With You I M Born Again David Shire Chris Dedrick

American singer, songwriter, and producer

John Legend

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Legend at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards

Born

John Roger Stephens


(1978-12-28) Dec 28, 1978 (age 43)

Springfield, Ohio, U.South.

Education North Loftier School, Springfield, Ohio
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Occupation
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • record producer
  • histrion
  • movie producer
Years active 1997–nowadays

Works

  • Discography
  • filmography
  • production
Television set Underground
Sherman'due south Showcase
Rhythm + Flow
The Voice
Political party Democratic[1]
Spouse(s)

Chrissy Teigen

(chiliad. )

Children 3
Awards Full list
Musical career
Genres
  • R&B
  • soul
  • pop
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
Labels
  • Republic
  • Columbia
  • Adept
  • Sony Urban
Website johnlegend.com

Musical creative person

John Roger Stephens (built-in December 28, 1978), known professionally every bit John Fable, is an American vocalizer, songwriter, role player, and tape producer. He began his musical career by working behind the scenes; playing piano on Lauryn Loma's "Everything Is Everything", and making uncredited guest appearances on Jay-Z'south "Encore", and Alicia Keys's "You Don't Know My Proper noun". He then signed to Kanye W's GOOD Music and released his debut anthology Get Lifted (2004), which reached the top ten on the Billboard 200, and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

The anthology earned him 8 nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, including nominations for the singles "So High" with Lauryn Loma and "Ordinary People", with the latter song winning for Best Male person R&B Vocal Functioning, while also earning him awards for Best New Artist and Best R&B Anthology. His second studio album Over again (2006), spawned the unmarried "Save Room", and became his second top ten album on the Billboard 200 chart. The lead single from his third anthology Evolver (2008), "Green Light" featuring André 3000, reached the height 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In June 2008, he released the live anthology John Legend: Live from Philadelphia.

Legend would later collaborate with The Roots on the album Wake Upward! (2010). His fourth studio album Honey in the Hereafter (2013), spawned the single "All of Me", which peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and has been certified xiii× platinum by the RIAA. In 2015, he was featured on the single "Like I'chiliad Gonna Lose You lot" by Meghan Trainor, which reached the top 10 in the U.S. Legend has since released the albums Darkness and Light (2016), A Legendary Christmas (2018), and Bigger Love (2020).

In 2007, Fable received the Hal David Starlight Laurels from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[2] Legend won the University Award for Best Original Song and Golden Globe Award in 2015 for co-writing the song "Celebrity" from the picture show Selma. He has received a total of twelve Grammy Awards. In 2017, Legend won a Tony Award for co-producing Jitney for the Broadway phase.[3] In 2018, Legend portrayed Jesus Christ in NBC's adaptation of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. He received a Primetime Emmy Honor nomination for his acting role, and won for his role as a producer of the prove, making him the start blackness man and 2d youngest person to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT).[iv] [five] Legend is also the recipient of the NAACP's President's Award.[six] Since 2019, Fable has been featured equally a coach on The Voice.

Early life [edit]

Fable was born John Roger Stephens on December 28, 1978, in Springfield, Ohio.[7] He is the eldest of iv children[8] of Phyllis Elaine (née Lloyd), a seamstress, and Ronald Lamar Stephens, a manufactory worker at International Harvester (now Navistar).[nine] [10] [11] [12] His father was a drummer, while "his mother sang and directed the church choir, and his grandmother was the church organist."[13] In 2004, Legend stated that his parents were divorced for 12 years before reuniting.[14] Legend was homeschooled past his mother.[15] He began playing the piano at age 4. At the age of 7, he performed with his church choir.[16] Because of his academic talent, he skipped two grades.[13]

At the historic period of 12, Fable attended Northward High School in Springfield, Ohio, from which he graduated every bit salutatorian of his class iv years later on.[thirteen] At the historic period of 15, Fable won a Black History Month essay competition run by McDonalds, following the prompt "How do you intend to make Black history?" with an essay nigh how he intended to be a successful musician, according to an interview on the Carlos Watson Show.[17] Legend was offered access to Harvard University and scholarships to Georgetown Academy and Morehouse College;[eighteen] he ultimately decided to attend the University of Pennsylvania.

