Must Haves. Music Edition. John Legend.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active1990s - 2020s

BornDecember 28, 1978 in Springfield, OH

Genre

R&B

Styles

Adult Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B

Pop

ALBUMS

Get lifted, once again, evolver, wake up, love in the future, darkness and light, a legendary christmas, bigger love

HITS

All of me, love me now, ordinary people, heaven, glory, shine, save room

CULTURAL IMPACT

John Legend dwelled withinside the historical past for numerous years earlier than he released his multi-pronged sneak assault at the leisure industry. Shortly after he were given his first destroy through gambling piano on Lauryn Hill`s Top forty hit "Everything Is Everything" (1999), the singer and songwriter contributed to recordings through the likes of Jay-Z and Janet Jackson, secured a principal-label deal via Kanye West, and made his right debut with Get Lifted (2004). The album made Legend a multi-platinum, Grammy-prevailing musician, and he changed into simply getting started, neither restricted nor careworn through the Recording Academy's Best New Artist designation. Amid a string of extraordinary and debonair albums, Once Again (2006), Wake Up! (2010), Darkness and Light (2016), and Bigger Love (2020) amongst them, Legend -- as a composer, actor, and manufacturer -- has excelled with display and level pursuits. His triumphs encompass the Oscar-prevailing "Glory" (for Selma), the Emmy-prevailing Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, and the Tony-prevailing manufacturing of Jitney. He is a number of the first 15 entertainers, and is the primary African-American, to have received all 4 of the principal show-enterprise awards.

Born John Stephens, John Legend started out making a song gospel and gambling piano as a teenager in his local Springfield, Ohio. He left his domestic country at sixteen to wait the University of Pennsylvania, and directed Counterparts, the school's co-ed a cappella group. Not pretty out of his teens, Stephens changed into tapped through Fugees' Lauryn Hill to play piano on "Everything Is Everything," a Top forty pop hit in 1999. After finishing college, Stephens moved to New York, wherein he constructed a following acting at nightclubs and self-issuing the CDs John Stephens, Live at Jimmy's Uptown, Live at SOB's, and Solo Sessions, Vol.1: Live on the Knitting Factory. These 2000-2004 recordings solidified a career-lengthy partnership with manufacturer Dave Tozer. The latter CDs have been credited to John Legend, Hill's nickname for her employed gun. The alias stuck. Legend simultaneously have become an in-call for consultation musician, historical past vocalist, and songwriter with contributions to 2003-2004 albums through an array of artists which includes the Black Eyed Peas and will.i.am, Twista, Jay-Z, Janet Jackson, Slum Village, Talib Kweli, and Estelle.