John Legend

John Legend
John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He has won ten Grammy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one Academy Award. In 2007, Legend received the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 December 1978
CountryUnited States of America
football athlete school
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
technology ties world
In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
song writing rapper
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
passion emotional artist
Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.
work hard
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.
trying influence embrace
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
song numbers insecurity
For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well- received.
girlfriend giving giver
I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
boys leader black
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
stars people the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
artist people growing
Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
artist singers working-with-others
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
musician feels
I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
artist judging legends
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.