 John Mayer was born on October 16, 1977 in Bridgeport, Connecticut the son of a pair of public education employees, his mother an English teacher and his father a principal. There he enjoyed a typical childhood taking up the clarinet in the orchestra pit in junior high. Every performer needs an inspiration for the jump from casual music fan to obsessive student. For Mayer that catalyst would be Marty McFly and his guitar in Back to the Future. By the age of 13 he had moved away from the orchestra pit and begun his journey to rock stardom, a road that was paved with the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Determined to become a world class blues musician, he spent two years hidden in his room before playing live in blues bars and joined the band Villanova Junction as a guitarist. John Mayer's interest in songwriter followed his time in the hospital at the age of 17 following complications caused by cardiac dysrhythmia. Before beginning his time on stage promoting John Mayer concerts and tours, he attended the Berklee College of Music for a year before moving to Atlanta at the behest of his friend Clay Cook. Eventually, Mayer became established by the year 2000 and earned a record deal with Columbia Records. A year later, he released his first album Room for Squares. The quadruple-platinum album yielded three singles that landed in the Top Ten in the Adult Top 40 – "No Such Thing", "Your Body Is a Wonderland", and "Why Georgia". John Mayer had become a success and started drawing tens of thousands of fans at a time to huge venues on his tours. He also began to date an obscenely impressive number of the hottest celebrities from the United States. Mayer released three more studio albums and four live albums, four of which have gone platinum. Heavier Things, Continuum, Battle Studies, and Any Given Thursday all went at least platinum. Those albums have given the adult contemporary music genre such hits as "Daughters", "Waiting on the World to Change", "Say", "Heartbreak Warfare", and "Half of My Heart". These songs are mainstays on every single setlist for his sell-out John Mayers tours. OnlineSeats has the John Mayer tickets to catch these concert series in person.
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