At college, Legend served every bit the president and musical director of the co-ed jazz and pop a cappella group the Counterparts. His lead vocals on the group's recording of Joan Osborne'south "One of The states" (written by beau Penn alum Eric Bazilian of the Hooters) received critical acclaim, landing the song on the track list of the 1998 Best of Collegiate a Cappella compilation CD.[19] Legend was likewise a member of the Sphinx Senior Society and Onyx Senior Honor Society. While in higher, Legend was introduced to Lauryn Colina by a friend. Hill hired him to play piano on "Everything Is Everything", a song from her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Loma.[18] He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor'due south degree in English language with an emphasis on African-American literature[20] in 1999.[21]

Career [edit]

Career beginnings [edit]

Afterwards graduating from college, Legend worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and began producing, writing, and recording his own music.[thirteen] He released two albums independently: his self-titled demo (2000) and Live at Jimmy's Uptown (2001), which he sold at his shows. He subsequently began working on his demo and began sending his work to various tape labels.[xv] [14]

In 2001, Devo Springsteen introduced Legend to Kanye West, then an up-and-coming hip-hop artist; Fable was hired to sing during the hooks of West's music. After signing to West'due south label, he chose his phase proper noun from an thought that was given to him by poet J. Ivy, due to what he perceived equally an "sometime-school sound". J. Ivy stated, "I heard your music and it reminds me of that music from the erstwhile school. You sound like 1 of the legends. Every bit a affair of fact, that'southward what I'thou going to call you from now on! I'thousand going to call you John Legend." Later J. Ivy continued to call him by the new moniker "John Legend", others quickly caught on, including Kanye West. Despite Stephens' reluctance to prefer a stage name, he somewhen announced his new artist name as John Legend.[18] [22]

2004–2007: Breakthrough success [edit]

Legend released his debut album, Go Lifted, on GOOD Music in December 2004. It featured product by Kanye West, Dave Tozer, and will.i.am, and debuted at number vii on the U.s. Billboard 200, selling 116,000 copies in its showtime calendar week.[23] Information technology went on to sell 540,300 copies in the United States and was certified aureate by the RIAA.[24] [25] An international success, Become Lifted besides reached number i on the Norwegian Albums Chart and peaked within the top ten in the Netherlands and Sweden, resulting in worldwide sales of 850,000 copies.[18] Critically acclaimed, information technology won the 2006 Grammy Honor for All-time R&B Album, and earned Fable another 2 nominal awards for Best New Creative person and Best Male R&B Song Performance. Birthday, the anthology produced 4 singles, including debut single "Used to Beloved U", which entered the superlative 30 of the New Zealand and UK Singles Chart, and Grammy Honor-winning "Ordinary People" which peaked at 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. Legend also co-wrote Janet Jackson'southward "I Desire Yous", which was certified platinum and received a nomination for All-time Female person R&B Song Performance at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards.[26]

A highly sought after collaborator, Legend was featured on several records the following years. He appeared on albums by Fort Minor, Sérgio Mendes, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, the Blackness Eyed Peas, Stephen Colbert, Rich Male child, MSTRKRFT, Chemistry, and Fergie, among others. Legend also tentatively worked with Michael Jackson on a future album for which he had written one vocal.[27] In August 2006, Legend appeared in an episode of Sesame Street. He performed a song entitled "It Feels Expert When You Sing a Song", a duet with Hoots the Owl.[28] He also performed during the pregame show of Super Basin 40 in Detroit and the halftime evidence at the 2006 NBA All-Star Game.[29] [30]

In October 2006, Legend'due south 2d album, Once Again, was released. Legend co-wrote and co-produced the bulk of the album, which saw him reteaming with West and volition.i.am but also spawned production from Raphael Saadiq, Craig Street, Sa-Ra, Eric Hudson, Devo Springsteen, Dave Tozer and Avenue.[31] Released to major commercial success, it reached number three on the Billboard 200 and debuted on summit of the Tiptop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It was somewhen certified platinum by the RIAA, and reached aureate status in Italia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. At the 2007 Grammy Awards anniversary, the song "Heaven" was awarded the Grammy Award for All-time Male R&B Vocal Performance, while lead unmarried "Salve Room" received a nod in the All-time Male Popular Vocal category. Legend won a second Grammy that twelvemonth for "Family unit Affair", a collaboration with Sly & the Family unit Stone, Joss Rock and Van Hunt, for the former's Different Strokes past Different Folks anthology.[ citation needed ]

