Mayer Hawthorne
Mayer Hawthorne
Andrew Mayer Cohen, better known by the stage name Mayer Hawthorne, is a Grammy-nominated American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. Cohen also performs and records in the groups Tuxedo and Jaded Incorporated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth2 February 1979
CityAnn Arbor, MI
CountryUnited States of America
play bass-guitar keys
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
mean perfect gears
James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.
dad player practice
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.
important breakfast meals
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.
song rap writing
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.
kids rocks 80s-and-90s
I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.
trying intention music-is
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.
thinking people soul
A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.
dad character littles
My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
kids thinking parent
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
growing-up healthy west
I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.
fun party world
I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.
long people want
I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.
people
I love doing things that people don't expect.