentary	Himself
Eye on Entertainment	2012	TV Series	Himself
Tony Bennett: Duets II	2012	TV Movie	Himself
The Secret Weapon	2011	TV Series documentary	Himself
Great Performances	2007-2011	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Musical Guest / Himself - Guitarist
The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony	2011	TV Movie	Himself
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards	2011	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
Entertainment Tonight	2007-2010	TV Series	Himself
CMT Crossroads	2010	TV Series	Himself
2010 CMT Music Awards	2010	TV Special	Himself
52 Annual TV Week Logie Awards	2010	TV Special	Himself
David Blaine: What Is Magic?	2010	TV Special	Himself
Ny-Z	2010	TV Short	Himself
VH1 Storytellers	2010	TV Series documentary	Himself
Larry King Live	2009-2010	TV Series	Himself
De wereld draait door	2010	TV Series	Himself
The Road to MSG: Z100's Jingle Ball 2009	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Jay Leno Show	2009	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest
The 7PM Project	2009	TV Series	Himself
Rove Live	2009	TV Series	Himself
Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory	2009	TV Series	Himself
Michael Jackson Memorial	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien	2009	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	2002-2009	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest / Himself
Coming Home: Military Families Cope with Change	2009	TV Movie	Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	2001-2009	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Musical Guest
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards	2009	TV Special	Himself - Performer
Makin Music	2009	Video short	Himself
Chris Botti in Boston	2009	TV Movie	Himself
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Concert	2008	Video	Himself
Tim and Eric Nite Live	2008	TV Series	Himself
The 50th Annual Grammy Awards	2008	TV Special	Himself - Performer
The Bucket List: John Mayer Music Video Say	2008	Video short	Himself - Singer
The Making of 'Say'	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
John Mayer: Say	2007	Video short	Himself
2 Guys 1 Cup	2007	Short	Himself
Control Room Presents	2007	TV Series	Himself
ABC News Nightline	2007	TV Series	Himself
Live Earth	2007	TV Special documentary	Himself
Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate Crisis	2007	TV Special	Himself
My Secret Record	2007	Documentary	Himself
Live from Abbey Road	2007	TV Series	Performer
E! Live from the Red Carpet	2007	TV Series	Himself
The 49th Annual Grammy Awards	2007	TV Special	Himself
B InTune TV	2007	TV Series	Guest star
2006 American Music Awards	2006	TV Special	Himself - Performer
The Oprah Winfrey Show	2006	TV Series	Himself
Best of the Jammys, Volume One	2006	Video	Himself
The 20th Annual ARIA Awards	2006	TV Special	Himself
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	2006	TV Series	Himself
Walmart Soundcheck	2006	TV Series	Himself
2005 Jammys Live: From the Theater at Madison Square Garden	2006	TV Movie	Himself
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	2006	Documentary	Himself
React Now: Music & Relief	2005	TV Movie	Himself
American Express Jam Sessions	2005	TV Movie	Himself
The 47th Annual Grammy Awards	2005	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
The Paul Reddy Show	2005	Video short	Himself - Guest
I Love the '90s: Part Deux	2005	TV Series documentary	Himself
Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope	2005	TV Special	Himself
John Mayer Has a TV Show	2004	TV Movie	Himself - Host
The 32nd Annual American Music Awards	2004	TV Special	Himself - Performer
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985	2004	Video documentary	Himself (documentary)
I Love the '90s	2004	TV Series documentary	Himself
Pepsi Smash	2004	TV Series documentary	Himself
Chappelle's Show	2004	TV Series	Himself
The 46th Annual Grammy Awards	2004	TV Special	Himself - Presenter
On-Air with Ryan Seacrest	2004	TV Series	Himself
VH1 Big in 03	2003	TV Special	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Entertainment Tonight	2016	TV Series	Himself
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	2016	TV Series	Himself
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	2015	TV Series	Himself
Inside Edition	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Insider	2014	TV Series	Himself
The O'Reilly Factor	2008	TV Series	Himself
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show	2007	TV Series	Himself
CMT Crossroads	2006	TV Series	Himself

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2009	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Male Pop Vocal Performance	For the song "Say."
2007	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Male Pop Vocal Performance	For the song "Waiting On the World to Change."
2007	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Pop Vocal Album	For the album "Continuum."
2005	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Song of the Year	For the song "Daughters."
2005	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Male Pop Vocal Performance	For the song "Daughters."