2008–2010: Rising popularity [edit]

In Jan 2008, Legend sang in a video for Barack Obama, produced by will.i.am chosen "Yes We Can".[32] The aforementioned twelvemonth, Legend had a supporting, singing-simply role in the 2008 picture Soul Men, where he plays the deceased lead singer of a fictitious soul group that includes Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac. In October, he released his third studio anthology, Evolver.[33] Speaking about the reasons for calling the album Evolver, he stated: "I think people sometimes come to expect certain things from certain artists. They expect you to kind of stay in the aforementioned place you were at when you started out. Whereas I feel I want my career to exist divers by the fact that I'm Not gonna stay in the aforementioned place, and that I'm ever gonna effort new things and experiment. So, as I call up this anthology represents a manifestation of that, I came up with the championship 'Evolver'."[34] The album was preceded by trip the light fantastic toe-pop-influenced uptempo single "Green Light" which featured rapper Andre 3000 of OutKast and became his highest-charting single since "Ordinary People"; it was as well nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.[35] On March 30, 2008, Fable performed "America the Cute" in front of a sold-out crowd of 74,635 in the Orlando Citrus Basin, now known as Camping World Stadium, for WWE's WrestleMania XXIV.[ commendation needed ]

In 2009, Legend performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the The states.[36] Also in 2009, Legend and the Roots teamed up to tape a collaborative album, Wake Up!, which was released on September 21, 2010.[37] The kickoff single released from the album was "Wake Upward Everybody" featuring vocaliser Melanie Fiona and rapper Common.[38] [39] In Feb 2011, Legend won iii prizes at the 53rd Annual Grammy Music Awards. He was awarded Best R&B Song for "Smooth", while he and the Roots won Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Operation for "Hang On in There". In March 2011, Legend and the Roots won two NAACP Image Awards – one for Outstanding Album (Wake Upward!) and i for Outstanding Duo, Grouping or Collaboration.[ citation needed ]

2011–2015: Touring years [edit]

Legend at the Citi Presents: Evenings with Legends show in 2014

On July 5, 2011, songwriter Anthony Stokes filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Legend in United States District Court in the District of New Jersey, alleging that Legend's song "Maxine's Interlude" from his 2006 album In one case Over again derives from Stokes' demo "Where Are You At present".[40] Stokes claimed he gave Legend a demo of the song in 2004 following a concert at the Academy of Due north Carolina at Chapel Hill.[41] Legend denied the allegations, telling E! Online, "I never heard of his vocal until he sued me. I would never steal anyone's vocal. We will fight it in court and we will prevail."[42] Still, almost 60,000 people took a TMZ.com poll that compared the 2 songs and 65% of voters believed that Legend's "Maxine's Interlude" is a rip-off of Stokes' "Where Are You Now".[43] A yr later on, Legend confirmed that he settled out of court with Stokes for an undisclosed amount.[44]

As well in 2011, Legend completed a fifty-date tour equally a guest for British soul band Sade. In the San Diego stop, Legend confirmed that he was working on his next studio album and played a new vocal chosen "Dreams".[45] Later, via his official website, he revealed the official title of the album to exist Love in the Future, and debuted role of a new rails called "Caught Upward". The album has been executive-produced past Legend himself, forth with Kanye West and Dave Tozer – the same team who worked on Legend's previous albums Go Lifted, Once Over again, and Evolver. Legend has stated that his intention for the record was "To make a mod soul album – to flip that archetype experience into a modern context."[46]

Legend was granted an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Howard Academy at the 144th Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 12, 2012.[47] Legend was a estimate on the ABC music evidence Duets along with Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles, and Robin Thicke. Legend's spot was originally for Lionel Richie, who had to leave the show due to a scheduling conflict. Duets debuted on Thursday, May 24, 2012.[48]

He released his fourth studio album, Love in the Future, on September 3, 2013, debuting number iv on the Billboard 200, selling 68,000 copies in its get-go week.[49] The album was nominated for Best R&B album at the 2014 Grammy Awards.[fifty] Legend's 3rd single from the album, "All of Me", became an international nautical chart success, peaking at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three sequent weeks and reaching the top of six national charts and the top ten in numerous other countries, becoming one of the all-time-selling digital singles of all fourth dimension. It was ranked the tertiary best-selling song in the United States and the United Kingdom during 2014. The vocal is a ballad defended to his married woman, Chrissy Teigen, and was performed at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.

