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Kara’s Flowers released its debut album, The FourthWorld, in 1997.

With hopes of a best-selling album running high, the band embarked on a late-summer tour. Beginning at Toe’sTavern in Santa Barbara near the end of July, the band played more than 30 tour dates throughout California, Arizona,Washington, Nevada, Minnesota, and NewYork. They served as the opening act at several stops for bands such as Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish, and theAquabats. Unfortunately for Levine and Kara’s Flowers, the albumwas a commercial flop and the buzz that had surrounded the band’s emergence soon fizzled.When Cavallo exited Reprise Records, executives there who were disappointed in album sales and who also didn’t foresee a future of quality music making chopped Levine and Kara’s Flowers from their client list. EASTERN INFLUENCE Following high school, and no longer having the luxury of a record label, the band broke up and Levine headed east to attend FiveTowns College in Long Island, NewYork. The cozy private college was founded in 1974 and catered to fewer than 700 students looking to pursue careers as musicians, artists,

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Adam Levine