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John Legend
John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and record producer. He began his musical career working behind the scenes for other artists, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything", and performing as an uncredited backing vocalist on Jay-Z's "Encore" and Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name". He was the first artist to sign wi…
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entertainment · American singer and songwriter (born 1978) · singer-songwriter · actor · singer · pianist · record producer · composer · musician · also John Legend, Legend
Born 28 December 1978 · Q44857
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2026· 9 entries
“To make a modern soul album – to flip that classic feel into a modern context.”
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Published video “A Legendary Christmas Livestream (Yule 🪵 Video)”.
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Public attention spiked: 9,728 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.5× the usual 1,500, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “Timing is everything — in music and in watchmaking. @cartier @GQVideos 🖤”.
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Published video “The Well-Educated Child by Deborah Kenny, foreword by me, is out April 21 from @getlifted Books.”.
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Published video “What does it mean to truly educate a child? Pre-order The Well-Educated Child now 💙”.
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Published video “#TrailerTalk - Season 5 Ep. 2 - Renzo & Maelyn”.
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Published video “#TrailerTalk - Season 5 Ep. 1 - CeeLo Green”.
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2025· 17 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In December 2025, the musician John Legend announced he was pulling his music off of Amazon because of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' ties with U.S. President Donald Trump.” False.
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Published video “Y'all really been bringing that '04 Get Lifted energy. #getlifted #getliftedtour”.
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“It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:”
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“Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...”
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“Surely none of y’all believe we attacked Iran because they are on the verge of a nuclear weapon. Those of us over 25 have seen this movie before. Don’t fall for it”
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“Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.”
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“I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.”
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“One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup”
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“Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.”
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“By the hour, Donald Trump makes it clearer he is the most dangerous political leader in our history, the greatest threat America faces.”
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“The most dangerous man in US history?”
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“You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.”
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Published video “John Legend - Refuge (When It's Cold Outside) (Live at The House of Blues, 2005)”.
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The Guardian: John Legend review – a somewhat bloodless performance from a wonderful singer
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Published video “The Get Lifted 20th Anniversary Tour is off to a great start! Tickets at johnlegend.com”.
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Published video “John Legend - Let's Get Lifted Live at the House of Blues”.
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Released album “Get Lifted… Rising”.
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2024· 3 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “John Legend Announces He Is Leaving US For France After 2024 US Presidential Election” No Statement.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Celebrities including Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr., John Legend and Tom Hanks have announced they are leaving the U.S. following the 2024 election.” False.
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Released album “My Favorite Dream”.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “LEGEND (solo piano version)”.
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2022· 8 entries
Released ep “LEGEND (solo sessions)”.
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Released his eighth studio album titled Legend
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Released album “LEGEND”.
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The Guardian: John Legend review – soulful grooves, limber moves and slick showmanship
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The Guardian: ‘America could be truly free’: John Legend on his fight to overhaul the criminal justice system
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The Guardian: ‘We have to fight – and I’ll do my part’: John Legend on Roe v Wade, Kanye West and his mother’s addiction
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Performed a new song called "Free" at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards as a tribute to the fallen citizens of Ukraine amid Russo-Ukrainian War
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Teigen clarified that the loss was "an abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance"
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2021· 1 entry
Legend signed with Republic Records after completing the contract that lasted for 17 years with Sony Music
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2020· 7 entries
The Guardian: John Legend: Bigger Love - synths, snogging and schmaltz
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Released album “Bigger Love”.
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Legend performed alongside Alicia Keys for episode fifteen of Verzuz
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Legend received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music
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Announced the album would be titled Bigger Love
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Legend was working on a seventh album
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The couple were expecting a third child, but Teigen lost the baby at twenty weeks due to a pregnancy complication
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2019· 1 entry
Legend was the winning coach on The Voice, and won the competition with his artist Maelyn Jarmon
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2018· 5 entries
Released album “A Legendary Christmas”.
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Released ep “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / Bring Me Love”.