In 2014, Legend partnered with the rapper Common to write the song "Glory", featured in the picture show Selma, which chronicled the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. The vocal won the Golden Globe Honour for All-time Original Song too equally the Academy Award for Best Original Vocal. Legend and Common performed "Celebrity" at the 87th University Awards on Feb 22, 2015.[ citation needed ]

Legend was featured on Meghan Trainor's "Like I'chiliad Gonna Lose You" from her debut studio anthology, which reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. On February 1, 2015, he sang "America the Beautiful" in the opening ceremony of Super Bowl XLIX. He provided guest vocals on Kelly Clarkson'southward song "Run Run Run" for her anthology Piece by Piece. He also co-wrote and provided vocals for French DJ David Guetta'due south vocal "Listen", as function of the album Heed.

2016–present: International recognition and resurgence [edit]

Legend released his new album Darkness and Light, with first unmarried "Honey Me At present", on December two, 2016, with songs featuring Chance the Rapper and Miguel. Fable featured on Kygo's vocal "Happy Birthday" for his debut studio album "Deject Nine" released in 2016.[ citation needed ]

For the 2017 movie Beauty and the Beast, Fable and Ariana Grande performed a duet on the title track, a remake of the 1991 original version sung by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson.[51] In April 2017, Crow: The Legend, a brusk animation motion picture, premiered its prologue at the Tribeca Movie Festival. Legend was bandage in the championship role as the character Crow. He also served as executive producer for the project and performed the original song "When You Tin can Fly".[52] The film won at 13 different film festivals including the LA Film Festival where it made its Due north American premiere in 2018.[53] The film won Best Animation VR Experience at the 2018 Raindance Picture Festival and received nomination for Best Virtual Reality Product at the 46th Annual Annie Awards.[ citation needed ]

On December 19, 2017, NBC announced that Legend had been cast in the title part in the alive concert product of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Marcy Avenue Armory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.[54] The production was broadcast alive on NBC television on April 1, 2018 (the appointment of Easter Sunday that year in Western Christianity).[ citation needed ] On May 8, 2018, Google chose Legend as one of the six new Google Assistant voices.[55]

Legend during an interview in 2019

Legend was one of the few celebrities to announced and speak out in the Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly.[56] The six-office docuseries details sex corruption allegations spread over 4 decades against acclaimed R&B singer R. Kelly.[57] It focuses on women who allege that the musician and tape producer used his condition and influence to sexually and physically abuse women and immature girls for decades.[56] Legend lambasted R. Kelly during his interview in the final episode of the serial, asserting that "R. Kelly has brought and then much pain to so many people. Fourth dimension's upward for R. Kelly."[58] [59]

Despite endless public allegations and controversies concerning Kelly, Legend stands as the only major recording artist willing to come forward and speak against him in the documentary.[56] [58] In response to fans who labeled him every bit "brave" for his actions, Legend stated the following on Twitter ahead of the program's debut:[59] "To anybody telling me how courageous I am for appearing in the md, information technology didn't feel risky at all. I believe these women and don't give a fuck about protecting a serial child rapist. Like shooting fish in a barrel decision."[58] Executive producer Dream Hampton revealed that it was "incredibly difficult" to get men and women who had artistically collaborated with Kelly to come forward, including those who had criticized him. During an interview with Detroit Gratuitous Press she said, "Nosotros asked Lady Gaga. We asked Erykah Badu. We asked Céline Dion. We asked Jay-Z. We asked Dave Chappelle. [They're] people who have been disquisitional of him. That makes John Legend even more than of a hero for me."[57]

On May 21, 2019, Legend was the winning charabanc on The Vocalization and won the competition with his artist Maelyn Jarmon.[60] In November, Fable was named People 's Sexiest Homo Live.[61] [62] [63]

In 2020, Legend was working on a seventh album. On May 13, 2020, he announced the album would exist titled Bigger Love. It was released on June 19. On May 28, 2020, Fable received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.[64] Fable is featured on Carrie Underwood's Christmas album My Gift. Legend wrote his featured track entitled Hallelujah.[65] Legend was among the performers in the Celebrating America idiot box event held on Inauguration Solar day 2021.[66] He delivered the starting time address to the Duke Academy Course of 2021.[67]

On Nov 12, 2021, Legend signed with Republic Records after completing the contract that lasted for 17 years with Sony Music.

