约翰ĴMellencamp的（生于1951年10月7日），又称约翰美洲狮Mellencamp的，是美国音乐家，歌手，词曲作者，画家和演员。他被称为他的琅琅上口，民粹主义的品牌中心地带的岩石，它强调传统的仪器仪表。他上升到超级巨星在20世纪80年代，而“磨炼几乎惊人直言不讳的写作风格，1982年起，产生了十大单曲的字符串，” 包括“伤害了这么好 ”，“ 杰克与黛安 ”，“ Crumblin”向下 “，” 粉红屋 “，” 孤独的01之夜 “，” 小城镇“，” ROCK在美国 “，” 纸火中，“和” 樱桃炸弹 “。他已经积累了22 前40名在美国的命中。此外，他还通过独唱歌手适用于最轨道记录击中了一个号码热卖主流岩石轨道图，七，和已被提名为13 项格莱美大奖，获胜的法宝。Mellencamp的发布了他的最新专辑，平原讲，在2014年9月23日，以广泛的一致好评。

Mellencamp的也是创始成员之一，农业补贴，即在1985年开始在演唱会的组织，伊利诺斯，提高对家庭农场的丧失意识，并筹集资金，以保持农民家庭对他们的土地。农场援助音乐会已经在过去的31年来一直是每年一度的盛事，而作为2016年该组织已筹集超过5000万$，促进农业的一个强大而有弹性的家庭农场制度。

Mellencamp的入选了摇滚名人堂 3月10日，2008年[3]他最大的音乐影响是鲍勃·迪伦，伍迪格思，詹姆斯·布朗和滚石乐队。[4]据说长期滚石贡献者安东尼DeCurtis：“ Mellencamp的创造已经为他赢得了两个重要的方面，是一种庞大的观众工作的一个重要机构。他的歌曲记录了欢乐和寻求使他们的方式老百姓的斗争，他一直把共同体验新鲜空气的典型魅力腐坏的流行音乐的世界。“

已故的广告牌杂志的主编，首席蒂莫西·怀特在2001年说：

约翰麦伦坎普可以说是他那一代最重要的根摇臂。约翰取得了小提琴，锤扬琴，Autoharps和手风琴导致岩石乐器与电吉他，贝司和鼓相提并论，而且他还带来了他所谓的“原始阿巴拉契亚”抒情观他的歌。Mellencamp的最好的音乐是摇滚乐剥离所有逃避现实，并直接着眼于生活的混乱，因为它的实际生活。在他的音乐，死亡率，焦虑，天灾，浪漫和兄弟情谊的问题，和良心的危机都发生碰撞，并要求艰难的决定。这是摇滚音乐揭示真理它作曲家，他的观察都文化。

John J Mellencamp[1] (born October 7, 1951), also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. He rose to superstardom in the 1980s while "honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,"[2] including "Hurts So Good," "Jack & Diane," "Crumblin' Down," "Pink Houses," "Lonely Ol' Night," "Small Town," "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.," "Paper in Fire," and "Cherry Bomb." He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven, and has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. Mellencamp released his latest album, Plain Spoken, on September 23, 2014, to widespread critical acclaim.

Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 31 years, and as of 2016 the organization has raised over $50 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.

Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008.[3] His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Brown and the Rolling Stones.[4] Said longtime Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis: "Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience. His songs document the joys and struggles of ordinary people seeking to make their way, and he has consistently brought the fresh air of common experience to the typically glamour-addled world of popular music."

The late Billboard magazine editor-in-chief Timothy White said in 2001:

John Mellencamp is arguably the most important roots rocker of his generation. John has made fiddles, hammer dulcimers, Autoharps and accordions lead rock instruments on a par with electric guitar, bass and drums, and he also brought what he calls 'a raw Appalachian' lyrical outlook to his songs. Mellencamp's best music is rock 'n roll stripped of all escapism, and it looks directly at the messiness of life as it's actually lived. In his music, mortality, anxiety, acts of God, questions of romance and brotherhood, and crises of conscience all collide and demand hard decisions. This is rock music that tells the truth on both its composer and the culture he's observing.