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
negative internet cloaks
You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.
listening growing keep-learning
I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.
trying adventurous not-afraid
I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.
hip-hop records hips
Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.
fun energy collaborating
The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
style different albums
There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.
dream team ideas
I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.
song views voice
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.
ideas piano musical
Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.
song determination writing
Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.
successful proud matter
No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.
singing important want
For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.
audience exactly love means might people radio
Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'
allowed choice gospel growing house music secular
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.