John Clayton Mayer is an American singer, composer, and guitarist born October 16, 1977. Mayer, born and reared in Fairfield County, Connecticut, joined Berklee College of Music in Boston before leaving in 1997 to go with Clay Cook to Atlanta. Together, they created the short-lived two-piece band, Lo-Fi Masters. Although they broke up,
Mayer continued to perform at neighbourhood clubs, honing his craft and accumulating fans and advice at the same time to Aware Records after competing at the 2001 South by Southwest festival and later to Columbia Records, which issued his first extended play Inside Wants Out. His two subsequent studio albums, Heavier Things (2003) and Room for Squares (2001) enjoyed strong sales and were certified multi-platinum.
John Clayton Early Life
His mother, Margaret (née Hoffman; born 1947), was a teacher at a high school, while his father, Richard Mayer, served as the head of a high school. The middle child of elder half-sister Rachael, older brother Karl, and younger brother Ben, he grew up in the adjacent town of Fairfield.
According to Mayer, his dad is Jewish, and he identifies with Judaism. Mayer and James Blake, a future tennis pro, were close as elementary school students and spent three years playing Nintendo together after school on weekdays. He spent his junior year in Norwalk at Brien McMahon High School’s Institute for Global Studies.
When Mayer was 17, he spent a whole week in the hospital due to heart dysrhythmia. Mayer later remarked, “It was the time the composer within me was born,” The night after leaving the hospital, he wrote his first songs. John says even after getting panic attacks and dreading having to check himself into a psychiatric facility, he continues to use anti-anxiety medicine to control these bouts.
John Clayton Career
Mayer considered leaving college to focus on music, but his family talked him out. At 19, he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in 1997. After two semesters at Berklee, they relocated to Atlanta at the request of his former classmate Clay Cook.
There, they started three separate groups called LoFi Masters and started playing in neighbourhood coffee shops and clubs like Eddie’s Attic. Cook claims that because Mayer wanted to make more pop-oriented music, this caused them to have artistic conflicts. Once the two broke up, Mayer started a solo career.
Mayer’s second album, Heavier Things, was released in 2003. Allmusic, Blender, and Rolling Stone provided complimentary—though cautious—comments. While not selling in addition to Room for Squares, the album was financially successful and peaked at position two on the United States Billboard 200 list.
The song “Daughters,” which peaked at #1 on the Top Adult Pop Songs ranking and #19 on the Billboard Charts 100, received the 2005 Oscar for Song of the Year. His grandmother Annie Hoffman, who passed away in May 2004, was honoured with the prize. Best Young Pop Vocal Performance went to him as well.
John Frusciante, Derek Trucks, and Mayer were all featured on the cover of Stones Magazine (#1020) in February 2007; the article praised the “New Guitar Gods,” and the surface gave Mayer the moniker name Slowhand Jr., an allusion to Eric Clapton.
Critics draw attention to how secure his music is, though. Chris Richards, in a report of a 2017 concert, proclaimed, “John Mayer is an incredible guitar player”, but he adds he said so “through clenched teeth”, stressing that the fact should not forgive the guitarist of “his blanket songcraft, the bland emotion of his lyrics, or the cuckoo-racist chat he gave to Magazine back in 2010”.
John Clayton Personal Life
Mayer disclosed that he has been sober since 2016 on the third episode of Current Mood. After what he claims was a six-day hangover at Drake’s 30th birthday party, he stopped drinking. While not on tour, Mayer enjoys a home role and maintains tight ties with his father and brothers.
Jennifer Aniston Hewitt, Jennifer Simpson, Minka Kelly, Rachel Aniston, Katy Wonder, and Taylor Swift are among the celebrities with whom Mayer has had romantic relationships.
John Clayton Net Worth
John Mayer is renowned for liking pricey timepieces. During his life, he spent millions and billions of dollars on watches. He put the value of his whole collection at “tens of millions” of dollars in 2015. For eyes, along with a $300,000 Patek Philippe wristwatch, Mayer reportedly spent 25% of his entire wealth in 2017, according to MSNBC.
Mayer adds that a significant portion of this interest involves spending much time researching to understand the specifics of numerous timepieces.
John Mayer started to believe that twelve of his watches had fake components in 2014. These wristwatches cost him $5 million to buy. He thus filed a lawsuit against Robert Maron, the watch salesman from whom he had purchased the clocks. Mayer prepared to suit Maron for $656,000 but eventually withdrew the case after realising his error. After that, he publicly expressed his regret to Maron and maintained his belief in the validity of the watch dealer.