In February 2022 John Legend has launched a music-based NFT platform chosen 'OurSong'.[68]

Philanthropy [edit]

Fable performed a benefit concert in Springfield, Ohio in 2005 in support of a tax levy for the Springfield City School Commune.[69]

In May 2007, Legend partnered with Tide laundry detergent to heighten awareness most the need of families in St. Bernard Parish (Chalmette, Louisiana), i of the areas most devastated past Hurricane Katrina; he spent a twenty-four hour period folding laundry at the Tide "clean get-go" mobile laundromat and visited homes that Tide was helping to rebuild in that community. On July 7, 2007, Legend participated in the Live Earth concert in London, performing "Ordinary People". Afterward reading Professor Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of Poverty, Legend started his Show Me Campaign in 2007. In this campaign, Legend called on his fans to aid him in his initiative for residents in Bosaso Hamlet, Somalia[70] [ failed verification ] and non-turn a profit organizations partnered with the entrada.

In early 2008, he began touring with Alexus Ruffin and Professor Jeff Sachs of Columbia University's Earth Establish to promote sustainable development equally an achievable goal. Fable joined Sachs as a keynote speaker and performer at the inaugural Millennium Campus Conference. Legend so joined the Board of Advisors of the Millennium Campus Network (MCN), and has aided MCN programs through online back up and funding fellowships for MCN summer interns through the Prove Me Entrada. In 2009, Fable gave AIDS Service Center NYC permission to remix his vocal "If Y'all're Out In that location" to create a music video promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and testing.[71]

On January 22, 2010, he performed "Sometimes I Experience Like a Motherless Kid" on the Hope for Haiti Now telethon show.[72] On September eight, 2010, John Legend joined the national board of Teach For America.[73] Legend also sits on the boards of the Education Equality Project, the Harlem Village Academies, and Correspond Children. He serves on the Harlem Village Academies' National Leadership Board. On September 9, 2010, he performed "Coming Abode" on the Colbert Written report as a tribute vocal for the stop of combat operations in Republic of iraq, and for the active troops and the veterans of the The states War machine.[74] In 2011, he contributed the runway "Love I've Never Known" to the Cerise Hot Organization's nigh recent anthology Red Hot+Rio two. The album is a follow-upward to the 1996 Cherry-red Hot+Rio. Proceeds from the anthology sales were donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social bug. On March six, 2012, John Legend was appointed by the World Economical Forum to the Forum of Young Global Leaders.[75] Later that twelvemonth, Legend stopped by Children's Hospital Los Angeles for a surprise visit and acoustic performance equally a function of Get Well Soon Tour.[76] On June ane, 2013, Fable performed at Gucci's global concert event in London whose campaign, "Chime for Change", aims to raise awareness of women'south problems in education, wellness and justice.[77] At a printing conference before his functioning, Legend identified himself as a feminist saying, "All men should exist feminists. If men care about women's rights the world will be a better place."[78]

In 2014, Legend founded the FREEAMERICA campaign, which aims to help reform incarceration in the United States.[79] He too supported the 2018 ballot initiative to laissez passer Florida Subpoena 4, which restored the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions.[80]

In 2016, Fable co-signed a letter to the United nations Secretary-Full general Ban Ki-Moon calling for a more humane drug policy, along with people such as Richard Branson, Jane Fonda, and George Shultz.[81] The following year, Legend appeared on Salem State University's speaker series and was recognized by Voices Against Injustice (formerly known as the Salem Award Foundation for Human Rights and Social Justice) as the inaugural Salem Advocate for Social Justice.[82] Also in 2017 Legend donated $500,000 to Springfield City Schoolhouse District to renovate an auditorium, which is named in his honor, inside the Springfield Heart of Innovation.[83] He performed at the John Legend Theater on October ix, 2016.[84] In 2018, he starred in an animated virtual-reality short film written and directed by Eric Darnell, titled Crow: The Legend, together with Oprah Winfrey, telling a Native American origin tale.[85]

