John Maus

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Maus
Occupation	Pop Singer
Date Of Birth	Feb 23, 1980(1980-02-23)
Age	44
Birthplace	Austin
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Aquarius

John Maus Biography

John Maus is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on February 23, 1980 in Austin, Minnesota, United States. American synthpop artist whose third full-length album, 2011, We Must Be the Censors Without Borders of Ourselves was his most successful album. Fans know him for his antics on stage that include punching himself or tear-gassing his clothes during live performances.

He’s a close acquaintance and often collaborator with the LA-based indie pop artist He is a close friend and frequent collaborator of Los Angeles-based indie pop singer Ariel Pink, whom he befriended in college., who he met during college.

John Maus (born February 23, 1980) is an American musician, composer, singer, and songwriter known for his baritone singing style and his use of vintage synthesizer sounds and Medieval church modes, a combination that often draws comparisons to 1980s goth-pop. His early lo-fi recordings anticipated and inspired the late 2000s hypnagogic pop movement. On stage, he is characterized for his intense displays of emotion while performing. He is also a former teacher of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he later earned his PhD in political science.

Maus was born and raised in Austin, Minnesota and had a middle-class upbringing. The earliest songs he could recall hearing was “Chariots of Fire” by Vangelis, and after that, early MTV hits such as Jefferson Starship’s “We Built This City” (1985). As a teenager, he listened mainly to Nirvana and Syd Barrett, performed in punk bands, and created music with his computer. He said that he began playing an instrument “around 12 or 13” and remembered that “the [only] culture I was exposed to was what was coming through MTV, Top 40 radio and maybe a classic rock station or something like that. … I lived out in a very small town, with no boutique record stores and no college kids.” Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” created “a fascination for musical details” for him, and when he got his first bass guitar, “I didn’t take any lessons or learn how to play it. I’d just kind of pluck on the bass and scream my heart out.” Afterward, he became fascinated with the life and music of Syd Barrett, and recorded his own version of Barrett’s 1970 song “Feel” from The Madcap Laughs.

The place he was raised is Austin, Minnesota.

John Maus Net Worth

John Maus is one of the richest Pop Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Maus 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student of music of the California Institute of the Arts and was inspired through Renaissance as well as Medieval music.

He holds a doctorate on Political Philosophy from the University of Hawaii and has also taught the subject for himself.

Although he rejects the label, Maus is recognized as a progenitor of the hypnagogic pop scene, a genre noted for its reliance on memory and nostalgia. His compositions tend to employ the use of particular modal scales previously associated with Renaissance and Medieval music, which he believes is often mistaken as an attempt to evoke the 1980s. The intention, he said, was not “to evoke that time, I just hear that sound and it seems to suit this time right now. … People associate the kind of harmonies that associate from the modes with the 80s sound, and for me it’s not about the 80s, it’s about what I think the kind of harmony is that arises from these modes – what I’m interested in.” He adds: “For whatever reason, the pioneers of electronic music that came out of Sheffield and Manchester in the 1980s became interested in these ecclesiastical modes that, historically, were associated with the divine. … The palette was there in the 80s so why was it set aside and forgotten? That thread can be taken up again.” He goes on to opine that synthesizers and waveforms offer more “color and possibility” than the guitar, which he feels is an “exhausted” instrument.

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Who is John Maus Dating?

According to our records, John Maus married to Kika Karadi. As of December 1, 2023, John Maus’s is not dating anyone.

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After Love Is Real, Maus was awarded a scholarship to study political philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he had a day job as a lecturer. In the evenings, he continued working on music from his office. In 2009, Maus relocated from Hawaii to a secluded cabin in Minnesota, where he struggled to write material for a third album. He said that he eventually gave up, and instead began “doing lots of chemistry projects and chromatography experiments. I set myself on fire a few times heating inflammable solvents.” Meanwhile, he continued his studies at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland and earned his master’s degree. He did not live in Switzerland, “but would go out there in the summers. It’s like that Black Mountain thing that they did over here years ago, where they bring out all of the heavy hitters and you can study with them yourself.”

Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Maus celebrates birthday on February 23 of every year.

During Maus’ hiatus in the 2010s, various contingents of popular music began indulging in throwbacks to 1980s culture. Maus acknowledged that his early albums may have anticipated this development. Commenting on vaporwave: “even if I said it wasn’t always about retro, I had maybe tried to do that very thing and dropped a thread there for people to pick up on.”

What kind of music is John Maus?

Maus makes an unlikely rock revolutionary. A long-time cohort of LA freak scene luminary Ariel Pink, he delivers his desolate sermons in a lugubrious baritone over gloomily anthemic sounds, vaguely like a pre-cocktail bar Human League.

How old is John Maus?

42 years (February 23, 1980)

Where is John Maus from?

Austin, MN

Does John Maus have an Instagram?

John Maus (@unomaus) • Instagram photos and videos.