Informative speech
Name: Wu Xiucheng, David
Student ID: 13646095
Topic: Maroon5 (American pop rock band)
Good morning, everyone. To begin with, enjoying this piece of song. (Play a small piece of music, hold on 5 seconds).
Are you familiar with this song? I think you must hear this song before.
Can you guess this song belong to which band? (Let audience guess the name of the band, maybe no one would know the answer)
Yes, you are right. It is maroon5
Well, the goal of my speech today is to inform you about the Maroon5, specifically its profile and main development history. In the end, I hope you’ll have a better understanding of maroon5 this rock band.
Maroon5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles. To be specific, we can call this band as New Soul Rock band. So far, I guess you must be curious why this band call Maroon5? From Maroon5 perspective, the word maroon stand for color dark red. They hope their band can blend with red wild charm, enthusiasm and free-spirited. What’s more, they add the rock strength, soul melody and funky Beats into band.so their songs always are aggressive. But for “5” this figure, it’s obvious that it consists of 5 member.
So the core member of Maroon5 is Adam Levine. He is lead vocal, also he does rhythm or leads guitar for the most part.
Jesse Carmichael, backing vocal, who plays the keyboards. When he was 13 years old, he met Adam in senior high school and began to play the guitar together. Form that moment on, they formed the maroon5 firstly.
The rest of members are James Valentine, backing vocal and guitarist.
Mickey Madden plays the bass guitar.
Matt Flynn plays the drum and percussion. Although he was the last one join in Maroon5, he still cooperated with others well. Go ahead, the development history is coming.
1985–2002: Kara's Flowers and the formation of Maroon 5
The maroon5 was established in 1994 at los Ageless. At that moment, these five band members are