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Google chose Legend as one of the six new Google Assistant voices
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(the date of Easter Sunday that year in Western Christianity)
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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
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2017· 2 entries
NBC announced that Legend had been cast in the title role in the live concert production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Marcy Avenue Armory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Legend donated $500,000 to Springfield City School District to renovate an auditorium, which is named in his honor, within the Springfield Center of Innovation
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “Darkness and Light”.
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With songs featuring Chance the Rapper and Miguel
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Legend co-signed a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling for a more humane drug policy, along with people such as Richard Branson, Jane Fonda, and George Shultz
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He performed at the John Legend Theater on October 9, 2016.
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Glory (2015).
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Sang "America the Beautiful" in the opening ceremony of Super Bowl XLIX
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Co-performed with Meghan Trainor on her single "Like I'm Gonna Lose You", which peaked at number seven on the chart
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2014· 2 entries
Legend founded the FREEAMERICA campaign, which aims to help reform incarceration in the United States
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Legend partnered with the rapper Common to write the song "Glory", featured in the film Selma, which chronicled the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
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2013· 4 entries
Released album “Spotify Sessions”.
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Debuting number 4 on the Billboard 200, selling 68,000 copies in its first week
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Released album “Love in the Future”.
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Legend performed at Gucci's global concert event in London whose campaign, "Chime for Change", aims to raise awareness of women's issues in education, health and justice
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2012· 2 entries
John Legend was appointed by the World Economic Forum to the Forum of Young Global Leaders
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On March 6, 2012, John Legend was appointed by the World Economic Forum to the Forum of Young Global Leaders.
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2011· 4 entries
Songwriter Anthony Stokes filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Legend in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, alleging that Legend's song "Maxine's Interlude" from his 2006 album Onc
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Released ep “iTunes Live From Soho”.
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Legend completed a 50-date tour as a guest for British soul band Sade
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Contributed the track "Love I've Never Known" to the Red Hot Organization's most recent album Red Hot+Rio 2
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2010· 6 entries
Released album “GOOD Fridays”.
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Released album “Wake Up!”.
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Performed "Coming Home" on the Colbert Report as a tribute song for the end of combat operations in Iraq, and for the active troops and the veterans of the United States Armed Forces
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John Legend joined the national board of Teach For America
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Performed "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" on the Hope for Haiti Now telethon show
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On September 8, 2010, John Legend joined the national board of Teach For America.
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2009· 3 entries
Legend and the Roots teamed up to record a collaborative album, Wake Up
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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 Histor
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Legend gave AIDS Service Center NYC permission to remix his song "If You're Out There" to create a music video promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and testing
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Evolver”.
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Legend performed "America the Beautiful" in front of a sold-out crowd of 74,635 in the Orlando Citrus Bowl, now known as Camping World Stadium, for WWE's WrestleMania XXIV
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Released album “Live From Philadelphia”.
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2007· 4 entries
Legend participated in the Live Earth concert in London, performing "Ordinary People"
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Released ep “Show Me Tour”.
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Won the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Released ep “Legend Network CD Volume 1: Live at The Tin Angel”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Once Again”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best New Artist (2006).
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Released ep “Sounds of the Season: the John Legend Collection”.
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While filming the music video for his song "Stereo"
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Live at the House of Blues”.
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In support of a tax levy for the Springfield City School District
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2004· 4 entries
Released album “Get Lifted”.
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Released album “Solo Sessions, Volume 1: Live at the Knitting Factory”.
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Following a concert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Legend stated that his parents were divorced for 12 years before reuniting
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Live at SOB’s New York City”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Live at Jimmy’s Uptown, Harlem NY”.
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Devo Springsteen introduced Legend to Kanye West, a then up-and-coming hip-hop artist; Stephens was hired to co-write or perform hooks on several of West's songs
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “John Stephens”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released ep “John Stephens”.
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1978· 1 entry
Born 1978-12-28.
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