● John Clayton Mayer is an American musician.

Originally from
Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston,
Massachusetts before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997.
● Mayer began his career performing mainly acoustic rock, but
gradually began a transition towards the blues genre in 2005 by
collaborating with renowned blues artists such as B. B. King, Buddy
Guy, and Eric Clapton, and by forming the John Mayer Trio

● Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male
Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change".

● John Mayer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to Margaret, an

English teacher, and Richard, a high school principal

● Soon after Mayer got his guitar, a neighbor gave him a Stevie Ray
Vaughan cassette, which began Mayer’s intense love of the blues

● Mayer began to collaborate extensively, often working with artists

outside of his own genre.

● When asked about his presence in the hip hop community, Mayer
said, "It's not music out there right now. That's why, to me, hip-hop
is where rock used to be.

● It was around this time that Mayer began hinting a change in his
musical interests, announcing that he was "closing up shop on
acoustic sensitivity."[34] In 2005, he began a string of collaborations
with various blues artists, including, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and
others...

● In the spring of 2005, Mayer formed the John Mayer Trio with
bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan, The trio played a
combination of blues and rock music.
● In September 2006, Mayer announced plans for the Trio to begin
work on a future studio album