John Legend

Summation 
John Legend was considered on December 28, 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. He changed into an examined for after session performer and lyricist, working with such an amazing measure of powers as Alicia Keys, Twista and Janet Jackson. He was soon acquainted with striking hip-ricochet master Kanye West, and the two authorities worked together on each other's demos. Legend's presentation storing up, 2004's Get Lifted, won three Grammy Awards. After two all the more solo parties, he discharged his joint effort with the Roots, Wake Up!, in 2010. Legend in like way showed up on the TV rivalry Duets as a partner before dropping his next amassing, 2013's Love in the Future.

Early Life and Career 

Much sooner than getting a praised notoriety as an other Grammy Award-winning vocalist entertainer, John Legend was envisioned John Roger Stephens on December 28, 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. A tyke consider, Legend's grandma taught him how to play the piano, and he grew up singing in the get-together choir. He continued taking off to the University of Pennsylvania, where he made a coed a cappella pack. After graduation, he exchanged contraptions and worked for Boston Consulting Group however kept performing in move club in New York City.

Legend changed into a searched for after session performer and lyricist, working with such a heavenly measure of powers as Alicia Keys, Twista and Janet Jackson. He was soon acquainted with best in class hip-skip master Kanye West, and the two experts cooperated on each other's demos.

Calling Breakthrough 

Legend's presentation accumulating, 2004's Get Lifted, went platinum because of some degree to the hit single "Standard People," a tune that he at initially penned for the Black Eyed Peas. He ran home with three Grammy Awards for Get Lifted: for best R&B gathering, best R&B male vocal execution and best new power. Legend's sophomore exertion, Once Again, was discharged in 2006.

Legend's musical purpose of restriction has made him a standard star. In 2006, he performed at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, the NBA All-Star Game, and the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Pittsburgh. He soon discharged a couple of new get-togethers, including Evolver (2008). Evolver included "Green Light," a joint effort with André 3000. This tune wound up being a fundamental hit, and the gathering itself fulfilled the most raised clarification behind the R&B/hip-skip plots. That same year, Legend meandered before the cameras. He had a supporting part in the 2008 sham Soul Men, including Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson.

Late Projects 

In 2010, Legend discharged Wake Up!, which he recorded with the Roots. The social affair got raves from music faultfinders and oversaw tunes made understood by any likeness of Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone. The Curtis Mayfield-penned "Mind blowing Times" was one of the record's standard singles; another hit, "Shimmer," Legend's own particular piece, earned him a Grammy Award. He and the Roots in like way won a Grammy for best R&B gathering in 2011.

Legend tried his hand at unscripted TV with the singing conflict Duets amidst the mid year of 2012. He worked near to Kelly Clarkson, Robin Thicke and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland. The musical stars honed and performed with the hopefuls on the appear. Before long, Legend contributed another track to Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django Unchained.

2013 saw Legend discharging his next solo collection Love in the Future, which highlighted the No. 1 number "Every single bit of Me" furthermore tracks like "Made to Love" and "You and I (Nobody in the World)." And in 2015, the entertainer, near rapper Common, won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song—"Splendor"— from the film Selma. The tune generally won an Academy Award, with both powers utilizing their Oscar ask for areas to highlight contemporary issues that raise with the Civil Rights Movement.

Single Life 

Outside of music, Legend is joined into various social and unselfish causes. He is a supporter of the Harlem Village Academies, a New York City alliance that runs a couple contract schools. Legend serves as a terrible preferring executive on the HVA board. He revealed to Black Enterprise magazine why get readied is such a key issue to him. "I start from a city where 40 percent to 50 percent of our youngsters drop out of discretionary school. I welled in associate school and after that went to an Ivy League school, yet I was the uncommon case. We have to complete more to ensure each immature has a quality heading."

Proceeding with his dedication to control change, Legend credited his tune "Shimmer" to the 2010 record Waiting for Superman. The film gets some information about the country's state financed enlightening system.

Legend persuaded the chance to be secured to show Chrissy Teigen while the couple was away in the Maldives in late 2011. They got hitched in September 2013 in Italy. On April 14, 2016, the pair respected their first tyke, a young woman named Luna Simone.