John Legend
USA
Born: 28 December 1978
Years Active: 2000
Styles: Soul, R&B/Soul, Hip-Hop/Urban, Neo-Soul, Contemporary R&B, Pop, AM Pop
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Neo-soul singer and pianist John Legend combined the raw fervor of contemporaries Cody ChesnuTT and the burning precision of D'Angelo. Born John Stephens, Legend was a child prodigy who grew up in Ohio, where he began singing gospel and playing piano at the tender age of five. Legend left Ohio at 16 to attend college in Philadelphia, and it was there that he first found a larger audience. Not yet out of his teens, Legend was tapped to play piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" in 1998. After completing college, he moved to New York,...
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