14.09.2022: John Legend - Wonder Woman – new music video out now!
25.08.2022: John Legend - All She Wanna Do – new music video out now!
10.07.2022: John Legend 'Honey' new music video out now!
17.06.2022: John Legend 'Dope' (feat. JID) - new music video out now!
John Legend : New Video for "Preach" out now!
John Legend's new video for his new single, "Preach", is there to raise awareness of grievances such as police violence, etc., with the question of what each one can do. A topic that is very important to John. The video speaks for itself in this case!
John Legend: "Sometimes we can get so frustrated by the news and what’s going on and there’s this scatter going on in ourselves. Do we become apathetic? Do we become engaged? Do we just talk about it, or do we do something?"
John Legend : Das neue Video für "Preach" ist daDas neue Video von John Legend zu seiner neuen Single „Preach“ ist da und macht auf Missstände wie Polizeigewalt etc. aufmerksam verbunden mit der Frage, was jeder einzelne tun kann. Ein Thema, das John sehr wichtig ist. Das Video spricht in diesem Fall für sich!
John Legend: Video "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Schon ein bisschen narzisstisch sich selbst den Künstlernamen "Legend" zu geben oder? John Roger Stephens macht sich als John Legend allerdings hervorragend, vor allem seit Neustem wenn er sich an Weihnachtssongs heranwagt. Heraus kam sogar ein ganzes Album voller festlicher Hymnen, welches schon seit dem 26. Oktober Ohren voll jung bis alt beglückt. Diese Woche - um den Dezember perfekt einzuläuten, gibt es jetzt das erste Video. In dem legt er den weltbekannten Klassiker "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" aufs Parkett, und wer glaubt, die Version von Michael Bublé sei Jazz-lastig, der kennt die von John Legend noch nicht. Für den Song holt er sich nämlich Jazzmusikerin Esperanza Spalding dazu und auch im Video geben die beiden eine wunderbare Figur ab. Wer hier nicht in Weihnachts-Stimmung kommt, macht definitiv etwas falsch. |
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"Through the years we all will be together if the fates allow hang a shining star upon the highest bough yes, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now"
Longplayer: Darkness And Light
Drei Jahre sind eine lange Zeit. Und auch wenn US-Superstar John Legend seinen Fans die Wartezeit mit allerlei Kollaborationen versüssen konnte (u.a. mit Meghan Trainor, Sam Smith, Benny Benassi und Tiësto, Sérgio Mendes, Common und David Guetta), so fiebern seine Fans weltweit auf das neue Album des Grammy-, Golden Globe- und Oscar-Preisträgers hin. Am 2. Dezember 2016 ist es nun soweit: mit „Darkness And Light“ veröffentlicht der 37-jährige Sänger, Songwriter, Musiker und Produzent sein fünftes Studioalbum. Der Longplayer enthält u.a. die Vorabsingle „Love Me Now“, die in Zusammenarbeit mit John Ryan und Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes) geschrieben wurde. Letzterer übernahm auch die Produktion des gesamten Albums. Als musikalische Gäste holte sich Legend u.a. Chance the Rapper, Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) und Miguel ins Studio.
Biography: John Legend
Ohio-born John Legend is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter. His work has garnered him ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, the BET Award for Best New Artist and the special Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, among others. A graduate of University of Pennsylvania where he studied English and African-American literature, Legend participated in a wide range of musical activities while in college. During the same period, Legend was introduced to Lauryn Hill, who hired him to play piano on her track "Everything Is Everything," and shortly thereafter he began to play shows around the Philadelphia area, eventually expanding his audience base to New York, Boston, Atlanta and Washington D.C. After college, Legend was introduced to then up-and-coming hip-hop artist Kanye West, who quickly signed Legend to his G.O.O.D. Music imprint and hired him to sing vocal hooks on some of his music. Legend started gaining momentum through a series of similar collaborations with established artists, adding vocals to an impressive list of chart-topping hits including West's "All of the Lights," Jay-Z's "Encore" and back-up vocals on Alicia Keys' 2003 song, "You Don't Know My Name." Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted, was released in December of 2004 through Columbia Records. The critically acclaimed album spawned the artist's first hit single, “Ordinary People,” and scored Legend multiple Grammy Awards in 2006, including Best R&B Album, Best New Artist and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. The follow up was 2006’s platinum-selling Once Again, which brought Legend another Grammy, Best Male R&B Performance, for his single “Heaven,” and included collaborations with Kanye West, will.i.am and Raphael Saadiq. Legend’s next release was 2008’s Evolver, led by the hit single "Green Light" featuring Andre 3000. His 2010 collaboration with the Roots, Wake Up, won the Grammy for Best R&B Album a year later. Legend’s highly acclaimed fourth and most current studio album Love In the Future, features “All of Me,” Legend’s highest selling and charting song to date, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on both Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic charts. Legend won his first Academy Award, first Golden Globe Award, a Grammy award, and a Critic’s Choice Award for his song “Glory,” that he wrote and performed with Common, for the film SELMA.
Throughout his career, Legend has worked to make a difference in the lives of others. In 2007, he launched the Show Me Campaign (ShowMeCampaign.org), an initiative that focuses on education as a key to break the cycle of poverty. The 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, the 2009 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award from Africare and the 2011 Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award recognize Legend's efforts and leadership in this arena. John sits on the boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, Stand for Children and the Harlem Village Academies and co-chairs the Harlem Village Academies’ National Leadership Board. Additionally, Legend supports LRNG, a movement dedicated to inspiring innovation in the learning process to one that better reflects the world we live in today. In 2015 Legend initiated the #freeAmerica campaign, designed to change the national conversation of our country’s misguided policies and to make a change in America’s criminal justice system.
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