Premium Vinicius™ Posted June 6, 2022 Premium Posted June 6, 2022 Musician Name: John Legend Birthday / Location: December 28, 1978 (43 years old) Springfield, Ohio United States Main instrument: R&B, soul, pop Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations:- Best Performance: - Other Information: John Roger Stephens (Springfield, December 28, 1978), better known by the stage name John Legend, is an American singer and songwriter, winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song Glory for the film Selma. He collaborated with Slum Village on the song "Selfish" (US Top 100), a song in which Kanye West also participates. Legend participated in Kanye West's Late Orchestration CD, playing piano live in London. He also played piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything is Everything" and sang backing vocals on Jay-z's "Encore", Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name", Fort Minor's "High Road". In 2005, he sang the classic With you I'm born again with Mariah Carey on the Save The Music special. His brother Vaughn Anthony is also a singer. Legend created the song "All of me" to dedicate to the woman. He sang the theme song for the movie Beauty and the Beast. In 2018 John Legend participated in the musical Jesus Christ Super Star playing Jesus Christ, the show has several other names in the song including Alice Cooper as a special guest, in the same year he made a musical partnership with the South Korean singer Wendy from the Red Velvet Group , called Written in the stars, for SM Entertainment's digital single system, called SM Station or just Station. He studied English, majoring in African-American literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In college he participated in a jazz group called Counterparts. He was introduced to singer Lauryn Hill, and played piano on the track "Everything Is Everything" from the singer's first solo album. He started college in 1999 and started composing his own music and recorded two independent albums that were sold at his performances: "John Stephens" (2000) and "Live at Jimmy Uptown" (2001). He even made appearances on albums by singers like Alicia Keys, Jay-Z. In 2005 he participated in the song High Road, on the album The Rising Tied of the Fort Minor project by Mike Shinoda, lead singer and guitarist of Linkin Park. He was also featured on the album How I Got Over (2009) by American rap group The Roots. In December 2011 he started dating model Chrissy Teigen. They got married on the 14th of September 2013 in Como, Italy. The song "All of me" was written especially for his wife. The couple have a daughter, Luna, born in April 2016, and a son, Miles, born in May 2018, both conceived via IVF.
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