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 pianissimo player John Legend combined the naked as a jaybird 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 singing church ism 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 found a larger audience. Not even out of his teens, Legend was tapped to present pianissimo on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" in 1998. After complemental college, he fey 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 similarly became an desired sitting musician, performing and at one time in a while writing for a broad raiment of artists, including Alicia Keys, Twista, Janet Jackson, and Kanye West. It wasn't until West sign the lester Willis Young talent to his rude label that he adoptive the Legend name with 2004's Solo Sessions Vol. 1: Live at the Knitting Factory. Get Lifted, his starting time studio album, was released later in the year. On the force of long-suffering undivided "Ordinary People," the criminal record album reached the Top Five of the Billboard two century. 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.
