Adam Levine
Adam Levine is a Jewish American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer of the Grammy-winning American pop, funk and alternative rock band Maroon 5.
Born Adam Noah Levine in in Los Angeles, California to Fred and Patsee nee Noah Levine, Levine attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts Camp in New York as a child. At French Woods, Levine started the band now known as Maroon 5 - which was then called Kara’s Flowers - with his best friend Jesse Carmichael. The band released their first album titled The Fourth World in , during their senior year of high school.
After high school, Levine moved to New York with Carmichael and “that’s when I started waking up to the whole hip hop, R&B thing,” Levine said. In , the pair added several musicians and renamed their band Maroon 5.
Levine’s band was influenced by Nirvana, Pearl Jam and similar bands. Maroon 5’s albums include Songs About Jane, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, Hands All Over, and their singles include Moves Like Jagger and Payphone featuring the American rapper Wiz Khalifa.
In addition to his work with Maroon 5, Levine has collaborated with other musical and entertainment gigs.
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Jewish people in America seem to have natural abilities that lend them to Hollywood careers. The Jewish influence in Hollywood has been apparent since the dawn of its prime. The fact is, Jews are entertainers! Everyone knows the actors, singers, comedians and directors who are recognized for their Judaism like Ben Stiller, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen, and Adam Sandler, but they aren’t the only ones. There are tons of A-list Jews that I bet you didn’t know are Jewish! Here’s the top 10 surprises.
# Amanda Bynes- That’s right! The once adorable and currently unstable actress was born to a Christian father and a Jewish mother. Known for her sketch comedy series, “The Amanda Show,” the Teen Nick hit show “What I Like About You,” “She’s the Man,” and countless other titles, Amanda openly regards herself as Jewish.
#9- Logan Lerman- The budding star of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and “The Perks of Being A Wallflower” is unquestionably Jewish. All four of his grandparents immigrated from various places in the world, including Poland in order to escape the Holocaust.
#8- Paula Abdul- A beloved “American Idol” ju
Maroon 5's Adam Levine: I was much more into the Beatles than barmitzvahs
He was, he says, "terribly shy as a young child", growing up in California, but he was lucky to have the "guidance of a very supportive family". After his parents' divorce, his time was split between his mother's house during the week and his father's at weekends.
"My mum was a pushover," he laughs, "and my dad used to scare me a little bit to make sure I bathed and stuff like that. But he and I had a great relationship."
Levine's father and grandfather on his mother's side were both Jewish. "Dad spiked in a little Judaism," he says of his religious upbringing. "But it wasn't the kind of thing he wanted to force on me."
Levine might be covered in tattoos and have a reputation for being a lothario, but he is a serious-minded individual whose religious convictions reach back to his early teens.
"Religion is a very long, complicated conversation that we're not going to have right now," he asserts. He believes that "you have to let kids figure out what they want to do for themselves." Is
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Adam Levine was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
Both of Levine's parents are Jewish. While Levine still identifies with his Jewish heritage,[1] it isn't, and never was a big part of his life. He says his parents never forced it on him and allowed him to figure his spirituality out for himself. Levine even opted-out of having a Bar Mitzvah–the traditional Jewish right of passage where 13 year old boys are lavished with cash and gifts. He said:
I felt as though a lot of kids [I knew] were trying to cash in [on their Bar Mitzvah]. They were trying to make a bunch of money, and that's fine. I just don't think it's the most respectful way to deal with God and beliefs and years and years and years of cultural heritage.[2]
Despite his admittedly mellow Jewish upbringing and the fact that he's publicly stated his break with the faith, orthodox Jews still give him a hard time about his tattoos–something technically forbidden in the Jewish faith.[3]
Now, Levine says he practices a "generalized, spiritual way of life." He is a big fan of yoga, even though the spirituality of it initially turned him off. He said:
I was skeptical, t
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