John Clayton Mayer, born on October 16, 1977, is a musician, composer and record producer States. He grew up in F airfield, Connecticut and studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997, where he refined his musical knowledge and began to get media attention and follow up. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, had enough commercial success, both getting to be certified mulch-platinum. In 2003, he won a Grammy Award in the category of best male pop vocal performance for the song "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
He began his career playing acoustic rock, inching towards the blues genre, reaching in 2005 collaborating with artists such as B. B. King, Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio. The blues influence is evident on his album Continuum, released in September 2006. He won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change" at the gala 49th 2007 Grammy Awards. Battle Studies, his fourth studio album, released in November 2009. Mayer's career has been extended to include stand-up comedy, graphic design and writing, has written columns for magazines including Esquire. It also engages in philanthropic activities through his own foundation, "Back to You". Moreover, since 2006, due to a number of personal relationships has appeared quite often in the gossip magazines.
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