Artist: John Legend: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Pop Discography: Save Room CDM Year: 2006 Tracks: 4 Once Again Year: 2006 Tracks: 13 Live at the House of Blues Year: 2005 Tracks: 17 Get Lifted Year: 2004 Tracks: 14 Neo-soul isaac Bashevis Singer and pianissimo player John Legend combined the cutting fervour of coevals Cody ChesnuTT and the combustion precision of D'Angelo. Born John Stephens, Legend was a baby prodigy wHO grew up in Ohio, where he began singing church doctrine and playing piano at the tender years of five-spot. Legend left domain Ohio at 16 to go to college in Philadelphia, and it was thither that he number 1 found a bigger audience. Not even out of his teens, Legend was tapped to stage pianissimo on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" in 1998. After complemental college, he touched to New York, where he began to ramp up a loyal side by side playacting in nightclubs and releasing CDs that he would sell at shows. He likewise became an desired sitting musician, playing and at one time in a while piece of writing for a broad regalia of artists, including Alicia Keys, Twista, Janet Jackson, and Kanye West. It wasn't until West gestural the lester Willis Young talent to his raw label that he adopted the Legend name with 2004's Solo Sessions Vol. 1: Live at the Knitting Factory. Get Lifted, his first studio album, was released later in the year. On the force of long-suffering single "Ordinary People," the record album reached the Top Five of the Billboard two 100. This lED to three Grammy Awards: Best R&B Album, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist. Erstwhile Again followed in October 2006. |