Today is Adam Levine’s 44th birthday, and to commemorate the Maroon 5 vocalist’s special day, we compiled a list of lesser-known facts about Levine you may not know about.

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  Levine began his musical career in 1994 with the band Kara's Flowers; he was the lead vocalist and guitarist.

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  In 2001, the group was reformed as Maroon 5, and released their first album, 'Songs About Jane,' which went multi-platinum in the US.

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  As part of Maroon 5, Levine has received three Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and a World Music Award.
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  In 2012, Levine made his acting debut as recurring character Leo Morrison in the second season of 'American Horror Story: Asylum.'

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  He owns a record label, 222 Records, and a production company, 222 Productions, which produced television shows 'Sugar' and 'Songland.'

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  Adam Levine married Behati Prinsloo in 2014, after two years of dating. They have two daughters, 4-year-old Dusty Rose and 3-year-old Gio Grace
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  Levine comes from a musical family, attributing his mother's idols – Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, and The Beatles – to shaping his musical style, calling them 'a huge part of my upbringing.'

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  Levine studied at Five Towns College in New York after the break up of Kara's Flowers, where he was a writer's assistant on the CBS show, 'Judging Amy.'

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  In 2013, Levine was named People magazine's 'Sexiest Man Alive,' becoming the first singer and the second non-actor (after John F. Kennedy, Jr.) to claim the title.
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  Levine is a supporter of same-sex marriage and LGBTQ+ rights. (his brother Michael is gay) In 2011, he made a video on Maroon 5's official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project. The next year, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the 'unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8.'

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