Personal life [edit]

Legend met model Chrissy Teigen in 2006 when manager Nabil Elderkin introduced the two during her appearance in the music video for his vocal "Stereo".[86] [87] They became engaged in December 2011[88] [89] and were married on September fourteen, 2013, in Como, Italy.[90] The 2013 song "All of Me" was written for and is dedicated to her; the music video was reportedly displayed at their nuptials. The couple has a girl born in Apr 2016[91] and a son born in May 2018.[92] Both children were conceived via in vitro fertilization.[93] On the PBS series Finding Your Roots, information technology was determined that Legend's genetic makeup is 64% African, 32% European, and iv% Native American.[94] The couple announced in August 2020 that they were expecting a 3rd child, later confirmed to be a boy.[95] On September 29, 2020, their son was stillborn due to complications and the pair revealed they had named him Jack.[96]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums
  • Get Lifted (2004)
  • In one case Again (2006)
  • Evolver (2008)
  • Love in the Futurity (2013)
  • Darkness and Light (2016)
  • A Legendary Christmas (2018)
  • Bigger Love (2020)
Collaborations
  • Wake Upwards! (with the Roots) (2010)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event) (2018)

Tours [edit]

  • Get Lifted Tour (2005)
  • Once Again Tour (2007)
  • Evolver Tour (2009)
  • Honey in the Hereafter Earth Tour (2014)
  • Darkness and Low-cal World Tour (2017)
  • Bigger Honey Bout (2021)

Filmography [edit]

Television [edit]

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Sesame Street Himself
2007 Curb Your Enthusiasm Himself Episode: "The Bat Mitzvah"
Las Vegas Himself Episode: "Wagers of Sin"
2008 A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All Woods Ranger
2009 The People Speak Himself Documentary
2010 Dancing with the Stars Himself/Performer
2011 Royal Pains Himself "Listen to the Music"
2015 The Tonight Testify with Jimmy Fallon Himself/Performer Performed with Meghan Trainor
Hollywood Game Nighttime Himself/Contestant 1 episode
2015–present Lip Sync Boxing Himself six episodes
2016–2017 Underground N/A Producer
2017 The Nightly Show Himself 1 episode
Master of None Himself Episode: "The Dinner Party"
Carpool Karaoke: The Series Himself Episode: "Alicia Keys & John Legend"
2018 Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Jesus Christ As well executive producer
A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy Himself
2019–present The Voice Himself/Double-decker Season 16-nowadays
2019 Songland Himself Episode: "John Legend"
Ask the StoryBots The King of Music Episode: "How practise you lot make music?"
Glory Family Feud Himself Episode: "John Legend and Chrissy Teigen vs. the cast of Vanderpump Rules"
2020 This Is Us Himself Episode: "Light and Shadows"
The Simpsons Himself Voice; Episode: "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
Whose Vote Counts, Explained Himself (Narrator) Episode: "Whose Vote Counts".[97]
2021 That's My Jam Himself/Invitee Along with Kelly Clarkson, Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton

Film [edit]

Year Championship Role Notes
2008 Sesame Street: Elmo Loves You! Himself
Soul Men Marcus Hooks
2012 The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America Duke Ellington Voice role
2016 Southside with You lot Northward/A Producer
La La Land Keith Too co-wrote/performed "Kickoff a Fire" for flick's soundtrack
2017 Crow: The Legend Crow Voice office, Also executive producer[98]
2019 Between Two Ferns: The Movie Himself
2020 A Crime on the Bayou N/A Executive producer[99]
2020 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey [100] Northward/A Producer
2021 The Mitchells vs. the Machines Jim Posey Voice function

Awards and nominations [edit]

See too [edit]

  • List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • John Legend at TED Edit this at Wikidata
  • "Estelle talks relationship with John Legend, American lifestyle and more than [NFTR]". GRM Daily. June 25, 2015.
  • John Fable at IMDb

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