Hollywood star Adam Levine

Adam Noah Levine was born in Los Angeles on March 18, 1979 to Fred Levine, the founder of retail chain M. Fredric, and Patsy Levine, an admissions counselor. Journalist and author Timothy Noah is his uncle. He has two brothers, Michael and Sam. Levine's parents divorced when he was seven. Growing up, he spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father. He underwent therapy for his parents' divorce, but called it a "waste of time" explaining that his parents could not "accept the fact that I might have been OK with it. I cried my eyes out and kicked and screamed and said, 'Why?' and all the things you do when you find out. A few days later I was fine but I still had to go to therapy".

Levine describes his family as "very musical" and credits his mother with "starting me out on the path". He also attributes his mother's idols - Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac and, most notably, The Beatles - to shaping his musical style, calling them "a huge part of my upbringing". He attended Brentwood School, where he met Jesse Carmichael and Mickey Madden, his future bandmates. He carried his musical interests to high school, where he states he was "a little rebellious. I didn't want to do the things they were teaching me ... consumed my every thought."

With a soulful, seductive voice and equally sultry dance moves, Adam Levine has long been making girls squeal as frontman of the Grammy-winning band Maroon 5 – and now, he's set to conquer TV and film, as well.

A native Angeleno, Levine got his musical start performing at kids' parties with his first band, Kara's Flowers. In 2004, he found critical and commercial success with the release of Maroon 5's debut album, Songs About Jane, which earned the band the best new artist Grammy. While the pop-rock group has continued to churn out hits, from "She Will Be Loved" to "Moves Like Jagger," it's the star's gig as mentor and judge on NBC's hit singing competition The Voice that has propelled him to solo stardom.

Since invading America's living rooms, Levine has branched out in many ways, flexing his acting chops on American Horror Story: Asylum and the upcoming film Can a Song Save Your Life?, as well as developing his own fragrance. He's also romanced his fair share of beauties, from model Anne V to Nina Agdal, but in 2013, the ladies' man settled down, proposing to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo – just months before being named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive.

 Levine used hallucinogenic drugs in his adolescence. In an interview with Q, he said that using mushrooms "really forced me to look at myself" but added that he had never abused drugs. On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he stated that he stopped using drugs after his first experience with prescription drug Ambien, which left him unconscious for an hour.

Levine's father and maternal grandfather are Jewish, while his maternal grandmother was Protestant. Levine considers himself Jewish, though according to his interview in The Jewish Chronicle, he "has rejected formal religious practice for a more generalized, spiritual way of life". He chose not to have a Bar Mitzvah as a child, explaining: "I felt as though a lot of kids were trying to cash in ... I just don't think it's the most respectful way to deal with God and beliefs and years and years and years of cultural heritage".

In early 2010, Levine met Russian Sports Illustrated swimsuit and Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna while performing at the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue release party in Las Vegas, who he later started dating. After two years together, in April 2012, Levine and Vyalitsyna announced that they had split. The following month Levine began dating Namibian Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo. They broke up in March 2013, but later reconciled and subsequently became engaged in July that year. The couple were married on July 19, 2014 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

 Levine, whose brother openly identifies as gay, is an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. In 2011, he made a video on Maroon 5's official YouTube account in support of the It Gets Better Project. In January 2012, 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".

In 2013, Levine was mentioned in a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by an unnamed security guard who claimed that Universal Music Publishing Group's Santa Monica location were "infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices and openly used in common areas, and lounges". The guard claimed that when she complained about the cannabis smoke coming from one of the studios, she was told that "it's Adam Levine ... if he wants to come to the lobby and do a line of cocaine on the floor, it's OK". In an official statement to The Hollywood Reporter, UMPG described the allegations as "absurd".

Adam Levine and Anne Vyalitsyna. Fashion show 2011.