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2013	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Album of the Year		· Frank Ocean (Artist/Producer/Engineer/Mixer) · André Benjamin (Featured Artist) · Tyler the Creator (Featured Artist) · Thebe Kgositsile (Featured Artist) · Malay (Producer/Engineer/Mixer) · Shea Taylor (Producer) · Pharrell Williams (Producer) · Calvin Bailif (Engineer/Mixer) · Andrew Coleman (Engineer/Mixer) · Doug Fenske (Engineer/Mixer) · Ken Oriole (Engineer/Mixer) · Philip Scott (Engineer/Mixer) · Mark Stent (Engineer/Mixer) · Pat Thrall (Engineer/Mixer) · Marcos Tovar (Engineer/Mixer) · Vic Wainstein (Engineer/Mixer) · Vlado Meller (Mastering Engineer)
2011	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Pop Vocal Album	For the album "Battle Studies."
2011	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Male Pop Vocal Performance	For the song "Half of My Heart."
2011	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance	For the song "Crossroads."
2009	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media	The Bucket List (2007)
2009	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Long Form Music Video		· Danny Clinch (video director) · Lindha Narvaez (video producer)
2009	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals		· Alicia Keys
2008	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Male Pop Vocal Performance	For the song "Belief."
2003	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best New Artist

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#	Quote
1	[on recording the duet, "Who You Love", with Katy Perry] I had this little chorus for years. And it was 'You love who you love' and I thought that was always going to be a great thing someday to have a song that people could hear and feel that sort of permission. And then it came out again and sometimes you just have to play stuff for other people... And I played it for Don Was, the producer of the record, and he went, 'That's something' and I said, 'I don't know' and then he said, 'Why don't you get Katy to do it?' And my first thought was, 'You can't do that' and then the more I thought about just the music part of it, it made perfect sense. Even if I didn't know Katy, it would have made perfect sense... For me, it always had to be about the song. It's a pretty big moving target to be a couple and have a song but I think there's an authenticity to it when you hear it.
2	[observation, 2013] I'd like to get to that point where people go, 'You've got a really good sound'. There are certain songs from the past that don't fit in that sound right now, and I'm working overtime to write more songs that do.
3	I'm half Jewish. People say, 'Well, which side of your family is Jewish?' I say, 'My dad's.' And they always say it doesn't count. But I will say I keep my pool at 92 degrees, so you do the math. I find myself relating to Judaism. One of my best friends is Jewish beyond all Jews-I went to my first Passover seder at his house- and I train in Krav Maga with a lot of Israelis.
4	If I look a little heavier these days it's because I'm bulking up for a role. I'm playing a musician on tour who eats everything in sight while hardly exercising.
5	[As he ties his shoe onstage] "It's very difficult to tie one shoe with the same tension as the other one, because if one should be a little tighter than the other, the show's gonna suck. I'm a man of symmetry."
6	I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.
7	I don't mind making sissy rock... I'll rock your ass sensitive-style
8	I love you all so much. We really need to come up with a new name for 'fans'. How about really good friends who can't come over my house.
9	I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist
10	Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.
11	High school is like a spork: its a crappy spoon AND a crappy fork, so in the end, its just plain useless.
12	About the xBox game 'Halo': "I'm good. I'm fierce. And I'm not some gaming overachiever. I just have a skill. I was born to kill bionically augmented men."
13	Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart...good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.
14	I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.
15	I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists
16	So we've got one more song to play for you tonight...[crowd grumbles]...what, you know there's an encore too. The encore is sort of like the condom in the pocket: everybody knows it's there but nobody talks about it.
17	[crowd cheers] "That was a good response and I'm not going to ask you to do it again. There's nothing I hate more than going to a concert and the guy says 'You having a good time?' and you scream your head off and then the guy says 'I can't hear you!' and I'm like 'The fuck you can't!' I absolutely hate it when guys do that. So I promise you I'll never make you do that. If you scream respectably the first time anyway."
18	I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!
19	I love coconut, because when you think you're done eating coconut, 25 minutes later, a little piece of coconut comes out of the back of your mouth, and then you say, "Hey! It's more coconut!" I think any food with that kind of determination needs a little respect.
20	Connecticut's where I built the parts, Boston's where I assembled them, and Atlanta is where I sold them to people.
21	It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.