Artist: John Legend
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Discography:
Save Room CDM
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Once Again
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Live at the House of Blues
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Get Lifted
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Neo-soul isaac Bashevis Singer and piano player John Legend combined the raw fervour of coevals Cody ChesnuTT and the burning precision of D'Angelo. Born John Stephens, Legend was a baby prodigy wHO grew up in Ohio, where he began vocalizing church doctrine and playing piano at the tender years of five-spot. Legend left field Ohio at 16 to go to college in Philadelphia, and it was thither that he number 1 institute a bigger audience. Not even out of his teens, Legend was tapped to represent pianissimo on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" in 1998. After complemental college, he touched to New York, where he began to ramp up a loyal next playacting in nightclubs and releasing CDs that he would sell at shows. He likewise became an desired session musician, playing and once in a while writing for a broad regalia of artists, including Alicia Keys, Twista, Janet Jackson, and Kanye West. It wasn't until West signed the lester Willis Young talent to his raw label that he adopted the Legend name with 2004's Solo Sessions Vol. 1: Live at the Knitting Factory. Get Lifted, his outset studio album, was released later in the year. On the force of long-suffering single "Ordinary People," the record album reached the Top Five of the Billboard two hundred. This lED to three Grammy Awards: Best R&B Album, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist. Erstwhile Again followed in October 2006.
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