Before They Were Stars
Adam Levine and More Stars Who Were Nerds in High School
Check out these music stars when they were nerdy in high school. Take note, you aspiring music superstars: Just because you’re a nerd doesn’t mean you won’t make it big. By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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Adam Levine as an Eighth Grader at the Brentwood School in Los Angeles in 1993 and Adam Levine in 2012
Adam Levine is a thinking girl’s sex symbol, and his band Maroon 5 has huge hits like the ubiquitous “Moves Like Jagger” (featuring his fellow judge from The Voice, Christina Aguilera). But it wasn’t always that way. As a kid, Levine—who plays guitar, bass, and piano in addition to singing—told Access Hollywood, “I was very uncool, had disgusting long hair and shorts down to [to my knees], cutoff shorts—I desperately wanted to be Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam really badly, and I was just a nerdy, awkward kid and I was obsessed with music.” Obsessive? Maybe. But it clearly paid off.
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