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Profile of James Valentine
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James Valentine |
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18th February 1930 |
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Rockford, Illinois, USA |
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James Burgon Valentine (born October 5, 1978 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American musician. He is best known as the guitarist for the pop rock group Maroon5.
Valentine played in Lincoln bands Kid Quarkstar and Happy Dog. In 2000, Happy Dog changed its name to Square and moved to Los Angeles.
Eventually the members of Square and Kara's Flowers became friends and when Kara's Flowers began looking for another guitarist, Valentine was tapped. It was a tough decision for Valentine, but personal tensions in Square helped the decision and shortly afterward, Kara's Flowers became Maroon 5.
Valentine is a longtime friend of John Mayer, who he met in 1996 at a weeklong guitar school at Berklee in Boston. Valentine once tried to get Mayer to move to Lincoln to play guitar for the Lincoln blues rock band Baby Jason and the Spankers, and later on an opening slot on one of Mayer's tours helped bring widespread exposure to Maroon 5.
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